scholarly journals Can CEOs’ Corporate Social Responsibility Orientation Improve Firms’ Cooperation in International Scenarios?

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (24) ◽  
pp. 6936
Author(s):  
Ángela González-Moreno ◽  
Pablo Ruiz-Palomino ◽  
Francisco J. Sáez-Martínez
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Social Responsibility ◽  
Social Responsibility ◽  
Chief Executive ◽  
Socially Responsible ◽  
Interfirm Cooperation ◽  
Corporate Social ◽  
Environmental Hostility ◽  
Further Development ◽  
Corporate Social Responsibility Orientation

This paper intends to analyze the role of the chief executive officer’s (CEO) Corporate Social Responsibility Orientation (CSRO) on interfirm cooperation. Interfirm cooperation is central to gaining competitiveness, particularly in international scenarios where firms must deal with uncertain challenges. Nonetheless, the current understanding of its key determinants needs further development. We argue that whereas environmental hostility pushes firms to cooperate for self-interested purposes, CEOs’ CSRO pulls towards cooperation as an end in itself, even more so under hostile conditions where the need for good-willed committed partners is higher. In a sample of 124 internationalized Spanish firms, we found that CEOs’ CSRO alone increases firms’ international interfirm cooperation and that this impact is stronger under hostile international environments. Our findings thus highlight the importance of leading firms in a socially responsible direction to boost their interfirm cooperation levels in international scenarios.

scholarly journals Orchestrating Governmental Corporate Social Responsibility Interventions through Financial Markets: The Case of French Socially Responsible Investment

2020 ◽  
Vol 30 (3) ◽  
pp. 288-334 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stéphanie Giamporcaro ◽  
Jean-Pascal Gond ◽  
Niamh O’Sullivan
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Social Responsibility ◽  
Social Responsibility ◽  
Financial Markets ◽  
Socially Responsible Investment ◽  
Socially Responsible ◽  
Role Of Government ◽  
Responsible Investment ◽  
Corporate Social ◽  
Private Actors

ABSTRACTAlthough a growing stream of research investigates the role of government in corporate social responsibility (CSR), little is known about how governmental CSR interventions interact in financial markets. This article addresses this gap through a longitudinal study of the socially responsible investment (SRI) market in France. Building on the “CSR and government” and “regulative capitalism” literatures, we identify three modes of governmental CSR intervention—regulatory steering, delegated rowing, and microsteering—and show how they interact through the two mechanisms of layering (the accumulation of interventions) and catalyzing (the alignment of interventions). Our findings: 1) challenge the notion that, in the neoliberal order, governments are confined to steering market actors—leading and guiding their behavior—while private actors are in charge of rowing—providing products and services; 2) show how governmental CSR interventions interact and are orchestrated; and 3) provide evidence that governments can mobilize financial markets to promote CSR.

scholarly journals CSR categories and R&D investment: the moderating role of Managerial emotional intelligence

2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 17-37 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ferdaws Ezzi ◽  
Anis Jarboui ◽  
Rim Zouari-Hadiji
Keyword(s):  
Emotional Intelligence ◽  
Corporate Social Responsibility ◽  
Social Responsibility ◽  
Research And Development ◽  
Chief Executive Officer ◽  
Chief Executive Officers ◽  
Least Squares Method ◽  
Chief Executive ◽  
Corporate Social

AbstractThe purpose of this paper was to determine the important role of Chief Executive Officer emotional intelligence to explain the interaction relationship between research and development investment and corporate social responsibility categories. This research relied on the completion of a questionnaire type inquiry structured around the table-based analysis. The questionnaire was sent out to a large sample of Tunisian firms’ Chief Executive Officer. The results of the 96 valid responses were entered for analysis by the partial least squares method. They show the significant effect of Chief Executive Officers’ emotional intelligence on the relation between corporate social responsibility categories (customer, employee, community, territory and environment) and research and development investment. In addition, the Chief Executive Officer emotional intelligence provided explanations into research and development investment for the corporate social responsibility problems in Tunisia. Firstly, this study emphasized the important role of research and development investment in the corporate social responsibility categories. Secondly, a new data analysis method “decision-tree” was applied to estimate the moderating effects of managerial emotional intelligence on the CSR – R&D relationship.

Unions and corporate social responsibility in a liberal market context: The case of Ford’s shutdown in Australia

2020 ◽  
Vol 62 (5) ◽  
pp. 713-734
Author(s):  
Darryn Snell ◽  
Victor Gekara
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Social Responsibility ◽  
Social Responsibility ◽  
Best Practice ◽  
Industrial Relations ◽  
Socially Responsible ◽  
Labour Unions ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Corporate Social

Within many coordinated market economies, labour unions have demonstrated to be key actors in shaping corporate social responsibility. Researchers have, however, paid surprisingly little attention to the role of unions in shaping corporate social responsibility strategies and responses in liberal market contexts. This article extends the emerging research on unions and corporate social responsibility through a case study which investigates union influences over corporate social responsibility within the liberal market context of Australia. We conceptualise the role of unions in corporate social responsibility in this context through an industrial relations lens with particular reference to collective bargaining. Drawing on qualitative data, the case study examines the Ford Motor Company’s recent closure of its Australian assembly operations which was hailed by a wide range of stakeholders as an exemplar of ‘best practice’ in their assistance of displaced workers. We conclude that, while highly socially responsible, Ford’s actions were far from voluntary but influenced by a combination of union influence and a ‘subsidised’ corporate social responsibility, where the state, unable and/or powerless to legislate good corporate social behaviour, chose to financially underwrite its cost to the firm. The study represents one of the first studies to demonstrate how unions shape corporate social responsibility strategies of firms in liberal market contexts and how ‘subsidised’ corporate social responsibility becomes an alternative political solution within such a context.

Organic Delights: Examining the Challenges of Corporate Social Responsibility

2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 98-106 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen E. Bear
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Social Responsibility ◽  
Social Responsibility ◽  
Business Students ◽  
Management Team ◽  
Senior Manager ◽  
Socially Responsible ◽  
Business Leadership ◽  
Corporate Social ◽  
Undergraduate Business Students

Organic Delights is an experiential exercise designed to help undergraduate business students learn about corporate social responsibility (CSR). In this exercise, students assume the role of a senior manager of a fictional restaurant and caterer. The challenge for the managers is to evaluate and choose among six proposals to promote the company’s CSR. Students are first requested to evaluate the proposals on their own and then, later, to evaluate the proposals by working with a group of students who represent the company management team. The exercise enables students better understand the concept of CSR and reflect on the meaning and obligations of socially responsible business leadership. The exercise and recommendations for the debriefing are provided.

The Role of Multinational Corporations in Community Development Initiatives in Cameroon

2014 ◽  
pp. 87-101 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kingsly Awang Ollong
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Social Responsibility ◽  
Community Development ◽  
Social Responsibility ◽  
Multinational Corporations ◽  
Growth And Development ◽  
Socially Responsible ◽  
Business Entities ◽  
Corporate Social ◽  
General Wellbeing

Inadequate provision of infrastructural and social facilities by governments for citizens' use calls for intervention of corporate organizations and individuals to contribute/provide for other people via social obligation. By virtue of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), many communities and individuals have been developed to dependable levels. Through it, the general wellbeing of individuals, groups and communities, growth and development are encouraged and promoted while stimulating innovative business. Government multiple taxes, business unfriendly policies, unions' agitations, and scamming by some ill-intentioned citizens are impediments to efficient CSR by multinational companies in Cameroon. Though the rate of participation by business entities in being socially responsible is not encouraging, this chapter singles out a few MNCs that have distinguished themselves by sharing their enormous profits with the communities in which they operate. This chapter uses case studies of three Fast Moving Consumer Goods (FMCGs), that is, MTN, Guinness Cameroun SA, and British American Tobacco to ascertain that corporate social responsibility by MNCs has helped to ameliorate living conditions of local communities.

THE ROLE OF CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY IN FORMING A POSITIVE BUSINESS REPUTATION OF CORPORATIONS

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (8) ◽  
pp. 72-79
Author(s):  
P. S. SHCHERBACHENKO ◽  
◽  
D. M. STOLBUN ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Social Responsibility ◽  
Social Responsibility ◽  
Intangible Assets ◽  
Socially Responsible ◽  
Responsible Behavior ◽  
The Face ◽  
Corporate Social ◽  
The Impact

The concept of corporate social responsibility is becoming more and more widespread and developing in Russia and abroad. The principles of socially responsible behavior act as an attribute of modern corporations more often. In the current realities, corporate social responsibility becomes more and more important as an obligatory component of the strategy of corporations, catering for their business reputation. In particular, the corporations’ business reputation constituted one of the most important components of their intangible assets. The article focuses on the impact of corporations’ socially responsible policies on their business reputation, as well as on their functioning and development on the market in general in the face of constantly increasing competition. The author provides a practical review of the influence of corporate social responsibility on the level of business reputation on the example of Gazprom, Sberbank and Tele2.

Tournament Incentives and Corporate Social Responsibility Performance

2021 ◽  
pp. 0148558X2110229
Author(s):  
Xuezhou (Rachel) Zhao ◽  
Gaoguang (Stephen) Zhou ◽  
Zabihollah Rezaee
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Social Responsibility ◽  
Social Responsibility ◽  
Chief Executive ◽  
Business Culture ◽  
Senior Executives ◽  
Vice Presidents ◽  
Management Incentives ◽  
Management Processes ◽  
Corporate Social

Management incentives for engaging and excelling in corporate social responsibility (CSR) performance is an important theme as business sustainability gains momentum. We examine the role of tournament incentives, which are created by competition among non-CEO (chief executive officer) senior executives (vice presidents [VPs]) for promotion to the CEO position, in firms’ CSR performance. Using a sample of U.S. Standard & Poor (S&P) 1500 firms from 1993 to 2014, we find that tournament incentives proxied by pay gaps between CEOs and VPs are negatively associated with CSR performance, suggesting that competition for promotion could be detrimental for CSR performance. We further show that such association is more pronounced when the perceived probability of promotion increases prior to CEO turnover. This article provides policy, practical, and education implications and contribute to the literature on the integration of CSR into the business culture and strategic management processes.

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