 Measuring the immeasurable?: Constructing an index of CSR practices and CSR performance in 20 countriesMaria Gjølberg Scandinavian Journal of Management, 2009, vol. 25, issue 1, 10-22 Abstract: Summary Presuming that a company's institutional environment matters to its corporate social responsibility (CSR) strategy, this article aims to contribute to the establishment of a more comparatively and structurally oriented framework for analysing CSR. To this end, the article develops two indexes: one measuring CSR practices and one measuring CSR performance in 20 OECD nations. The index construction is based on a formative measurement model, reflecting the degree to which companies of certain nationalities are over- or under-represented in major, global CSR initiatives and rankings, relative to the size of their national economies. The two indexes reveal striking differences between the 20 nations, indicating a need to address the impact of domestic structures on CSR. Keywords: Corporate; social; responsibility; index; Comparative; CSR; Index; methodology; Varieties; of; capitalism; Political; economy (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:scaman:v:25:y:2009:i:1:p:10-22 Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from Access Statistics for this article Scandinavian Journal of Management is currently edited by Janne Tienari More articles in Scandinavian Journal of Management from Elsevier |
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