Convergence Versus Divergence of CSR in Developing Countries: An Embedded Multi-Layered Institutional Lens

By Dima Jamali, Benjamin A. Neville. 2011

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Subfields: Information Systems and Management, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Strategy and Management

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Comprehensive Board Diversity and Quality of Corporate Social Responsibility Disclosure: Evidence from an Emerging Market (2017, background): “Jamali and Neville (2011) assert that the practice of CSR in developing countries is shaped by the unique historical trajectories, sociopolitical, economic and cultural landscape in the particular country.”
SMEs and CSR in Developing Countries (2017, background): “…is important to gain a grounded understanding of how CSR expressions are mediated by relevant institutional and contextual factors, despite the pressures of globalization and expected harmonization of management processes and structures across cultures (Jamali & Neville, 2011; Matten & Moon, 2008).”
Strategic flexibility, green management, and firm competitiveness in an emerging economy (2015, background): “…activities are embedded in the specific institutional context (DiMaggio and Powell, 1991; Li and Atuahene-Gima, 2001) and are therefore influenced by institutional forces (Campbell, 2007; Jamali and Neville, 2011), institutional theory has been increasingly deployed in explaining green issues.”
The Role of Normative CSR‐Promoting Institutions in Stimulating CSR Disclosures in Developing Countries (2018, background): “…particularly lower income countries such as Pakistan lack the CSR promoting institutions capable of widely encouraging CSR disclosure (Belal & Owen, 2007; Jamali & Neville, 2011; Lund-Thomsen et al., 2016), and we chose the Pakistani research setting precisely to further investigate this claim.”
Sensitive industries produce better ESG performance: Evidence from emerging markets (2017, background): “Hence, CSR continues to be equated with philanthropy in the developing world, and substantive engagement with CSR is the exception rather than the norm (Jamali and Neville, 2011).”
Strategic Corporate Social Responsibility of Multinational Companies Subsidiaries in Emerging Markets: Evidence from China (2016, background): “…value may be particularly appealing in emerging markets where the institutional drivers of CSR tend to be weaker and macro-economic constraints may divert business attention to survival and cutthroat competition (Jamali and Mirshak, 2010; Jamali and Neville, 2011; Porter and Kramer, 2006, 2011).”
Corporate Social Responsibility in Developing Countries as an Emerging Field of Study (2018, unknown): “In our review, these forms of CSR have been referred to as symbolic CSR (Jamali and Neville 2011), token, insincere or greenwash CSR (Gautam and Singh 2010; Hamann and Kapelus 2004), strategic or opportunistic CSR (Wiig and Kolstad 2010), inducement, pacification CSR or divide and rule CSR (Akpan…”
CSR Institutionalized Myths in Developing Countries (2017, background): “Nevertheless, as demonstrated by Jamali and Neville (2011), drawing on Scott (2008), we have witnessed a convergence of these in the conception of the organizational field as a central organizing unit of analysis and a locus of interaction of macro- and micro-level institutional pressures.”
Corporate Social Responsibility and Corporate Governance: Role of Context in International Settings (2013, background): “Despite several decades of research (Aguilera et al. 2006; Johnson and Greening 1999; Knox and Maklan 2004; Aras and Crowther 2008; Jamali and Neville 2011), the relationship between corporate governance and corporate social responsibility (CSR) is still far from clear (Arora and Dharwadkar 2011; Ha”
Institutional legitimacy and norms-based CSR marketing practices: Insights from MNCs operating in a developing economy (2015, background): “These approaches are being vigorously pursued to investigate the impact of MNCs in underdeveloped economies ( Jamali and Neville, 2011; Muthuri and Gilbert, 2011; Wiig and Kolstad, 2010).”
Corporate Social Responsibility in Challenging and Non-enabling Institutional Contexts: Do Institutional Voids matter? (2014, unknown): “…hence the variation of CSR across countries and institutional contexts (Chapple and Moon 2005; Campbell 2007; Kim et al. 2013; Amaeshi and Amao 2009; Jamali and Neville 2011).6 In this paper, we focus on the interface between the organisational and institutional dimensions of CSR. Building on…”
Corporate Social Responsibility and Financial Performance: The Moderating Role of Ownership Concentration in Turkey (2019, background): “It has been argued that CSR is context-dependent and different institutional structures and business systems observed in developing countries may lead to different expressions of CSR [19].”