Corporate social responsibility in challenging and non-enabling institutional contexts do institutional voids matter?

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dc.cclicenceCC-BY-NC-NDen
dc.contributor.authorAmaeshi, K.en
dc.contributor.authorAdegbite, E.en
dc.contributor.authorRajwani, T.en
dc.date.acceptance2014-10-14en
dc.date.accessioned2016-07-21T08:21:45Z
dc.date.available2016-07-21T08:21:45Z
dc.date.issued2014-10-14
dc.descriptionThe file attached to this record is the author's final peer reviewed version. The Publisher's final version can be found by following the DOI link.en
dc.description.abstractThe 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.en
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dc.identifier.citationAmaeshi, K., Adegbite, E. and Rajwani, T. (2016) Corporate social responsibility in challenging and non-enabling institutional contexts do institutional voids matter? Journal of Business Ethics, 134 (1), pp. 135-153en
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-014-2420-4
dc.identifier.issn0167-4544
dc.identifier.issn1573-0697
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2086/12324
dc.language.isoenen
dc.peerreviewedYesen
dc.projectidn/aen
dc.publisherSpringeren
dc.researchgroupCentre for Research on Organisational Governanceen
dc.subjectCSRen
dc.subjectAdaptive mechanismsen
dc.subjectInstitutional theoryen
dc.subjectDeveloping countriesen
dc.subjectInstitutional voidsen
dc.subjectNigeriaen
dc.titleCorporate social responsibility in challenging and non-enabling institutional contexts do institutional voids matter?en
dc.typeArticleen

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