According to Maria Gjolberg

In The origin of corporate social responsibility: global forces or national legacies?

Bruno Duarte
Student no. 110480032

Corporate Social Responsibility and Sustainability Reporting 2011

NEW RELATIONSHIP: STATE, MARKETS AND SOCIETY

NEW ROLE OF THE PRIVATE

SECTOR IN THE NATIONAL GLOBAL GOVERNANCE

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FINDING THE CAUSES AND ORIGINS OF CSR PERFORMANCE, EXPLORING:

TWO HYPOTHESIS

Globalist

Institutionalist

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MOTIVATED BY GLOBALIZATION AND THE BUSINESS CASE FOR CSR

FAST GLOBALIZATION: social costs; gaps of governance;

DISSATISFACTION: anti-globalization; license to operate;

> PROPORTION OF
GLOBAL COMPANIES

>

NUMBER

OF

COMPANIES IN

CSR

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NATIONAL INSTITUTIONS INFLUENCE AND MOLD THE ECONOMY THROUGH LEGAL, SOCIAL AND POLITIC FACTORS
Institutional embedding:
divergent environments for companies; may differ for different activities/sectors; better embedding in the economy means better CSR performance.

> SOCIAL STATE

STRENGTH

> CSR SCORE

OF COMPANIES

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METHODOLOGICAL CHALLENGES

DATA

AND VARIABLES CHOICE; COMPARABILITY; STRATEGY;

INFORMATION ANALYTICAL

UNIVERSE

OCCIDENTAL DEMOCRATIC COUNTRIES

CSR NORMATIVE TECHNICAL.

CONCEPT/DEFINITION

AND IDEOLOGICAL EXERCISE, NOT MERELY

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DATA FROM COMPANIES IN THE DOMINANT INTERNATIONAL CSR PERFORMANCE RANKINGS

DIVERSITY OF COMPANIES AND INDUSTRIES

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GROUP OF LEADERS IS DIVERSE

CAUSAL
COMPLEXITY

MORE THAN A PATH TO CSR

SUCCESS

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POSTULATE

COUNTRIES WITH HIGH PROPORTION OF TNCS* AND OUTWARD FDI* HAVE HIGH CSR SCORES
*
Transnational corporations and Outward foreign direct investment

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CONFIRMS
POSTULATE

Low triangles are empty

Almost sufficient condition, but no necessary

There must be more causes

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POSTULATE

Countries that have high rates of Social, Corporatist and Political Culture, will have high CSR scores

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ACTIVE STATE (SOCIAL) ACTIVE STATE (ENVIRONMENTAL) CORPORATIST INTEGRATION

Confirms postulate;

Non necessary nor sufficient condition;

BUT, no country with a high ESI is non leader;

Non sufficient condition;

POLITICAL CULTURE

Confirms postulate; Non suficient condition;

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BOTH EXPLAIN PART OF THE SUCCESS

SEVERAL CAUSES

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Causal combinations, even in contradictory ways, may generate the same outcome; Introduction of qualitative information and method calibration; Half verbal-conceptual, half mathematic-analytical approach;

Allows to explore if combinations of variables are sufficient causes.

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5 VARIABLES IN 2 COMBINATIONS OBTAINED AS CONSISTENT;

Conssistency: how combinations of causes display the same outcome.

MULTIPLE
CAUSALITY

2 PATHS TO CSR

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DIAGONAL SHOWS THE PATH

NORDIC CASE IS WELL

REPRESENTED

UK, CAN, AUS, NOT

REPRESENTED BY THIS HYPOTHESIS

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LACK

OF

CSR

IS WELL

REPRESENTED

LAGERS

AT THE BOTTOM

BELGIUM AND IRELAND ARE

INCONSISTENT CASES

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3 INCONSISTENT CASES

2 LEADERS NOT REPRESENTED CAN, AUS* (TNC AND ENV )

COMPLEMENTARY PATHS MULTIPLIING EFFECT

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UNIVERSAL APLICATION COMBINATIONS OF FACTORS LOCAL IS IMPORTANT POSITIVE OR NEGATIVE INFLUENCE ON CSR BY COMPANIES
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