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Title: | Corporate social responsibility and operating performance : the role of local character in emerging economies | Authors: | He, F Miao, X Wong, CWY Tang, YH |
Issue Date: | 2-Jun-2020 | Source: | Sustainability, 2 June 2020, v. 12, no. 12, 4874, p. 1-25 | Abstract: | Local character can shape corporate resource accumulation and utilization, especially in emerging economies, and accordingly plays an important role in affecting the performance results of corporate social responsibility (CSR) practices. This paper thus aims to examine how local character affects the performance results of CSR practices. Drawing on the resource dependence theory and resource orchestration view, this study empirically investigates the effects of internal character (in terms of state ownership) and external local character (in terms of eight-dimension infrastructure) on the relationship between CSR and operating performance. Using samples of firms listed in the Chinese CSI 300 (capitalization weighted stock market index) in the years 2012 and 2016 and applying hierarchical multiple regression analysis, this study empirically verifies that CSR has a positive effect on corporate operating performance, and state ownership and infrastructure positively moderate the performance results of CSR efforts. Additionally, the results show that three dimensions (environmental, social, and governance) of CSR practices impact performance differently. Overall, this study unveils the crucial role of the local character on CSR to achieve performance and carries important theoretical and practical implications. Future research should include long panel data to increase statistical power as well as explore the linkage and synergy effect of CSR and governmental social responsibility (GSR). | Keywords: | Corporate social responsibility Operating performance Local character Ownership Infrastructure Governmental social responsibility |
Publisher: | Molecular Diversity Preservation International (MDPI) | Journal: | Sustainability | EISSN: | 2071-1050 | DOI: | 10.3390/su12124874 | Rights: | © 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). The following publication He, F.; Miao, X.; Wong, C.W.; Tang, Y. Corporate Social Responsibility and Operating Performance: The Role of Local Character in Emerging Economies. Sustainability 2020, 12, 4874 is available at https://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su12124874 |
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