The state of corporate social responsibility research in Ghana: A synthesis of literature
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2019
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Business Strategy & Development
Abstract
There are recent calls to pay attention to the institutional requirement or the config urations of the national business system because it eventually results in the different
manifestation of corporate social responsibility (CSR) in different contexts. This has
led to several contestations against the suitability of transferring developed countries'
CSR frameworks and ideas to developing countries. Yet literature reviews about CSR
in developing countries and in Africa, in particular, are limited. This paper, therefore,
contributes to this gap by systematically reviewing and synthesizing 113 CSR's stud ies from Ghana between 2006 and 2018. Altogether, this paper structures CSR
research in Ghana into salient themes to provide the current state of knowledge
and help scholars scope the field and explore value‐adding avenues to further our
understanding about CSR research in developing countries. Based on the findings,
implication on theory, public policy, and practice are suggested.
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corporate social responsibility, developing countries, Ghana, literature review