Saridakis, C orcid.org/0000-0001-8088-1722, Angelidou, S and Woodside, AG (2020) What type of CSR engagement suits my firm best? Evidence from an abductively-derived typology. Journal of Business Research, 108. pp. 174-187. ISSN 0148-2963
Abstract
Why do firms engage in socially responsible activities? Prior discussion around this issue mainly applies a uniform conceptualization of corporate social responsibility (CSR) or focuses on distinct CSR activities. These perspectives are surprising given that firms respond to expectations of social responsibility through unique and often multifaceted sets of voluntary behaviors. To address the limitations of these perspectives, this study first develops a novel typology of divergent repertoires of CSR activities that reveal different constellations of CSR engagement. We, then, follow a novel analytical strategy which specifies complex interdependencies among different CEO-, firm-, and contextual-specific characteristics and reveals the causal pathways that explain alternative CSR constellations. The findings confirm that the actual multiple effects of each characteristic on CSR engagement are not only contingent on the combinations of additional characteristics that synergistically occur in a given causal recipe but also on the unique CSR constellation under consideration in specific contexts.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2019 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. This is an author produced version of a paper published in Journal of Business Research. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
Keywords: | Corporate social responsibility; CEO characteristics; Contextual characteristics; Empirical typology; Firm characteristics |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Business (Leeds) > Marketing Division (LUBS) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 12 Nov 2019 10:45 |
Last Modified: | 26 May 2021 00:38 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Elsevier |
Identification Number: | 10.1016/j.jbusres.2019.11.032 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:153336 |