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Cultural and leadership predictors of corporate social responsibility values of top management: a GLOBE study of 15 countries

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This paper examines cultural and leadership variables associated with corporate social responsibility values that managers apply to their decision-making. In this longitudinal study, we analyze data from 561 firms located in 15 countries on five continents to illustrate how the cultural dimensions of institutional collectivism and power distance predict social responsibility values on the part of top management team members. CEO visionary leadership and integrity were also uniquely predictive of such values.

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Acknowledgements

We thank the National Science Foundation and the Center for International Business, Education Research at Thunderbird, and the Indian Institute of Management, Indore, India for providing funding for this study. We also thank Mansour Javidan and other individuals present at the 13 January 2006 special issue workshop for their helpful comments on an earlier version of this article.

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  1. School of Global Management and Leadership, Arizona State University, Phoenix, AZ, USA

    David A Waldman

  2. Thunderbird, The Garvin School of International Management, Glendale, AZ, USA

    Mary Sully de Luque

  3. W P Carey School of Business and the School of Global Management and Leadership, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA

    Nathan Washburn

  4. The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA

    Robert J House

  5. Economic Community of West African States Executive Secretariat, Lagos, Nigeria

    Bolanle Adetoun

  6. Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain

    Angel Barrasa & Francisco Gil Rodríguez

  7. University of Illinois-Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA

    Mariya Bobina

  8. Boǧaziçi University, Bebek-Istanbul, Turkey

    Muzaffer Bodur & Hayat Kabasakal

  9. National Kaoshiung University of Applied Science, Kaoshiung, Taiwan

    Yi-Jung Chen

  10. Tripura University, Tripura, India

    Sukhendu Debbarma

  11. New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, New Mexico

    Peter Dorfman & Jon Howell

  12. Nagaland University, Nagaland, India

    Rosemary R Dzuvichu

  13. Istanbul Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey

    Idil Evcimen

  14. Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

    Pingping Fu

  15. Western Illinois University, Moline, IL, USA

    Mikhail Grachev

  16. Pontifícia Universidade Católica (PUC-MG) Minas Gerais, Brazil

    Roberto Gonzalez Duarte

  17. Simmons College, Boston, MA, USA

    Vipin Gupta

  18. Universiteit van Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Deanne N Den Hartog

  19. Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Annebel H B de Hoogh & P L Koopman

  20. Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

    Kuen-Yung Jone

  21. University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia

    Edvard Konrad

  22. Chemnitz University of Technology, Chemnitz, Germany

    Rainhart Lang

  23. National Pingtung University of Science & Technology, Pingtung, Taiwan

    Cheng-Chen Lin

  24. Renmin University, Beijing, China

    Jun Liu

  25. Universidad Francisco Marroquín, Guatemala City, Guatemala

    Boris Martinez

  26. Regent University, Virginia Beach, Virginia

    Almarie E Munley

  27. Athens University of Economics & Business, Athens, Greece

    Nancy Papalexandris

  28. I-Shou University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

    T K Peng

  29. Texas A&M International University, Laredo, TX, USA

    Leonel Prieto

  30. Villanova University, Villanova, PA, USA

    Narda Quigley

  31. Sultan Qaboos University, Muscat, Oman

    James Rajasekar

  32. Wirtschaftsuniversitaet Wien, Vienna, Austria

    Johannes Steyrer

  33. Fundação Dom Cabral, Minas Gerais, Brazil

    Betania Tanure

  34. University of Tilburg, Tilburg, The Netherlands

    Henk Thierry & Peter T van den Berg

  35. DBYES, Guwahati, Assam, India

    V M Thomas

  36. University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands

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Accepted by Lorraine Eden, Amy Hillman, Peter Rodriguez and Donald Siegel, Guest Editors, 28 February 2006. This paper has been with the authors for two revisions.

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Waldman, D., Sully de Luque, M., Washburn, N. et al. Cultural and leadership predictors of corporate social responsibility values of top management: a GLOBE study of 15 countries. J Int Bus Stud 37, 823–837 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1057/palgrave.jibs.8400230

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