# Corporate Social Responsibility

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YI, Jingtao

[LI, J. T.](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/faculty/li-j-t)

CHEN, Liang

[A Framework for Ethical Responsibility in the Online Age](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/2025/07/framework-ethical-responsibility-online-age)

[Platform Ecosystems](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/tag/platform-ecosystems)

[Multinational Firms](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/tag/multinational-firms)

[Corporate Social Responsibility](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/tag/corporate-social-responsibility)

[Digital Innovation](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/tag/digital-innovation)

HKUST’s Jiatao Li is the chief author of a thoughtful and insightful commentary on the social responsibility of online platforms. Prof. Li’s paper, co-written with international collaborators, explores how the growing reach of multinational platforms (MNPs) necessitates new ways of thinking about ethical governance, transcending traditional frameworks
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[ [BizStudies](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/bizstudies "BizStudies") ]

[Read Full Paper](https://www.researchgate.net/publication/364542012_Ecosystem_social_responsibility_in_international_digital_commerce)

[HA, Albert](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/faculty/ha-albert)

SHANG, Weixin

WANG, Yunjie

[Sharing Audit Information for Responsible Sourcing](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/2024/07/sharing-audit-information-responsible-sourcing)

[Crowdsourcing](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/tag/crowdsourcing)

[Corporate Social Responsibility](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/tag/corporate-social-responsibility)

[Online Information](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/tag/online-information)

Violations of social responsibility by suppliers, whether through unethical, dangerous, or irresponsible behavior, attract considerable attention from the media and the public. “When these violations occur, socially conscious consumers may boycott the guilty brands and switch to other brands,” say HKUST’s Albert Y. Ha and colleagues. Their study sheds new
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[ [BizStudies](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/bizstudies "BizStudies") ]

[Read Full Paper](https://pubsonline.informs.org/doi/epdf/10.1287/mnsc.2022.4358)

[WANG, Danqing](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/faculty/wang-danqing)

[How do Chinese Companies Engage in CSR Activities at an Early Stage?](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/2023/05/how-do-chinese-companies-engage-csr-activities-early-stage)

[Corporate Social Responsibility](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/tag/corporate-social-responsibility)

[Political Endorsement](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/tag/political-endorsement)

[Transitional Economy](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/tag/transitional-economy)

[China](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/tag/china)

CSR has been a foreign concept for Chinese firms. It was first introduced into the Chinese Corporate Law in 2006. Yet, many companies lack of adequate knowledge of CSR and also the institutional support such as NGOs were also underdeveloped. At the early stage, how did companies engage in CSR activities? We find that small and medium sized companies
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LUO, Xiaowei Rose

[WANG, Danqing](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/faculty/wang-danqing)

[Being Responsible](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/2022/09/being-responsible)

[Corporate Social Responsibility](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/tag/corporate-social-responsibility)

[Policy and Regulation](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/tag/policy-and-regulation)

[Policy Implication](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/tag/policy-implication)

[Firm Behavior](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/tag/firm-behavior)

In recent decades, corporate social responsibility, or CSR, has become an increasingly important aspect of firms’ operations. For companies in emerging and transitional markets, where market-based institutions are relatively weak, governments have played a key role in driving CSR. A case in point is China, where the government has pushed CSR as a way of
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[ [Global Trade, Supply Chains and Business Sustainability](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/global-trade-supply-chains-and-business-sustainability "Global Trade, Supply Chains and Business Sustainability") ]

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YI, Zelong

WANG, Yulan

[CHEN, Ying-Ju](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/faculty/chen-ying-ju)

[The Seeds of Prosperity: Financing Small Farmers in the Developing World](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/2022/08/seeds-prosperity-financing-small-farmers-developing-world)

[Supply Chain](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/tag/supply-chain)

[New Ventures](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/tag/new-ventures)

[Corporate Social Responsibility](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/tag/corporate-social-responsibility)

[Developing Economies](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/tag/developing-economies)

Agriculture is central to the economies of developing countries. Central to agriculture, in turn, are smallholder farmers, who traditionally sold their produce locally. Today, however, they have access to far larger, more distant markets, thanks to the Internet and the electronic platforms it has enabled. The problem for farmers, according to HKUST’s Ying-Ju
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[ [BizStudies](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/bizstudies "BizStudies") ]

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LUO, Xiaowei Rose

[WANG, Danqing](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/faculty/wang-danqing)

ZHANG, Jianjun

[CSR Reportings under Institutional Conflict](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/2021/07/csr-reportings-under-institutional-conflict)

[Corporate Social Responsibility](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/tag/corporate-social-responsibility)

[Organizational Behavior](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/tag/organizational-behavior)

[China](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/tag/china)

[Information Disclosure](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/tag/information-disclosure)

[Policy and Regulation](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/tag/policy-and-regulation)

The authors in this study develop a theoretical framework in which the disclosure of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) activities is viewed as an organizational response to institutional complexity which exists between the demands of the central government and provincial governments in China. The study aims at revealing how firms with institutional
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[ [BizStudies](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/bizstudies "BizStudies") ]
[ [Global Trade, Supply Chains and Business Sustainability](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/global-trade-supply-chains-and-business-sustainability "Global Trade, Supply Chains and Business Sustainability") ]

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VENKATESH, Viswanath

SYKES, Tracy A.

[ZHANG, Xiaojun](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/faculty/zhang-xiaojun)

[Seeking Advice](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/2021/07/seeking-advice)

[Corporate Social Responsibility](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/tag/corporate-social-responsibility)

[Cross-country Study](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/tag/cross-country-study)

[Social Network](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/tag/social-network)

[Business Statistics](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/tag/business-statistics)

Sadly, underprivileged groups in less developed countries (LDCs) lack access to proper medical care and accurate medical information, resulting in high rates of mortality. As part of the United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which look to reduce maternal, infant, and child mortality, among other aims, information and communication
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[ [BizStudies](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/bizstudies "BizStudies") ]

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