 What drives CSR? an empirical analysis on the labour dimensions of CSRBruno. Dante Abriata and Guillaume. Delautre ILO Working Papers from International Labour Organization Abstract: Relying on the data provided by an ESG rating agency, this paper aims at bringing more understanding on the diversity of firms’ behaviours in terms of labour related CSR and filling a gap on the potential role of labour market institutions, including workers’ collective rights, to contribute to an effective CSR policy. Focusing on four different dimensions of labour CSR (freedom of association, non-discrimina- tion, health & safety and the social monitoring of the supply chain), we assess the influence of a series of economic and institutional characteristics on the level of commitment taken by companies and on the decoupling between firms’ commitment and concrete implementation. In line with the proponents of the complementarity thesis of CSR, our empirical analysis provides evi- dence that the existence of strong labour institutions is positively associated with more commitments taken by companies despite sizeable variations according to the issues analysed and the institutions concerned. However, the analysis of decoupling provides a somewhat more nuanced perspective. Keywords: corporate social responsibility; economic analysis (search for similar items in EconPapers) Published in ILO working paper series Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:ilo:ilowps:995089993202676 Access Statistics for this paper More papers in ILO Working Papers from International Labour Organization Contact information at EDIRC. |
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