Diffusion of CSR in Global Business Networks: An Embeddedness Perspective

This dissertation examines firms’ adoption of corporate social responsibility (CSR) practices as a function of their embeddedness in global business networks (GBNs). The main proposition is that GBNs affect an organization’s adoption decisions as they channel CSR related institutional influences from its multiple partners and provide access to necessary resources and information. The empirical results, based on longitudinal data on 710 U.S....