Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/275678 
Year of Publication: 
2021
Citation: 
[Journal:] International Food and Agribusiness Management Review [ISSN:] 1559-2448 [Volume:] 24 [Issue:] 4 [Publisher:] Wageningen Academic Publishers [Place:] Wageningen [Year:] 2021 [Pages:] 697-716
Publisher: 
Wageningen Academic Publishers, Wageningen
Abstract: 
Building on the institutional theory of corporate social responsibility (CSR) and research on CSR in the agriculture of post-Soviet transition economies, the present paper investigates the institutional, organizational and individual factors of farm engagement in CSR activities. Based on a survey of 800 farms in Russia and Kazakhstan, the interaction between the farms’ social role and multilevel institutional characteristics is addressed. We observe notable positive effects of local labor sourcing, insecure land use conditions and farm size (in terms of land area) on farms’ CSR engagement. Individually owned farms, as opposed to corporate farms, tend to be more CSR affine. In addition, we find weak statistical evidence of CSR engagement among the farms affiliated with agroholdings. We discuss the results in the context of different levels of CSR analysis.
Subjects: 
corporate social responsibility
primary agriculture
organizational-level factors
institutional-level factors
transition economies
JEL: 
Q15
O130
Q130
M140
Q170
R110
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Document Type: 
Article
Document Version: 
Published Version

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