scholarly journals Legitimacy, Visibility, and the Antecedents of Corporate Social Performance: An Investigation of the Instrumental Perspective

2009 ◽  
Vol 37 (6) ◽  
pp. 1558-1585 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shih-Chi Chiu ◽  
Mark Sharfman
Keyword(s):  
Institutional Theory ◽  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Economic Performance ◽  
Cost Of Capital ◽  
Corporate Social Performance ◽  
Social Performance ◽  
Organizational Slack ◽  
Multiple Stakeholders ◽  
Corporate Social

Using institutional theory as the foundation, this study examines the role of organizational visibility from a variety of sources (i.e., slack visibility, industry visibility, and visibility to multiple stakeholders) in influencing corporate social performance (CSP). The conceptual framework offers important insights regarding the instrumental motives of managers in performing CSP initiatives. Based on a sample of 124 S&P 500 firms, the authors found that it is a firm’s visibility to stakeholders, rather than its economic performance, that has the larger impact on managers’ decisions regarding how much CSP their firms exhibit. The results show that more profitable firms may not be motivated to engage actively in CSP unless they are under greater scrutiny by various firm stakeholders. The authors also found that organizational slack (estimated as cost of capital) is positively associated with a Social CSP dimension but negatively associated with a Strategic CSP dimension. This research contributes to the current CSP literature by demonstrating that motivations in addition to normative or ethical ones may be at play in the decisions firms make regarding their CSP.

scholarly journals Hubungan Kausalitas antara Kinerja Sosial dan Ekonomi Perusahaan

TRIKONOMIKA ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 93
Author(s):  
Paulina Permatasari
Keyword(s):  
Economic Performance ◽  
Corporate Social Performance ◽  
Social Performance ◽  
Corporate Disclosure ◽  
Corporate Social Reporting ◽  
Report Analysis ◽  
Causality Relationship ◽  
Csr Disclosure ◽  
Corporate Social ◽  
Slack Resource

The purpose of this study is to investigate the causality of relationship between the corporate economic performance and corporate social performance and also to get a picture about disclosure of Corporate Social Reporting (CSR) performance of companies in Indonesia that have deployed and published Standalone Sustainability Reports, and/or has disclosed Social and Environmental Responsibility or Sustainability in Annual Report, and the company website. The variables used to measure corporate economic performance are company size, profitability, leverage, and growth. The corporate social performance is measured by using an CSR disclosure index. The Causality relationship between corporate economic and social performance is based on the Slack Resource Theory and Good Management Theory. As the pilot study, a sample of 34 companies listed on JSX is taken using stratified random sampling method with 2010 data as the focus of the report analysis. The result of this study shows that there’s no significant relationship between Corporate Economic and Corporate Social Performance. The study also shows the low level of corporate disclosure of CSR.

scholarly journals Corporate Social Performance, Financialization, and Real Investment in US Manufacturing Firms

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (7) ◽  
pp. 1836 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sebastiano Cupertino ◽  
Costanza Consolandi ◽  
Alessandro Vercelli
Keyword(s):  
Capital Accumulation ◽  
Corporate Social Performance ◽  
Social Performance ◽  
Corporate Sustainability ◽  
Manufacturing Firms ◽  
Business And Society ◽  
Corporate Social ◽  
Real Investment

In recent years, the global financial and economic crisis are rewriting the relationship between business and society, focusing, among other things, on the role of the process of financialization, not only in the economy as a whole but also within non-financial companies. Shareholder value maximization, together with the commoditization of business, has led to a general short-term approach at the expense of capital accumulation and core business activity, to the detriment of not only firms’ competitiveness and productivity but also of human capital, strategic innovation, business ethics, and long-term growth. Within this framework, this study investigates the role of corporate sustainability, analyzing the nexus between financialization, accumulation of real capital, and corporate social performance, an issue that has been neglected so far. Using a sample of US manufacturing firms from 2002 to 2017, we found that, while financialization was negatively correlated with corporate real investment, the environmental and social firm performance positively impacted corporate capital accumulation. Our results support the belief that a focus on environmental, social, and governance standards, fostering real investments, may enhance a firm’s long-term growth with a positive effect on its long-term value.

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