How global is international CSR research? Insights and recommendations from a systematic review

By N. Pisani, Arno Kourula, Ans Kolk, R. Meijer. 2017

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While studies on international corporate social responsibility (CSR) have expanded significantly, their true global nature can be questioned. We systematically review 494 articles in 31 journals over a 31-year period. We assess the embeddedness of CSR in international management/business (IB); analyze the coverage of developing, emerging, and developed countries; map the literature thematically; summarize key findings; discuss main empirical features; and identify unanswered questions, implications, and best practices. We find that international CSR research is far from being global and still emerging in ‘mainstream’ IB. This comprehensive review also helps to set an agenda for future international CSR scholarship.

Subfields: Information Systems and Management, Marketing, Strategy and Management

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Research on international business: The new realities (2021, background): “4 See Zucchella (2021) and Prashantham and Birkinshaw (2020). 5 See Delios (2016) and Casson (2018) for example.”
Artificial intelligence, robotics, advanced technologies and human resource management: a systematic review (2021, methodology): “For this part of our study, we have used the same lists adopted by Pisani (2009), Pisani et al. (2017), Hewett et al. (2018) and Gaur and Kumar (2018).”
Multinational Enterprises and the Sustainable Development Goals: What Do We Know and How to Proceed? (2017, positive): “Although our journal sample and keyword selection obviously suffer from the usual limitations, the fact that we found only a few articles on partnerships underscores how little the IB academic literature has addressed this topic thus far, because a broader search that includes management and CSR or ”