Bryan W. Husted

TL;DR: This paper examined the impact of national wealth, income distribution, government size, and four cultural variables on the perceived level of corruption in a country and found that corruption is significantly correlated to GNP per capita, power distance, masculinity, and uncertainty avoidance.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors apply the strategic logic of the Bartlett and Ghoshal typology to the realm of corporate social responsibility (CSR) to international organizational strategy and find that institutional pressures, rather than strategic analysis of social issues and stakeholders, are guiding decision-making with respect to CSR.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine the situation of firms that have two objectives: profit maximization and social performance, and show that it is wiser for the firm to act strategically than to be coerced into making investments in corporate social responsibility.

TL;DR: In this article, the impact of three strategic CSR variables ( visibility, appropriability, and voluntarism) on value creation among large Spanish corporations was examined, and the conclusions from these findings suggest that managers need to understand how CSR is similar to and different from other traditional corporate market activities if they are to pursue value creation through CSR.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the impact of economic development, income inequality, and five cultural variables on the rate of software piracy at the country level and found that software piracy is significantly correlated to GNP per capita, income inequalities, and individualism.