RT Article
T1 The Embeddedness of Responsible Business Practice: Exploring the Interaction Between National-Institutional Environments and Corporate Social Responsibility
JF Journal of business ethics
VO 115
IS 2
SP 213
OP 227
A1 Fransen, Luc 1979-
LA English
YR 2013
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1785647954
AB 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 national-institutional arrangements affect CSR practices. Literature, however, lacks specificity in determining, first, what parts of national political-economic configurations actually affect CSR practices; second, the precise aspects of CSR affected by national-institutional variables; third, how causal mechanisms between national-institutional framework variables and aspects of CSR practices work. Because of this the literature is not able to address to what extent CSR practices are affected by either global or national policies, discourses and economic pressures; and to what extent CSR evolves as either an alternative to or an extension of national-institutional arrangements. This article proposes an alternative approach that focuses on an exploration of links between disaggregated variables, which can then be the basis for imagining new national-institutional configurations affecting aspects of CSR. It illustrates this approach with an exploration of the importance of development aid policy for CSR practices in global supply chains.
K1 Private regulation
K1 Development policy
K1 Globalization
K1 Varieties of capitalism
K1 Political Economy
K1 National institutions
K1 Corporate Social Responsibility
DO 10.1007/s10551-012-1395-2