The potential contribution of industrial clusters to promoting corporate social responsibility
(CSR) in developing countries is an area of research that remains underinvestigated[1]. This
is surprising, because the role of industrial clusters in generating local economic
development has often been highlighted in both the academic and policy-oriented
literatures on this topic. In developing countries where poverty reduction concerns are
imperative, small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are often co-located in such
clusters which are here defined as a geographically proximate group of interconnected