Corporate Social Responsibility in Challenging and Non-enabling Institutional Contexts: Do Institutional Voids matter?

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• 作者：Kenneth Amaeshi ; Emmanuel Adegbite ; Tazeeb Rajwani
• 关键词：Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) ; Adaptive mechanisms ; Institutional theory ; Developing countries ; Institutional voids ; Nigeria
• 刊名：Journal of Business Ethics
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：March 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：134
• 期：1
• 页码：135-153
• 全文大小：627 KB
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• 作者单位：Kenneth Amaeshi (1) (3) (4)
  Emmanuel Adegbite (2)
  Tazeeb Rajwani (3)
  
  1. University of Edinburgh Business School, University of Edinburgh, 29 Buccleuch Place, Edinburgh, EH8 9JS, UK
  3. Cranfield School of Management, Cranfield University, Cranfield, Bedfordshire, MK43 0AL, England, UK
  4. Lagos Business School, Lagos, Nigeria
  2. Durham University Business School, Durham University, Queen’s Campus, Stockton, University Boulevard, Thornaby, Stockton-on-Tees, TS17 6BH, UK
  
• 刊物类别：Humanities, Social Sciences and Law
• 刊物主题：Philosophy
  Ethics
  Economic Growth
  Management
  Quality of Life Research
  
• 出版者：Springer Netherlands
• ISSN：1573-0697

文摘

The extant literature on comparative Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) often assumes functioning and enabling institutional arrangements, such as strong government, market and civil society, as a necessary condition for responsible business practices. Setting aside this dominant assumption and drawing insights from a case study of Fidelity Bank, Nigeria, we explore why and how firms still pursue and enact responsible business practices in what could be described as challenging and non-enabling institutional contexts for CSR. Our findings suggest that responsible business practices in such contexts are often anchored on some CSR adaptive mechanisms. These mechanisms uniquely complement themselves and inform CSR strategies. The CSR adaptive mechanisms and strategies, in combination and in complementarity, then act as an institutional buffer (i.e. ‘institutional immunity’), which enables firms to successfully engage in responsible practices irrespective of their weak institutional settings. We leverage this understanding to contribute to CSR in developing economies, often characterised by challenging and non-enabling institutional contexts. The research, policy and practice implications are also discussed.