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Book SynopsisPresenting an in-depth look at cutting-edge research, this essential Research Handbook develops the current understanding of corporate social responsibility (CSR) and its implications on an international scale. Including contributions from leading academics, highly-informed practitioners, and non-governmental organization managers, it fully conceptualizes the implementation of CSR practices.
This significant Research Handbook combines the work of over 60 authors to examine CSR from a wide variety of perspectives, offering observations through the lens of institutional theory, social activism, and within the context of specific case studies, such as Latin America. Chapters are presented in a universally accessible format that reflects their dual academic and non-academic applicability, constituting a vital and original reference tool for those actively researching in the field.
This will be an important read for students and researchers studying CSR and wanting to stay up to date with recent research developments. Due to its analytical scope, it will additionally be useful for those working in private business as well as non-governmental organizations.
Trade Review‘A timely and interdisciplinary analysis of the corporate social responsibility (CSR) international landscape, with significant attention directed towards global value chains and emerging economies. It serves as a pivotal reference for international research on sustainable global business, offering practical insights for corporations, policymakers, and non-governmental organizations (NGOs), encompassing a comprehensive perspective on diverse economies.’ -- Gaia Melloni, University of Lausanne, Switzerland
‘Achieving sustainability requires a blending of public and private governance, and this volume is at the cutting edge of our understanding of what this means for businesses and society at large. It presents a great collection of papers that examine the efforts by MNEs to do good, the variety of ways in which they succeed and fail, and the reasons why well-intentioned initiatives do not always yield a sustainable outcome.’ -- Sarianna Lundan, University of Bremen, Germany
Table of ContentsContents: 1 International corporate social responsibility: an introduction 1 Anthony Goerzen PART I HISTORICAL AND CURRENT ASSESSMENTS 2 The evolution of sustainability concerns over business activities: from local to cross-national to global 7 Junghoon Park, Alvaro Cuervo-Cazurra, and Ivan Montiel 3 Understanding the CSR agenda of multinational companies from an institutional theory lens 25 Tatiana Kostova and Valentina Marano 4 Drivers, tensions and trade-offs in achieving social and environmental upgrading in global value chains 43 Matthew Alford, Valentina De Marchi, and Aarti Krishnan 5 Integrating responsible conduct in multinational enterprise strategy: an institutional framework 61 Grazia Santangelo 6 Limits of markets as a mechanism for value distribution in GVCS: comparative analyses of social responsibility across GVCS 74 Lilac Nachum, Caroline Wanjiru Kariuki, and Yoshiteru Uramoto 7 International trends in corporate philanthropy and the influence of institutional context 92 Lynnette Purda 8 Which norms do CSR help to respect? 108 Federica Nieri, Elisa Giuliani, and Davide Fiaschi PART II CHALLENGES AND SHORTCOMINGS 9 Cascading compliance to achieve improved GVC sustainability: what is it and why does it fail? 127 Anthony Goerzen and Ari Van-Assche 10 CSR violations among domestic and foreign firms: a study of environmental misconduct in the United States 138 Stewart Miller, Sarfraz Khan, Kefeng Xu, and Lorraine Eden 11 The inconvenient truth: how business model innovation can trigger global companies to act (ir)responsibly 152 John Dilyard and Shasha Zhao 12 Governance failure and firm-level crises: the case of the Volkswagen emissions scandal 168 Liena Kano, Sean Simoes, and Alain Verbeke 13 Institutional environments, cross-national distances, and corporate social irresponsibility in host countries 187 Raveendra Chittoor and Ye He 14 Unjust transitions to low carbon economies: reflections on stakeholder capitalism and responsible cobalt supply chains 205 Joanne Lebert and Raphael Deberdt 15 Indemnifying irresponsibility: how international investment law undermines responsible business conduct 224 Lise J. Johnson, Lisa E. Sachs, and Carolina Menezes Cwajg PART III PARTNERSHIPS AND COLLECTIVE ACTION 16 Multinationals and cross-sector partnerships: building social resilience through collective entrepreneurship 242 Mirko H. Benischke, Jonathan P. Doh, and Peter Tashman 17 Closing the intention-realization gap: the impact of local embeddedness on effective progress toward SDG 17 255 Luis Alfonso Dau and Elizabeth M. Moore 18 Corporate social responsibility, performance, and strategic interaction in a global context 269 Christian Geisler Asmussen 19 Overlooked goliaths: business associations in international CSR governance 284 José Carlos Marques, Jean-Baptiste Litrico, and Jakomijn van Wijk 20 Lessons learned for field practitioners in the implementation of international cross-sector development partnerships 302 Linda Jane Liutkus PART IV CSR IN EMERGING MARKETS 21 Managing complex institutional logics across borders: a study of CSR in Latin America 320 Larissa Marchiori Pacheco, Elizabeth M. Moore, Kristin Brandl, Luis Alfonso Dau, and Maria Tereza Leme Fleury 22 Foreignness, legitimacy, and corporate citizenship perceptions in emerging markets 337 William Newburry and Abrahim Soleimani 23 Sustainability and internationalization in emerging market firms: two sides of the same coin 354 Ana Maria Gomez-Trujillo and Maria Alejandra Gonzalez-Perez PART V A VIEW FORWARD 24 CSR 3.0: corporate social activism as the next stage in the evolution of CSR? 377 Jacob Brower 25 The promise of Industry 4.0 technologies for the sustainability of developing country apparel manufacturers 391 Denanjalee Gunaratne, Noemi Sinkovics, and Rudolf R. Sinkovics 26 Gender and corporate social responsibility: beyond compliance in global value chains 408 Stephanie Barrientos 27 MNEs’ transition to green innovation: a managerial attention-based typology 425 Shaker A. Zahra and Stephanie L. Wang 28 Corporate sustainable supply chain management: from freestyle to compulsory 443 Joseph Sarkis and Joerg S. Hofstetter 29 Beyond adaptation: agenda for international corporate responsibility along global supply networks 462 Adel Guitouni and Cynthia Waltho 30 The way forward: mapping the governance logic of international CSR pathways 480 Rob van Tulder Index 502
