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“Implicit” and “Explicit” CSR: A Conceptual Framework for a Comparative Understanding of Corporate Social Responsibility
Dirk Matten,Jeremy Moon +1 more
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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.Abstract:
We address the question of how and why corporate social responsibility (CSR) differs among countries and how and why it changes. Applying two schools of thought in institutional theory, we conceptualize, first, the differences between CSR in the United States and Europe and, second, the recent rise of CSR in Europe. We also delineate the potential of our framework for application to other parts of the global economy.read more
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Building Theory about Theory Building: What Constitutes a Theoretical Contribution?
Kevin G. Corley,Dennis A. Gioia +1 more
TL;DR: The authors distill existing literature on theoretical contribution into two dimensions, originality (incremental or revelatory) and utility (scientific or practical) and argue for a revision in the way scholars approach the utility dimension by calling for a view of theorizing that would enable theories with more "scope" (both scientific and practical utility) and also argue for an orientation toward "prescience" as a way of achieving scope and fulfilling our scholarly role of facilitating organizational and societal adaptiveness.
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What drives corporate social performance? The role of nation-level institutions
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigate the impact of nation-level institutions on firms' corporate social performance (CSP) using a sample of firms from 42 countries spanning seven years, and construct an annual composite CSP index for each firm, based on social and environmental metrics.
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The New Corporate Social Responsibility
TL;DR: The last half decade has witnessed a remarkable resurgence of attention among practitioners and scholars to understand the ability of corporate social responsibility (CSR) to address environmental and social problems as mentioned in this paper.
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Political Ideologies of CEOs: The Influence of Executives’ Values on Corporate Social Responsibility
TL;DR: This article examined the influence on organizational outcomes of CEOs' political ideology, specifically political conservatism vs. liberalism, and found that CEOs' ideological beliefs will influence organizational outcomes, specifically organizational outcomes.
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Investigating stakeholder theory and social capital: Csr in large firms and smes
TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that the idiosyncrasies of large firms and SMEs explain the different approaches to CSR, and that the notion of social capital is a more useful way of understanding the CSR approach of SMEs, whereas stakeholder theory more closely addresses the approach of big firms.
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The iron cage revisited institutional isomorphism and collective rationality in organizational fields
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The Social Responsibility of Business Is to Increase Its Profits
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The pyramid of corporate social responsibility: Toward the moral management of organizational stakeholders
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