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. In addition, organizational practices are often examined individually in the literature, and the consequences of their differences are not considered. In this thesis, in order to conceptualize the deficiencies in the literature and to contribute to these issues with empirical analysis, this thesis examines the adoption and decoupling of two different organizational practices. These practices are corporate social responsibility and corporate governance. Since these are different practices, their adoption is thought to be shaped by different institutional and organizational antecedents. In addition, it is assumed that decoupling in different applications is determined by different predictors. 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.