Board internationalization and corporate social responsibility

This study examines the association between board internationalization and firms’ corporate social responsibility (CSR) performance in China during 2009–2019. Using a large dataset of director nationalities and CSR scores, we find that foreign directors promote CSR performance as evidenced by higher CSR scores. We further document that this relationship is more pronounced among government-controlled firms, firms with better corporate governance, and firms operating under stricter institutional environments. These findings remain valid after sequential robustness checks. Overall, our findings imply that foreign directors motivate the board of directors and their firms to actively pursue and practice social responsibility. Our study enriches the literature on the outcomes of board internationalization and determinants of CSR and provides the internationalization of corporate governance mechanisms a reasonable basis.     

Business ethics and corporate social responsibility

Corporate social responsibility (CSR) has become a mainstream business practice, attracting broad attention from business, consumers, academics, and policymakers, leading firms to account for the social and environmental footprints of their activities. The aim of this paper is to present recent advances on CSR, regarding its incentives and its market and societal effects. The analytical approaches surveyed highlight various ways through which CSR creates value for firms and stakeholders. The paper looks on the CSR of multinational enterprises as well and concludes with issues related to international initiatives for the inclusion of CSR in policy agendas towards sustainable development.     

An analysis of environmental corporate social responsibility

This article investigates corporate social responsibility (CSR) practices while taking into account their product substitutability and environmental responsibility. CSR firms, integrating environmental and social concerns into its business operations, are introduced. The effects of the firms' social concerns, environmental responsibility, and product substitutability are all captured. First, firms' social concerns improve both outputs and CSR firms' objective function value, while reducing the profit maximization firm's profits. Second, environmental responsibility has the contrary effects. Both the outputs and the objective function values of both firms decrease with their product substitutability. Finally, social concern effects on CSR firms' performance are uncertain.     

Managerial delegation games and corporate social responsibility

In a duopoly in which firms universally engage in corporate social responsibility (CSR) activities, this paper shows that, in contrast to the main tenet of the received managerial delegation literature, if the CSR sensitivity is sufficiently high: (a) when both firms delegate output decisions to managers, at the equilibrium profit (resp. consumer welfare) is higher (resp. lower) than when firms are pure CSR; (b) in a managerial delegation game, asymmetric multiple subgame perfect Nash equilibria emerge in which one firm delegates and the rival does not. These results hold under both the “sales delegation” and “relative profits” manager's bonus schemes.     

中国企业社会责任评价研究综述

企业社会责任评价研究日渐成为国内普遍关注的热点。文章从评价指标体系、评价方法、企业社会责任的实证研究等方面出发,综述了国内企业社会责任评价研究现状,并对存在的问题进行了分析。     

企业社会责任对企业绩效的影响研究

以2013-2015年高新技术企业的数据为样本,研究企业社会责任对企业财务绩效和经营绩效的影响.研究结果表明:企业积极承担社会责任能够直接促进企业的经营绩效提升,但对财务绩效的提高没有显著影响.最后,根据分析结果,提出了促进企业转变履行社会责任的意识,积极履行企业社会责任相关建议.     

企业社会责任与和谐社会的构建

构建社会主义和谐社会涉及到各个社会组织的社会责任,其中企业的社会责任在整个社会组织的责任体系中占有重要地位,发挥着重要作用。文章从企业社会责任的概念和内容出发,分析了我国企业履行社会责任的现状并提出加强企业履行社会责任的对策,从而为建设我国社会主义和谐社会做出应有的贡献。     

基于多层面的企业社会责任行动实施动因的研究

企业是一个多层面系统，不同的因素会对其行为产生不同的影响，认识这些因素对于理解企业行动原因有一定帮助。基于此，文章从宏观环境、企业组织和管理者三个层面上分析了影响企业社会责任行动的因素。认为在这些影响因素共同作用下，企业开展社会责任行动存在不同的动因，并表现出不同的行动类型，这将有助于更好地理解该行动的实际意义。     

The contribution of corporate social responsibility to organizational commitment

This study investigates the relationship between organizational commitment and employee perceptions of corporate social responsibility (CSR) within a model that draws on social identity theory. Specifically, we examine the impact of three aspects of socially responsible behaviour on organizational commitment: employee perceptions of corporate social responsibility in the community, procedural justice in the organization and the provision of employee training. The relationship between organizational commitment and each aspect of CSR is investigated within a model that distinguishes between genders and includes a set of control variables that is drawn from the commitment literature (Meyer et al., 2002 Meyer, J.P., Stanley, D.J., Herscovitch, L. and Topolnytsky, L. 2002. Affective, Continuance, and Normative Commitment to the Organization: A Meta-Analysis of Antecedents, Correlates, and Consequences. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 61: 20–52. [Crossref], [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar]). The analysis is based on a sample of 4,712 employees drawn from a financial services company. The results emphasize the importance of gender variation and suggest both that external CSR is positively related to organizational commitment and that the contribution of CSR to organizational commitment is at least as great as job satisfaction.     

A quantitative approach to corporate social responsibility programme formulation

This paper proposes a quantitative methodology to support executive decision making in the allocation of scarce resources to competing demands in the area of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). The Analytical Hierarchy Process is used to translate subjective value judgements such as preferences and perceptions into quantitative measures. These utility values are then used to isolate the factors which determine the choice among the competing CSR programmes. The approach is illustrated with two case studies of South African organizations.     

Corporate hyperlink network relationships in global corporate social responsibility system

This study analyzed the hyperlink (co-link) network structure among companies in global Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) system. This study measured network variables such as density and centrality, including degree centrality, eigenvector centrality, closeness, and betweenness. The results indicated that European companies had relatively central roles in the global CSR system. In addition the higher performing companies are more active their CSR practices. Also, the results revealed that the industrial type of companies was not significantly associated with its CSR practices.     

Enhancing environmental information transparency through corporate social responsibility reporting regulation

This research aims to contribute to the scientific debate about the lack of interlinkages between mandatory non-financial reporting and sustainable business models. For our purposes, a counter-accounting analysis was conducted on the non-financial reports of a sample of 145 Italian firms interested by the Directive 2014/95/EU effects. Specifically, the study adopts an empirical approach to evaluate environmental information transparency, which represents one of the main critical issues concerning the non-financial declarations prepared by European Italian Public Interest Entities (PIEs) to comply with Directive 2014/95/EU. The results highlight that corporate governance and report characteristics affect environmental transparency. Furthermore, the results confirm the overall attitude to avoid the disclosure of unfavourable or unavailable environmental information through impression management strategies. Finally, the analysis underlines the opportunities for policymakers to rethink mandatory non-financial reporting to sustain the ecological transition of European PIEs.     

日本企业社会责任及其给我国的启示

日本的企业社会责任外延广泛而内涵缺乏,并且深受日本文化的影响,其推动力主要来自于政府、企业、媒体和非政府组织、民众四个方面。日本企业社会责任落后于欧美,但在亚洲仍然处于领先地位,值得我国学习借鉴。建立适合国情的企业社会责任体系,推动企业、政府、媒体、非政府组织和民众在发展CSR上的通力协作,以建立标准化体系为方向是我国CSR发展的可行之策。     

我国企业社会责任报告解读与评析

本文对我国内资企业发布的36份社会责任报告进行了评析，指出了我国企业社会责任报告体系的不足之处，并提出了若干建议，以促进我国企业社会责任报告体系的不断完善。     

现代企业文化建设对强化企业社会责任的作用

在现代企业的管理工作中,文化建设具有重要的意义,而且是强化企业社会责任感的先决条件。文章从现代企业管理学的角度出发,简要分析了文化建设对强化企业社会责任的作用。