Gendering CSR in the Arab Middle East: An Institutional Perspective

Karam, Charlotte M.; Jamali, Dima

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“…reinforce the argument by Karam and Jamali (2013) However, all the SMEs examined in both countries regularly provide their employees with work related training. Many of the businesses also provide training for nutrition, as well as malaria and HIV/AIDs prevention.…”

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

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“…Inglehart and Baker (2000) suggest that in societies where traditional values are held, these societies place great importance on parent-child ties and traditional family values. This has been evidenced to be the case in the Arab Middle East, where extended family systems are common and gender roles are very well differentiated (Karam and Jamali, 2013;Moghadam, 2004).…”

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Women's careers in the Arab Middle East

Afiouni

2014

Career Dev Int

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If you would like to write for this, or any other Emerald publication, then please use our Emerald for Authors service information about how to choose which publication to write for and submission guidelines are available for all. Please visit www.emeraldinsight.com/authors for more information. About Emerald www.emeraldinsight.comEmerald is a global publisher linking research and practice to the benefit of society. The company manages a portfolio of more than 290 journals and over 2,350 books and book series volumes, as well as providing an extensive range of online products and additional customer resources and services. AbstractPurpose -The purpose of this paper is to examine how women academics from the Arab Middle East enact their careers with reference to double-bounded contexts: academia as an institution encoding organizational career scripts and gender as another institution encoding specific gender roles. It is hoped that this cross-cultural perspective would broaden the understanding of careers beyond the economically advanced industrialized countries and better inform the current debate on the boundaryless career model. Design/methodology/approach -The study is qualitative and exploratory in nature. It draws on one-to-one interviews with 23 female academics in early, mid and late careers, working in research universities in the Arab Middle East region. Findings -The choice of academia as a profession is mainly driven by the subjective perception of an academic career as a calling, the lack of attractiveness of other career options in the region, and the appeal of the flexibility of academic work. Furthermore, the findings highlight both organizational (lack of mentoring and university support) and cultural factors (Islam, patriarchy, and family centrality) that shape/bind women's careers choices and patterns allowing thus for a better understanding of local constraints to the boundaryless career view in the Arab Middle East context. Originality/value -The paper contributes to the boundaryless career theory development by addressing one of its major shortcomings, namely the lack of attention to context. It provides fresh insights from the Arab Middle East to the ongoing debate whether careers are boundaryless and subject to individual agency or whether careers are shaped by wider institutional factors and support existing calls in the literature to conceptualize careers at the intersection of several influencing factors.

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“…The theoretical positions adopted are often similar to those we encounter in the broader literature, with a predominant use of institutional theory and stakeholder theory (e.g. Amran et al 2013;Dougherty and Olsen 2014;Karam and Jamali 2013;Xun 2013). Yet, we also see the integration of macro-level theories derived from various disciplines, including: relational governance theory (e.g.…”

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“…For example, at the institutional level, some authors focus on the broad developmental impact of CSR (e.g. Gifford et al 2010;Karam and Jamali 2013;Nwankwo et al 2007;Okoye 2012a), while others dwell on how CSR can, in turn, restrict economic and social development and/or environmental protection (e.g. Appiah and Abass 2014;Boudier and Bensebaa 2011), and exacerbate existing social inequities and/or blurring the lines of state accountability (e.g.…”

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Corporate Social Responsibility in Developing Countries as an Emerging Field of Study

Jamali

Karam

2016

Int J Management Reviews

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Given the rising interest in corporate social responsibility (CSR) globally, its local expressions are as varied as they are increasingly visible in both developed and developing countries. This paper presents a multilevel review of the literature on CSR in developing countries and highlights the key differentiators and nuanced CSR-related considerations that qualify it as a distinctive field of study. This review entails a content analysis of 452 articles spanning two-and-a-half decades . Based on this comprehensive review, the authors identify the key differentiating attributes of the literature on CSR in developing countries in relation to depictions of how CSR is conceived or 'CSR Thinking' and depictions of how CSR is practiced and implemented or 'CSR Doing'. The authors synthesize from there five key themes that capture the main aspects of variation in this literature, namely: (1) complex institutional antecedents within the national business system (NBS); (2) complex macro-level antecedents outside the NBS; (3) the salience of multiple actors involved in formal and informal governance; (4) hybridized and other nuanced forms of CSR expressions; and (5) varied scope of developmental and detrimental CSR consequences. The paper concludes by accentuating how the nuanced forms of CSR in the developing world are invariably contextualized and locally shaped by multi-level factors and actors embedded within wider formal and informal governance systems.

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Gendering CSR in the Arab Middle East: An Institutional Perspective

Cited by 108 publications

References 61 publications

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

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

Women's careers in the Arab Middle East

Corporate Social Responsibility in Developing Countries as an Emerging Field of Study

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