Building on the institutional theory of corporate social responsibility (CSR) and research on CSR in the agriculture of post-Soviet transition economies, the present paper investigates the institutional, organizational and individual factors of farm engagement in CSR activities. Based on a survey of 800 farms in Russia and Kazakhstan, the interaction between the farms’ social role and multilevel institutional characteristics is addressed. We observe notable positive effects of local labor sourcing, insecure land use conditions and farm size (in terms of land area) on farms’ CSR engagement. Individually owned farms, as opposed to corporate farms, tend to be more CSR affine. In addition, we find weak statistical evidence of CSR engagement among the farms affiliated with agroholdings. We discuss the results in the context of different levels of CSR analysis.

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俄罗斯和哈萨克斯坦农场企业社会责任的决定因素：使用调查数据的多层次方法

本文基于企业社会责任的制度理论和对后苏联转轨经济农业中企业社会责任的研究，研究了农民参与企业社会责任活动的制度，组织和个体因素。根据对俄罗斯和哈萨克斯坦800个农场的调查，研究了农场的社会角色与多层次制度特征之间的相互作用。我们观察到当地劳动力采购，不安全的土地使用条件和农场规模（就土地面积而言）对农场的企业社会责任参与产生了显着的积极影响。与公司型农场相比，个人型农场更倾向于CSR仿射。此外，我们发现与农作企业相关的农场之间的企业社会责任参与的统计证据较弱。