Corporate social responsibility (CSR) is a voluntary competitive strategy that is based
upon social, economic, and environmental improvement in which the organisation is involved.
Internationalisation, a type of corporate strategy, is a set of processes that help companies to expand
globally to achieve the aim of improving their competitive position. Both of the strategies have
become more important due to ever increasing globalisation, whose consequences modify economic
and business environments, thus causing them to be more dynamic and competitive. This directly
affects business management, thus companies increasingly consider the opinion of society, attempting
to gain stakeholders’ trust through effective CSR management. In this context, this paper aims to
analyse CSR and internationalisation strategies and their possible connection from a theoretical
viewpoint. From a practical viewpoint, the relationship between both strategies is analysed while
using a sample of Spanish listed companies.
