Corporate Social Responsibility and Institutional Theory: New Perspectives on Private Governance

By Stephen Brammer, Gregory Jackson, Dirk Matten. 2012

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

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Role of Country- and Firm-Level Determinants in Environmental, Social, and Governance Disclosure (2016, positive): “The institutional theory addresses relationships between the company and society and furthers the understanding of the effectiveness of ESG within the institutional field of economic governance (Brammer et al. 2012; Campbell 2007; Campbell et al. 1991).”
Mapping the business systems of 61 major economies: A taxonomy and implications for varieties of capitalism and business systems research (2018, neutral): “…2004; Akkermans et al., 2009; Allen, 2013; Keller and Block, 2013; Boschma and Capone, 2015), CSR (Matten and Moon, 2008; Gjølberg, 2009; Jackson and Apostolakou, 2010; Brammer et al., 2012; Kang and Moon, 2012) and inequality (Rueda and Pontusson, 2000; Schneider and Makszin, 2014; Thelen, 2014).”
Exploring institutional drivers and barriers of the circular economy: A cross-regional comparison of China, the US, and Europe (2017, methodology): “…391 the drivers and barriers, following earlier studies using theory in the context of the 392 implementation of other sustainability efforts (e.g., Brammer et al., 2012; Campbell, 393 2007), its recent adoption in analyzing waste management issues (Dai et al., 2015; 394 Levänen, 2015), and its…”
Strategic Corporate Social Responsibility of Multinational Companies Subsidiaries in Emerging Markets: Evidence from China (2016, background): “Our findings moreover suggest that MNCs seem particularly keen on directing their strategies to address institutional voids in emerging countries through their partnerships with non-traditional stakeholders in the context of CSR (Brammer et al., 2012; Elg et al., 2015; Gond et al., 2011; Khanna and ”
Corporate social responsibility disclosure (CSRD) determinants of listed companies in Palestine (PXE) and Jordan (ASE) (2014, background): “…explore how relationships between business and society are constructed, as well as to improve our understanding of the effectiveness of CSR within the wider institutional ﬁeld of economic governance (Brammer et al. 2012); it also explains the links between business behaviour and the legal context.”
Human rights and impact assessment: clarifying the connections in practice (2013, background): “A case in point is the changing nature of what constitutes a ‘key stakeholder’, a core construct of CSR theory (Carroll 1991; Campbell 2007; Banerjee 2008; Brammer et al. 2011; EC 2011).”
The Political Dynamics of Sustainable Coffee: Contested Value Regimes and the Transformation of Sustainability (2016, positive): “need to go beyond seeing the process of public will formation as a public discursive activity (Scherer and Palazzo, 2007) and take seriously both the social embeddedness of CSR (Brammer et al., 2012) and its material anchorage in economic structures and governance mechanisms (Levy and Kaplan, 2008).”
The Sustainable Approach to Corporate Social Responsibility: A Global Analysis and Future Trends (2019, background): “In this approach, it is defined as a controlled process derived from the institutional capacity conferred on it by the stakeholders [72] in decision-making [73] and in the costs of the actions involved [74].”
Corporate Social Responsibility in Developing Countries as an Emerging Field of Study (2018, positive): “Institutional theory has been instrumental in grounding analyses of CSR in wider systems of governance involving the market, the state and historically grown socio-political institutions (Brammer et al. 2012).”