Drivers of Global CSR Integration and Local CSR Responsiveness: Evidence from Chinese MNEs

What drives Chinese MNEs’ global CSR integration and local CSR responsiveness? Drawing on institutional theory, we argue that both antecedents reflecting globally isomorphic patterns of adaptation and antecedents mirroring the distinct characteristics of China’s institutional context are relevant. W...

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Published in:Business ethics quarterly
Authors: Miska, Christof (Author) ; Witt, Michael A. (Author) ; Stahl, Günter K. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Cambridge Univ. Press 2016
In: Business ethics quarterly
Further subjects:B Institutional Theory
B China
B emerging-market MNEs
B local CSR responsiveness
B global CSR integration
B State-owned enterprises
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Summary:What drives Chinese MNEs’ global CSR integration and local CSR responsiveness? Drawing on institutional theory, we argue that both antecedents reflecting globally isomorphic patterns of adaptation and antecedents mirroring the distinct characteristics of China’s institutional context are relevant. We support our argument using fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis on a sample of 29 of China’s globally most influential companies. We find that state influence and global CSR associations affect global CSR integration, whereas presence in the West and internationalization through mergers and acquisitions predict local CSR responsiveness. Our study thus suggests that home-country characteristics are an important co-determinant of the CSR approaches of emerging-market MNEs. We further find that multicultural experience in top management teams is associated with both global CSR integration and local CSR responsiveness, supporting notions of transnational CSR.
ISSN:2153-3326
Contains:Enthalten in: Business ethics quarterly
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1017/beq.2016.13