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T1 The role of national corruption in the relationship between corporate social responsibility and corporate reputation: Evidence from Europe
A1 Quevedo Puente, Mª Esther
A1 Pérez Cornejo, Clara
A1 Castelo  Branco, Manuel
K1 Corporate reputation
K1 Corporate social responsibility
K1 National corruption
K1 Empresas
K1 Business enterprises
K1 Responsabilidad social de la empresa
K1 Social responsibility of business
K1 Cultura y globalización
K1 Culture and globalization
AB 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.
PB Wiley
SN 1740-4754
YR 2025
FD 2025-10
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10259/11242
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10259/11242
LA eng
NO 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
DS Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Burgos
RD 29-abr-2026