'Implicit' and 'Explicit' CSR: A Conceptual Framework for a Comparative Understanding of Corporate Social Responsibility

By Dirk Matten, J. Moon. 2008

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Subfields: Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Sociology and Political Science, Strategy and Management

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Stakeholder Pressure on MNEs and the Transfer of Socially Irresponsible Practices to Subsidiaries (2013, background): “As Meyer and Rowan (1977) explained, the behavior of some units may have no impact on the overall legitimacy of an entire organization.”
Corporate Social Responsibility and Institutional Theory: New Perspectives on Private Governance (2012, background): “One of the most influential arguments suggests that unlike the explicit forms of CSR found in liberal economies, CSR is likely to be more 'implicit' within other institutional settings (Matten and Moon, 2008 ).”
SMEs and CSR in Developing Countries (2017, background): “…that have leveraged an institutional lens and refocused the discussion on the importance of context in relation to CSR include Campbell (2007) and Matten and Moon (2008) who have shown that CSR manifestations need to be analyzed in the context of historically grown institutional frameworks and…”
Corporate Social Responsibility in Challenging and Non-enabling Institutional Contexts: Do Institutional Voids matter? (2014, neutral): “…Eweje 2006; Azmat and Samaratunge 2009; Amaeshi et al. 2006; Adegbite et al. 2012, 2013; Adegbite 2014; Blowfield and Frynas 2005; Campbell 2007; Deakin and Whittaker 2007; McWilliams and Siegel 2001; Aguilera et al. 2006, 2007; Doh and Guay 2006; Matten and Moon 2008; Aguilera and Jackson 2003).”
Corporate responsibility: Reflections on context and consequences (2009, background): “While this view enjoys wide support in the European context (Matten and Moon 2008; Halme and Laurila 2008, Frynas 2006), opinions differ about the role of philanthropic CR in the context of developing countries.”
‘How corporate social responsibility can be integrated into corporate sustainability: a theoretical review of their relationships’ (2018, background): “Over the past half century, many CSR definitions are proposed within the literature, yet there is not a commonly definition of the term (Matten and Moon 2008; Nasrullah and Rahim 2014).”
Corporate Social Responsibility and Sustainability. A Bibliometric Analysis of Their Interrelations (2021, background): “Finally, it may be considered how the concept of CSR may differ among countries and how and why it changes over time [15].”
Do Markets Punish or Reward Corporate Social Responsibility Decoupling? (2020, background): “Meyer and Rowan (1977) indicate that firms disconnect formal policies and actual practices in the context of institutional pressures.”
Corporate Social Responsibility, Noise, and Stock Market Volatility (2012, neutral): “…and heterogeneous definitions of CSR in international environments (see also Crane, McWilliams, Matten, Moon, & Siegel, 2008; Dahlsrud, 2008; Matten & Moon, 2008; McWilliams, Siegel, & Wright, 2006; Rodriguez, Siegel, Hillman, & Eden, 2006) only exacerbate the problem of information…”
Shareholder Primacy, Corporate Social Responsibility, and the Role of Business Schools (2014, neutral): “What Business Schools Might do Differently Educational and professional authorities play an important institutional role in setting standards for legitimate organizational practices (Matten and Moon 2008).”
The rise of the Global Reporting Initiative: a case of institutional entrepreneurship (2009, background): “…embracing the concept of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) (Zadek 2001, Utting 2002; Matten and Crane 2005, Midttun 2005, Doh and Guay 2006, Matten and Moon 2007, Levy and Kaplan 2008); global NGOs becoming partners to business and governments in making international environmental policy…”
Corporate Social Responsibility in China: A Corporate Governance Approach (2014, background): “With more ‘explicit’ CSR activities as a result of institutional isomorphism (Matten and Moon 2008), more data on the behaviors of Chinese firms are now available.”