Table 4.
Top 10 most highly cited articles on international SCSR ranked by Web of Science citations
| Authors (year) | Article | Topic(s) | Type | Theory(ies) | Total cites | Cites/year | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Maignan and Ralston (2002) | Corporate social responsibility in Europe and the US: insights from businesses’ self-presentations | Comparative CSR | Empirical (quantitative) | Strategic CSR literature | 613 | 32.3 |
| 2 | Christmann and Taylor (2001) | Globalization and the environment: determinants of firm self-regulation in China | Environmental issues | Empirical (quantitative) | Environmental regulation literature | 532 | 26.6 |
| 3 | King, Lenox, and Terlaak (2005) | The strategic use of decentralized institutions: exploring certification with the ISO 14001 management standard | Environmental issues; ISO certification | Empirical (quantitative) | Institutional theory and TCE | 440 | 27.5 |
| 4 | Christmann (2004) | Multinational companies and the natural environment: determinants of global environmental policy | MNEs’ global environmental policy | Empirical (quantitative) | Stakeholder theory | 380 | 22.4 |
| 5 | Jackson and Apostolakou (2010) | Corporate social responsibility in Western Europe: An institutional mirror or substitute? | Determinants of CSR practices | Empirical (quantitative) | Neo-institutional theory and comparative institutional analysis | 353 | 32.1 |
| 6 | Gardberg and Fombrun (2006) | Corporate citizenship: creating intangible assets across institutional environments | Corporate citizenship (SCSR) | Conceptual | Institutional theory; Theory of strategic balance | 351 | 23.4 |
| 7 | Husted and Allen (2006) | Corporate social responsibility in the multinational enterprise: strategic and institutional approaches | Organizational CSR | Empirical (quantitative) | Institutional theory | 347 | 23.1 |
| 8 | Christmann & Taylor (2006) | Firm self-regulation through international certifiable standards: determinants of symbolic versus substantive implementation | ISO certification | Empirical (quantitative) | TCE | 337 | 22.5 |
| 9 | Teegen et al. (2004) | The importance of nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) in global governance and value creation: an international business research agenda | NGO | Conceptual (perspective paper) | NA | 318 | 18.7 |
| 10 | Strike, Gao, and Bansal (2006) | Being good while being bad: social responsibility and the international diversification of US firms | CSR/CSiR | Empirical (quantitative) | RBV | 305 | 20.3 |
The citation data were collected from the Web of Sciences in mid-February 2021.
CSR Corporate social responsibility, CSiR corporate social irresponsibility, FDI foreign direct investment, RBV resource-based view, RDT resource dependency theory, SCSR strategic corporate social responsibility, TCE transaction cost economics.