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Our study on Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) literature reveales different gaps. The key questions here are: Is CSR ready for understanding? What are the gaps in CSR liretaure reviews? A literaure synthesis shows the heterogeneity of definitions, theories, and approaches of CSR. However, our study had some limitations in terms of time allocated for the study of literuature, as well as the limitation that most studies of CSR were conducted at orgganizational level, while very few were found at the individual or social level. This shows that CSR is a typical transdisciplinary problem space that can't be solved using mono discpline. The CSR decisionmakers cognition and mindset have a huge influence on CSR engagement, but, no sufficient studies were conducted, in fact, it is considered as a black box. Though, we perceive it as a strength since it has defined the gap on which our further research and dissertation will be dedicated to solving the CSR decision-makers cognition and mindset, using the transdisciplinary approach.
Keywords: Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), Decision-Makers Mindset, Cognitive processes
1.DEFINITION OF CSR IN LITERATURE
Several years ago, the company social concerns have been examined by scholars (e.g. Berle 1931; Bowen 1953; Davis 1960; Carroll 1993). CSR has a long and divers' history in literature (Carroll 1999). It has been a subject of research for 70 years (Whitehouse 2006). Yet, scholars have not reached to consensus definition for CSR. "One concern regarding CSR research is the lack of clarity with respect to its definition and the dimensionality of the construct" (Rowley and Berman 2000; McWilliam et al. 2006; cited in Yang et al. 2013). Defining CSR is complicated (Sheehy 2014 cited in Kumar et al. 2016). It does not have a paradigm of its own (Crane et al. 2008; Grafstorm and Windell 2011 cited in Kraus and Brtitzelmaier 2012; Preuss et al. 2009; Carroll 1979; Bhattacharya and Sen 2004; Crowther and Capaldi 2008 cited in Cook and He 2010). In addition, the definition has been varying in meaning and practice (Secchi 2007; Lee 2008; cited in Ismail 2009). Some scholars predicted that even in the future, there will no common CSR definition (Okoye 2009 cited in Kraus and Brtitzelmaier 2012). Crane et al. (2008, p. 5) state "few subjects in...