Research Handbook on International Corporate Social Responsibility

Edited by Anthony Goerzen, PhD, Sobey Professor of International Business, Smith School of Business, Queens University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada, Fellow of the Academy of International Business (AIB), and Chair of AIB-Canada

Contents:

1 International corporate social responsibility: an introduction 1
Anthony Goerzen

PART I HISTORICAL AND CURRENT ASSESSMENTS
2 The evolution of sustainability concerns over business activities: from local to cross-national to global 7
Junghoon Park, Alvaro Cuervo-Cazurra, and Ivan Montiel
3 Understanding the CSR agenda of multinational companies from an institutional theory lens 25
Tatiana Kostova and Valentina Marano
4 Drivers, tensions and trade-offs in achieving social and environmental upgrading in global value chains 43
Matthew Alford, Valentina De Marchi, and Aarti Krishnan
5 Integrating responsible conduct in multinational enterprise strategy: an institutional framework 61
Grazia Santangelo
6 Limits of markets as a mechanism for value distribution in GVCS: comparative analyses of social responsibility across GVCS 74
Lilac Nachum, Caroline Wanjiru Kariuki, and Yoshiteru Uramoto
7 International trends in corporate philanthropy and the influence of institutional context 92
Lynnette Purda
8 Which norms do CSR help to respect? 108
Federica Nieri, Elisa Giuliani, and Davide Fiaschi

PART II CHALLENGES AND SHORTCOMINGS
9 Cascading compliance to achieve improved GVC sustainability: what is it and why does it fail? 127
Anthony Goerzen and Ari Van-Assche
10 CSR violations among domestic and foreign firms: a study of environmental misconduct in the United States 138
Stewart Miller, Sarfraz Khan, Kefeng Xu, and Lorraine Eden
11 The inconvenient truth: how business model innovation can trigger global companies to act (ir)responsibly 152
John Dilyard and Shasha Zhao
12 Governance failure and firm-level crises: the case of the Volkswagen emissions scandal 168
Liena Kano, Sean Simoes, and Alain Verbeke
13 Institutional environments, cross-national distances, and corporate social irresponsibility in host countries 187
Raveendra Chittoor and Ye He
14 Unjust transitions to low carbon economies: reflections on stakeholder capitalism and responsible cobalt supply chains 205
Joanne Lebert and Raphael Deberdt
15 Indemnifying irresponsibility: how international investment law undermines responsible business conduct 224
Lise J. Johnson, Lisa E. Sachs, and Carolina Menezes Cwajg

PART III PARTNERSHIPS AND COLLECTIVE ACTION
16 Multinationals and cross-sector partnerships: building social resilience through collective entrepreneurship 242
Mirko H. Benischke, Jonathan P. Doh, and Peter Tashman
17 Closing the intention-realization gap: the impact of local embeddedness on effective progress toward SDG 17 255
Luis Alfonso Dau and Elizabeth M. Moore
18 Corporate social responsibility, performance, and strategic interaction in a global context 269
Christian Geisler Asmussen
19 Overlooked goliaths: business associations in international CSR governance 284
José Carlos Marques, Jean-Baptiste Litrico, and Jakomijn van Wijk
20 Lessons learned for field practitioners in the implementation of international cross-sector development partnerships 302
Linda Jane Liutkus

PART IV CSR IN EMERGING MARKETS
21 Managing complex institutional logics across borders: a study of CSR in Latin America 320
Larissa Marchiori Pacheco, Elizabeth M. Moore, Kristin Brandl, Luis Alfonso Dau, and Maria Tereza Leme Fleury
22 Foreignness, legitimacy, and corporate citizenship perceptions in emerging markets 337
William Newburry and Abrahim Soleimani
23 Sustainability and internationalization in emerging market firms: two sides of the same coin 354
Ana Maria Gomez-Trujillo and Maria Alejandra Gonzalez-Perez

PART V A VIEW FORWARD
24 CSR 3.0: corporate social activism as the next stage in the evolution of CSR? 377
Jacob Brower
25 The promise of Industry 4.0 technologies for the sustainability of developing country apparel manufacturers 391
Denanjalee Gunaratne, Noemi Sinkovics, and Rudolf R. Sinkovics
26 Gender and corporate social responsibility: beyond compliance in global value chains 408
Stephanie Barrientos
27 MNEs’ transition to green innovation: a managerial attention-based typology 425
Shaker A. Zahra and Stephanie L. Wang
28 Corporate sustainable supply chain management: from freestyle to compulsory 443
Joseph Sarkis and Joerg S. Hofstetter
29 Beyond adaptation: agenda for international corporate responsibility along global supply networks 462
Adel Guitouni and Cynthia Waltho
30 The way forward: mapping the governance logic of international CSR pathways 480
Rob van Tulder

Index 502