The State of CSRs Research in Ghana: What Do We Know and Do Not Know?
As a result of the globalization and its consequences such as multi-nationalisation of companies, CSR has become one of the dominant themes attracting the attention of researchers, policy makers, practitioners, educators and international multilateral organisations, such as the World Bank, the EU and the OECD. Whilst research in the field has advanced, aside South Africa, less can be found in most countries in Africa. A sample of reviews on extant studies on the topic has been done to summarise the state of knowledge in the field and recommendations for future research made. Yet few papers on Africa can be seen from the synthesis of the global studies. The current study contributes to CSRs knowledge in Africa by synthesising 115 CSRs studies from Ghana between 2006 and 2016. Using an analysis based on Aguinis & Glavas (2012), coupled with descriptive statistics, the results show that among organizational, individual and institutional level analyses, CSRs studies on Ghana focuses wholly on institutional level analysis. In terms of the issues addressed so far, CSR and firm performance related studies dominate. With sectoral focus, banking and the mining sectors dominate the studies. With regard to author collaborations, two author papers dominate, whilst regarding the authors institution, academics from the University of Ghana dominate the sample. Implications of the on findings for policy, practice and theory are suggested.
CSR Ghana synthesis
Obi Berko O. Damoah Georgina Maku Cobla
Business School, University of Ghana, Accra, Ghana, LG98;Center for West African Studies of University of Electronic Science and Technology of China,Chengdu, P.R.China, 611731
国际会议
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英文
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2017-11-01（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）