RT Article
T1 Business and human rights: a configurational view of the antecedents of human rights infringements by emerging market firms
JF Journal of business ethics
VO 179
IS 2
SP 431
OP 450
A1 Ciravegna, Luciano 1978-
A1 Nieri, Federica
A2 Nieri, Federica
LA English
YR 2022
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1813812349
AB This study investigates the antecedents of human rights infringements (HRIs) by emerging market firms (EFs). We used fuzzy set qualitative comparative analysis (fsQCA) to examine HRIs in 245 firms based in eight emerging markets, between 2003 and 2012. Our findings disclose three equifinal configurations of high levels of HRIs, all involving EFs that have expanded to a high number of foreign markets: (i) large, old, low performing state-owned enterprises (SOEs) operating in high quality institutions’ home and host markets, (ii) small, young, over-performing EFs operating in low quality institutions’ home and host markets, and finally (iii) large, old, high performing SOEs, operating in low quality institutions’ home and host markets. We contribute to the literature by examining a novel dataset on HRIs by EFs, and by building a configurational explanation of HRIs that bridges the arguments of the institutional theory and strain theory literatures on corporate wrongdoing.
K1 business and human rights
K1 Emerging market firms (EFs)
K1 Fuzzy sets qualitative comparative analysis (fsQCA)
K1 Human rights infringements (HRIs)
K1 multinational corporations (MNCs)
K1 Aufsatz in Zeitschrift
DO 10.1007/s10551-021-04861-w