Globalization and commitment in corporate social responsibility: Cross-national analyses of institutional and political-economy effects

A Lim, K Tsutsui - American sociological review, 2012 - journals.sagepub.com
This article examines why global corporate social responsibility (CSR) frameworks have
gained popularity in the past decade, despite their uncertain costs and benefits, and how …

Institutional complementarity between corporate governance and corporate social responsibility: A comparative institutional analysis of three capitalisms

N Kang, J Moon - Socio-Economic Review, 2012 - academic.oup.com
The question of why and how firms' approach to Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)
differs across countries is one that can only be adequately addressed by giving a strong …

Under one roof: Supply chains and the protection of foreign investment

L Johns, RL Wellhausen - American Political Science Review, 2016 - cambridge.org
We argue that economic links, such as supply chains, can create a common roof that
protects foreign investors in host countries that lack strong institutions to protect property …

The embeddedness of responsible business practice: Exploring the interaction between national-institutional environments and corporate social responsibility

L Fransen - Journal of business ethics, 2013 - Springer
Academic literature recognizes that firms in different countries deal with corporate social
responsibility (CSR) in different ways. Because of this, analysts presume that variations in …

Laying a smoke screen: Ambiguity and neutralization as strategic responses to intra-institutional complexity

RE Meyer, MA Höllerer - Strategic Organization, 2016 - journals.sagepub.com
Our research contributes to knowledge on strategic organizational responses by addressing
a specific type of institutional complexity that has, to date, been rather neglected in scholarly …

From taken‐for‐granted to explicit commitment: The rise of CSR in a corporatist country

MA Höllerer - Journal of Management Studies, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
This article contributes to a thriving line of research that examines issue interpretation and
social accounts in order to study the adoption and diffusion of organizational concepts and …

Imageries of corporate social responsibility: Visual recontextualization and field-level meaning

MA Höllerer, D Jancsary, RE Meyer… - Institutional logics in …, 2013 - emerald.com
In this paper, we explore how corporations use visual artifacts to translate and
recontextualize a globally theorized managerial concept (CSR) into a local setting (Austria) …

Company delistings from the UN Global Compact: Limited business demand or domestic governance failure?

JS Knudsen - Journal of Business Ethics, 2011 - Springer
While a substantial amount of the literature describes corporate benefits of corporate social
responsibility (CSR) initiatives, the literature is silent concerning why some companies …

Public policies for corporate social responsibility in four Nordic countries: Harmony of goals and conflict of means

A Midttun, M Gjølberg, A Kourula, S Sweet… - Business & …, 2015 - journals.sagepub.com
Corporate social responsibility (CSR) was historically a business-oriented idea that
companies should voluntarily improve their social and environmental practices. More …

Co-governing common goods: Interaction patterns of private and public actors

J Tosun, S Koos, J Shore - Policy and Society, 2016 - Elsevier
This article addresses co-governance which can be defined as a dynamic interaction
between public and private actors to secure the provision of common goods. Which types of …