Institutional Conditions For Stakeholder CSR - A Qualitative Comparative Analysis

This dissertation undertakes a comparative investigation of national institutional patterns underlying environmental CSR, employee CSR, investor CSR, and social CSR. For this purpose, I draw on different case studies and comparative analyses to indicate the occurrence of the types of stakeholder CSR...

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Main Author: Backhaus, Marius
Format: Dissertation (University of Nottingham only)
Language:English
Published: 2008
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Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/22118/
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description This dissertation undertakes a comparative investigation of national institutional patterns underlying environmental CSR, employee CSR, investor CSR, and social CSR. For this purpose, I draw on different case studies and comparative analyses to indicate the occurrence of the types of stakeholder CSR in the 21 considered countries. Amable's (2003) varieties of capitalism approach is used to classify the prevalence of five institutional characteristics for the countries of the sample. By means of qualitative comparative analysis (QCA) (Ragin 1987; 2000), the causal links between certain institutional characteristics or combinations of characteristics (configurations) and the four types of stakeholder CSR are analysed. The QCA method is particularly well fit for fields displaying causal complexity and has been advocated for use in CSR research (Gond et al 2008; Gjolberg 2007). I point out several institutional complementarities between institutions and stakeholder CSR as well as the predominance of institutional configurations associated with coordinated market economies for environmental and employee CSR and the predominance of institutional configurations associated with liberal market economies for investor and social CSR. However, the most profoundly supported findings of the analysis are the complexity of institutional conditions and the prevalence of multiple causal paths leading to the different types of stakeholder CSR.
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spelling nottingham-221182018-01-30T22:12:17Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/22118/ Institutional Conditions For Stakeholder CSR - A Qualitative Comparative Analysis Backhaus, Marius This dissertation undertakes a comparative investigation of national institutional patterns underlying environmental CSR, employee CSR, investor CSR, and social CSR. For this purpose, I draw on different case studies and comparative analyses to indicate the occurrence of the types of stakeholder CSR in the 21 considered countries. Amable's (2003) varieties of capitalism approach is used to classify the prevalence of five institutional characteristics for the countries of the sample. By means of qualitative comparative analysis (QCA) (Ragin 1987; 2000), the causal links between certain institutional characteristics or combinations of characteristics (configurations) and the four types of stakeholder CSR are analysed. The QCA method is particularly well fit for fields displaying causal complexity and has been advocated for use in CSR research (Gond et al 2008; Gjolberg 2007). I point out several institutional complementarities between institutions and stakeholder CSR as well as the predominance of institutional configurations associated with coordinated market economies for environmental and employee CSR and the predominance of institutional configurations associated with liberal market economies for investor and social CSR. However, the most profoundly supported findings of the analysis are the complexity of institutional conditions and the prevalence of multiple causal paths leading to the different types of stakeholder CSR. 2008 Dissertation (University of Nottingham only) NonPeerReviewed application/pdf en https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/22118/1/08MSClixmb16.pdf Backhaus, Marius (2008) Institutional Conditions For Stakeholder CSR - A Qualitative Comparative Analysis. [Dissertation (University of Nottingham only)] (Unpublished) CSR comparative CSR institutional conditions for CSR stakeholder theory varieties of capitalism QCA qualitative comparative analysis
spellingShingle CSR
comparative CSR
institutional conditions for CSR
stakeholder theory
varieties of capitalism
QCA
qualitative comparative analysis
Backhaus, Marius
Institutional Conditions For Stakeholder CSR - A Qualitative Comparative Analysis
title Institutional Conditions For Stakeholder CSR - A Qualitative Comparative Analysis
title_full Institutional Conditions For Stakeholder CSR - A Qualitative Comparative Analysis
title_fullStr Institutional Conditions For Stakeholder CSR - A Qualitative Comparative Analysis
title_full_unstemmed Institutional Conditions For Stakeholder CSR - A Qualitative Comparative Analysis
title_short Institutional Conditions For Stakeholder CSR - A Qualitative Comparative Analysis
title_sort institutional conditions for stakeholder csr - a qualitative comparative analysis
topic CSR
comparative CSR
institutional conditions for CSR
stakeholder theory
varieties of capitalism
QCA
qualitative comparative analysis
url https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/22118/