How global is international CSR research? Insights and recommendations from a systematic review

Pisani, Niccolò; Kourula, Arno; Kolk, Ans; Meijer, Renske

doi:10.1016/j.jwb.2017.05.003

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“…At the same time, companies are rapidly adopting voluntary self‐regulatory measures, often titled corporate social responsibility, to address pressing social and environmental concerns (Aguinis & Glavas ; Pisani et al . ). Both old and new actors are adopting novel roles in the middle ground between hierarchical rulemaking and market‐based mechanisms (Powell ; Peterman et al .…”

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Intermediary roles in regulatory programs: Toward a role‐based framework

Kourula

Paukku

Peterman

et al. 2018

Regulation & Governance

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This paper develops a role‐based framework of intermediaries in regulatory programs. In examining the types of roles that organizations adopt in regulation and governance, we argue that roles have important implications for understanding organizational and program level dynamism and outcomes. We use the Regulator–Intermediary–rule‐Taker framework to describe how organizational roles can be adopted through assignment, appropriation, or promotion. We then go deeper into how intermediaries adopt a variety of different roles in key regulatory programs. We examine generic intermediary roles across programs that involve four main groups of activities: creating and/or organizing, coordinating between programs, supporting implementation, and voicing an opinion. All in all, our role‐based framework allows for a novel relational way to understand interorganizational and institutional dynamism in complex, interactive, and ever‐changing regulatory regimes.

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Intermediary roles in regulatory programs: Toward a role‐based framework

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Paukku

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“…This also applies for earlier periods, although we think that the 10-year period chosen is likely to be ample enough for important results, regardless of outlet, to be reflected in the papers we reviewed, excepting very recently published work that has not yet gained recognition. Finally, it should be noted that our article is not set up as, and not meant to be a 'formal' systematic review (as done e.g., by Pisani, Kourula, Kolk, & Meijer, 2017, for international CSR; cf. Gaur & Kumar, 2018;Tranfield, Denyer, & Smart, 2003) with, inter alia, extensive coding.…”

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“…The impact of what we here label as ''peripheral'' activities, including some CSR and non-market initiatives, has also been explored by the literature. It should be noted that we have here approached CSR as non-core (i.e., covering those aspects not inherently related to core business functions) and refrain from further definitional debates (for recent contributions from an IB perspectives, see Kolk, 2016, andPisani et al, 2017). Although some studies suggest that the contribution to poverty alleviation is linked to the voluntary nature of social responsibility initiatives and to the size of the organization (Medina-Muñoz et al, 2016), or highlight the mediating role of experts such as accounting firms in the alignment of CSR initiatives with organizational practices , others point to questionable results of CSR initiatives, suggesting that the impact of CSR on poverty alleviation is unclear.…”

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Multinationals, international business, and poverty: A cross-disciplinary research overview and conceptual framework

2018

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This article examines the role of multinationals and international business in poverty alleviation, based on an analysis of articles in the top journals in business, economics, and policy. We develop a conceptual cross-disciplinary framework that maps and disentangles the impact of different types of international business activities on five dimensions of poverty, moderated by country and industry effects. While our study suggests that the impact of all the types of business activities on poverty is still unclear overall, we contribute to research and policy debates by identifying key insights from and main gaps in this cross-disciplinary stream of literature. A distinction is made between firm effects as part of both 'mainstream' and 'responsible' globalization, and firmspecific activities with and without the explicit goal of poverty alleviation, considering investment and trade. We propose areas for further research based on the framework, including the importance of interaction effects and contextual factors.

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“…This means that Table 2 is also highly relevant for international firms that are implementing CSR in their local subsidiaries (cf. Jamali, 2010), especially in difficult settings, an area where more insights are needed according to a recent review of the state of the art in the business and management literature (Pisani, Kourula, Kolk, & Meijer, 2017).…”

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Responsible business under adverse conditions: Dilemmas regarding company contributions to local development

Kolk

Lenfant

2018

Bus Strat Dev

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While literature on companies' contributions to local development exists, little is known about the specific dilemmas encountered on the ground when operating under adverse conditions, and how transparency can be improved. Companies typically need to navigate through a complex web of relationships with local stakeholders and deal with large expectations from communities. This article sheds light on these topics, using gold mining in Mali as a case illustrative for other difficult settings in developing countries. We find that many companies show transparency in reporting on development projects funded, local employees hired, taxes paid and local purchases.Concurrently, what companies do seems less important than how they do it, and with whom.The article offers practical and theoretical insights into how (international) companies can derive value from fine-tuning their contribution to development and adjusting their reporting, and also contributes to current debates about inclusiveness in the context of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. (Kolk & Lenfant, 2015a;.In addition to the difficulties of studying these topics in a systematic manner in difficult settings (Kolk, 2016), this limited interest may be due to a tendency to focus more on the disadvantages of business operations (e.g. more in relation to causing conflict rather than promoting peace, see Lenfant, 2016) and the perception of their corporate social responsibility (CSR) activities as 'bluewash' or 'greenwash ' (e.g. Frynas, 2005;Idahosa, 2002;Watts, 2005). At the same time, such studies, often published outside the management field, have illustrated the negative impact of companies, especially in the extractive industries in developing countries. They noted that corporate activities had, inter alia, disrupted communities, degraded the environment, and/or contributed to human rights abuses (e.g. Boele, Fabig, & Wheeler, 2001;Idahosa, 2002;Sluiter, 2009;Wheeler, Fabig, & Boele, 2002).With this as background, this article focuses on the specific contribution of companies to local development and examines the dilemmas that they encounter when operating under adverse conditions. Companies ----------------------------------------------------This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs License, which permits use and distribution in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, the use is non-commercial and no modifications or adaptations are made.

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How global is international CSR research? Insights and recommendations from a systematic review

Cited by 324 publications

References 181 publications

Intermediary roles in regulatory programs: Toward a role‐based framework

Intermediary roles in regulatory programs: Toward a role‐based framework

Multinationals, international business, and poverty: A cross-disciplinary research overview and conceptual framework

Responsible business under adverse conditions: Dilemmas regarding company contributions to local development

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