CSR and the national institutional context: The case of South Korea

Employees’ Perceptions of Corporate Social Responsibility and Job Performance: A Sequential Mediation Model

“…Kim et al [37] note that as a leading industrial trading country within the Western sphere and therefore "highly subject to global isomorphic pressures", South Korean society nonetheless "adheres to Confucian vales of collectivism, informal virtue, and morality". As a result, South Korean organizations suffer from much strain between society's Confucianism and the Anglo-American values, organization systems and business conditions from which CSR concepts originated [37,38]. In this unique setting, there is considerable scope for discussion about the role of employees' perceptions of CSR, making South Korean employees an interesting subject group for this study.…”

Corporate Social Responsibility in SMEs: A Shift from Philanthropy to Institutional Works?

“…For the purpose of this paper, CSR represents the idea that companies should voluntarily consider the social and environmental impacts (negative and positive) of their actions on both the internal and external stakeholders of the firm (e.g., employees, customers, 5 suppliers, local community, the government) and behave accordingly (Kim et al, 2013;Azmat and Samaratunge, 2009). It fits with Campbell (2007:951)'s view of CSR as "not knowingly do(ing) anything that could harm…stakeholders… (and) if corporations do cause harm to their stakeholders, they must then rectify it whenever the harm is discovered and brought to their attention".…”

Corporate Social Responsibility in Challenging and Non-enabling Institutional Contexts: Do Institutional Voids matter?

“…At the organizational level, CSR has been found to be driven by a myriad of factors including organizational innovation (Asongu, 2007;Hull and Rothenberg, 2008;Porter and Kramer, 2002), culture (Bansal, 2003;Maon, Lindgreen, and Swaen, 2010;Aguinis and Glavas 2012), 8 size and ownership (Gallo and Christensen, 2011), financial strength (Orlitzky, Schmidt, and Rynes, 2003;Campbell, 2007) (Matten and Moon, 2008:407 -emphasis ours), hence the variation of CSR across countries and institutional contexts (Chapple and Moon, 2005;Campbell, 2007;Kim et al, 2013;Amaeshi and Amao, 2009;Jamali and Neville, 2011) 8 .…”