Corporate social responsibility: A multi-level explanation of why managers do good.

Research in the Sociology of Organizations

Strategy and Entrepreneurship

Research in the Sociology of Organizations 2013 Vol 38 p 181-204

Crilly D

Donal Crilly

2013

This chapter explores the integrative effects of individual psychology and social context in explaining why managers would behave in socially responsible ways. To identify how factors at different levels of analysis combine to shape attitudes toward social responsibility, I apply fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis (fsQCA) to survey and archival data from 335 managers of overseas subsidiaries of three Dutch corporations. Attention to the simultaneous effects of individual psychological factors, the organizational context, and the broader social context offers a configurational perspective on the micro and macrofoundations of social responsibility.

Social responsibility; Cognition; Affect; Norms; Configuration

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