Dirk Matten

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors address the question of how and why corporate social responsibility (CSR) differs among countries and how it changes, and apply two schools of thought in institutional theory to conceptualize the differences between CSR in the USA and Europe.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors address the question of how and why corporate social responsibility (CSR) differs among countries and how it changes and delineate the potential of their framework for application to other parts of the global economy.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine the content of contemporary understandings of corporate citizenship and locate them within the extant body of research dealing with business-society relations and realize a theoretically informed definition of corporate Citizenship that is descriptively robust and conceptually distinct from existing concepts in the literature.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a survey on CSR in the context of globalization and discuss future perspectives and conclusions of CSR and its application in the global context, focusing on actors and drivers.

TL;DR: Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) has become a pervasive topic in the business literature, but has largely neglected the role of institutions as discussed by the authors, which suggests going beyond grounding CSR in the voluntary behaviour of companies, and understanding the larger historical and political determinants of whether and in what forms corporations take on social responsibilities.