Charity Begins at Home: Family Firms and Patterns of Community Involvement

Abstract

Research on philanthropy has made major advances in recent years

The Effect of Family Ownership on Different Dimensions of Corporate Social Responsibility

“…Block (2010) shows that this tendency can be attributed to family ownership rather than to family management. With regard to community-related CSR, Litz & Stewart (2000) study a sample of 300 small businesses and find that family involvement is associated with higher levels of community involvement. Finally, Payne et al (2011) analyze the communication of virtues in the annual reports of 435 US firms and assume that communicated virtues reflect the underlying values of firms.…”

Response Rates for Mail Surveys of Nonprofit Organizations: A Review and Empirical Test

“…Marx (1999) studied businesses as part of his study of corporate giving and achieved a return rate of 10%. Litz and Stewart (2000) studied hardware stores as part of their study on community involvement and achieved a return rate of 45%. Brudney and Kellough (2000) studied state agencies as part of a study on volunteerism and managed a return rate of 54%.…”

Examining company experiences of a UK cause‐related marketing campaign

“…10 Corporate giving is strongly influenced by an organisation's culture and policies on corporate philanthropy and social responsibility and there are differences between privately held firms, family businesses and publicly owned companies. 11,12 Even where philanthropy is not a core company value, many firms have bowed to pressure from stakeholders to operate in an ethical manner. These pressures do not supplant the need to maximise profitability, however, and more recently there have been attempts to meet both requirements simultaneously.…”