履行社会责任与提升企业绩效冲突吗?——商务模式的调节作用

以2012年电器机械及器材制造业的深沪上市公司为样本,运用内容分析法及层次回归分析法,检验商务模式对企业社会责任与企业绩效关系的调节作用。研究表明,商务模式在二者关系中起到调节作用,对采取共享型商务模式的企业而言,履行社会责任能够提升企业绩效,而采取非共享型商务模式的企业,履行社会责任与提升企业绩效则会相冲突;商务模式的共享性正向调节企业社会责任与企业绩效关系;总体上,企业社会责任与企业绩效呈正相关性,但其正相关性主要是共享型商务模式企业在其中起主导作用的结果。     

浅析企业社会责任与企业绩效关系

社会责任是当今社会所倡导的,社会责任贯穿整个人类社会行为活动,本文主要阐述结合当前社会发展现状揭示企业社会责任与企业绩效二者关系,企业绩效依托社会责任的履行而提升,而企业绩效为社会责任的履行提供储备基础,基于此提出为提升企业绩效而引发的对企业社会责任发展的几点思考。     

企业社会责任与企业绩效关系研究

针对社会上一些企业盲目追求经济利益忽视承担社会责任的现象,提出了企业履行社会责任的紧迫性。企业绩效反映企业的经营活动的最终结果,通过研究企业的社会责任和企业绩效的关系,探讨上述两者相互影响的机制。通过查阅国内外文献资料,对这一问题进行了深入的研究,并从四个角度对企业社会责任与企业绩效的关系进行了研究,同时介绍了企业社会责任绩效的评价方法。最后提出企业履行社会责任的重要性,并对企业未来的发展提出展望。     

企业社会责任与企业绩效关系探究

本文基于江苏省上市公司的实证分析,研究了企业社会责任履行状况与企业绩效之间的关系问题,股利政策在企业社会责任与企业绩效之间的中介效应作用,检验得出,这种中介作用和传导机制作用确实存在。     

企业社会责任与管理绩效的关系分析

随着经济的发展,企业社会责任越来越被重视,企业管理绩效也成为各企业关注的焦点。本文从企业社会责任与管理绩效的角度出发,对两者的关系进行了分析,并探讨了企业社会责任与管理绩效存在的问题和提升的策略。     

企业社会责任与财务绩效关系研究

企业社会表现与财务绩效之间的关系(或称企业社会责任与财务绩效的关系)是近30年来国外企业管理领域研究的一个热点问题。本文总结了国外有关该领域研究的三种不同观点以及六种不同的理论假设,并结合西方企业社会责任实践的发展,指出未来企业发展的方向。     

企业社会责任与财务绩效的关系研究

市场经济条件下,企业损害利益相关者利益,不履行社会责任的例子数不胜数,当前越来越多的声音呼吁企业承担更多的社会责任。因而承担社会责任会对企业产生怎样的影响,怎么样产生影响,越来越受到社会各界的关注。本文首先站在利益相关者的角度,界定企业社会责任的指向对象和内容。其次.以经验证据研究了企业社会责任与财务绩效之间的关系。最后,对于企业如何正确处理社会责任和财务绩效的关系提出建议。     

企业社会责任与营销绩效关系研究

营销战略的失败导致绩效的急速下滑是企业遭受重挫的原因之一,由此不禁令人思考企业在追求利润制定营销策略之时是否忽略了其他利益相关者的利益。一个对社会责任有良好担当的企业,能够较大的提高企业营销绩效,避免企业营销战略的失误,使企业真正走上可持续发展的道路。营销绩效的研究是多维度的,运用回归分析法,定量的分析企业社会责任与营销绩效的相关性以及对营销绩效的影响程度是一种尝试性的研究。     

企业社会责任与企业财务绩效关系述评

企业社会责任已经成为理论界与实业界关注的一个的焦点,有关企业社会责任与企业财务绩效关系的研究也成为学术研究的热点。近年来,该领域出现了大量的研究成果,其中许多成果昭示着未来颇有价值的研究领域,但未能形成统一的理论研究框架,为此,将从利益相关者理论做出尝试,以期为后人深入研究该领域提供一个新视觉。     

能源企业社会责任与财务绩效关系研究

选取我国43家能源行业上市公司2007-2009年的相关财务数据为样本,在国内外已有理论的基础上,通过建立多元线性回归模型来探讨能源企业社会责任与财务绩效的关系。实证结果表明:能源企业履行社会责任与企业财务绩效呈正相关关系,即企业积极参与社会责任实践有利于提高企业财务绩效。     

The Relationship between Corporate Social Responsibility and Firm Performance: An Application of Quantile Regression

This study empirically examines the relationship between a firm’s fulfilling of corporate social responsibility (CSR) and performance. We developed a CSR index (CSRI) to quantitatively evaluate CSR, which consists of four dimensions measuring a firm’s contributions to the economy, society, environment, and corporate governance, respectively. With data from publicly-listed firms in Taiwan during the period of 2004–2009, results of quantile regression show that fulfilling CSR has a significantly positive impact on firm performance, and that the impact in a more profitable firm tends to be significantly greater than that in a less profitable firm. Specifically, when a firm is more profitable, its management would be more willing to implement CSR. The implication is that a firm could pursue better performance while serving as a good corporate citizen.     

家族企业社会责任与企业绩效:内部能力与外部关系的调节效应

文章利用浙江和重庆两地351家家族企业调查数据,在将家族企业社会责任区分为内部人责任、外部人责任和公共责任的基础上,实证检验了家族企业社会责任与企业绩效关系及内部能力和外部关系的调节效应.结果显示:第一,高内部能力(制造能力、吸收能力)家族企业内部人责任对绩效的影响更大;高吸收能力家族企业公共责任对绩效的影响更小;具有丰富外部关系(高密度、大范围关系网络)家族企业外部人责任对绩效的影响更大.第二,高内部能力家族企业中,内部人责任对绩效有显著的正向影响,公共责任对绩效有显著的负向影响.低吸收能力家族企业中,内部人责任对绩效有显著的负向影响;具有低密度关系网络家族企业中,内部人责任对绩效有显著的正向影响,公共责任对绩效有显著的负向影响;具有大范围关系网络家族企业中,公共责任对绩效有显著的负向影响.     

The Relationship between Corporate Social Responsibility and Business Ethics

The relationship between corporate social responsibility (CSR) and business ethics (BE) is both a practical and theoretical issue. Unlike the traditional way of clarifying the relationship through identifying and comparing the extant definitions of the two terms, this study addresses and compares CSR and BE from three perspectives (basic concepts, academic fields, and social movements) in two analytical dimensions (in practice and in theory). This study indicates that: The relationship between the concept of CSR and BE is different from either the relationship between CSR as an academic field and BE as another academic field or the relationship between CSR as a movement and BE as another movement; within the relationships of the two concepts, fields and movements, the relationship between them in practice is different from that in theory; and CSR and BE are neither totally independent nor one of mutual inclusion, rather, they have similarities and differences.     

The Research on the Relationship between Corporate Social Responsibility and Common Prosperity

Corporate social responsibility (CSR) and common prosperity have the consistency of philosophy and goal. In the process of delivering CSR, enterprises can merge their tangible and intangible assets to realize a positive cycle of sustainable development and common prosperity. Enterprises can also open up space for both commercial and social value by integrating altruism with self-interest, public welfare with utilitarianism, cost with capital, and today's developmentwith tomorrow's development. Indeed, the unification of commercial value and social value can extend pathways to common prosperity and improve common prosperity. By way of the super CSR, enterprises can spread the wealth of their culture and values to society through material products, ethical products, and intergenerational inheritance based on the high compatibility of enterprise high-dimensional culture, enterprise craftsmanship, and enterprise civilizations. They can thus play a leading role in promoting the ethical wealth of the whole of society. Public and private enterprises should maximize their respective advantages in promoting common prosperity of society for realizing the common progress of the people, and should strike a balance between efficiency and fairness.     

企业社会责任与财务绩效关系研究综述

20世纪90年代起,企业社会责任与利益相关者在理论与实证检验方面呈现出相互整合的趋势。本文通过探析企业社会责任与利益相关者缘何走向理论结合,分别基于利益相关者整体视角与利益相关者分维度视角,对国内外企业社会责任与财务绩效关系的实证研究进行回顾与总结,并在此基础上提出了未来的研究方向。     

The Impact of Corporate Social Performance on a Firm’s Multinationality

Using panel data of 4,244 company years, we examine whether and how corporate social performance (CSP) affects a firm’s capacity to achieve profitable sales in foreign markets. Based on our extension of instrumental stakeholder theory into the international arena, we hypothesized a U-shaped relationship between CSP and multinationality. Results supported our contention that multinational enterprises (MNEs) need to be substantially committed to social performance objectives if they are to recoup the cost of their CSP investments, and improve their capacity to compete in foreign markets. MNEs engaged in intermediate levels of CSP achieve lower levels of multinationality than firms operating at either anchor of the social performance continuum. In addition, this study demonstrates that CSP moderates a well-established relationship in international business literature – the relationship between R&D investment and a firm’s multinationality. Implications for research and practice are discussed.     

Investigating the Impact of Firm Size on Small Business Social Responsibility: A Critical Review

The impact of smaller firm size on corporate social responsibility (CSR) is ambiguous. Some contend that small businesses are socially responsible by nature, while others argue that a smaller firm size imposes barriers on small firms that constrain their ability to take responsible action. This paper critically analyses recent theoretical and empirical contributions on the size–social responsibility relationship among small businesses. More specifically, it reviews the impact of firm size on four antecedents of business behaviour: issue characteristics, personal characteristics, organizational characteristics and context characteristics. It concludes that the small business context does impose barriers on social responsibility taking, but that the impact of the smaller firm size on social responsibility should be nuanced depending on a number of conditions. From a critical analysis of these conditions, opportunities for small businesses and their constituents to overcome the constraining barriers are suggested.Jan Lepoutre is a PhD candidate in Applied Economics at Ghent University, Belgium. His dissertation focuses on the competences associated with small business social responsibility.Aimé Heene is a professor at the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration at Ghent University, Belgium. He teaches strategic management for private and for public organizations and currently focuses his research on (competence-based) management in public and social profit organizations.     

Indulgence versus Restraint: The Moderating Role of Cultural Differences on the Relationship between Corporate Social Performance and Corporate Financial Performance

Adapting to the cultural environment surrounding, a firm is of paramount importance in international marketing practices. Extant marketing literature provides meager guidance to marketers on how to adapt to cultural factors to turn corporate social responsibility strategies into financial outcomes. To address this gap, we utilize the instrumental stakeholder theory and Hofstede's cultural framework to investigate the moderating effect of indulgence versus restraint culture on the relationship between corporate social performance (CSP) and corporate financial performance (CFP). Applying a panel data regression analysis to a dataset of CSP and CFP data for 3753 firms from 43 different countries, we demonstrate that CSP has a positive effect on CFP. However, we show that CSP has a weaker effect on CFP in firms located in indulgent countries. Therefore, to generate financial outcomes, we recommend managers to allocate more resources to CSP initiatives if the firm is operating in a culturally restrained country.     

An Analysis of Corporate Social Responsibility,Corporate Identity and Ethics Teaching in Business Schools

Recent events have raised concerns about the ethical standards of public and private organisations, with some attention falling on business schools as providers of education and training to managers and senior␣executives. This paper investigates the nature of, motivation and commitment to, ethics tuition provided by the business schools. Using content analysis of their institutional and home websites, we appraise their corporate identity, level of engagement in socially responsible programmes, degree of social inclusion, and the relationship to their ethics teaching. Based on published research, a schema is developed with corporate identity forming an integral part, to represent the macro-environment, parent institution, the business school and their relationships to ethics education provision. This is validated by our findings. Dr. Nelarine Cornelius, Reader in Human Resource Management and Organisational Behaviour, Brunel Business School, Brunel University, is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. She is also a Chartered Psychologist and is Director of both the Centre for Research in Emotion Work and the Human Resource Management and Organisational Behaviour Research Group at Brunel University. Dr. James Wallace, Lecturer in Quantitative Methods, School of Management, University of Bradford, is a Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society. He has considerable experience of statistical and mathematical modelling gained over several years in the UK utilities sector and in H.E. His current research interests include, applying statistical and mathematical modelling approaches to Technological, Operational and General Management problems. Dr. Rana Tassabehji, Lecturer in Information Systems and E-business, School of Management, University of Bradford, is a member of the British Academy of Management and the UK Academy for Information Systems. She worked as an international business consultant and as a consultant in the UK IT sector and is currently an academic member of the eGISE eGovernment network. Her research interests include ethics and e-business, Internet security and e-government.