scholarly journals Green patenting and corporate social responsibility: Does family involvement in business matter?

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Francesco Aiello ◽  
Paola Cardamone ◽  
Lidia Mannarino ◽  
Valeria Pupo
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Social Responsibility ◽  
Social Responsibility ◽  
Family Involvement ◽  
Corporate Social

The Heterogeneity of Family Firms in CSR Engagement

2014 ◽  
Vol 27 (3) ◽  
pp. 206-227 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pilar Marques ◽  
Pilar Presas ◽  
Alexandra Simon
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Social Responsibility ◽  
Grounded Theory ◽  
Social Responsibility ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Family Involvement ◽  
Family Firms ◽  
Stewardship Theory ◽  
Spanish Family ◽  
Corporate Social ◽  
Csr Engagement

This study addresses the heterogeneity of family firms in their engagement with corporate social responsibility (CSR). We build on stewardship theory and socioemotional wealth to explore the foundations of CSR in family firms and to examine whether the extent of engagement is based on values, and how and why this happens. We use the interpretative method of grounded theory to address these questions. Based on 12 case studies of Spanish family firms, this article illustrates the patterns of influence of family involvement and values in explaining the extent and scope of CSR.

scholarly journals The Origin of Proactive Environmental Corporate Social Responsibility (ECSR) of Large Firms: Institutional Embeddedness—Driven, Family Involvement-Promoted, or Resource-Dependent?

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 1197
Author(s):  
Shilei Hu ◽  
Xiaohong Wang
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Social Responsibility ◽  
Social Responsibility ◽  
Family Involvement ◽  
Research Question ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Large Firms ◽  
Resource Base ◽  
Institutional Embeddedness ◽  
Corporate Social

Why are some firms in China highly engaged in proactive environmental corporate social responsibility (ECSR) while others are not? Knowledge of the determinants of proactive ECSR is a key research question among academics and practitioners. This study seeks to advance the ECSR literature by suggesting a configuration way of integrating institutional embeddedness, family involvement, and the resource base factors of firms to predict proactive ECSR investment, a proxy for proactive ECSR. Specifically, this study explores how the combination of institutional embeddedness, family involvement, and the resource base factors of firms jointly shape the proactive ECSR investment of large firms. Using fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis (fsQCA) on a sample of 162 large private firms in China, this study finds that no condition alone is sufficient to account for high proactive ECSR investment. Institutional embeddedness, family involvement, and the resource base factors of firms must interact with one another to produce highly proactive ECSR investments. There exist two distinctive configurations that provide a nuanced picture of the drivers of proactive ECSR investment. These findings provide meaningful insights for theory and practice and pave the way for future research in the domain of ECSR.

Family SMEs’ survival: the role of owner family and corporate social responsibility

2020 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 281-297
Author(s):  
Shabir Ahmad ◽  
Kamran Ahmed Siddiqui ◽  
Hoda Mahmoud AboAlsamh
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Social Responsibility ◽  
Social Responsibility ◽  
Family Involvement ◽  
Family Firms ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Family Smes ◽  
Corporate Social ◽  
Social Causes

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to examine the impact of owner family involvement in business on sustainable survival of family small-to-medium enterprises (SMEs) and to empirically validate the intervening role of corporate social responsibility (CSR).Design/methodology/approachThe authors analyze data from 489 owner and nonowner executives of 150 family SMEs using PLS-SEM (Partial Least Square–Structural Equation Modeling).FindingsThe authors found evidence that family involvement in business positively impacts the sustainable survival of family SMEs while corporate social responsibility partially mediates this relationship. Apart from effective family involvement in business, active involvement in social causes enhances a firm's ability to survive longer.Research limitations/implicationsThis study was conducted in a geographic context and data were collected from family-managed and controlled firms. Further research is needed to generalize the findings to all types of family firms in the global context. In an Islamic society, family firms need to invest in social causes, human development, and environmental sustainability through zakat, sadaqat, and donations.Practical implicationsThe findings imply that family firms require stakeholder-centric competitive strategies and socially responsible behavior along with effective family control, commitment, enrichment, and successful succession since the path to sustainable survival goes through CSR.Originality/valueSurvival is the biggest challenge facing family SMEs forcing them to achieve the ability to sustain longer. Rooted in transaction cost economics (TCE) theory of the family firm and stakeholder theory, this paper validates an integrative model for family SMEs' sustainable survival.

scholarly journals The self-centered philanthropist: family involvement and corporate social responsibility in private enterprises

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Bin Zhu
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Social Responsibility ◽  
Social Responsibility ◽  
Family Involvement ◽  
Private Enterprises ◽  
Chinese Enterprises ◽  
Community Stakeholders ◽  
Academic Publications ◽  
Negative Effect ◽  
The One ◽  
Corporate Social

AbstractAlthough corporate social responsibility (CSR) has attracted increasing attention in recent years, systematic studies on the CSR of Chinese enterprises are absent from academic publications. This study examines the effects of family involvement in the CSR of private enterprises. Using private enterprise data in China, the article reveals that, on the one hand, family involvement will improve CSR investment toward community stakeholders; on the other hand, family involvement has a negative effect on the CSR of contractual stakeholders. With the influence of “chaxu geju,” the author argues that Chinese families tend to shift between different logics of behavior when faced with people with whom they have different types of relationships and incorporate this behavioral mode into company practices when they engage themselves in management and business affairs.

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