TY - JOUR

T1 - Government Policies for Corporate Social Responsibility in Europe:

T2 - A Comparative Analysis of Institutionalisation

AU - Knudsen, Jette Steen

AU - Moon, Jeremy

AU - Slager, Rieneke

PY - 2015/1

Y1 - 2015/1

N2 - This paper analyses policies of 22 European Union member governments, designed to encourage corporate social responsibility (CSR) between 2000 and 2011. It categorises these policies by their regulatory strength and identifies the range of issues to which CSR policies are directed. The paper argues that Northern European, Scandinavian and UK governments are reconstructing their respective institutional structures to embed CSR concerns more explicitly therein. It concludes that these government CSR initiatives are converging, particularly around their increased regulatory strength and the broadening of their issue application. Policies in Mediterranean and the former communist countries do not reflect increasing institutionalisation.

AB - This paper analyses policies of 22 European Union member governments, designed to encourage corporate social responsibility (CSR) between 2000 and 2011. It categorises these policies by their regulatory strength and identifies the range of issues to which CSR policies are directed. The paper argues that Northern European, Scandinavian and UK governments are reconstructing their respective institutional structures to embed CSR concerns more explicitly therein. It concludes that these government CSR initiatives are converging, particularly around their increased regulatory strength and the broadening of their issue application. Policies in Mediterranean and the former communist countries do not reflect increasing institutionalisation.

UR - http://dx.doi.org.ep.fjernadgang.kb.dk/10.1332/030557312X656016

M3 - Journal article

VL - 43

SP - 81

EP - 99

JO - Policy and Politics

JF - Policy and Politics

SN - 0305-5736

IS - 1

ER -