- Title
- Corporate social responsibility practices of multinational companies in their home and host countries
- Creator
- Pan, Yi-Fu
- Resource Type
- thesis
- Date
- 2019
- Description
- Professional Doctorate - Doctor of Business Administration (DBA)
- Description
- CSR as a notion means the society’s economic, legal, ethical, and discretionary expectation on the firm at a given point in time. Under the global economic and political environment, the cross-national difference in terms of culture, administration, geography, and economy is the hard reality that should be taken into account when discussing the relationship between CSR and MNCs. Although Dunning’s (1988) OLI paradigm wisely guides MNCs’ FDI decision making when they seek natural resource, market, efficiency, and strategic asset or capability around the world, the same paradigm does not provide enough information regarding with the appropriate CSR practices MNCs can adopt to increase their performance. Firms internationalize because it will enhance their performance (Contractor, Kundu, and Hsu, 2003). Another competing opinion that has the same weight also shows that MNCs’ corporate social irresponsibility behavior will increase with their multi-nationality (Strike, Gao, and Bansal, 2006). It leads to the big question proposed in this research which enquires “Has globalization eroded MNCs’ corporate social responsibility performance (CSRP) in their home and host countries during the firms’ internationalization process? “. To find solution to this question, this research will aim not only to identify the factors that influence MNCs’ CSR performance but also to investigate the possible impact strategic CSR has on managing the cross-national differences that affect MNCs’ CSR performance. The methodology of this research is a quantitative, cross-sectional research design that is tailored to the functionalist paradigm. 37 items of the survey and 6 hypotheses constructed are based on the theoretical framework deduced from the theories in international business and business ethics. The questionnaire is administered to 220 MNCs randomly selected from a population of 500 MNCs listed on the Fortune Global 500. The quality of the instrument is firstly examined through item analysis, reliability and validity tests. Descriptive and inferential statistical analysis are applied on the collected data in order to test the hypotheses and provide solution to the research problem. The research findings lead to conclude that (1) risk and uncertainty of MNCs’ global operations, cross-national distance, a host country’s international environmental law practices, and sustainable development of a host country are prominent issues that will influence MNCs’ CSR performance, (2) SCSR partially mediates the influence CAGE and ENV have on MNCs’ CSRP. In academia, this research makes contribution to the body of knowledge by establishing the causal relationship between social issues and MNCs’ CSRP. In practice, this research shows that MNCs can utilize strategic CSR to manage cross-national differences and turn diversity into value to mitigate the negative impact the social issues may have on their CSRP.
- Subject
- CSR; MNC; OLI paradigm; CSRP; SCSR
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1397119
- Identifier
- uon:34191
- Rights
- Copyright 2019 Yi-Fu Pan
- Language
- eng
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