Antecedents of CSR Practices in MNCs’ Subsidiaries: A Stakeholder and Institutional Perspective

By Xiaohua Yang, C. Rivers. 2009

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Subfields: Accounting, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Strategy and Management

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Corporate Social Responsibility, Institutional Environments, and Tax Avoidance: Evidence from a Subnational Comparison in China (2017, background): “Most of the scholarship on CSR has focused on firms' strategic management, marketing, and financial economics (Park, Chidlow, & Choi, 2014; Yang & Rivers, 2009).”
The Impact of Board Gender Diversity and Foreign Institutional Investors on the Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Engagement of Chinese Listed Companies (2019, background): “Furthermore, we are contributing to literature by combining institutional/stakeholder perspective to CSR policies and strategies speciﬁcally in developed countries [41–44].”
Seeking Legitimacy Through CSR: Institutional Pressures and Corporate Responses of Multinationals in Sri Lanka (2015, neutral): “In countries such as Sri Lanka, where the state control and power has been increasing steadily, these pressures may very well arise mostly from the central government itself (Zhao 2012; Yang and Rivers 2009), as”
Local stakeholders and local legitimacy: MNEs' social strategies in emerging economies (2012, background): “…enterprises (MNEs) in the world's emerging economies (Aulakh and Kotabe, 2008; Doh, 2005), the role that social factors play in MNEs' global operations is increasingly receiving attention both in international management research and public debate (Husted and Allen, 2007; Yang and Rivers, 2009).”
Corporate Social Responsibility and Gender Diversity: Insights from Asia Pacific (2017, methodology): “The concepts of stakeholder management, stakeholder dialogue, and stakeholder partnership have all become mainstream concepts in the field of CSR (Yang & Rivers, 2009) and we contribute to that literature by applying a combined stakeholder/institutional perspective to CSR strategy adoption in…”
A Cognitive Perspective on the Business Case for Corporate Sustainability (2015, background): “When discussing why firms engage in corporate sustainability activities many authors take organizational or industry level approaches often drawing on institutional theory (e.g. Brammer, Jackson and Matten, 2012; Campbell, 2006; Doh and Guay, 2006; Husted and Allen, 2006; Jackson and Apostolakou, 20”
Multinationals and corporate social responsibility in host countries: Does distance matter? (2011, neutral): “…that mandated by government.1 This definition suggests a possible way to capture CSR activities of MNEs in host countries, a topic that has seldom been researched owing to difficulties in obtaining empirical data on CSR activities of foreign affiliates (Rodriguez et al., 2006; Yang & Rivers, 2009).”
Drivers of Global CSR Integration and Local CSR Responsiveness: Evidence from Chinese MNEs (2016, background): “…active abroad need to respond to local stakeholders’ CSR expectations to gain legitimacy, like MNEs in general need to adapt to local CSR practices to legitimize themselves if they operate in host countries with diverse institutional environments and demanding stakeholders (Yang & Rivers, 2009).”
Multinational Enterprise Subsidiaries and their CSR: A Conceptual Framework of the Management of CSR in Smaller Emerging Economies (2014, methodology): “in host countries can be explained by two dominant theories, stakeholder theory (Freeman 1984; Yang and Rivers 2009) and institutional theory (Alford and Friedland 1985; DiMaggio and Powell 1983; Kostova and Zaheer 1999; Tan and Wang 2011).”
Strategic Corporate Social Responsibility of Multinational Companies Subsidiaries in Emerging Markets: Evidence from China (2016, background): “Our study responds to calls for more research on this topic in the emerging and developing country context (e.g., Elg et al., 2015; Yang and Rivers, 2009).”