Building a global corporate social responsibility program via mergers and acquisitions: A managerial framework

Kathleen Marshall Park, Olimpia Meglio and Svante Schriber

Business Horizons, 2019, vol. 62, issue 3, 395-407

Abstract: While previous studies and management conventions often adopted a finance-centric view of cross-border mergers and acquisitions (CBM&A or CBA), we demonstrate that CBA can be an effective platform upon which to build a global corporate social responsibility (CSR) program and that CSR initiatives can be customized for different locales. These CSR-CBA interconnections and customizations respond to a range of stakeholder interests associated with both national and societal institutional factors. We develop a managerial framework for the CSR-CBA setting and illustrate the framework with an exemplar of international expansion through acquisitions combined with the international development and implementation of CSR.

Keywords: Cross-border acquisitions; Mergers and acquisitions; Corporate social responsibility; Arabian Gulf; Institutional theory; Stakeholders (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1016/j.bushor.2019.01.006

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