Sammendrag
This dissertation aims to contribute to a more contextually informed analysis of CSR by studying how political-economic institutions influence CSR practices. Approaching CSR as a political phenomenon, the dissertation studies quantitatively whether political-economic institutions can explain variation in CSR practices across 20 advanced capitalist countries, as cross-national variation provides a key to understand the institutional foundations of CSR. However, the dissertation also seeks to provide a qualitative understanding of the mechanisms and processes by which political-economic institutions influence CSR. I therefore study indepth the CSR approach of state, market, and civil society actors in the Nordic countries, which I argue to be critical cases to our understanding of the political economy of CSR. To guide this qualitative and quantitative analysis, I develop an integrated analytical framework based on three complementary perspectives – comparative political economy, international political economy, and new-institutional theory.
Artikkelliste
Paper I: Gjølberg, Maria (2009). Measuring the immeasurable? Constructing an index of CSR practices and CSR performance in 20 countries. Scandinavian Journal of Management 25, 10–22. The paper is removed from the thesis in DUO due to publisher restrictions. The published version is available at: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scaman.2008.10.003 |
Paper II: Gjølberg, Maria (2009). The origin of corporate social responsibility: global forces or national legacies? Socio-Economic Review. 1–33. The paper is removed from the thesis in DUO due to publisher restrictions. The published version is available at: https://doi.org/10.1093/ser/mwp017 |
Paper III: Gjølberg, Maria (2010). Varieties of corporate social responsibility (CSR): CSR meets the “Nordic Model.”. Regulation & Governance 4, 203–229. The paper is removed from the thesis in DUO due to publisher restrictions. The published version is available at: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1748-5991.2010.01080.x |
Paper IV: Gjølberg, Maria (2011). Explaining regulatory preferences: CSR, soft law, or hard law? Insights from a survey of Nordic pioneers in CSR. Business and Politics, Issue 2. The published version of this paper is available at: https://doi.org/10.2202/1469-3569.1351 |