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Corporate Social Responsibility in Multinational Corporations: A Co-evolutionary Theory Perspective

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posted on 2019-04-17, 01:35 authored by SUMITRA DEVI A/P GOVINDA NAIR
The study looks at why and how strategic Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) approaches differ across subsidiaries of the same MNC, by employing the co-evolutionary theory perspective. Findings suggest that inconsistency in internal factors within an MNC – leadership commitment, social competency, absorptive capacity, level of CSR integration into business; varying external environments faced by each subsidiary; as well as the type of co-evolutionary dynamics model operating in each MNC result in variations. MNCs with the managed selection and holistic renewal CSR co-evolutionary models were found to have more cohesive and better CSR performance. The study covered four MNCs across eleven countries.

History

Campus location

Malaysia

Principal supervisor

Chew Yin Teng

Additional supervisor 1

Manjit Singh Sandhu

Year of Award

2019

Department, School or Centre

Business and Economics (Monash University Malaysia)

Course

Doctor of Philosophy

Degree Type

DOCTORATE

Faculty

Faculty of Business and Economics