Guest editorial: microfoundations of CSR and sustainable performance

[...]the linkages between microfoundations of CSR and sustainable business performance remain at its nascent stage (Glavas, 2016; Glavas and Kelley, 2014; Rupp and Mallory, 2015; Gond et al., 2017) that calls for rigorous research studies. [...]the knowledge gap in the extant literature that calls for rigorous research at micro levels – the individual and the team – to investigate underlying mechanisms using different methodological approaches (Aguinis and Glavas, 2012) link microfoundations of the CSR with TBL (Singh et al., 2019, 2020). Based on the literature mentioned above, we note that the research on microfoundations of CSR and its linkages with a firm's TBL is scarce, resulting in a substantial knowledge gap that necessitates rigorous research inquiries to bridge the existing gap in the literature. [...]we have conceptualized this special issue (SI), intending to tie together varied microfoundational threads of CSR and understand their influences on how firms should design and implement processes, mechanisms and systems to take care of “people, planet and profit”. [...]the last paper, titled “Doing well by doing good: why is investing in university social responsibility a good business for higher education institutions cross-culturally?” bridges the gap in the CSR literature by establishing a link between the microfoundations of CSR and sustainable business performance.