Psychological Ownership of Ones’ Organization Explains the Positive Relationship Between Corporate Social Responsibility Participation and Organizational Engagement

In a continuing world of corporate misdeeds and unscrupulous decision making, much of the management and academic literatures points to the incomplete knowledge of the consequences of ethics leadership. One of the bastions of ethics gatekeeping in the firm is the CFO but remarkably scant information can be found on their perceptions concerning ethics leadership. This study addresses this void by examining mindfulness and corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives as new mediating linkages in comprehending the influence of ethics leadership on managerial performance. Findings reveal that ethical leadership is positively associated with CSR initiatives which, in turn, operate to enhance managerial performance. Simultaneously, ethical leadership manifests a significant positive relationship with mindfulness but, surprisingly, there is no corresponding relationship with managerial performance. Instead, mindfulness indirectly influences managerial performance through the intervening effects on CSR initiatives. These findings suggest that firms can acquire better managerial performance by focusing efforts on CSR strategies, bringing cognitive processes of mindfulness to bear on these actions, and grooming ethics leadership. In addition, the results offer researchers new relationships to model in the leadership domain.

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Influence of Internal Corporate Social Responsibility on Employee Retention With Special Reference to the Apparel Industry in Sri Lanka

10.4018/978-1-6684-3873-2.ch107 ◽

2022 ◽

pp. 2138-2154

Author(s):

A. G. N. K. Fernando ◽

Jayaranjani Sutha

Keyword(s):

Corporate Social Responsibility ◽

Social Responsibility ◽

Intrinsic Motivation ◽

Employee Retention ◽

Positive Relationship ◽

Apparel Industry ◽

Primary Data ◽

Critical Issues ◽

Corporate Social ◽

The Relationship

Employee retention is emerging as a critical issues impact on the competitive advantage. Internal corporate social responsibility (CSR) has been creating so much attention in the minds of employees during the recent years. Thus, the chapter is based on three objectives: First, it explores the relationship between internal CSR and employee retention. Second, it identifies how intrinsic motivation mediates the relationship between internal CSR and employee retention. Finally, it determines the internal CSR activities which the apparel industry should pay more attention to in order to better employee retention. Primary data were collected by using questionnaires, and the results of the study indicated that there is a positive relationship between internal CSR and employee retention. Moreover, intrinsic motivation partially mediates the relationship between the internal CSR and employee retention. The findings of the study identify the internal CSR activities which the apparel industry should pay more attention to in order to develop retention programs in the future.

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The Effect of Corporate Visibility on Corporate Social Responsibility

Sustainability ◽

10.3390/su11133698 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 11 (13) ◽

pp. 3698 ◽

Cited By ~ 10

Author(s):

Frank Li ◽

Taylor Morris ◽

Brian Young

Keyword(s):

Corporate Social Responsibility ◽

Social Responsibility ◽

Firm Size ◽

Positive Relationship ◽

Corporate Social Performance ◽

Social Performance ◽

Mediating Effect ◽

The Public ◽

Corporate Social ◽

The Relationship

Outside of direct ownership, the general public may feel it is an implicit stakeholder of a firm. As the public becomes more vested in a firm’s actions, the firm may be more likely to engage in Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) activities. We proxy for the public’s stake in a firm with public visibility. Based on 3400 unique newspaper publications from 1994–2008, we measure visibility for the S&P 500 firms with the frequency of print articles per year concerning the firm. We find that visibility has a signficant, positive relationship with the CSR rating. Evidence also suggests this relationship may be causal and working in one direction, from visibility to CSR. While the existing literature provides other factors that influence CSR, visibility proves to have the most significant impact when tested alongside those other factors. Visibility also has a mediating effect on the relationship between CSR rating and firm size. CSR rating and firm size relate negatively for the lowest visibility firms and positively for the highest. This paper provides strong evidence that visibility is an important factor to consider for studies on corporate social performance.

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Does Employee Quality Affect Corporate Social Responsibility? Evidence from China

Sustainability ◽

10.3390/su12072692 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 12 (7) ◽

pp. 2692 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Shilu Sun ◽

Tiantian Li ◽

Hong Ma ◽

Rita Yi Man Li ◽

Kostas Gouliamos ◽

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Keyword(s):

Higher Education ◽

Corporate Social Responsibility ◽

Social Responsibility ◽

Educational Level ◽

Positive Relationship ◽

Ordinary Least Squares ◽

Independent Directors ◽

Corporate Social ◽

The Impact ◽

Positive Effect

This paper investigated the impact of employee quality on corporate social responsibility (CSR). Based on data from China A-share-listed companies for the years 2012–2016 and using ordinary least squares, our empirical results show that the educational level of the workforce, as a proxy for employee quality, is positively associated with CSR, which suggests that higher education can promote CSR implementation. Additional analyses found that this positive relationship is more pronounced in non-state-owned enterprises, enterprises in regions with lower marketisation processes, and firms with lower proportions of independent directors. This study extends the literature on human capital at the level of firms’ entire workforce and CSR by elaborating the positive effect of employee quality on CSR in the context of an emerging economy (China). The results suggest that it is necessary to consider the educational level of employees when analysing CSR, which is of strategic significance for corporate sustainable development.

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Corporate Social Responsibility Information Disclosure and Innovation Sustainability: Evidence from China

Sustainability ◽

10.3390/su12010409 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 12 (1) ◽

pp. 409 ◽

Cited By ~ 6

Author(s):

Wenxiu Hu ◽

Jinzhu Du ◽

Weiguo Zhang

Keyword(s):

Corporate Social Responsibility ◽

Social Responsibility ◽

Information Disclosure ◽

Positive Relationship ◽

Dominant Role ◽

Minority Shareholders ◽

Information Hypothesis ◽

Reputation Effects ◽

Corporate Social ◽

The Relationship

We selected the Chinese A-share listed companies during period of 2007 to 2017 as the research subject, and from the perspective of information and reputation effects, we examined the relationship between corporate social responsibility (CSR) information disclosure and innovation sustainability. The results show that CSR information disclosure has a significant positive relationship with innovation sustainability. Analysis of the effects channel suggests that the information effect plays a dominant role; CSR information disclosure can alleviate the information asymmetry between managers and investors, controlling shareholders and minority shareholders, and alleviate the financing constraint problems, thereby improving innovation sustainability. Our findings support the information hypothesis but not the reputation hypothesis. The relationship between CSR information disclosure and innovation sustainability is more significant in non-state-owned companies. The moderating effect shows that managerial stock incentives can strengthen the positive relationship between CSR information disclosure and innovation sustainability. A series of robustness test results show that the conclusions are reliable. The research is important for promoting the fulfillment of CSR, improving corporate innovation, and promoting the healthy development of the capital market.

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Culture, Motivational Attributes and Employees’ Perception towards CSR Practices: Evidence From Pakistan

Human Resource Research ◽

10.5296/hrr.v3i1.15785 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 3 (1) ◽

pp. 58

Author(s):

Sultana Jabeen ◽

Danish Ahmed Siddiqui

Keyword(s):

Corporate Social Responsibility ◽

Data Analysis ◽

Social Responsibility ◽

Cultural Values ◽

Positive Relationship ◽

Negative Relationship ◽

Survey Questionnaire ◽

Cultural Framework ◽

Corporate Social

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the employees–corporate social responsibility (CSR) relationship by studying the influence of two cultural values – collectivism and masculinity –on the formation of CSR perceptions. We adopted theoretical framework proposed by Hur and Kim (2017), in which Hofstede’s cultural framework was proposed to explain the effect of the cultural values on employees’ perceptions of CSR practices with the mediatory role of motivational attributions. To establish this framework empirically on Pakistan, a survey questionnaire was used to collect data from 190 employees’ in Pakistan. Data analysis was performed using SEM and CFA. The results indicate that collectivistic (masculine) values were positively (negatively) related to perceptions of CSR. Furthermore, intrinsic attributions of CSR initiatives mediate the positive relationship between collectivism and CSR perceptions and the negative relationship between masculinity and CSR perceptions. These findings suggest that managers must seek to understand employees’ cultural characteristics and the attributions of CSR motivations in order to engage them in driving CSR practices effectively and displaying a positive image of organization.

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Influence of Internal Corporate Social Responsibility on Employee Retention With Special Reference to the Apparel Industry in Sri Lanka

Cases on Corporate Social Responsibility and Contemporary Issues in Organizations - Advances in Business Strategy and Competitive Advantage ◽

10.4018/978-1-5225-7715-7.ch019 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 329-345

Author(s):

A. G. N. K. Fernando ◽

Jayaranjani Sutha

Keyword(s):

Corporate Social Responsibility ◽

Social Responsibility ◽

Intrinsic Motivation ◽

Employee Retention ◽

Positive Relationship ◽

Apparel Industry ◽

Primary Data ◽

Critical Issues ◽

Corporate Social ◽

The Relationship

Employee retention is emerging as a critical issues impact on the competitive advantage. Internal corporate social responsibility (CSR) has been creating so much attention in the minds of employees during the recent years. Thus, the chapter is based on three objectives: First, it explores the relationship between internal CSR and employee retention. Second, it identifies how intrinsic motivation mediates the relationship between internal CSR and employee retention. Finally, it determines the internal CSR activities which the apparel industry should pay more attention to in order to better employee retention. Primary data were collected by using questionnaires, and the results of the study indicated that there is a positive relationship between internal CSR and employee retention. Moreover, intrinsic motivation partially mediates the relationship between the internal CSR and employee retention. The findings of the study identify the internal CSR activities which the apparel industry should pay more attention to in order to develop retention programs in the future.

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Does it pay to be social responsible? Portuguese SMEs feedback

Intangible Capital ◽

10.3926/ic.712 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 12 (2) ◽

pp. 487 ◽

Cited By ~ 17

Author(s):

Luis Miguel Fonseca ◽

Ricardo Lopes Ferro

Keyword(s):

Corporate Social Responsibility ◽

Social Responsibility ◽

Structural Equation ◽

Positive Relationship ◽

Social Performance ◽

Extended Period ◽

Structured Interviews ◽

Large Sample ◽

Business Results ◽

Corporate Social

Purpose: The research on corporate social responsibility has been focused mainly on Anglo-Saxon countries and big companies. Most scholars agree there is a positive relationship between companies social and economic performance, however, this is not unanimous. Moreover, during economic downturns, companies struggle for survival and might consider corporate social responsibility efforts should be postponed. This research investigates if there is a positive relationship between social performance and key business results using a large sample of small and medium Portuguese companies over an extended period of time.Design/methodology/approach: The investigation is made by using survey responses from a sample of 2.222 small and medium companies (SMEs) over a 10 year period, from the Portuguese IAPMEI – Public Agency for Competitiveness and Innovation Benchmarking and Good Practices database. The hypothesis that there is a positive relationship between social and key business results performance was tested with correlation analysis and was complemented with semi-structured interviews of key Portuguese Sustainability Managers.Findings: The research results support the existence of valid positive relationships between companies’ social performance and key business results, confirming it does pay to invest in corporate social responsibility even in less favorable economic scenarios and for small and medium companies across all business sectors.Research limitations/implications: It was not possible to use more powerful statistical methods such as Partial Least Squares (PLS) or Structural Equation Modelling (SEM) due to data constraints and more qualitative research should be done to triangulate the results and better understating of the cause and effect relationships.Practical implications: Both managers and academics should be aware of the relevance of corporate social responsibility to assure companies enduring success and create benefits for stakeholders and society at large.Originality/value: This research makes contributions for the social and economic relationship body of knowledge with a particular emphasis on small and medium companies in Portugal and a potential application to other similar European countries, by using a large sample basis over an extended period of time.

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Determinants and outcome of Islamic corporate social responsibility (ICSR) adoption in Islamic banking industry of Pakistan

Journal of Islamic Marketing ◽

10.1108/jima-11-2019-0226 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽

Author(s):

Syed Asim Ali Bukhari ◽

Fathyah Hashim ◽

Azlan Bin Amran

Keyword(s):

Corporate Social Responsibility ◽

Social Responsibility ◽

Positive Relationship ◽

Banking Industry ◽

Islamic Banking ◽

Bank Branch ◽

Content Type ◽

Bank Branches ◽

Islamic Bank ◽

Corporate Social

Purpose The purpose of this study is to empirically examine the determinants and outcomes of Islamic corporate social responsibility (ICSR) adoption in Islamic bank branches in Pakistan. The research framework examines the influence of stakeholder’s pressure on ICSR adoption. It also analyses the relationship between ICSR adoption and intangible outcomes achieved by the Islamic bank branch. Design/methodology/approach A total of 400 questionnaires were distributed through a mail survey to Islamic bank branches in Pakistan. The respondents of the study were the branch manager of Islamic bank branches in Pakistan. A simple random sampling technique was used and resulted in the collection of 293 usable questionnaires. SMART PLS was used to statistically analyse the data using partial least squares structural equation modelling approach. The measurement and structural models were analysed. Findings The results indicate a significant and positive relationship between Shariah supervisory board pressure, competitor pressure and ICSR adoption in Islamic bank branches. A moderate strength positive relationship was found out between top management pressure and ICSR adoption. Results reveal that customer pressure and community pressure have an insignificant influence on ICSR adoption. Data analysis shows that the adoption of ICSR practices have a significant and positive influence on an Islamic bank branch’s Intangible outcomes. Research limitations/implications The sample size was relatively small because of the limited time duration. Originality/value The construct of ICSR has not been extensively researched upon especially through empirical studies. Limited research exists in the area of factors than can influence Islamic bank branches to adopt ICSR practices and currently no empirical research has focussed on the intangible outcomes that can be achieved through ICSR adoption by an Islamic bank branch. The limited study exists in the Pakistan context as well, which is a rapidly growing Islamic banking industry.

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The Effect of Commissioners Board Size and Committee Board Size on Disclosure of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)

Agregat Jurnal Ekonomi dan Bisnis ◽

10.22236/agregat_vol3/is1pp65-80 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 3 (1) ◽

pp. 65

Author(s):

Achmad Hasan Hafidzi

Keyword(s):

Corporate Social Responsibility ◽

Social Responsibility ◽

Financial Performance ◽

Sampling Method ◽

Positive Relationship ◽

Secondary Data ◽

Board Size ◽

Financial Report ◽

Significant Positive Relationship ◽

Corporate Social

This study aims to analyze the effect of board size and committees size to corporate social responsibilitythrough financial performance. The sample used in this study is secondary data of companies listed LQ-45 Index in 2013-2017 and determined using a purposive sampling method. The data about researchvariables are available in the financial report. The data analysis method is using path analysis. Theresults were showed that the size of commissioners board to corporate social responsibility was significantpositive, size of committees to corporate social responsibility was significant positive relationship, size ofcommissioners board to financial performance was significant positive relationship, size of committeesto financial performance was relationship positive significant, financial performance to corporate socialresponsibility shows a significant positive relationship.

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