CSR best practices for global multi‐tier sustainable supply chain integration of Chinese MNEs

作者：Scuotto Veronica; Chin Tachia; Pezzi Alberto; Pironti Marco

来源：Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, 2022, 29(6): 2038-2052.

DOI：10.1002/CSR.2300

• Chinese MNEs
• corporate social responsibility
• multi‐tier supply chain integration

The interest in global multi‐tier sustainable supply chains is growing proportionally to its increase in developing countries. Developing countries are considered the new fertile territory for developing global chains for multinational enterprises (MNEs). Despite the positive outcomes derived from this global development, it also induces negative impacts in the domain of domestic firms' competition, education, welfare and infrastructure system. A way to overcome this pessimistic view has been found in corporate social responsibility (CSR) best practices. MNEs seek to involve local stakeholders in their social activities to show their commitment and generate innovations. It calls for a multi‐tier domestic involvement integrated into a global supply chain to create value. This study builds its empirical analysis exploring a range of 1547 Chinese manufacturing multinational enterprises listed in the Shanghai and Shenzhen stock exchanges between 2010 and 2018. The findings revealed that multi‐tier supply chain in...