The Embeddedness of Responsible Business Practice: Exploring the Interaction Between National-Institutional Environments and Corporate Social Responsibility

Seeking Legitimacy Through CSR: Institutional Pressures and Corporate Responses of Multinationals in Sri Lanka

“…While Oliver's (Ibid.) strategic responses have been explored by others and remains a key contribution towards examining structure and agency in neo-institutional theory (Fransen, 2013), our findings extend these identified strategic responses to the political CSR view, which has been gaining momentum in recent years. The political CSR literature has extended firmlevel arguments focusing on corporate citizenship theory (Matten and Crane, 2005) and the broadened the corporate citizenship concept (Valente and Crane, 2010) to a more global-level construct (Drahos and Braithwaite, 2001), which contends that MNEs have become important political actors at the global level of governance (Detomasi, 2007;Matten and Crane, 2005;Palazzo and Scherer, 2006;Scherer et al, 2006).…”

“…By examining a study within the context of CSR we reveal the inter-play which occurs between MNE subsidiaries and key institutional actors in relation to gaining legitimacy through the use of CSR in developing countries (Oliver, 1991). Thirdly, our study advances the previously deficient knowledge and understanding of the political behaviour of MNEs in relation to host-county governments, and reveals insights into its cooperative dimensions (Fransen, 2013;Menzies and Orr, 2010). Finally, our investigation responds to calls to develop an alternative view of organisational strategic and management practices, using a neo-institution theory based view (Peng et al, 2008), especially in relation to MNEs (Leung et al, 2005).…”

Corporate social responsibility practices and performance improvement among Chinese national state-owned enterprises

“…Different countries may have different national-institutional arrangements for enterprises to operate (Fransen, 2013). CNSOEs are typical type of enterprises in China even thirty years after the open-door policy in 1979.…”

Conflict Minerals and Supply Chain Due Diligence: An Exploratory Study of Multi-tier Supply Chains

“…In fact, several studies have emphasized that firms' pursued CSR activities are shaped by the domestic institutional political structures and global policies they face (e.g., Detomasi, 2008;Fransen, 2013).…”