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

Amaeshi, Kenneth; Adegbite, Emmanuel; Rajwani, Tazeeb

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“…Nonetheless, macro-institutional conditions are still important in creating enabling environment 9 for CSR (Amaeshi et al, 2014;Idemudia, 2008;.…”

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“…This, therefore, suggests that despite the challenges of the contaminating context, within which SMEs in Africa operate, there is some awareness of, as well as efforts, made to address their social responsibility, however limited this might be. This finding seems to challenge Rossouw (Table 4) suggest that the integration of SMEs within global supply chains positively influenced their motivation to purse CSR initiatives even if such pressures might be perceived as a constraint (Amaeshi et al, 2014;Idemudia, 2011).…”

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“…As such, it could be argued that the managerial discretion perspective of CSR in SMEs lays too much emphasis on the agency of the owner-managers of these businesses in developing economies, and thus tends to inadvertently neglect the mutual responsiveness and interdependency between agents and institutional structures (Giddens, 1984;Matten and Moon, 2008). In other words, while these owner-managers of small businesses do exercise agency with regards to their CSR practices, such efforts could also be constrained or strengthened by their institutional contexts (Giddens, 1984;Crouch, 2005;Lawrence and Suddaby, 2006 Notwithstanding, Nigeria's economy is struggling to leverage the country's oil wealth in addressing poverty, weak infrastructure, unemployment amongst other social problems that affect majority of its population (Idemudia, 2012;Amaeshi et al, 2014) (Marketline, 2013) belonging to more than 125 ethnic groups. The country is reliant on the agricultural sector, as almost 80% of the workforce depends on the sector for their livelihood (Marketline, 2013).…”

Section: Csr and Smes In Developing Countries: The Limited Nature Of mentioning

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“…Effective CSR can make significant positive contributions to the lives of Africans (Fox 2004;Valente and Crane, 2010;Gilbert and Jenkins, 2014), majority of whom have lost confidence in the government, with regards to the provision of basic necessities of life, but look up to businesses, as beacons of hope (Adegbite and Nakajima, 2011;Amaeshi et al, 2014).…”

Section: Csr and Smes In Developing Countries: The Limited Nature Of mentioning

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“…Nonetheless, macro-institutional conditions are still important in creating enabling environment 9 for CSR (Amaeshi et al, 2014;Idemudia, 2008;.…”

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“…The framework has been praised for integrating the NBS and the neo-institutional perspectives in a way that is useful for comparative studies (Blindheim, 2015;Gjolberg, 2009;Koos, 2011), and for addressing the macro/micro and local/global dimensions of CSR (Bondy et al, 2012;Gjolberg, 2009). Regarding CSR in developing countries, institutional theory is argued to be used to scrutinise and understand the institutional similarities and differences within the developing contexts (Amaeshi et al, 2016;Jamali, 2014;Jamali and Neville, 2011;Muthuri and Gilbert, 2010).…”

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CSR in Afghanistan: a global CSR agenda in areas of limited statehood

Azizi

Jamali

2016

South Asian Journal of Global Business Research

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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.Emerald is both COUNTER 4 and TRANSFER compliant. The organization is a partner of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and also works with Portico and the LOCKSS initiative for digital archive preservation. AbstractPurpose -The purpose of this paper is to explain the emergence of CSR in Afghanistan as a novel context in the South-Asian CSR debate. Design/methodology/approach -The findings of the paper are based on case studies of four corporations in the Afghan mobile telecommunications industry. Multiple sources of qualitative data are coded according to the analytical framework of the paper to generate the findings. Findings -The findings highlight that the Afghan national setting can be conceptualised as an "area of limited statehood" indicating the weak national institutional setting, which enables space for manoeuvring for non-state actors to play a pivotal role in business-society relations. The paper highlights that the CSR practices are driven by the multi-level organisational field that through a unique blend of global coercive, mimetic and normative pressures lead to convergence around explicit CSR themes.Research limitations/implications -The findings are based on CSR practices that are explicitly stated and do not include informal and/or implicit business-society practices in such contexts. Originality/value -This paper combines the literature on areas of limited statehood and the neo-institutional theory to explain the emergence of CSR the Afghan mobile telecommunications industry. The paper advocates for a shift from a national setting focus to a multi-level institutional field lens in providing contextualised explanation of the emergence of CSR in developing countries.

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Institutional Antecedents of the Corporate Social Responsibility Narrative in the Developing World Context: Implications for Sustainable Development

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Efforts to understand the background to perceptions and manifestation of corporate social responsibility (CSR) in the developing world need to focus on establishing their link with the challenges of socio‐economic governance and societal expectations and cultural traditions. This signifies a departure from a western centric understanding of CSR but also an over‐focus on CSR as philanthropy. This study considers the Malawian tourism industry and finds that its colonial legacy, post‐colonialism development thinking and the national education system explain the prevalence of a ‘CSR as philanthropy’ agenda. When these factors interact with challenges of socio‐economic governance and societal expectations, however, the universality thesis that has often been associated with the theory and implementation CSR can be challenged. These findings therefore suggest a shift from the western centric CSR thinking to a CSR perspective that is strongly grounded in local values and norms and which meets the expectations of the global society. This indicates a way forward if CSR is to be adequately institutionalized in the developing world. Copyright © 2017 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd and ERP Environment

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

Cited by 150 publications

References 102 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?

CSR in Afghanistan: a global CSR agenda in areas of limited statehood

Institutional Antecedents of the Corporate Social Responsibility Narrative in the Developing World Context: Implications for Sustainable Development

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