TY - CHAP
T1 - Corporate Social Responsibility in a Comparative Perspective
AU - Williams, Cynthia A.
AU - Aguilera Vaqués, R.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© Oxford University Press, 2008. All rights reserved.
PY - 2009/9/2
Y1 - 2009/9/2
N2 - Comparative studies of corporate social responsibility (CSR) are relatively rare, certainly as contrasted with other related fields, such as comparative corporate governance or comparative corporate law. This is to be expected in a field, such as CSR that is still 'emergent'. While theoretical perspectives on corporate social performance or stakeholder management have been developed over two decades, it is only in the last decade that businesses have begun to exhibit serious evidence of CSR in their strategic management and stakeholder social reporting. This article goes on to explore how CSR can reflect wider national business and governance systems, such as market structures and rules, institutional norms, and respective responsibilities of governments, corporations and other social actors. A particularly exposed role, most notably for multinational corporations from the global north, is emerging for corporations in developing countries.
AB - Comparative studies of corporate social responsibility (CSR) are relatively rare, certainly as contrasted with other related fields, such as comparative corporate governance or comparative corporate law. This is to be expected in a field, such as CSR that is still 'emergent'. While theoretical perspectives on corporate social performance or stakeholder management have been developed over two decades, it is only in the last decade that businesses have begun to exhibit serious evidence of CSR in their strategic management and stakeholder social reporting. This article goes on to explore how CSR can reflect wider national business and governance systems, such as market structures and rules, institutional norms, and respective responsibilities of governments, corporations and other social actors. A particularly exposed role, most notably for multinational corporations from the global north, is emerging for corporations in developing countries.
KW - Comparative corporate governance
KW - Comparative corporate law
KW - Corporate social responsibility
KW - Stakeholder management
KW - Stakeholder social reporting
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U2 - 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199211593.003.0020
DO - 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199211593.003.0020
M3 - Chapter
AN - SCOPUS:84923392205
SN - 9780199211593
BT - The Oxford Handbook of Corporate Social Responsibility
PB - Oxford University Press (OUP)
ER -