Authors: François Maon Valérie Swaen Adam Lindgreen
Publish Date: 2015/08/08
Volume: 143, Issue: 2, Pages: 405-422
Abstract
This comparative study explores 499 corporate social responsibility CSR initiatives implemented by 178 corporations in five distinct institutionally consistent European clusters This study provides an empirically grounded response to calls to develop comprehensive nuanced pictures of CSR in the composite European business environment In so doing the article stresses three distinct nonexclusive approaches that characterize the embedding of CSR considerations in corporations’ strategies across Europe and the CSR challenges for corporations operating in different sociopolitical contexts Furthermore the study reaffirms the CSR notion as a contextualized concept shaped by sociopolitical drivers and contributes by bridging macrolevel sociopolitical facets of CSR with its mesolevel organizational implications
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