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What do we know about corporate social responsibility research? a content analysis

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Articles by journal and by year
Articles by journal and by year

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Dominant themes by period
Dominant themes by period

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The CSR Systemic Framework for Future Research
The CSR Systemic Framework for Future Research

Significant development of CSR themes and its pivotal articles

StagePeriodPivotal Articles
Incubation1949–1979Alexander and Buchholz (1978); Abbott and Monsen (1979)
Exploration1980–1989Aupperle et al. (1985); Wartick and Cochran (1985); McGuire et al. (1988)
Adolescent Development1990–1999Wood (1991); Clarkson (1995); Brown and Dacin (1997); Russo and Fouts (1997); Waddock and Graves (1997);Agle et al. (1999); Klassen and Whybark (1999)
Relative Maturity2000–2011Hillman and Keim (2001); McWilliams and Siegel (2001); Orlitzky et al. (2003); Matten and Crane (2005);Campbell (2007); Scherer and Palazzo (2007); Matten and Moon (2008); Lev et al. (2010);Muller and Kolk (2010); Surroca et al. (2010); Doh et al. (2011); Scherer and Palazzo (2011)

Main themes of CSR (Context, Strategy, and Reputation)

Corporate Context (n=28): Theoretical Study (n=9); Empirical Study (n=19)
Individual LevelValues: Swanson (1999) (T)
CEO’s compensation: Deckop et al. (2006) (E)
Organisational LevelOwnership: Graves and Waddock (1994) (E); Johnson and Greening (1999)(E); Neubaum and Zahra (2006)(E);David et al. (2007) (E)
Societal LevelRegional: Maignan and Ralston (2002) (E); Matten and Moon (2008) (E)
Industrial: Bhambri and Sonnenfeld (1988) (E); Marcus and Anderson (2006) (E)
Institutional: Gardberg and Fombrun (2006) (T); Husted and Allen (2006) (E); Campbell (2007) (T); Brammer and Millington (2008) (E);Crittenden et al. (2010) (T); Muller and Kolk (2010)(E); Scherer and Palazzo (2011) (T);
CSR-related Strategy (n=38): Theoretical Study (n=15); Empirical Study (n=23)
Risk Management: Godfrey et al. (2009) (E); Luo and Bhattacharya (2009) (E)
Environment: Menon and Menon (1997) (T); McGee et al. (1998) (T)
Marketing: Handelman and Arnold (1999) (E); Ellen et al. (2006) (E); Simmons and Becker-Olsen (2006) (E); Caruana and Crane (2008) (T); Lev et al. (2010)(E); Luchs et al. (2010) (E); Chabowski et al. (2011) (E); Hult (2011) (T)
Stakeholder Relation: Brammer and Pavelin (2006) (E); Sen et al. (2006) (E); Barnett (2007) (T); Choi and Wang (2009) (E); Kacperczyk (2009) (E)
Corporate Reputation (n=12): Theoretical Study(n=1); Empirical Study (n=11)
Employees’ Attractiveness: Hunt et al. (1989) (E); Turban and Greening (1997) (E) Carmeli (2005) (E)
Consumers’ Attractiveness: Brown and Dacin (1997) (E); Sen and Bhattacharya (2001) (E); Lichtenstein et al. (2004) (E); Berens et al. (2005) (E);Vlachos et al. (2009) (E); Nikolaeva and Bicho (2011) (E)

CSR Research Themes

CSR Concepts and Reviews
Integrative; economics; voluntary; public
Corporate Context
Individual level: personal values; incentive
Organisational level: stakeholder perspective; ownership perspective
Societal level: policy perspective; countries perspective; institutional perspective
CSR-related Strategy
Risk management; environment management; marketing management; stakeholder management
Corporate Reputation
Employees’ attractiveness; consumers’ attractiveness
CSP and CFP
CSP disclosures: annual report; letters to shareholders; corporate disclosures to society
CSP reputation ratings: fortune magazine ratings; reputation ratings developed by scholars;
Social audits:
 CSP processes and observable outcomes: ‘behaviour’ measures of CSP; Kinder, Lydenberg, Domini (KLD) measures; Council on Economic
 Priorities (CEP) index
 Marketing-based measures: market return on security; excess market return of stock; abnormal market returns
 Accounting-based indicators: firm’s return on assets (ROA); return on equity (ROE); earnings per share (EPS)
 Perceptual measures of CFP: firm’s ‘soundness of financial position’; ‘wise use of corporate assets’; ‘financial goal achievement relative to competitors’

Appendix A: Sample Being Used for Analysis

Top Academic JournalsTop Management JournalsSpecialist Journals
AMJAMRSMJJIBSOSTJOMJAMSJMSJMOTH ERSCMRHBRSMRJBEBEQB&SB&SRRowTotal
1949–19740000011000220001512
1975–19795400000100520000219
1980–1983100010000810300421
1985–198924100300205001700539
1990–199441000020110501615541
1995–1999452003101021025319571
2000–200402112211015639182421169
2005–20110101114781141984233184033402
Column Total182715261713138336257385308980774