Corporate social responsibilityEvolution through institutional and stakeholder perspectives

  1. Jesús Barrena Martínez 1
  2. Macarena López Fernández 1
  3. Pedro Miguel Romero Fernández 1
  1. 1 Universidad de Cádiz, Departamento de Organización de Empresas
Revista:
European journal of management and business economics

ISSN: 2444-8494 2444-8451

Año de publicación: 2016

Volumen: 25

Número: 1

Páginas: 8-14

Tipo: Artículo

Otras publicaciones en: European journal of management and business economics

Resumen

This article presents a structured review of the literature about corporate social responsibility, from the origins and evolution of the discipline, as a field of research, until the present. A review is also presented on the main contributions of authors and institutions in relation to the promotion of social responsibility, focusing on two complementary trends that have gained prominence as theoretical support: institutional theory and stakeholder approach. Some controversies and discussions generated in the years around the concept are also discussed.

Referencias bibliográficas

  • Aguilera, R. V., Rupp, D. E., Williams, C. A., & Ganapathi, J. (2007). Putting the s back in corporate social responsibility: A multilevel theory of social change in organizations. Academy of Management Review, 32(3), 836-863. doi:10.5465/AMR.2007.25275678
  • Allouche, J., & Laroche, P. (2005). A meta-analytical investigation of the relationship between corporate social and financial performance. Revue De Gestion Des Ressources Humaines, 57(1), 18-41.
  • Araque-Padilla, R., & Montero-Simó, M. (2006). La responsabilidad social de la empresa a debate.
  • Argandoña, A. (1998). The stakeholder theory and the common good. Journal of Business Ethics, 17(9-10), 1093-1102. doi:10.1023/a:1006075517423
  • Boulouta, I., & Pitelis, C. N. (2014). Who needs CSR? the impact of corporate social responsibility on national competitiveness. Journal of Business Ethics, 119(3), 349-364. doi:10.1007/s10551-013-1633-2
  • Bouquet, C., & Deutsch, Y. (2008). The impact of corporate social performance on a firm's multinationality. Journal of Business Ethics, 80(4), 755-769. doi:10.1007/s10551-007-9467-4
  • Bowen, H. R. (1953). Social Responsibilities of the Businessman,
  • Brammer, S., Jackson, G., & Matten, D. (2012). Corporate social responsibility and institutional theory: New perspectives on private governance. Socio-Economic Review, 10(1), 3-28. doi:10.1093/ser/mwr030
  • Branco, M. C., & Rodrigues, L. L. (2006). Corporate social responsibility and resource-based perspectives. Journal of Business Ethics, 69(2), 111-132. doi:10.1007/s10551-006-9071-z
  • Bridoux, F., & Stoelhorst, J. W. (2014). Microfoundations for stakeholder theory: Managing stakeholders with heterogeneous motives. Strategic Management Journal, 35(1), 107-125. doi:10.1002/smj.2089
  • Campbell, J. L. (2007). Why would corporations behave in socially responsible ways? an institutional theory of corporate social responsibility. Academy of Management Review, 32(3), 946-967. doi:10.5465/AMR.2007.25275684
  • Carroll, A. B. (1999). Corporate social responsibility: Evolution of a definitional construct. Business and Society, 38(3), 268-295. doi:10.1177/000765039903800303
  • Carroll, A. B., & Shabana, K. M. (2010). The business case for corporate social responsibility: A review of concepts, research and practice. International Journal of Management Reviews, 12(1), 85-105. doi:10.1111/j.1468-2370.2009.00275.x
  • Clark, J. M. (1926). The social control of business. Social Control of Business,
  • Clarkson, M. B. E. (1995). A stakeholder framework for analyzing and evaluating corporate social performance. Academy of Management Review, 20(1), 92-117.
  • Comisión Europea. (2011). Estrategia renovada de la UE para 2011–2014 sobre la responsabilidad social de las empresas. bruselas, 25 de octubre.
  • Commission, E. (2001). Promoting a European Framework for Corporate Social Responsibility,
  • Committee for Economic Development. (1971). Social Responsibilities of Business Corporations,
  • Crane, A., McWilliams, A., Matten, D., Moon, J., & Siegel, D. (2009). The oxford handbook of corporate social responsibility. The oxford handbook of corporate social responsibility (pp. 1-608) doi:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199211593.001.0001
  • Cruz-Suárez, A., Prado-Román, C., & Díez-Martín, F. (2014). Por qué se institucionalizan las organizaciones. [Why companies go institutional] Revista Europea De Direccion y Economia De La Empresa, 23(1), 22-30. doi:10.1016/j.redee.2013.09.003
  • Dacin, M. T. (1997). Isomorphism in context: The power and prescription of institutional norms. Academy of Management Journal, 40(1), 46-81. doi:10.2307/257020
  • Dahlsrud, A. (2008). How corporate social responsibility is defined: An analysis of 37 definitions. Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, 15(1), 1-13. doi:10.1002/csr.132
  • Davis, K. (1960). Can business afford to ignore social responsibilities? California Management Review, 2(3), 70-76.
  • Davis, K. (1967). Understanding the social responsibility puzzle. Business Horizons, 10(4), 45-50. doi:10.1016/0007-6813(67)90007-9
  • De La Luz Fernández-Alles, M., & Valle-Cabrera, R. (2006). Reconciling institutional theory with organizational theories: How neoinstitutionalism resolves five paradoxes. Journal of Organizational Change Management, 19(4), 503-517. doi:10.1108/09534810610676699
  • De Neve, G. (2009). Power, inequality and corporate social responsibility: The politics of ethical compliance in the south indian garment industry. Economic and Political Weekly, 44(22), 63-71.
  • DiMaggio, P. J., & Powell, W. W. (1991). Introduction. The New Institutionalism in Organizational Analysis, , 1-38.
  • DiMaggio, P. J., & Powell, W. W. (1983). The iron cage revisited: Institutional isomorphism and collective rationality in organizational fields. American Sociological Review, 48(2), 147-160.
  • Doh, J. P. (1999). Regional market integration and decentralization in europe and north america: Implications for business-government relations and corporate public affairs. Business and Society, 38(4), 474-507. doi:10.1177/000765039903800406
  • Doh, J. P., & Guay, T. R. (2006). Corporate social responsibility, public policy, and NGO activism in europe and the united states: An institutional-stakeholder perspective. Journal of Management Studies, 43(1), 47-73. doi:10.1111/j.1467-6486.2006.00582.x
  • Doh, J. P., & Teegen, H. (2002). Nongovernmental organizations as institutional actors in international business: Theory and implications. International Business Review, 11(6), 665-684. doi:10.1016/S0969-5931(02)00044-6
  • Donaldson, T., & Preston, L. E. (1995). The stakeholder theory of the corporation: Concepts, evidence, and implications. Academy of Management Review, 20(1), 65-91.
  • Drucker, P. (1954). The Practice of Management,
  • Escamilla Solano, S., Plaza Casado, P., & Flores Ureba, S. (2016). Analysis of the disclosure of information on corporate social responsibility in urban public transport companies in spain. [Análisis de la divulgación de la información sobre la responsabilidad social corporativa en las empresas de transporte público urbano en España] Revista De Contabilidad-Spanish Accounting Review, 19(2), 195-203. doi:10.1016/j.rcsar.2015.05.002
  • Fassin, Y. (2009). The stakeholder model refined. Journal of Business Ethics, 84(1), 113-135. doi:10.1007/s10551-008-9677-4
  • Fernández-Allés, M. (2001). Un análisis institucional del contexto y su incidencia en el proceso de cambio de la gestión de recursos humanos. tres estudios de casos.
  • Fernando, S., & Lawrence, S. (2014). A theoretical framework for CSR practices: Integrating legitimacy theory, stakeholder theory and institutional theory. Journal of Theoretical Accounting Research, 10(1), 149-178.
  • Freeman, R. E. (1984). Strategic Management: A Stakeholder Approach,
  • Freeman, R. E., Harrison, J. S., Wicks, A. C., Parmar, B., & de Colle, S. (2010). Stakeholder theory: The state of the art. Stakeholder theory: The state of the art (pp. 1-343) doi:10.1017/CBO9780511815768
  • Friedman, M. (1970). The social responsibility of business is to increase its profits. New York Times Magazine, (SEPTEMBER 13), 32-33.
  • Fuenfschilling, L., & Truffer, B. (2014). The structuration of socio-technical regimes - conceptual foundations from institutional theory. Research Policy, 43(4), 772-791. doi:10.1016/j.respol.2013.10.010
  • Galbreath, J. (2010). How does corporate social responsibility benefit firms? evidence from australia. European Business Review, 22(4), 411-431. doi:10.1108/09555341011056186
  • Garriga, E., & Melé, D. (2004). Corporate social responsibility theories: Mapping the territory. Journal of Business Ethics, 53(1-2), 51-71. doi:10.1023/B:BUSI.0000039399.90587.34
  • Goodpaster, K. E. (1991). Business ethics and stakeholder analysis. Business Ethics Quarterly, 1(1), 53-73.
  • Greenwood, M., & Anderson, E. (2009). 'I used to be an employee but now I am a stakeholder': Implications of labelling employees as stakeholders. Asia Pacific Journal of Human Resources, 47(2), 186-200. doi:10.1177/1038411109105441
  • Harrison, J. S., Bosse, D. A., & Phillips, R. A. (2010). Managing for stakeholders, stakeholder utility functions, and competitive advantage. Strategic Management Journal, 31(1), 58-74. doi:10.1002/smj.801
  • Henriques, I., & Sadorsky, P. (1999). The relationship between environmental commitment and managerial perceptions of stakeholder importance. Academy of Management Journal, 42(1), 87-99. doi:10.2307/256876
  • Keim, G. (2003). Nongovernmental organizations and business-government relations: The importance of institutions. Globalization and NGOs: Transforming Business, Governments, and Society, , 19-34.
  • Kostova, T., Roth, K., & Dacin, M. T. (2008). Institutional theory in the study of multinational corporations: A critique and new directions. Academy of Management Review, 33(4), 994-1006. doi:10.5465/AMR.2008.34422026
  • Lee, M. -. P. (2008). A review of the theories of corporate social responsibility: Its evolutionary path and the road ahead. International Journal of Management Reviews, 10(1), 53-73. doi:10.1111/j.1468-2370.2007.00226.x
  • Lee, M. -. P. (2011). Configuration of external influences: The combined effects of institutions and stakeholders on corporate social responsibility strategies. Journal of Business Ethics, 102(2), 281-298. doi:10.1007/s10551-011-0814-0
  • Ley, A. J., & Wood, R. S. (2014). Teaching the new institutionalism: A cross-class simulation of executive branch decision-making and judicial review.
  • Lindgreen, A., Maon, F., Reast, J., & Yani-de-Soriano, M. (2012). Guest editorial: Corporate social responsibility in controversial industry sectors. Journal of Business Ethics, 110(4), 393-395. doi:10.1007/s10551-012-1488-y
  • Lozano, J. M. (1999). Ética y empresa.
  • Marano, V., & Kostova, T. (2016). Unpacking the institutional complexity in adoption of CSR practices in multinational enterprises. Journal of Management Studies, 53(1), 28-54. doi:10.1111/joms.12124
  • McWilliams, A., Siegel, D. S., & Wright, P. M. (2006). Corporate social responsibility: Strategic implications. Journal of Management Studies, 43(1), 1-18. doi:10.1111/j.1467-6486.2006.00580.x
  • Meyer, J. W., & Rowan, B. (1991). Institutionalized organizations: Formal structure as myth and ceremony. The New Institutionalism in Organizational Analysis, , 41-62.
  • Mitchell, R. K., Agle, B. R., & Wood, D. J. (1997). Toward a theory of stakeholder identification and salience: Defining the principle of who and what really counts. Academy of Management Review, 22(4), 853-886. doi:10.5465/AMR.1997.9711022105
  • Moneva, J. M., & Ortas, E. (2010). Corporate environmental and financial performance: A multivariate approach. Industrial Management and Data Systems, 110(2), 193-210. doi:10.1108/02635571011020304
  • Orlitzky, M., Schmidt, F. L., & Rynes, S. L. (2003). Corporate social and financial performance: A meta-analysis. Organization Studies, 24(3), 403-441. doi:10.1177/0170840603024003910
  • Phillips, R., Freeman, R. E., & Wicks, A. C. (2003). What stakeholder theory is not. Business Ethics Quarterly, 13(4), 479-502+596+597+598. doi:10.5840/beq200313434
  • Porter, M., & Kramer, M. (2011). La creación de valor compartido. Harvard Business Review, 89(1), 32-49.
  • Powell, W. W., & DiMaggio, P. J. (1991). The New Institutionalism in Organizational Analysis,
  • Samy, M., Odemilin, G., & Bampton, R. (2010). Corporate social responsibility: A strategy for sustainable business success. an analysis of 20 selected british companies. Corporate Governance, 10(2), 203-217. doi:10.1108/14720701011035710
  • Schultz, F., & Wehmeier, S. (2010). Institutionalization of corporate social responsibility within corporate communications: Combining institutional, sensemaking and communication perspectives. Corporate Communications, 15(1), 9-29. doi:10.1108/13563281011016813
  • Scott, W. R. (1995). Institutions and Organizations,
  • Sementelli, A. J. (2005). Critical theory, institutions, and hegemony: Role obligation and the reconciliation of seemingly incompatible goals. International Journal of Organization Theory and Behaviour, 8(4), 559-576.
  • Suchman, M. C. (1995). Managing legitimacy: Strategic and institutional approaches. Academy of Management Review, 20(3), 571-610.
  • Van Marrewijk, M. (2003). Concepts and definitions of CSR and corporate sustainability: Between agency and communion. Journal of Business Ethics, 44(2-3), 95-105. doi:10.1023/A:1023331212247
  • Verbeke, A., & Tung, V. (2013). The future of stakeholder management theory: A temporal perspective. Journal of Business Ethics, 112(3), 529-543. doi:10.1007/s10551-012-1276-8
  • Wallich, H. C., & McGowan, J. J. (1970). Stockholder interest and the corporation's role in social policy. A New Rationale for Corporate Social Policy, , 39-59.
  • Walton, C. C. (1967). Corporate Social Responsibilities,
  • Weber, M. (1947). The Theory of Social and Economic Organization,