This study investigates the antecedents of human rights infringements (HRIs) by emerging market firms (EFs). We used fuzzy set qualitative comparative analysis (fsQCA) to examine HRIs in 245 firms based in eight emerging markets, between 2003 and 2012. Our findings disclose three equifinal configurations of high levels of HRIs, all involving EFs that have expanded to a high number of foreign markets: (i) large, old, low performing state-owned enterprises (SOEs) operating in high quality institutions’ home and host markets, (ii) small, young, over-performing EFs operating in low quality institutions’ home and host markets, and finally (iii) large, old, high performing SOEs, operating in low quality institutions’ home and host markets. We contribute to the literature by examining a novel dataset on HRIs by EFs, and by building a configurational explanation of HRIs that bridges the arguments of the institutional theory and strain theory literatures on corporate wrongdoing.

本研究调查了新兴市场公司 (EF) 侵犯人权 (HRI) 的前因。我们使用模糊集定性比较分析 (fsQCA) 来检查 2003 年至 2012 年间八个新兴市场的 245 家公司的 HRI。我们的发现揭示了高水平 HRI 的三种等最终配置，所有这些都涉及已扩展到大量国外市场：(i) 在优质机构的本土和东道国市场运营的大型、老牌、低绩效的国有企业 (SOE)，(ii) 在低质量机构的本土和东道国市场运营的小型、年轻、表现优异的 EF (iii) 在低质量机构的本土和东道国市场运营的大型、老牌、高绩效的国有企业。我们通过检查 EF 的 HRI 新数据集为文献做出贡献，