The Impact of Corporate Social Responsibility and Contributions to Local Communities on Brand Identification, Corporate Reputation and Brand Loyalty

Author(s):  
Sami Kajalo ◽  
Annukka Jyrämä
2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 105
Author(s):  
Tan Seng Teck ◽  
Chang Jau Ho ◽  
Liau Chee How ◽  
Nanthakumar Karuppiah ◽  
William Chua

Corporate social responsibility has been a densely researched area. Research paradigms have evolved significantly stamping from a sociological focus to a more business integrated framework and the currently growing emphasis on quantifying its performance. However, while much literatures champion the proponents of a proactive corporate social responsibility, the contributions of the more responsive version have been largely under studied. This is not an empirical paper. Far from it, this paper attempts to unveil the current literature gaps pertaining to responsive corporate social responsibility. This paper explores the intrinsic contributions of responsive corporate social responsibility on the moral discourse, organisational change and reputation management in an organisation. It theorises the concept of responsive corporate social responsibility as a moderator of external pressures, as a vector of a moral reboot in organisation change and a device for salvaging reputational damage in business organisations. This paper draws from the literature gaps between studies of normative morality and its interaction in principles of general management, organisational change concepts, branding and corporate reputation. It underwrites to examine the moral contents and discourse of business firms when faced with hostile externalities and studies the moral entrails in its organisational change processes and sequentially how this implicates the corporate reputation of a firm. This paper argues that the impacts of responsive corporate social responsibility and its ability to impact moral dispositions in business organisations deserve closer scrutiny. Study on the influence of responsive corporate social responsibility on organisation change and reputational salvage has similarly is also underscored. This article provides a theoretical review of the emerging gaps in corporate social responsibility and prompts that the concept of responsive social responsibility warrants closer attention.


2020 ◽  
Vol 74 ◽  
pp. 04017
Author(s):  
Margareta Nadanyiova ◽  
Lubica Gajanova

In the process of globalization, the topic of sustainable development is among the most up-to-date and discussed issues. Companies applying the principles of social responsibility are focused not only on profit, but above all on sustainable growth and development. And just the triple bottom line concept represents a tool that enables CSR put into practice and points out that economic interests may not be in conflict with social and environmental issues. The aim of this article includes providing a literature review on the issue from the perspective of several foreign and domestic authors. By using methods of description, comparison, deduction, induction, it discusses the essence of corporate social responsibility, the concept of triple bottom line and also analyses its practical use in the case of the particular company. The secondary data for the analysis were obtained from annual company reports, statistical tables and published professional publications. In order to determine the impact of corporate social responsibility on brand loyalty in the process of globalization, a questionnaire survey was conducted among Slovak consumers. General scientific methods were applied for the processing of the data, as well as mathematical methods to evaluate the data collated from the results of the questionnaire survey. Based on this, benefits of using CSR principles are highlighted, that includes, in particular, building customer relationships, increasing the brand value and gaining brand loyalty. Finally, proposals are put forward for the effective implementation of corporate social responsibility principles in the process of globalization.


2016 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amro Alzghoul ◽  
Hamzah Elrehail ◽  
ProfDr Saydam ◽  
Sakher Alnajdawi ◽  
Kayed AlArarah

2015 ◽  
Vol 15 (4) ◽  
pp. 563-575 ◽  
Author(s):  
José Luis Fernández Sánchez ◽  
Ladislao Luna Sotorrío ◽  
Elisa Baraibar Diez

Purpose – The purpose of this study is to provide more knowledge about the model to generate reputation and its relationship in the long term with companies’ strategy of social responsibility. Particularly, research is done to test whether there is a positive effect of firms’ social behaviour (corporate social responsibility [CSR]), analysing differences of intensity and consistency, on their corporate reputation (CR) and whether the current financial crisis is a factor that has changed the relationship between both variables (moderator factor). Design/methodology/approach – This study uses a sample of 26 Spanish large firms of the Ibex35 index and covers an eight-year period from 2004 to 2011. To test the hypotheses of this research, a fixed-effects model was estimated using moderating regression analysis. Findings – The results obtained show that, for the Spanish Ibex35 companies, CSR practices according to their consistency have a significant positive effect on CR and in turbulent environments, as in the current financial crisis, it has had a significant positive influence on the CSR-CR relationship. Originality/value – Although a substantial number of empirical studies have examined the relationship between firms’ strategy and their performance, only a few of them have analysed the impact of the external environment on this relationship, whereby there is a need for longitudinal studies with different economic scenarios to achieve better knowledge of the CSR–CR relationship.


2014 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 125-143 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kambiz Heidarzadeh Hanzaee ◽  
Mona Sadeghian

Purpose – This study aims to evaluate the impact of the most important dimensions of corporate social responsibility (CSR) as a part of social marketing (SM) according to the current economic crisis and conditions on customer satisfaction (CS) and corporate reputation in the automotive industry and also to create a new approach in the field of CSR with considering the minimum and major stakeholders by a localized model of the most basic and important responsibilities to open up a new perspective to managers to increase the efficiency of production in automotive and other industries. Design/methodology/approach – In this study, the authors used descriptive statistics and a questionnaire survey of 245 executive managers of the market leader (Iran Khodro Co.) in automotive industry in Iran. The structural equation modelling (SEM) technique used to examine the hypothesized relationships. Findings – The findings of this study conclude that legal and economic responsibilities can be considered as prerequisites for companies. There is no proportional correlation between execution of economic responsibility and CS and corporate reputation; instead, this is regarded as the basic responsibility of companies. Practical implications – This research can present CSR as a useful tool that can aid companies' long-term performance and its benefits can become visible in future with preserving their sustainability. Originality/value – Although the importance of CSR is more obvious to managers, this study opens up a new aspect of CSR by considering it as an informal structure of corporations.


2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 95-111
Author(s):  
Ammar Ahmad ◽  

This empirical study was aimed to discover the impact of corporate social responsibility (CSR) and international standardization of organization (ISO) on corporate reputation (CR) and corporate reputation’s effect on consumer loyalty (CL). In addition, the relationship of corporate reputation & trust (T), corporate reputation with consumer company identification (CCI) was also examined. Lastly the association of consumer company identification, trust and consumer loyalty (CL) was also analyzed. The data was collected from 500 students of three different universities and survey instrument was administrated. Overall, eight hypotheses were examined to confirm the relationship among variables by using the CFA (Confirmatory Factor Analysis) and structural equation modeling (SEM) was used to test the validity of the instrument with the help of AMOS and SPSS software. The result indicated that ISO and environmental CSR has direct relationship with corporate reputation. Corporate reputation had direct association with trust. Whereas, corporate reputation was significantly positive related with consumer company identification. Subsequently, Trust also showed positive relation with loyalty and positive relationship was found between consumer company identification and consumer loyalty. Furthermore, results showed that community development- corporate social responsibility had no relationship with corporate reputation and corporate reputation was significantly related with customer loyalty. The findings of this study contribute in the literature provided instrument authenticity and adaptability in Pakistani context. In this study limitations and future recommendations were also provided.


2015 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 8-16 ◽  
Author(s):  
Belinda Dapi ◽  
Maxwell Agabu Phiri

This article describes corporate social responsibility (CSR) as an organisational tool whose successful implementation can be used to gain brand loyalty. The benefits of CSR to society have been well documented to a great extent. However, there is very little information on the benefits of it to the actual corporations that practice it. This lack of knowledge is what motivated the study on which this article is based. The key objectives of the study for the article were to determine consumer attitudes towards specific CSR programs, determine the impact of CSR on brand image and brand loyalty and determine what kinds of CSR programs are considered to be adequate by consumers to qualify as socially responsible. A quantitative survey was done using customers of the South African mobile phone service provider Vodacom. A self administered questionnaire was used as the primary data collection instrument. The main findings of the study were that although most consumers were not aware of what CSR as a concept is, they felt that companies are obligated to be socially responsible. Most importantly however, it was determined that the knowledge of a firm’s CSR initiatives may lead to enhanced corporate image and brand loyalty. From the findings, this article recommends that corporations need to take a more proactive rather than a reactive approach to societal and environmental issues. It also recommends that companies need to be more transparent about their CSR initiatives to consumers which in turn leads to increased stakeholder engagement.


Metamorphosis ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 097262252110518
Author(s):  
Loopamudra Baruah ◽  
N. M. Panda

Corporate social responsibility (CSR) performance is judged against the disclosure made by the companies in their Sustainability Reports or Business Responsibility Reports. CSR theoretically as argued in the literature enhances company credibility and in turn, influences the perception of the stakeholders in improving Corporate Reputation (CR). This article examines this claim by empirically investigating the top 100 companies’ CSR disclosure and their reputational score. The analysis renders a finding which is contradictory to the common belief that CSR significantly impacts reputation building.


2020 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 167-196
Author(s):  
Janine Maniora ◽  
Christiane Pott

ABSTRACT This paper examines the impact of firms' dissemination of corporate social responsibility (CSR) information through Facebook on corporate reputation. We investigate this relationship empirically by using a corporate reputation index that tracks nonprofessional stakeholders' daily perceptions of corporate reputation over time. We find that firms disclosing CSR information on Facebook experience a decrease in reputation. If we differentiate Facebook postings based on whether their content provides environmental or social information, we only find a negative effect on reputation for firms posting social information (quality effect). However, reputation is not affected by the number of CSR postings (quantity effect). Data Availability: Data are available from the commercial databases and public sources identified in the paper.


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