Three Essays On The Corporate Social Responsibility And Firm Outcomes
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Three Essays On The Corporate Social Responsibility And Firm Outcomes
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Author : Xiao Pan
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020
Three Essays On The Corporate Social Responsibility And Firm Outcomes written by Xiao Pan and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020 with categories.
Three Essays On Corporate Social Responsibility
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Author : Vanessa Cuerel Burbano
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2015
Three Essays On Corporate Social Responsibility written by Vanessa Cuerel Burbano and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015 with categories.
This dissertation explores the effect of corporate social responsibility (CSR) practices on the firm and contributes to an understanding of how CSR practices can contribute to companies' competitive advantage. In Chapter 1, I use three randomized field experiments implemented in online labor marketplaces to provide causal evidence of the effect of CSR on employee outcomes that have been shown to be critical to firm performance: salary requirements and employee performance. Workers were recruited for short-term jobs and I manipulated whether or not they received information about the employer's CSR program. I then observed the payment workers were willing to accept for the job and their performance on the job. Surveys administered at the end of the experiments gauging workers' perceptions about the received CSR information also provide insight into the distinct mechanisms through which CSR affects the different employee outcomes. This paper contributes to an understanding of how CSR adds value to the firm and highlights the role of the employee in explaining this relationship. It also demonstrates how online labor markets can be used as settings for field experimental research in strategic management more broadly. In Chapter 2, we examine pro bono work in the legal services industry. Using a screening model we show that law firms use pro bono engagements to gain information about associates' expected productivity as an equity partner. Using a dataset of the top 200 US law firms in 2010 we demonstrate empirical support for our model's predictions. Our findings thus suggest that the conventional wisdom that CSR practices are used to provide information about the quality of the firm to the employee is backwards; rather, we find that pro bono engagements are used to provide information about the quality of the employee to the firm. In Chapter 3, we explore what drives firms to combine poor environmental performance with communication about positive environmental performance, resulting in "greenwashing". Although some explanation of firm greenwashing has been put forth, a comprehensive analysis of the determinants of firm greenwashing is lacking. Drawing from existing work in management, strategy, sociology and psychology, we propose a comprehensive framework that examines the external (both institutional and market), organizational and individual drivers of greenwashing and then use this framework to develop recommendations for managers, policymakers, and NGOs to decrease greenwashing.
Three Essays On Corporate Social Responsibility Csr
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Author : Ruoke Yang
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019
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My findings point to a world in which the ratings business is primarily catering to a large group of trusting investors who buy ratings not for the value of information but for the value of institutional certification. The third essay examines the ratings of a recently emerged rating agency competitor and find its ratings are of no better predictive quality. I introduce a novel set of measures, `corporate badness (CB) ratings', for corporate environmental and social performance. In contrast to the leading commercial ratings, worse CB ratings correctly predict more future corporate bad behavior out-of-sample. These CB ratings provide a way to study ratings disagreement, which can be used to disentangle greenwashing from the other information contained in the leading commercial CSR ratings.
Corporate Social Responsibility
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Author : Craig David Macaulay
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2014
Corporate Social Responsibility written by Craig David Macaulay and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014 with Industrial relations categories.
In three essays, I examine several facets of corporate social responsibility (CSR). Essay 1 (chapter 1) proposes that alliance network structures can have an effect on the CSR performance of firms. Further, the gender and inside/outside status of directors are also shown to be extremely relevant to the CSR performance of a firm. Overall, essay 1 demonstrates how a variety of factors can influence the CSR output of a firm. Essay 2 (chapter 2) examines pollution as a strategic choice. Given that firms choose to pollute at a given level, I examine how that choice influences the level of CSR in other, non-environmental dimensions by the same firm. Competing hypotheses (both predicting a curvilinear relationship) are tested. The results demonstrate that firms that pollute significantly more or less than the norm are likely to do less non-environmental CSR than firms that pollute closer to the average. Overall this essay contributes by specifying pollution as a strategic choice, and demonstrates how that choice can influence other CSR choices. Finally, essay 3 (chapter 3) examines the phenomenon known as forced ranking in firms. CSR, broadly defined, does examine employee relations. While factors examined are usually employee ownership, etc., an argument could be made to include other HR policies that affect employee morale and cooperation (such as forced ranking). A theoretical essay, this essay proposes three possible responses by managers to being placed under a forced ranking regime, with the majority of those responses classifiable as unintended consequences for firms. Further effects are examined by discussing the effect of these choices on team mental models. This essay contributes by examining the possible unintended consequences to firms by implementing forced ranking, most prominently the potential introduction of managerial deviance.
Corporate Social Responsibility
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Author : Dustin Bradley Smith
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2013
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Essay three concerns the evaluation and selection of opportunities by socially oriented entrepreneurs. Utilizing a conjoint methodology this paper finds three attributes of social opportunities which significantly influence potential opportunity ratings; namely, proximity, pervasiveness, and impact. A significant interaction between financial returns and pervasiveness but not proximity and impact suggests SEs are conscious of economic concerns and will select opportunities that satisfy both conditions but only in certain instances. The paper concludes that the relationship between social and financial value creation is more complex than previously thought.
Three Essays On Corporate Social Responsibility
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Author : Xingzi Ren
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2023
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Essays On Corporate Social Performance
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Author : Jacob Royce Brower
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2011
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There is growing evidence that a vast majority of CEO's believe that sustainability-related issues are having or will soon have a material impact on their firms. Nearly all of the academic literature on the firm level impacts of corporate social performance (CSP) has focused on looking for a universally positive or negative effect of CSP on corporate financial performance (CFP). Recent literature in the CSP domain, however, has presented two questions that have been under-researched with respect to CSP by firms: 1) What are the processes and motivations that underlie the inclusion of CSP in firm strategic decisions? and 2) Why do some firms generate different market returns from their CSP? The present research consists of two studies that focus on developing an understanding of these two questions. The first study uses a Contingency Theory approach and proposes that several organizational, market, customer, environmental and competitive characteristics of a firm predict a firm's level of CSP. Findings based on a longitudinal, multi-industry sample of 447 firms over the period from 2000 to 2007 show that firms that have a corporate branding strategy, serve consumer markets, and have a greater degree of globalization have higher levels of CSP. Finally, this study also finds that higher levels of CSP relative to a firm's industry result in higher levels of firm intangible value (Tobin's q). The second study examines the following: 1) Does CSP history moderate the relationship between CSP and CFP? and 2) Is there a CSR Black Hole with respect to a firm's history of negative behaviors? That is, does past negative social performance of the firm negate potential benefits from current period changes in positive social performance? Using the Flow Signals framework proposed by Dekinder and Kohli (2008), this study finds that a (1) history of growth in negative CSP, (2) trend toward increasing negative CSP, or (3) more inconsistent history of positive or negative CSP (reversals) decrease the returns to positive social performance. This study also finds evidence of a CSR Black Hole, but show that firms may be able to exit this by consistently managing their social performance over time.
Corporate Social Responsibility And Firm Strategic Behaviors
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Author : Huy Nguyen (Ph. D.)
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018
Corporate Social Responsibility And Firm Strategic Behaviors written by Huy Nguyen (Ph. D.) and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018 with Corporate governance categories.
What is the role of corporate social responsibility (CSR) in business strategy? More specifically, how does CSR engagement influence firms’ strategic behaviors? While the idea of CSR has started gaining traction back in the 1960s, the dominant line of inquiry tends to focus on providing justifications for CSR activities. The rapid changes in technology along with the continuous push toward globalization over the last thirty years have not only brought the world closer together but have also changed the basic fabric of our socio-institutional conditions. The firms in the modern society can no longer claim that they only have the fiduciary duty to the shareholders. Indeed, social and institutional stakeholders have increasingly demanded the firms to not only meet their economic objectives but also to satisfy other socio-institutional expectations including CSR engagement. Thus, CSR activities may influence not only the firms’ relationships with the external environment but also the internal organizational environment. Such influence may have profound impact on the firms’ strategic behaviors; yet our understanding is rather cursory. Endeavoring to join this scholarly discourse, this dissertation includes three separate essays that explore the strategic drivers and consequences of CSR engagement. Specifically, the first essay (Chapter 1) examines the influence of CSR engagement on internal corporate governance practices by asking the question: Are socially responsible firms more likely to appoint woman and minority CEOs? The second essay (Chapter 2) expands the scope of inquiry by investigating whether differences in stakeholder orientation as reflected in differences in CSR engagement between alliance partners may reduce the effectiveness of alliances as a value creation strategy. Lastly, the third essay (Chapter 3) explores how firms in different institutional environments (the United States vs. China) may choose diverging paths in using CSR engagement to ensure continuing collaboration of critical stakeholders. Taken together, these essays contribute to a better understanding of how CSR engagement may influence firm strategic behaviors as well as the changing roles and expectations of the firms in modern society.
Corporate Social Responsibility
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Author : Mark S. Schwartz
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2017-03-02
Corporate Social Responsibility written by Mark S. Schwartz and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-03-02 with Business & Economics categories.
The essays in this volume examine the emergence of the concept of corporate social responsibility, and the uses that have been made of the language of corporate responsibility to explore the business/society relationship. The first section traces the emergence of the concept of corporate social responsibility as a way of understanding and framing the business/society relationship. Section two of the volume looks at "Definitions and ethical justifications" with a view to exploring current discussions of the nature, scope and source of the social responsibilities of corporations. Section three, "CSR and Management: Critical Reflections", explores the integration of CSR theories and justifications into business management and business management theories. Articles in the final section of the volume apply the concept of corporate social responsibility, and the theoretical frameworks and analytical tools to which it has given rise, to the examination and resolution of specific social issues arising out of the economic activities of corporations.
Corporate Social Responsibility
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Author : Subhabrata Bobby Banerjee
language : en
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Release Date : 2009-01-01
Corporate Social Responsibility written by Subhabrata Bobby Banerjee and has been published by Edward Elgar Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-01-01 with Business & Economics categories.
This book has many merits. It will make fascinating reading for the increasing number of organizational scholars who wonder how organizational research can engage more in accounting for the impact of corporations on their environment in a broad sense. Bahar Ali Kazmi, Bernard Leca and Philippe Naccache, Organization Studies This book is for those who will enjoy a thoughtful and informative monograph that acutely summarises and refreshes critique from a political and sociological perspective. It is a comprehensive re-interpretation of the corporate world and the evidently meretricious regime of CSR which makes it an enjoyable compendium for critical management studies fans . . this erudite volume will be valuable to mainstream, social science academics either involved in (or dismissive of) CSR and sustainability discourses in management education and research. David Bevan, Scandinavian Journal of Management Banerjee s book is thought provoking and must be read. But it should be read not only by corporate social responsibility scholars but by all business scholars. It is through Banerjee s provocations that we can understand the shortcomings of corporate systems and the boundaries of corporate social responsibility. Pratima Bansal, Administrative Science Quarterly This is a tour de force that carefully assembles and incisively interrogates perhaps the most pressing problem of our age: how to harness the resources of corporations to tackle global problems of poverty, oppression and environmental degradation? Banerjee does not present us with glib pronouncements or simplistic fixes. Instead, he brilliantly illuminates the scale of the challenges and lucidly assesses the relevance and value of CSR responses to date. Hugh Willmott, University of Cardiff, UK Bobby Banerjee takes on the popular mythologies of neo-liberal corporate social responsibility with enviable flair and a thoroughness of scholarship that will dismay its apologists. His critique extends from the origins of the modern corporation and its well-known abuses and excesses to far harder targets the more attractive alternatives that have been developed for theory and practice that, as Banerjee shows brilliantly, only serve to mask continuing neo-colonial abuses. Banerjee is not content simply to expose the impossibilities of doing good works whilst maximizing shareholder value, the win-win view of CSR, but he bites the bullet with some uncompromising but realistic proposals for the future reconstruction of CSR both as a field of study and as a business practice. We have needed this exposure of the bad and the ugly for a long time. The current versions of CSR are simply just not good enough. Stephen Linstead, University of York, UK Banerjee pulls the beguiling mask off corporate social responsibility. Taking the vantage point of the world s poor, he shows CSR to be a cruel hoax corporations cynical effort to undermine growing demands for economic and environmental justice. Paul S. Adler, University of Southern California, US This book problematizes the win-win assumption underlying discourses of CSR and suggests that it is a rhetoric that is invariably subordinated to that of corporate rationality. Rather than see CSR as providing the means to transform corporations by advocating a stakeholder view of the firm it argues that CSR represents an ideological movement designed to consolidate the power of transnational corporations and provide a veneer of liberality to the illiberal economic agenda of the major global institutions. Stewart Clegg, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia Professor Banerjee offers us a refreshing analysis of corporate social responsibility (CSR) in an otherwise comparatively turgid literary landscape. People may disagree with his criticism that because of its preoccupation with shareholder value, the corporation is an inappropriate agent for social change but it is backed up by strong theoretical and substantive empirical