Formal and Informal Corruption Environments and Multinational Enterprise Social Irresponsibility

Using an institutional theory framework we theorize, hypothesize, and empirically show that higher levels of formal and informal corruption environments found in a firm's operating portfolio are related to higher levels of corporate social irresponsibility ( CSiR ). Failing to consider corruption's informal dimension leads to potentially false perceptions about a multinational enterprise's ( MNE ) operating environment, particularly when the...