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Managerial Challenges of Corporate Social Responsibility in Developing Countries

Soltani, Ebrahim and Liao, Ying-Ying and Iqbal, Abdullah and Analoui, Farhad (2020) Managerial Challenges of Corporate Social Responsibility in Developing Countries. In: Khosrow-Pour, Mehdi, ed. Encyclopedia of Organizational Knowledge, Administration, and Technology. IGI Global, Hershey, PA, USA, pp. 1907-1928. ISBN 978-1-7998-3473-1. E-ISBN 978-1-7998-3474-8. (doi:10.4018/978-1-7998-3473-1.ch131) (The full text of this publication is not currently available from this repository. You may be able to access a copy if URLs are provided) (KAR id:88939)

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Abstract

The aim of this chapter is to contribute to the further advancement of theoretical and empirical debate on CSR management by yielding support to the multidisciplinary and ‘context-dependent' nature of the field of managerial leadership of CSR and illustrating the various managerial orientations and attitudes of Iran's auto industry. Whilst there was very considerable evidence of the increased emphasis upon Sharia compliance mandate to regulate individual managers' personal values and orientation, there was much less evidence that this had as yet been carried through into similar behavioural and attitudinal changes at organisational and societal levels. Hence, the dominant managerial orientations toward CSR neither brought corporate behaviour up to a level where it was congruent with the prevailing Islamic cultural and societal norms nor it fulfilled the developmental promise of CSR. In a nutshell, the overall trend was incontrovertibly toward more personal/managerial use of CSR and failure to maintain a balance between (normative) developmental and instrumental CSR.

Item Type: Book section
DOI/Identification number: 10.4018/978-1-7998-3473-1.ch131
Uncontrolled keywords: Corporate social responsibility; CSR; Islamic culture; managerial leadership; Middle-East; Western societies;
Subjects: H Social Sciences > HF Commerce > HF5351 Business
Divisions: Divisions > Kent Business School - Division > Department of Accounting and Finance
Depositing User: Abdullah Iqbal
Date Deposited: 30 Jun 2021 12:40 UTC
Last Modified: 05 Nov 2024 12:54 UTC
Resource URI: https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/88939 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes)

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