Aligning Adverse Activities? Corporate Social Responsibility and Political Activity

Kathleen Rehbein, Frank den Hond and Frank de Bakker

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Abstract: Corporate social responsibility (CSR) and corporate political activity (CPA) are two important components of firms' nonmarket strategies, oriented toward shaping the firm's political and social conditions. Although this is acknowledged in the literature, there are contradictory arguments and evidence, concerning, first, whether and under which conditions firms align their CPA and CSR activities, and second, what the impacts might be if they do align these activities. In light of this, this chapter draws from earlier reviews of nonmarket strategies, to explore the factors at multiple levels, macro and micro, that may drive a firm's alignment of CPA and CSR. In doing so, we draw from management research to identify the macro- and micro-level factors that shape CPA and CSR alignment as CSR and CPA alignment research mostly focuses on outcomes rather than identifying the drivers of alignment. We develop a general model that integrates the macro- and micro-level discussions to make suggestions about where future research needs to go to increase understanding of when corporations will combine their CPA and CSR efforts and the merits of these efforts.

Date: 2018-05-14
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Published in James Weber (éd.); David M. Wasieleski (éd.). Corporate Social Responsibility, 2, Emerald Publishing Limited, pp.295-324, 2018, 978-1-78754-260-0. ⟨10.1108/S2514-175920180000002008⟩

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DOI: 10.1108/S2514-175920180000002008

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