Table 5.
Top 10 most highly cited articles on CPA & SCSR ranked by Web of Science citations
| Authors (year) | Title | Topic(s) | Type | Theory(ies) | Total cites | Cites/year | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Doh and Guay (2006) | Corporate social responsibility, public policy, and NGO activism in Europe and the United States: an institutional-stakeholder perspective | NGO and public policy | Empirical (qualitative) | Institutional theory; stakeholder theory | 505 | 33.7 | |
| 2 | Rodriguez et al. (2006) | Three lenses on the multinational enterprise: politics, corruption, and corporate social responsibility | CPA, CSR and Corruption (Special issue introduction) | Conceptual | NA | 241 | 16.1 | |
| 3 | Luo (2006) | Political behavior, social responsibility, and perceived corruption: a structuration perspective | CPA, CSR and Corruption | Empirical (quantitative) | Giddens' theory of structuration | 133 | 8.9 | |
| 4 | Spencer and Gomez (2011) | MNEs and corruption: the impact of national institutions and subsidiary strategy | Bribery/corruption in host countries | Empirical (quantitative) | Institutional theory | 99 | 9.9 | |
| 5 | Cuervo-Cazurra (2008) | The effectiveness of laws against bribery abroad | Bribery in host countries | Empirical (quantitative) | New Institutional Economics | 95 | 7.3 | |
| 6 | Montiel et al. (2012) | Using private management standard certification to reduce information asymmetries in corrupt environments | Corruption; environmental issues | Empirical (quantitative) | New institutional economics | 92 | 10.2 | |
| 7 | Doh et al. (2017) | International business responses to institutional voids | CPA and CSR | Conceptual (special issue editorial) | NA | 87 | 21.8 | |
| 8 | Stevens et al. (2016) | Toward a legitimacy-based view of political risk: The case of Google and Yahoo in China | Political risk | Empirical (qualitative) | Institutional theory | 84 | 16.8 | |
| 9 | Cuervo-Cazurra (2016) | Corruption in international business | Corruption | Conceptual | Agency theory, TCE, RBV, RDT, and Institutional theory | 84 | 16.8 | |
| 10 | Detomasi (2008) | The political roots of corporate social responsibility | Political determinants of strategic CSR | Conceptual | NA | 79 | 6.1 | |
The citation data were collected from the Web of Sciences in mid-February 2021.
CPA corporate political activity, CSR corporate social responsibility, RBV resource-based view, RDT resource dependency theory, TCE transaction cost economics.