From Implicit to Explicit CSR in a Scandinavian Context: The Cases of HÅG and Hydro

Carson, Siri Granum; Hagen, Øivind; Sethi, S. Prakash

doi:10.1007/s10551-013-1791-2

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“…Traditionally Scandinavian countries, including Sweden, have operated under an institutional system and culture (Carson et al, 2013). In particular, primary CSR issues since the 1940s have been focused on safe working conditions and employment and social benefits (Tengblad & Ohlsson, 2010).…”

Section: O Ver the Past Few Decades Increasing Numbers Of Business Omentioning

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Small and Medium Enterprises and Corporate Social Responsibility Practice: A Swedish Perspective

Lee

Herold

2015

Corp Soc Responsibility Env

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The purpose of this paper is to investigate the characteristics of corporate social responsibility (CSR) practice in Swedish small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). A case study approach is used to investigate the CSR perception, motivation, and activities of two Swedish SMEs. This paper indicates that two Swedish SMEs studied adopt a profitseeking rather than a profit-sacrificing CSR approach. Furthermore, the paper argues that the perception, the motivation, and part of the CSR activities are well incorporated in the decision to engage in CSR. However, the Swedish SMEs in our case studies are often limited in communicating their CSR activities due to a lack of resources and management skills. This communication gap between intended and actual communication drives the overall CSR impact on business performance from marginal to non-existent. As a result, looking at the overall business impact, a meant-to-be profit-seeking strategy is actually turned into a profit-sacrificing activity.According to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) (2005), SMEs account for over 95% of in manufacturing and service industries in OECD countries. SMEs are considered to be a main job creator, 90K.-H. Lee et al.The owner-managers in SMEs focus on 'sticking to business' (Dem collective) rather than undertaking CSR activities. SMEs are pursuing CSR activities only when they include a business benefit and value for the company. In other 94 K.-H. Lee et al.

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Section: O Ver the Past Few Decades Increasing Numbers Of Business Omentioning

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Small and Medium Enterprises and Corporate Social Responsibility Practice: A Swedish Perspective

Lee

Herold

2015

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“…In fact, higher levels of carbon disclosure may help safeguard brand reputations because a firm is further signaling to consumers that it is a socially responsible corporation. The significance of explicit CSR in explaining the intensity of participation (Tier 2 decision) but not participation (Tier 1 decision) in voluntary carbon disclosure by EU-based firms may in part be explained by the fact that there is contemporary evidence of the spread of U.S.-style, explicit CSR in Europe and elsewhere (Carson, Hagen, & Sethi, 2015;Eberhard-Harribey, 2006;Matten & Moon, 2008), which Djelic (2001) has called an outcome of the "Americanization" of management practices. Furthermore, although European companies have less discretion about whether or not to participate in carbon disclosure because of the EU's institutional framework, 25 there is room for discretion on the margins-based on individual company's benefit-cost analysis-regarding how much effort a firm will devote to voluntary carbon disclosure.…”

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“…That being said, conditional on participation, European companies that disclose at higher levels to the CDP are the ones that have articulated a corporate vision for environmental sustainability and adopted ESG Second, although Moon (2005, 2008) and others (Carson et al, 2015;Strand, 2012) have articulated a national business systems approach to explain variation in U.S. and European styles of CSR, empirical analyses in the literature have primarily consist of either small N comparative case studies or medium to large N studies of companies based in one or two European countries. By contrast, this paper demonstrates in an analysis of a large N multicountry dataset the shifts in the balance of implicit and explicit CSR in Europe, which reflect changing features of corporations' historical national institutional frameworks and their immediate organization fields.…”

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Opening up the firm: What explains participation and effort in voluntary carbon disclosure by global businesses? An analysis of internal firm factors and dynamics

Hsueh

2019

Bus Strat Env

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A voluntary climate initiative that has emerged over the past two decades as an institutional arrangement for corporations around the globe to signal and demonstrate their proactive climate leadership is the CDP (formerly known as the Carbon Disclosure Project). Unlike the extant literature that has emphasized stakeholder and regulatory pressures, this paper argues that voluntary carbon disclosure is both beneficial and costly for corporations with respect to the existence of supportive management structures, explicit CSR practices, and the existence of complementary assets. Moreover, there is variation between European firms and other global businesses because of Europe's distinctive national business systems framework in conjunction with global supply chain imperatives. Empirically, this study employs a novel discrete‐continuous modeling approach to distinguish between a corporation's decision to disclose and the linked but subsequent decision of how much to disclose climate change information. Results indicate that the main drivers of participation in voluntary carbon disclosure by the Global 500 firms is the existence of senior managers and executive‐level officers and the adoption of ESG principles by global businesses. Conditional on participation, European Union‐based and other global businesses that articulate a corporate vision for environmental sustainability, adopt ESG principles, and invest in complementary assets disclose climate change strategies and emissions at higher levels than companies without these internal firm capabilities. This study has implications for national climate policy and global climate change governance more generally, both of which increasingly focus on concrete climate solutions by corporations.

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“…Authors have examined the types of CSR formed by the specific institutional background in France (Kang -Moon 2012), Germany (Witt -Redding 2012, Hiss 2009, and the Scandinavian countries (Carson et al 2015). It is particularly relevant to examine the specific types of CSR in the CEE region where significant differences exist in the institutional settings compared to those of Western Europe or overseas countries because of the specific historical features and heritage.…”

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Double dependent market economy and corporate social responsibility in Hungary

Bank

2017

CJSSP

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In the different varieties of capitalism (VoC) different types of corporate social responsibility (CSR) exist (Matten -Moon 2008). In order to identify what CSR is like in Hungary, all the five institutions that are relevant to the variety of capitalism in this country are analyzed and a new concept is introduced by the author: the double-dependent market economy (DDME). This new concept allows for further exploration of the general type of CSR in Hungary and answers the question whether it is similar to the CSR of the European coordinated economies or the liberal Anglo-Saxon market economies, or is something completely different. The results of quantitative and qualitative research show that CSR in Hungary hassome similarities with the CSR types of both the liberal and coordinated economies, but on the whole it is fundamentally different from them, due to the dissimilar institutional setting of capitalism in this country. KEYWORDS: corporate social responsibility (CSR), varieties of capitalism (VoC), double-dependent market economy (DDME), implicit CSR, explicit CSRFor a better understanding of the peculiarities of corporate social responsibility (CSR) in Hungary, it is necessary to compare the institutions in which CSR is embedded with those of some other countries. Matten-Moon (2008) addressed the question of how and why corporate social responsibility (CSR) differs among countries and found that the institutional context determined by the different varieties of capitalism has a great influence on the actual CSR of the given country. In the first part of this paper I supplement theoretical considerations about the varieties of capitalism (VoC) with some determinants typical of the 1 Dénes Bank is PhD candidate at the Doctoral

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From Implicit to Explicit CSR in a Scandinavian Context: The Cases of HÅG and Hydro

Cited by 43 publications

References 24 publications

Small and Medium Enterprises and Corporate Social Responsibility Practice: A Swedish Perspective

Small and Medium Enterprises and Corporate Social Responsibility Practice: A Swedish Perspective

Opening up the firm: What explains participation and effort in voluntary carbon disclosure by global businesses? An analysis of internal firm factors and dynamics

Double dependent market economy and corporate social responsibility in Hungary

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