it is the basic Islamic principle of God-consciousness. It connotes fear of God for self-righteousness (right conduct, virtue, wariness). Abu al-Ala Mawdudi (1979) AU36: The in-text citation "Ala Mawdudi (1979)" is not in the reference list. Please correct the citation, add the reference to the list, or delete the citation. identified taqwa together with brotherhood, equality, fairness, and justice, on which the true Islamic society is established (The Oxford Dictionary of Islam, 2019 AU37: The in-text citation "The Oxford Dictionary of Islam, 2019" is not in the reference list. Please correct the citation, add the reference to the list, or delete the citation. ).
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Managerial Challenges of Corporate Social Responsibility in Developing Countries
Ebrahim Soltani (Hamdan Bin Mohammed Smart University, UAE), Ying Ying Liao (Hamdan Bin Mohammed Smart University, UAE), Abdullah Iqbal (University of Kent, UK), and Farhad Analoui (University of Bradford, UK)
Copyright: © 2021
|Pages: 22
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-3473-1.ch131
Abstract
The aim of this chapter is to contribute to the further advancement of theoretical and empirical debate on CSR management by yielding support to the multidisciplinary and ‘context-dependent' nature of the field of managerial leadership of CSR and illustrating the various managerial orientations and attitudes of Iran's auto industry. Whilst there was very considerable evidence of the increased emphasis upon Sharia compliance mandate to regulate individual managers' personal values and orientation, there was much less evidence that this had as yet been carried through into similar behavioural and attitudinal changes at organisational and societal levels. Hence, the dominant managerial orientations toward CSR neither brought corporate behaviour up to a level where it was congruent with the prevailing Islamic cultural and societal norms nor it fulfilled the developmental promise of CSR. In a nutshell, the overall trend was incontrovertibly toward more personal/managerial use of CSR and failure to maintain a balance between (normative) developmental and instrumental CSR.