Local and Global Dimensions of Corporate Social Responsibility in Mexico

Weyzig, Francis

doi:10.9774/gleaf.4700.2006.wi.00008

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“…Its evident that large firms, specially multinational corporations, have greater resources (Seifert, Morris, & Bartkus, 2004) and are better equipped to respond to the stakeholders' demands (Brammer & Millington, 2004), acting and communicating in a more socially responsible way. This is also in accordance to Weyzig (2006), who describes that a large portion of the investment in Mexico comes from foreign or multinational companies, particularly U.S. subsidiaries operating in the main cities.…”

Section: Formulation Of Hypothesessupporting

confidence: 55%

“…This latest study and its findings, like Paul et al (2006), is based on the idea that the development of more CSR awareness by Mexican companies is related to its integration into the global economy; This is also supported on the results obtained by Muller & Kolk (2009, 2010 with a survey conducted to 121 companies in the Mexican auto parts industry, which demonstrated the existence of similarities between the CSR practices of this industry and those that are known in developed countries; And finally, by analyzing and comparing the local and global perspectives of CSR practices within the country through 75 interviews to 10 foreign multinational companies, Weyzig (2006) notes that Mexican companies are developing increased awareness of global CSR norms, specially when those perspectives are communicated by multinational enterprises to their subsidiaries operating in Mexico. In addition, he mentions that a large portion of the investment in Mexico comes from foreign or multinational companies, particularly U.S. subsidiaries operating in the main cities that have adopted CSR as a tool to enter and develop their markets and its relations with the customers.…”

Section: Csr In Latin America and Mexicosupporting

confidence: 49%

“…This is how the results show a high presence of multinationals (or foreign companies) within Mexico; obtaining high levels of CSR' communications; representing the 49% over the total of companies' studied; and with almost the half of them coming from the United States, as mentioned by Weyzig (2006) and described in the hypotheses formulation section. This could be converging with a current tendency registered in related studies in Mexico (e.g.…”

Section: Discussion and Future Researchmentioning

confidence: 95%

“…Regarding the three CSR principles evaluated, we propose the performance-driven principle as the more employed by the large Mexican companies, following the idea of Weyzig (2006) that large companies in the country actively embrace CSR as a tool to enter and develop their markets and its relations with the customers (strategic-utilitarian purposes); and the opinion of Araya (2006) and Weyzig (2006), mentioning that stakeholders have had little influence in Mexico, and that normally the Mexican companies do not engage stakeholders in their CSR activities.…”

Section: Formulation Of Hypothesesmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Socially Responsible Corporate Communications in Mexico: Evidence of the Large Companies by Their Operational Levels

Amezaga¹,

He²,

Cuervo³

2013

IJBM

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The aim of this study is to know the general condition of business communications regarding Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in large Mexican companies, and identify the significant differences in terms of a set of indicators and in comparison with three different operational levels. Specifically, based in a relevant previous research work by Maignan and Ralston (2002) and analyzing the content of 150 Mexican business websites as a sample frame, the study evaluates the differences in a set of CSR indicators divided in principles, processes and stakeholder issues. And then, compare these indicators among the national, international and multinational level by utilizing the statistical Chi-square test. The main findings suggest a high prevalence of corporate communications regarding social responsibilities in large Mexican companies, especially from those that operate on a multinational level and coming from abroad. The performance-driven principle was found to be the main motivation behind CSR communications for all levels; quality programs were the most employed CSR process in order to build a good citizenship image; and the stakeholder issues related to shareholders and the indicator of service/product quality from the customers group, were those found more significantly similar among the groups.

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Section: Formulation Of Hypothesessupporting

confidence: 55%

Section: Csr In Latin America and Mexicosupporting

confidence: 49%

Section: Discussion and Future Researchmentioning

confidence: 95%

Section: Formulation Of Hypothesesmentioning

confidence: 99%

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He²,

Cuervo³

2013

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“…-in Central and South America (Guerin, 2007;Adams et al, 2006;Weyzig, 2006;Vives, 2006;Anderson et al, 2005;Haslam, 2004), -in Africa (Buch et al, 2009;Kehbila et al, 2009;Keitumetse, 2009;Mitchell et al, 2009;Wahba, 2009;Edoho, 2008;Short, 2008;Ite, 2007b;Ite, 2007a;Ofori et al, 2007;Rinzin et al, 2007;Alemagi et al, 2006;Dunfee, 2006;Idemudia et al, 2006;Visser, 2005;Ite, 2004), -in Asia (Birkin et al, 2009;Cheung et al, 2009;Naeem et al, 2009;Sobhani et al, 2009;Windell, 2009;Baughn et al, 2007;Guerin, 2007;Frost et al, 2006;Virtanen, 2006;Chapple et al, 2005;Frost et al, 2005;Sahay, 2004;Koolhaas, 2001), in East Europe and Middle East (Ray, 2008;Guerin, 2007;Jamali, 2007;Jamali et al, 2007;Küskü, 2007).…”

Section: Context Dependency Of Csrmentioning

confidence: 99%

Corporate social responsibility and developing countries

Dobers

Halme

2009

Corp Soc Responsibility Env

339

315

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This is an accepted version of a paper published in Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management. This paper has been peer-reviewed but does not include the final publisher proof-corrections or journal pagination.Citation for the published paper: Dobers, P., Halme, M. (2009 Abstract: This article gives attention to several CSR questions in developing countries: 1) Illustrations from e.g. South America and Africa, including African voices critical to foreign aid, show that societies are different in many respects. This implies different capacities of organizations and their managers to understand and address pressing CSR issues in different cultural contexts. 2) Weak institutional environments, such as in developing countries, often harbor illicit financial outflow from poor countries to rich ones. This strips developing nations of critical resources and contributes to failed states, a point hardly ever discussed in the CSR literature. We argue for corporate actions in areas such as enhancing capacity in detecting tax fraud, antitrust and the unveiling of corruption cases. Obviously legislation is a task of politicians, governments and international governmental bodies. However, if business enterprises can 'legally misuse' the system, then the matter should be seen as a CSR issue also. There is thus an urgency for concerted efforts by the private sector, public sector and NGOs to develop structures and institutions that contribute to social justice, environmental protection and poverty eradication.

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Can multinational companies foster institutional change and sustainable development in emerging countries? A case study

Forcadell

Aracil

2019

Bus Strat Dev

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Emerging countries present institutional necessities that hinder their sustainable development. In the face of this challenge, companies, and in particular multinational companies (MNCs), can foster sustainable development through their corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives. This study focuses on the role of institutional change in transforming CSR into sustainable development in emerging countries. To this end, we propose a view of CSR focused on its institutional determinants and outcomes from a social and developmental perspective. By using quantitative and qualitative data, we analyse the case of three MNCs from different industries based in Europe and operating in Mexico. The case study shows how firms can stimulate institutional change in developing economies and contribute to their sustainable development as measured by the sustainable development goals. Various mechanisms about how this process is made are devised: institutional entrepreneurship, multistakeholder initiatives, interconnection of different institutional dimensions, and subsidiary entrepreneurship. The case study highlights the interaction among MNCs, developing countries, and institutions and how firms' sustainable actions scale up to the macro level.

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Local and Global Dimensions of Corporate Social Responsibility in Mexico

Cited by 45 publications

References 7 publications

Socially Responsible Corporate Communications in Mexico: Evidence of the Large Companies by Their Operational Levels

Socially Responsible Corporate Communications in Mexico: Evidence of the Large Companies by Their Operational Levels

Corporate social responsibility and developing countries

Can multinational companies foster institutional change and sustainable development in emerging countries? A case study

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