In 2013, India became the first country in the world to pass a law which mandated firms which meet a certain threshold of profitability or size to spend at least 2% of their average net profits for last three years on CSR activities (Gatti, Vishwanath, Seele, & Cottier, 2019; Jammulamadaka, 2018). Apart from the minimum spend requirement, the law identified some broad sectors or causes to which this money can be donated and specified detailed reporting requirements for the eligible firms. This mandatory CSR regime has drawn much attention amongst business scholars as well as researchers from other disciplines (Afsharipourt, 2011; Bird, Mukherjee, & Duppati, 2017; Deodhar, 2016; Dhanesh, 2014; Kansal, Joshi, Babu, & Sharma, 2018; Subramaniam, Kansal, & Babu, 2017; Wang, Tong, Takeuchi, & George, 2016). Our objective in this project is to leverage this unique institutional context and rich empirical setting and contribute to both management theory and practice. Next, we discuss relevant literature to motivate the descriptive and theoretical topics which we intend to tackle in this project.