Unpacking the corporate social responsibility–human resource management nexus in SMEs : a multilevel institutional perspective

Shin, Hyemi (avtor), Golob, Urša (avtor), Podnar, Klement (avtor), Kohont, Andrej (avtor)

This study examines how small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) integrate corporate social responsibility (CSR) and human resource management (HRM) in a Confucian context. We conceptualize the CSR–HRM nexus as an institutionally embedded translation mechanism shaped by community and family logics. Drawing on qualitative data from Korean SMEs, we develop a three-level framework—macro-level societal logics, meso-level CSR–HRM arrangements, and micro-level managerial discretion—to show how institutional logics are materialized and enacted in employment relations. We contribute by showing how institutional logics structure CSR–HRM integration, how CSR and HRM co-evolve through embedded value systems, and how family logic can extend beyond family ownership. We further show how family logic is expressed through paternalistic employment relations in which care and managerial discretion coexist, creating a largely aligned CSR–HRM configuration while leaving latent power asymmetries. This specifies a boundary condition for more conflict-oriented accounts of multiple logics and CSR–HRM.

• Jezik: Angleški jezik
• Ključne besede: CSR–HRM nexus, institutional logics, non-family business, SMEs paternalism
• Vrsta gradiva: Članek v reviji
• Tipologija: 1.01 - Izvirni znanstveni članek
• Organizacija: FDV - Fakulteta za družbene vede
• Status publikacije: Objavljeno
• Različica publikacije: Objavljena publikacija
• Leto izida: 2026
• Št. strani: 18 str.
• Številčenje: Vol. 29
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-190025
• UDK: 005.35:334.012.61-022.51/.55
• ISSN pri članku: 2340-9444
• DOI: 10.1177/23409444261493135
• COBISS.SI-ID: 301727491
• Datum objave v RUL: 20.10.2026

Gradivo je del revije

• Naslov: Business research quarterly
• Skrajšan naslov: Bus. res. q.
• Založnik: SAGE
• ISSN: 2340-9444
• COBISS.SI-ID: 51910915

Licence

• Licenca: CC BY 4.0, Creative Commons Priznanje avtorstva 4.0 Mednarodna
• Povezava: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.sl
• Opis: To je standardna licenca Creative Commons, ki daje uporabnikom največ možnosti za nadaljnjo uporabo dela, pri čemer morajo navesti avtorja.

Sekundarni jezik

• Jezik: Slovenski jezik
• Ključne besede: družbena odgovornost podjetij, upravljanje s človeškimi viri, mala in srednja podjetja

Projekti

• Financer: EC - European Commission
• Številka projekta: 734824
• Naslov: Global Entrepreneurial Talent Management 3
• Akronim: GETM3

• Financer: ARIS - Javna agencija za znanstvenoraziskovalno in inovacijsko dejavnost Republike Slovenije
• Številka projekta: P5-0193
• Naslov: Analiza dela, izobraževanja in zaposlovanja