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A Reflective Hybrid Approach To Connecting Leadership Style And Stakeholder Perspective, Huw Jones, Keith O. Hunter Jan 2016

A Reflective Hybrid Approach To Connecting Leadership Style And Stakeholder Perspective, Huw Jones, Keith O. Hunter

Organization, Leadership, and Communication

Using quantitative analysis and reflection techniques, we examine employee perception of leadership style and perceived results within organizations based in Whistler, Canada. We are primarily concerned with results in terms of organizational culture towards 3 key stakeholder groups, customers, community, and employees. The observed differences in results between transformational and transactional leadership provide a basis for enriching the mapping of leadership style to desired outcomes.


The Effects Of Corporate Social Responsibility On Financial Performance, Marly Mentor Jan 2016

The Effects Of Corporate Social Responsibility On Financial Performance, Marly Mentor

Honors Undergraduate Theses

Companies have taken the initiative to be socially responsible over the years. In the past, the focus for companies has been on maximizing wealth. With the growth of corporate social responsibility (CSR), there has been many debates regarding its benefits. More companies are beginning to realize the value of being socially responsible and how critical it is to business function. This paper researches past studies on the relationship between corporate social responsibility and financial performance. This relationship is then tested using a reliable source of data on corporate social responsibility performance. This study uniquely looks at the accounting and market-based …


Socially Responsible And Small: A Quantitative Study Of Corporate Social Responsibility In Small And Medium Organizations In The United States, Abigail Sorenson Berk Nov 2015

Socially Responsible And Small: A Quantitative Study Of Corporate Social Responsibility In Small And Medium Organizations In The United States, Abigail Sorenson Berk

Dissertations

Corporate social responsibility (CSR) has become a global imperative supported by governments, industry, and citizens alike. In 2000, the United Nations launched the Global Compact to encourage businesses to adopt socially responsible policies. In tandem, businesses became increasingly attentive to their social practices with the vast majority of executives declaring CSR important to their organization’s success. Despite this increase in attention – which occurred among businesses of all sizes – the academic literature on CSR has focused almost exclusively on large, public companies. Ironically, the majority of businesses in the United States are small, private businesses suggesting the existing CSR …


Implicaciones De La Ética Profesional En La Responsabilidad Social Empresarial De La Dian Y De Interbolsa En Colombia, Jonathan Javier Ortiz Morales, Mayra Alejandra Coronado Romero Jan 2015

Implicaciones De La Ética Profesional En La Responsabilidad Social Empresarial De La Dian Y De Interbolsa En Colombia, Jonathan Javier Ortiz Morales, Mayra Alejandra Coronado Romero

Administración de Empresas

Este artículo se realiza con la intención de identificar las implicaciones de la ética profesional aplicada en la responsabilidad social empresarial tomando como eje principal los desfalcos de la Dirección Nacional de Impuestos y Aduanas Nacionales (DIAN) en 2011 y de InterBolsa en 2012 en Colombia, cuya finalidad es realizar un estudio descriptivo, debido a que al tomar diferentes puntos de vista y analizarlos se dan respuestas al planteamiento del que trata el presente artículo. Es importante resaltar la relación existente entre los hechos y el término ética profesional debido a que es uno de los códigos de conducta que …


Communicating Corporate Social Responsibility In Singapore: Towards More Effective Media Relations, A. Pang, Angela Ka Ying Mak, Joanne M. H. Lee Jan 2015

Communicating Corporate Social Responsibility In Singapore: Towards More Effective Media Relations, A. Pang, Angela Ka Ying Mak, Joanne M. H. Lee

Research Collection Lee Kong Chian School Of Business

Organizations face several impediments when it comes to communicating their corporate social responsibility (CSR) engagement to the public via the media. This paper examines practitioners’ and journalists’ perception of CSR communication using the agenda-building model (Qiu Q, Cameron GT, Communicating health disparities: building a supportive media agenda. VDM Verlag, Saarbruecken, 2008) by examining news coverage of how practitioners and journalists understand CSR, what types of CSR stories get covered in the media, and how are CSR stories portrayed in the media. News coverage of Singapore’s mainstream publications, The Straits Times, The Business Times, and The New Paper, were analyzed. The …


Employee Judgments Of And Behaviors Towards Corporate Social Responsibility: A Multi-Study Investigation Of Direct, Cascading, And Moderating Effects, Pavlos A. Vlachos, Nick Panagopoulos, Adam Rapp Jul 2014

Employee Judgments Of And Behaviors Towards Corporate Social Responsibility: A Multi-Study Investigation Of Direct, Cascading, And Moderating Effects, Pavlos A. Vlachos, Nick Panagopoulos, Adam Rapp

Pavlos A Vlachos

Do employee judgments of their organization’s Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) programs relate to CSR-specific performance and in-role job performance? Can middle managers influence the formation of such judgments and what factors might moderate such cascading influences? To answer these yet unaddressed questions, we conduct three studies. Study 1 takes an organizational justice perspective and tests our baseline model. Results show that employees’ CSR judgments trigger their affective commitment and performance on extra-role CSR-specific behaviors; however, extra-role CSR-specific performance is unrelated to in-role job performance. Study 2 replicates Study 1’s findings while, in addition, applies a social information processing approach and …


Corporate Social Responsibility Of Multinational Corporations, Lok Yiu Chan Apr 2014

Corporate Social Responsibility Of Multinational Corporations, Lok Yiu Chan

Global Honors Theses

Corporate social responsibilities (CSR) are becoming increasingly important in today’s business world. Companies should care about their stakeholders’ interests but at the same time, they should place more emphasis on other areas apart from solely profits making. Most people used to think that businesses are taking advantages from consumers. Nonetheless, nowadays stakeholders are not only concern about profits; they are more interested in company regarding various economic, environmental, ethical, governance, and social aspects, since these factors significantly affect the fate of the company in long term. Research has proven that there is a competitive advantage for corporations that have a …


Shortcomings Of Investior-Based Ratings Of Corporate Reputation: An Exploratory Empirical Study That Shows A Variety Of Stakeholder Groups Place Greater Emphasis On Corporate Ethics Than Profits., Kent Walker Dr., Bruno Dyck Dr. Jan 2014

Shortcomings Of Investior-Based Ratings Of Corporate Reputation: An Exploratory Empirical Study That Shows A Variety Of Stakeholder Groups Place Greater Emphasis On Corporate Ethics Than Profits., Kent Walker Dr., Bruno Dyck Dr.

Odette School of Business Publications

We examine three assumptions commonly held in the corporate reputation literature: i) reputation ratings of owners and investors are generally representative of all stakeholders; ii) stakeholders will generally provide a higher reputation rating to firms that emphasize corporate social responsibility versus firms that do not; and iii) profitability is the primary criterion of importance to all stakeholders when rating a firm’s reputation. Using an exploratory in-class exercise our findings suggest that: i) there are significant differences among stakeholder groups in their reputation ratings; ii) firms that emphasize corporate social responsibility are not rated more highly across all stakeholder groups, and …


Corporate Social Responsibility In A Remedy-Seeking Society: A Public Choice Perspective, Donald J. Kochan Dec 2013

Corporate Social Responsibility In A Remedy-Seeking Society: A Public Choice Perspective, Donald J. Kochan

Donald J. Kochan

Written for the Chapman Law Review Symposium on “What Can Law & Economics Teach Us About the Corporate Social Responsibility Debate?,” this Article applies the lessons of public choice theory to examine corporate social responsibility. The Article adopts a broad definition of corporate social responsibility activism to include both (1) those efforts that seek to convince corporations to voluntarily take into account corporate social responsibility in their own decision-making, and (2) the efforts to alter the legal landscape and expand legal obligations of corporations beyond traditional notions of harm and duty so as to force corporations to invest in interests …


Regional Diversification And Performance: Conceptualization And Competing Strategic Objectives, Keith James Kelley Jun 2013

Regional Diversification And Performance: Conceptualization And Competing Strategic Objectives, Keith James Kelley

FIU Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This dissertation comprised of three essays provides justification for the need to pursue research on multinationality and performance with a more fine-grained approach. Essay one is a conceptual response to an article written by Jean-Francois Hennart in 2011 which questions the need and approach toward future research in this domain. I argue that internalization theory does not render multinationality and performance research meaningless and identify key areas where methodological enhancements can be made to strengthen our research findings with regard to Hennart’s call for more content validity. Essay two responds to the need for more-fine grained research on the consequences …


Corporate Social Responsibility, Daniel H. Brown Apr 2013

Corporate Social Responsibility, Daniel H. Brown

Senior Honors Theses

This paper will address Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and its far-reaching implications. Initially, the term CSR will be introduced and defined to provide the backbone for the following discussions. The paper will address the theoretical constructs of CSR, managerial strategies for implementing CSR and the application of stakeholder theory. The thesis is built upon Dr. Archie Carroll’s four-part CSR construct. In addition, international standards of CSR, with a focus on Nike, Inc.’s actions, will be evaluated.


Csr: Good Intentions And Wild Dreams Are Not Enough, Singapore Management University Mar 2013

Csr: Good Intentions And Wild Dreams Are Not Enough, Singapore Management University

Perspectives@SMU

When Mariam Al Foudery graduated over a decade ago, the people recruiting aggressively on campus were from investment banking and management consulting firms. But that’s changed, giving rise to more opportunities in corporate social responsibility and social entrepreneurship.


How And When Do Corporate Social Responsibility Initiatives Impact On Customer-Facing Employees? Evidence From India And The Netherlands, Pavlos A. Vlachos, Nikolaos Panagopoulos, Aristeidis Theotokis, Ramendra Singh, Rakesh Singh Jan 2013

How And When Do Corporate Social Responsibility Initiatives Impact On Customer-Facing Employees? Evidence From India And The Netherlands, Pavlos A. Vlachos, Nikolaos Panagopoulos, Aristeidis Theotokis, Ramendra Singh, Rakesh Singh

Pavlos A Vlachos

No abstract provided.


Curvilinear Effects Of Corporate Social Responsibility And Benevolence On Loyalty, Pavlos A. Vlachos, Areti Krepapa, Nikolaos Panagopoulos Jan 2013

Curvilinear Effects Of Corporate Social Responsibility And Benevolence On Loyalty, Pavlos A. Vlachos, Areti Krepapa, Nikolaos Panagopoulos

Pavlos A Vlachos

No abstract provided.


Last Of The Tai-Pans: Improving The Sustainability Of Long-Term Financial Flows By Improving Hong Kong’S Corporate Governance, Bryane Michael Jan 2013

Last Of The Tai-Pans: Improving The Sustainability Of Long-Term Financial Flows By Improving Hong Kong’S Corporate Governance, Bryane Michael

Bryane Michael (bryane.michael@stcatz.ox.ac.uk)

Hong Kong leads the rank tables as an international financial centre. However, the data indicate that some parts of her corporate governance arrangements probably detract from – rather than contribute to – that leading position. In this brief, we show how excessive shareholding concentration, probably self-dealing, insufficient minority shareholder recourse to mechanisms aimed at protecting their investments, and Hong Kong’s close links with several “tax havens” probably weaken Hong Kong’s role as an international financial centre. We present 18 recommendations aimed at increasing the volume of international financial capital coming to the city by improving Hong Kong’s corporate governance.


Last Of The Tai-Pans: Corporate Governance In Hong Kong, Bryane Michael Jan 2013

Last Of The Tai-Pans: Corporate Governance In Hong Kong, Bryane Michael

Bryane Michael (bryane.michael@stcatz.ox.ac.uk)

How can corporate governance facilitate investment in Hong Kong? In this presentation, I review the main findings of a longer working paper.


An Empirical Analysis Of Differences In Environmental Transparency Across Firms, Sean Robert Smith Jan 2013

An Empirical Analysis Of Differences In Environmental Transparency Across Firms, Sean Robert Smith

CMC Senior Theses

In recent years, many firms have voluntarily taken actions to gradually increase the transparency of their corporate social responsibility (CSR) efforts. Using data on a sample of U.S. firms, this paper empirically examines the factors that encourage firms to choose different levels of CSR transparency. This adds to the previous literature that has focused only on the binary decision to engage or not to engage in CSR, as opposed to the extent and comprehensiveness of voluntary CSR reporting. Environmental transparency data are collected from the Roberts Environmental Center (REC) at Claremont McKenna College, while data for firm characteristics and toxic …


The Use Of Management Control Systems To Formulate And Implement Csr Strategy: A Levers Of Control Perspective, Diane-Laure Arjaliès, Julia Mundy Jan 2013

The Use Of Management Control Systems To Formulate And Implement Csr Strategy: A Levers Of Control Perspective, Diane-Laure Arjaliès, Julia Mundy

Business Publications

Little is known about the role of management control systems (MCS) in managing the strategic processes that underpin Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). To enhance our understanding of this phenomenon, this study employs Simons’ (1995) levers of control framework to explore how organizations leverage MCS in different ways in order to drive strategic renewal and trigger organizational change while simultaneously supporting society’s broader sustainability agenda. Drawing on data gathered from France’s largest listed companies – members of the CAC 40 – we provide insights into the structures and processes that companies employ to design, implement and monitor their CSR strategy. In …


Corporate Social Responsibility In South Africa's Mining Industry: Redressing The Legacy Of Apartheid, Madeleine Busacca Jan 2013

Corporate Social Responsibility In South Africa's Mining Industry: Redressing The Legacy Of Apartheid, Madeleine Busacca

CMC Senior Theses

Corporate Social Responsibility is particularly relevant in the mining industry globally given the industry’s extractive nature. In the mining industry, significant pressure comes from interest groups and nonprofit organizations that have a tendency to target mining companies for their alleged lack of consideration and accountability to the environment and in the communities in which they operate. A push for CSR in the mining industry is especially prevalent in South Africa where mining has dominated the country’s economy for so long. CSR can help rid South Africa’s mining industry of its long history of instability and conflict that characterized class and …


Examining Corporate Social Responsibility In Thailand: A View From Thai Companies, Nutthanun Rajanakorn Aug 2012

Examining Corporate Social Responsibility In Thailand: A View From Thai Companies, Nutthanun Rajanakorn

Doctoral Dissertations

This study aims to understand the perceptions and meanings of corporate social responsibility (CSR) in the context of Thailand. Phenomenology was used to explore the inquiry of how Thai executives perceived and implemented their companies’ CSR. Twenty long-interviews were conducted with Thai executives who were directly involved in and in charge of CSR in their companies. Several themes emerged from the study, and the findings were presented in the aspects of their perceptions of CSR involvement, the motivations, the benefits, and the overall meanings of CSR. Giving back, caring for and helping /sharing, and developing and creating are three themes …


Process Vs. Performance Standards For Sustainable Meeting And Event Management, Andrew Stephen Walker Jan 2012

Process Vs. Performance Standards For Sustainable Meeting And Event Management, Andrew Stephen Walker

Transnational Business Governance Interactions Working Papers

This paper examines two emerging voluntary industry standards — the process-based ISO 20121 Event sustainability management systems and the performance-based APEX/ASTM Environmentally Sustainable Event Standard — and examines whether they can complement, rather than compete with, each other to provide a comprehensive approach to the complex task of managing and measuring sustainability within meetings and events. A framework for analysis was developed through examining the academic literature on competition between process and performance-based sustainability standards within the forestry sector where several internationally-recognized standards have interacted in the marketplace for over a decade. Three criteria — legitimacy, accountability and effectiveness — …


Corporate Social Performance And Consumer-Retailer Emotional Attachment: The Moderating Role Of Individual Traits, Pavlos A. Vlachos Jan 2012

Corporate Social Performance And Consumer-Retailer Emotional Attachment: The Moderating Role Of Individual Traits, Pavlos A. Vlachos

Pavlos A Vlachos

No abstract provided.


Constructions Of Citizenship Among Multinational Corporations, Gail L. Markle Dec 2011

Constructions Of Citizenship Among Multinational Corporations, Gail L. Markle

Faculty and Research Publications

Using social contract theory as a foundation I examined the ways in which four multinational corporations use disclosures of corporate social responsibility to present themselves as good corporate citizens. Several factors influence a corporation’s use of CSR: size of the corporation, public visibility, personal commitment of high ranking executives, location of manufacturing operations, and types of stakeholders. There is a significant difference in the responsibilities and obligations Proctor & Gamble, Kimberly-Clark, and Colgate-Palmolive ascribe to themselves as corporate citizens compared to those of SC Johnson. I attribute this difference to one of stakeholder accountability, specifically public shareholders. The three publicly …


Understanding Csr: An Empirical Study Of Private Self-Regulation, Benedict Sheehy Sep 2011

Understanding Csr: An Empirical Study Of Private Self-Regulation, Benedict Sheehy

Benedict Sheehy

Abstract: The article is a study of an important burgeoning form of regulation—private self-regulation—in the area of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). Rather than taking a purely theoretical approach or a social scientific study relying publicly reported data, the article addresses the issue by way of interview based case studies. As a study in regulation it clarifies the difference between various types of self-regulation, trade associations’ codes as private self-regulation and government sponsored self-regulation. This distinction hampers efforts to understand the important aspects of motivation and compliance. This study provides empirical examination of compliance in private self-regulation. Given the impact and …


Impacts Of Sustainability: A Multilevel Synthesis And Research Agenda, Pavlos A. Vlachos, Paulina Papastathopoulou, Katerina Pramatari Jan 2011

Impacts Of Sustainability: A Multilevel Synthesis And Research Agenda, Pavlos A. Vlachos, Paulina Papastathopoulou, Katerina Pramatari

Pavlos A Vlachos

No abstract provided.


Containing Csr Scepticism: A Comparison Of Cause-Related Marketing Quantifiers On Customer Attributions Of Corporate Motives, Pavlos A. Vlachos, Areti Krepapa, Christos Koritos, Kostas Tasoulis Jan 2011

Containing Csr Scepticism: A Comparison Of Cause-Related Marketing Quantifiers On Customer Attributions Of Corporate Motives, Pavlos A. Vlachos, Areti Krepapa, Christos Koritos, Kostas Tasoulis

Pavlos A Vlachos

No abstract provided.


Corporate Social Performance And Employees: Construed Perceptions, Attributions And Behavioral Outcomes, Nikolaos Panagopoulos, Adam Rapp, Pavlos A. Vlachos Jan 2011

Corporate Social Performance And Employees: Construed Perceptions, Attributions And Behavioral Outcomes, Nikolaos Panagopoulos, Adam Rapp, Pavlos A. Vlachos

Pavlos A Vlachos

No abstract provided.


Green Is Good But Is Usability Better? Consumer Reactions To Environmental Initiatives In Web-Based Electronic Services, George Lekakos, Pavlos A. Vlachos, Christos Koritos Dec 2010

Green Is Good But Is Usability Better? Consumer Reactions To Environmental Initiatives In Web-Based Electronic Services, George Lekakos, Pavlos A. Vlachos, Christos Koritos

Pavlos A Vlachos

No abstract provided.


Predictors And Outcomes Of Corporate Social Responsibility: A Research Framework, Pavlos A. Vlachos Jan 2010

Predictors And Outcomes Of Corporate Social Responsibility: A Research Framework, Pavlos A. Vlachos

Pavlos A Vlachos

No abstract provided.


Sales-Force Reactions To Corporate Social Responsibility: Attributions, Outcomes And The Mediating Role Of Trust, Pavlos A. Vlachos, Aristeidis Theotokis, Nikolaos Panagopoulos Jan 2010

Sales-Force Reactions To Corporate Social Responsibility: Attributions, Outcomes And The Mediating Role Of Trust, Pavlos A. Vlachos, Aristeidis Theotokis, Nikolaos Panagopoulos

Pavlos A Vlachos

No abstract provided.