Presenter: Res. Asst. H. Serra Kutan (ASBU SBF Department of Business Administration)

Subject: Institutional and Organizational Underpinnings of Corporate Social Responsibility and Corporate Governance Practices: BIST Listed Companies, 2010-2017

Venue: Sümerbank Building Hall No SB 107 

Date: 18.12.2019

Time: 15.00

H. Serra Kutan, is a PhD student at Social Sciences University of Ankara, Department of Management. She received her MSc degree from Ankara Yıldırım Beyazıt University in 2019 and BS degree from Bilkent University in 2016. She has been working as a research assistant at Social Sciences University of Ankara, Department of Business Administration since 2017. Her research interests include inter-organizational relationships, politics in organizations and institutional implications of organizational practices.

Institutional and Organizational Underpinnings of Corporate Social Responsibility and Corporate Governance Practices: BIST Listed Companies, 2010-2017: New institutionalism attaches importance to institutional effects in explaining the adoption or diffusion of organizational practices. Although isomorphism and decoupling are commonly studied concepts, studies examining both of these are rare. This study examines the adoption and decoupling of two different organizational practices. These practices are corporate social responsibility and corporate governance. In this exploratory research, empirical data were collected for companies listed in Borsa Istanbul (BIST) for the years 2010-2017. Data on the institutional and organizational antecedents of these practices regarding the extent to which these companies have adopted and implemented corporate governance and corporate social responsibility were collected and analyzed longitudinally. Empirical findings show that the antecedents of adoption and practice differ and that the antecedents of each differ also between the practices that we examine.