Corporate Social Responsibility in Developing and Emerging Markets
Institutions, Actors and Sustainable Development

A valuable interdisciplinary resource examining the concept and effectiveness of CSR as a tool for sustainable development in emerging markets.

Onyeka Osuji (Edited by), Franklin N. Ngwu (Edited by), Dima Jamali (Edited by)

9781108459006, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 23 June 2022

483 pages
27 x 18 x 3 cm, 0.643 kg

Corporate social responsibility (CSR) has emerged as a tool for public and private institutions to promote sustainable development in developing and emerging markets. This work brings together contributors from a variety of fields and international perspectives to assess and improve the effectiveness of CSR by addressing the following questions: what are the linkages between CSR and sustainable development? What does CSR mean for developing or emerging economies and in what ways does this deviate from orthodoxies and universalist approaches? What institutional factors and actors influence the effectiveness of CSR in developing and emerging economies? How can developing and emerging economies promote a flexible, diverse and reconstructed form of CSR that leads to inclusive and sustainable development? This book should be read by anyone interested in understanding what normative factors, theoretical models, policy strategies, and corporate practices best facilitate effective CSR and sustainable development.

1. Introduction: CSR in developing and emerging markets – institutions, actors and sustainable development Onyeka K. Osuji, Franklin N. Ngwu and Dima Jamali
2. Institutional theory and corporate social responsibility in developing countries: a comparative institutional perspective Viviana Pilato
3. Corporate social responsibility (CSR) and a capabilities approach to development: CSR laws as an allocative device? Adaeze Okoye
4. Domestic adjudicative institutions, developing countries and sustainable development: linkages and limitations Onyeka K. Osuji and Paul U. Abba
5. The informal economy: corporate social responsibility (CSR) and sustainable development Ogechi Adeola, Oserere Eigbe and Omotayo Muritala
6. Human resource management and political CSR in global supply chains: causes and consequences of host communities' enduring struggles Hedda Ofoole Knoll and Frederick Ahen
7. Navigating the CSR discourse from a developing country's perspective: a shift to human capital development? Deborah B. Motilewa, Aziegbe-Esho Ebes and Franklin N. Ngwu
8. Firm ownership and corporate social responsibility in China: from a multiple stakeholder perspective Ting Ren, Yan Feng, Youzhi Xiao, Hongyan Yang and Wenli Liu
9. The dynamics of CSR, mandatory CSR laws, and corporate social performance in India Mallika Tamvada
10. Nigeria's informal economy, social responsibility and sustainable development Uchenna Uzo and Olamide Shittu
11. The environment in shipping incidents: salvage contracts and the public interest Durand Cupido
12. Filling institutional voids in Thailand: the case of Nestle and the seafood coalition David Wesley, Luis Alfonso Dau and Elizabeth M. Moore
13. Gender composition of the upper echelons and firm sustainability performance: an examination of Istanbul stock exchange companies F. Pinar Acar and A. Godze Gozum
14. Islamic finance, sustainable development and developing countries: linkages and potential Mohammed K. Alshaleel
15. Developing countries' business schools and socially conscious business leaders Nubi Achebo
16. Corporate participation in climate change mitigation in developing countries: 'green capitalism' as a tool for sustainable development Kikelomo Kila
17. Ethics issues in outsourcing to emerging markets: theoretical perspectives and practices Rose Hiquet and Won-Yong Oh
18. Promoting sustainability in business and management education Ijeoma Nwagwu, Chris Ogbechie and Franklin N. Ngwu
19. Sustainable finance, the law and stakeholders: towards responsible social movements Radek Stech
20. Sustainable consumption, consumer protection and sustainable development: unbundling institutional septet for developing economies Onyeka K. Osuji and Ugochi C. Amajuoyi
21. Corporate social responsibility and sustainable development in developing and emerging markets: looking forward Franklin N. Ngwu, Onyeka K. Osuji and Dima Jamali.

Subject Areas: Market research [KJSM], Company secretary: role & responsibilities [KJRS], Institutions & learned societies: general [GTN], Development studies [GTF]