Corporate social responsibility and foreign direct investment: legal, political, and historical influences on the development of auditing in Malaysia

• Main Authors: Md Ali, Azham, Ojo, Marianne, Heang, Lee Teck, Mohamad Yusof, Nor Zalina
• Format: Book Section
• Published: IGI Global 2016
• Subjects: HD28 Management. Industrial Management
• Online Access: http://repo.uum.edu.my/20660/; http://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-0305-7.ch006

As well as highlighting the importance of corporate governance mechanisms such as audits in facilitating Corporate Social Responsibility objectives and Foreign Direct Investment – where corporate social objectives are not unduly compromised, this chapter applies the political economic theory introdu...