Abstract

The stakeholder pressure is one of the most vital powers which determines CSR implementation and can provide organizations with the motivation to adopt corporate social responsibility (CSR) strategy, as the stakeholder theory claims. The current investigation replications Kowalczyk’s (2019) study, who examined the same structure of relations based on the Polish sample. The essence of this replication is to find out whether CSR- practice is driven by ‘stakeholder pressure’ and ‘CSR-company culture’ vary when controlled by selected European countries or not. Namely, a 'European model of CSR-practice' is embedded in the European culture, or it does not exist (yet). Some earlier studies suggest that sociocultural context matters when it comes to CSR-practice. Therefore, this study aims to check how intensively European cultural context affects organizational cultural context and stakeholder pressure when influencing CSR-practices in the construction industry by employing a sample composed of selected European countries. Kowalczyk’s (2019) model was then replicated based on a convenience sample composed of 282 cases from five European countries. The structural equation modeling method (SEM) was applied to analyze data and verify hypotheses. The findings confirmed that stakeholder pressure is the most substantial influence of power on CSR-practices. Moreover, although the current study proves that CSR practice differs depending on its implementation, it does not present all aspects of the potential differences. Further, deeper research is required to understand it better.

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