The impact of national culture on corporate social responsibility: evidence from cross-regional comparison

Abstract

The objective of this paper is to empirically examine the impact of national culture on firm's corporate social responsibility (CSR) across geographical regions. Empirical tests are based on CSR performance of 3055 corporations from 28 countries located in Eastern Asia and Europe. The findings suggest that the Hofstede's cultural dimensions have significant impacts on CSR performance, both positively and negatively depending on a given dimension of CSR. In addition, corporations located in European countries tend to effectively outperform those in Eastern Asian countries in every facet of socially responsible practice.

The utility of virtue: management spirituality and ethics for a secular business world

“…Moreover, her persona and character can also help shed light on certain ironies in comparisons between Asians and Western Europeans. Thanetsunthorn (2015), for instance, found that European countries outperform East Asian countries in terms of corporate social responsibility (CSR)-a finding the author has revealed to be consistent with numerous other studies. Thanetsunthorn provides an explanation-that Eastern Asians are less likely to value quality of life of employees and those of people in the community.…”

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The Relationship between Femininity and Sustainability Reporting

“…Hur et al (2016) and Jones et al (2017) find that female consumers have higher perceptions toward CSR than male consumers. Thanetsunthorn (2015) shows that masculinity has a significantly negative association with CSR performance on employee and community dimensions, but there is no significant relationship with the environmental dimension. In addition to all this empirical evidence, Ho et al (2012) find a positive relationship between masculinity and CSR that is inconsistent with the prediction they had initially established, although the authors of the study argue that this result could be caused by the endogeneity of the cultural dimension and the control variables used in their study (p. 431).…”

How to achieve sustainability?—Employee's point of view on company's culture and CSR practice

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