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Strategic Corporate Social Responsibility and Value Creation

A Study of Multinational Enterprises in Mexico

Authors: Prof. Bryan W. Husted, Prof. David B. Allen

Published in: Management International Review | Issue 6/2009

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This paper examines the conditions under which corporate social responsibility (CSR) is related to value creation in the multinational enterprise (MNE).
Following prior work by Burke and Logsdon (1996), we examine the relationship of centrality, appropriability, proactivity, visibility, and voluntarism to value creation.
The results of a survey of 111 MNEs in Mexico suggest that centrality, visibility, and voluntarism are related to value creation.

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Title: Strategic Corporate Social Responsibility and Value Creation
A Study of Multinational Enterprises in Mexico
Authors: Prof. Bryan W. Husted
Prof. David B. Allen
Publication date: 01-12-2009
Publisher: SP Gabler Verlag
Published in: Management International Review / Issue 6/2009
Print ISSN: 0938-8249
Electronic ISSN: 1861-8901
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11575-009-0016-5

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