Industrial Clusters and CSR in Developing Countries: The Role of International Donor Funding
研究了发展中国家产业集群中企业社会责任的实践，通过巴基斯坦锡亚尔科特足球制造集群案例，发现捐助资金支持的CSR倡议因政治经济、国家背景、中小企业网络内部紧张及负面认知而难以持久。
This article contributes to literature on corporate social responsibility (CSR) exhibited by industrial clusters in developing countries. The authors conceptualize and empirically investigate the role of donor-funded CSR initiatives aimed at promoting collective action by cluster-based small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). A case study of the Sialkot football-manufacturing cluster in Pakistan indicates that donor-funded support of CSR initiatives in industrial clusters in developing countries may be short-lived, due to the political economy of aid, the national context of CSR implementation, tensions within SME networks, and negative perceptions of CSR by the cluster-based SMEs themselves. The findings and implications of this analysis can inform both research and policy making in this area.