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The role of national corruption in the relationship between corporate social responsibility and corporate reputation: Evidence from Europe Quevedo Puente, Mª Esther Pérez Cornejo, Clara Castelo Branco, Manuel Corporate reputation Corporate social responsibility National corruption Empresas Responsabilidad social de la empresa Cultura y globalización Business enterprises Social responsibility of business Culture and globalization National corruption can affect the value of the signals that stakeholders use to build expectations about a firm's ability to meet their interests and can thus influence the process of corporate reputation building. Corporate social responsibility (CSR) performance is an important signal for stakeholders to build such expectations. Drawing on signaling and institutional theories, this study examines how national corruption moderates the relationship between CSR performance and corporate reputation based on the coexistence of institutional adaptation processes (institutional isomorphism) and differentiating strategies (signaling effect) across firms. Panel estimators were applied to a sample of 586 observations from 127 companies across eight European countries from 2011 to 2016. The results confirm that CSR performance affects corporate reputation and reveal that, in countries with higher levels of corruption, CSR has a greater effect on corporate reputation. These findings provide further evidence of the moderating effect of contextual factors on the process through which stakeholders build expectations about firms. Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities of Spain. Grant Number: PID2023-152671OB-I00 Portuguese public funds through FCT - Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, I.P.. Grant Number: UID/04105/2023 Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities of Spain, MCIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033. Grant Number: PID2023-152671O-I00 2026-01-19T13:56:03Z 2026-01-19T13:56:03Z 2025-10 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion 1740-4754 https://hdl.handle.net/10259/11242 10.1111/emre.70028 1740-4762 eng European Management Review. 2025, p. 1-14 https://doi.org/10.1111/emre.70028 Atribución-NoComercial 4.0 Internacional http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess Wiley https://riubu.ubu.es/bitstream/10259/11242/4/Quevedo-emr_2025.pdf.jpg Hispana TEXT http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ RIUBU. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Burgos https://hdl.handle.net/10259/11242