IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/h/spr/csrchp/978-3-319-26668-8_1.html
   My bibliography  Save this book chapter

Corporate Social Responsibility in Malawi: Antecedents, Issues, Practices and Future Directions

In: Corporate Social Responsibility in Sub-Saharan Africa

Author

Listed:
  • Andrew Ngawenja Mzembe

    (The Business School, University of Huddersfield)

  • Yvonne Downs

    (The Business School, University of Huddersfield)

  • Julia Meaton

    (The Business School, University of Huddersfield)

Abstract

Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in Malawi is becoming a significant issue not only because of the complexity of the social, economic and political environment in which companies operate, but also because of the social and environmental impacts which business operations have on the wider Malawian society. In this chapter, it is shown that the CSR agenda currently pursued by companies in Malawi takes both the normative and instrumental forms, and is largely shaped by the political and socio-economical factors at national and global levels. The chapter is structured as follows: the first section addresses the historical development of CSR and perceptions various actors hold about the forms of responsibilities companies can assume in Malawi; a discussion of the various antecedents of CSR in Malawi. This is followed by an intermediate section which provides CSR themes and priority issues. The final two sections explore the different approaches companies pursue in the implementation of CSR agendas—but also examine the perceived barriers to CSR in Malawi. The chapter concludes by mapping out the future prospects of CSR in Malawi.

Suggested Citation

  • Andrew Ngawenja Mzembe & Yvonne Downs & Julia Meaton, 2016. "Corporate Social Responsibility in Malawi: Antecedents, Issues, Practices and Future Directions," CSR, Sustainability, Ethics & Governance, in: Stephen Vertigans & Samuel O. Idowu & René Schmidpeter (ed.), Corporate Social Responsibility in Sub-Saharan Africa, edition 1, chapter 0, pages 3-29, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:csrchp:978-3-319-26668-8_1
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-26668-8_1
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    To our knowledge, this item is not available for download. To find whether it is available, there are three options:
    1. Check below whether another version of this item is available online.
    2. Check on the provider's web page whether it is in fact available.
    3. Perform a search for a similarly titled item that would be available.

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Frans Melissen & Andrew Ngawenja Mzembe & Uwafiokun Idemudia & Yvonne Novakovic, 2018. "Institutional Antecedents of the Corporate Social Responsibility Narrative in the Developing World Context: Implications for Sustainable Development," Business Strategy and the Environment, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 27(6), pages 657-676, September.

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:spr:csrchp:978-3-319-26668-8_1. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Sonal Shukla or Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.springer.com .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.