The government of self-regulation: on the comparative dynamics of corporate social responsibility

By Jean‐Pascal Gond, N. Kang, J. Moon. 2011

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Abstract This paper explores the relationship between corporate social responsibility (CSR) and government. CSR is often viewed as self-regulation, devoid of government. We attribute the scholarly neglect of the variety of CSR-government relations to the inadequate attention paid to the important differences in the way in which CSR has ‘travelled’ (or diffused), and has been mediated by the national governance systems, and the insufficient emphasis given to the role of the government (or government agency) in the CSR domain. We go on to identify a number of different types of CSR-government configurations, and by following empirically the CSR development trajectories in Western Europe and East Asia in a comparative historical perspective, we derive a set of propositions on the changing dynamics of CSR-government configurations. In particular, we highlight the varied role that the governments can play in order to promote CSR in the context of the wider national governance systems.

Subfields: Strategy and Management

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Citations in the corpus

• Corporate Social Responsibility Under Authoritarian Capitalism: Dynamics and Prospects of State-Led and Society-Driven CSR (2017, background): “…be viewed as simply incompatible with CSR, but rather illustrative of approaches by different governments to encouraging business responsibility (see Gond et al., 2011) which are also supportive of wider governing strategies (Dentchev, Haezendonck, & van Balen, 2017; Knudsen, Moon, & Slager,…”
• 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 ”
• ‘Responsible investment’: ESG and the post-crisis ethical order (2020, background): “state (Gond et al., 2011) or economizes the political sphere (Shamir, 2008).”
• Outsourcing governance: states and the politics of a ‘global value chain world’ (2017, background): “Ostensibly, these initiatives represent a movement away from the primarily voluntaristic manner in which CSR has been articulated, towards what has been termed ‘CSR as mandated by government’ (Gond et al. 2011).”