Skip to main content Accessibility help
×
Hostname: page-component-7c8c6479df-995ml Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-03-29T12:22:47.537Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false

1 - Introduction to Corporate Social Responsibility in Developing and Emerging Markets: Institutions, Actors and Sustainable Development

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 December 2019

Onyeka Osuji
Affiliation:
University of Essex
Franklin N. Ngwu
Affiliation:
Pan-Atlantic University, Nigeria
Dima Jamali
Affiliation:
American University of Beirut
Get access

Summary

The chapter sets the stage for the book. It defines the mission, central questions and scope of the book and summarises the content of the other chapters. The chapter shows that the differences between CSR orientations in more advanced countries and developing and emerging economies can be explained by the institutional model. the peculiar institutional contexts of the developing and emerging markets present both challenges and opportunities for CSR, especially as a mechanism for advancing sustainable development.

Type
Chapter
Information
Corporate Social Responsibility in Developing and Emerging Markets
Institutions, Actors and Sustainable Development
, pp. 1 - 14
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2019

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

Amaeshi, K., Nnodim, P. and Osuji, O. (2013). Corporate social responsibility, entrepreneurship, and innovation. New York: Routledge.Google Scholar
Amaeshi, K., Osuji, O. and Nnodim, P. (2008). Corporate social responsibility in supply chains of global brands: A boundaryless responsibility? Clarifications, exceptions and implications. Journal of Business Ethics, 81, 223–4.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Jamali, D. and Karam, C. (2018). Corporate social responsibility in developing countries as an emerging field of study. International Journal of Management Reviews, 20(1), 3261.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Jamali, D., Karam, C. and Blowfield, M. (2015). Development-oriented CSR. Sheffield: Greenleaf Publishing.Google Scholar
Jamali, D., Karam, C. M., Soundararajan, V. and Yin, J. (2017). CSR logics in developing countries: Translation, adaptation and stalled developmentJournal of World Business, 52(3), 343–59.Google Scholar
Jamali, D. and Neville, B. (2011). Convergence versus divergence of CSR in developing countries: An embedded multi-layered institutional lens. Journal of Business Ethics, 102, 599621.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Ngwu, F., Osuji, O. and Stephen, F., eds., (2017). Corporate governance in developing and emerging markets. New York: Routledge.Google Scholar
Osuji, O. (2011). Fluidity of regulation-CSR nexus: The multinational corporate corruption example. Journal of Business Ethics, 103, 3157.Google Scholar
Osuji, O. (2012). Corporate social responsibility: Fairness and promise as the fundaments for juridification of social disclosures. Contemporary Issues in Law, 12(1), 4676.Google Scholar
Osuji, O. (2015). Corporate social responsibility, juridification and globalization: ‘Inventive interventionism’ for a ‘paradox’. International Journal of Law in Context, 11, 265–98.Google Scholar
Osuji, O. and Obibuaku, U. (2016). Rights and corporate social responsibility: Competing or complementary approaches to poverty reduction and socioeconomic rights? Journal of Business Ethics, 136(2), 329–47.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Osuji, O. and Umahi, O. (2012). Pharmaceutical corporations, developing countries and access to medicine: Social integration and ethical CSR resolution of a global public choice problem. Journal of Global Ethics, 8(2–3), 139–67.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Scott, W. (2001). Institutions and organizations. Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications, Inc.Google Scholar
Scott, W. (2008). Approaching adulthood: The maturing of institutional theory. Theory and society, 37(5), 427–42.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

Save book to Kindle

To save this book to your Kindle, first ensure coreplatform@cambridge.org is added to your Approved Personal Document E-mail List under your Personal Document Settings on the Manage Your Content and Devices page of your Amazon account. Then enter the ‘name’ part of your Kindle email address below. Find out more about saving to your Kindle.

Note you can select to save to either the @free.kindle.com or @kindle.com variations. ‘@free.kindle.com’ emails are free but can only be saved to your device when it is connected to wi-fi. ‘@kindle.com’ emails can be delivered even when you are not connected to wi-fi, but note that service fees apply.

Find out more about the Kindle Personal Document Service.

Available formats
×

Save book to Dropbox

To save content items to your account, please confirm that you agree to abide by our usage policies. If this is the first time you use this feature, you will be asked to authorise Cambridge Core to connect with your account. Find out more about saving content to Dropbox.

Available formats
×

Save book to Google Drive

To save content items to your account, please confirm that you agree to abide by our usage policies. If this is the first time you use this feature, you will be asked to authorise Cambridge Core to connect with your account. Find out more about saving content to Google Drive.

Available formats
×