The Influence of Organizational Characteristics and Institutional Distance on the Social Responsibility Performance of Foreign Enterprises in China: A Research Based on fsQCA and NCA Methods

Abstract

Abstract: Taking 52 foreign enterprises in China as research object, the paper uses fsQCA and NCA methods to discuss the relationship between 6 antecedent variables of organizational characteristics (enterprise scale, enterprise profitability and operation experience in China) and institutional distance (regulative distance, normative distance and cognitive distance) and social responsibility performance of foreign enterprises in China from the configurational perspective. The study results are as follows. Firstly, any single factor is not a necessary condition leading to high/non-high social responsibility performance of foreign enterprises in China, but cognitive distance plays a prominent role. Secondly, there are five configurations that lead to high social responsibility performance of foreign enterprises in China, in which there are two groups of second-order equifinal configurations. The first group of second-order equifinal configuration can be named as "non-high profitability, high operation experience and non-high cognitive distance" dominated type. According to the peripheral conditions, this second-order equifinal configuration can be divided into "non-high scale, non-high normative distance" assisted type and "non-high scale, high regulative distance" assisted type. The second group of second-order equifinal configuration can be named as "high scale, high operation experience and non-high normative distance" dominated type. According to the peripheral conditions, this second-order equifinal configuration can be divided into "high profitability, non-high cognitive distance" assisted type and "high regulative distance, non-high cognitive distance" assisted type. The fifth configuration can be named as non-high operation experience assisted type dominated by "high scale, high profitability, high regulative distance and non-high normative distance". Lastly, there are three configurations leading to non-high social responsibility performance of foreign enterprises in China, and these configurations have an asymmetric relationship with the driving mechanism of high social responsibility performance.

Key words: organizational characteristics, institutional distance, foreign enterprises in China, corporate social responsibility, fsQCA, NCA

Chen Huaichao, Liang Chen, Fan Jianhong, He Zhimin. The Influence of Organizational Characteristics and Institutional Distance on the Social Responsibility Performance of Foreign Enterprises in China: A Research Based on fsQCA and NCA Methods[J]. Management Review, 2023, 35(2): 280-293.

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