Does corporate social responsibility encourage sustainable innovation adoption? E mpirical evidence from L uxembourg

Models of maturity in corporate social responsibility (CSRM) and in sustainable innovation (SIM) allow us to evaluate how a company is evolved in a given area, so that it can trace a strategic path of improvements in the economic, social, and environmental dimensions. This study developed maturity models seeking to verify the influence of CSRM on the SIM and of these dimensions in the business performance (BP). The analysis, grounded on resource‐based theory, used structural equation modeling with a sample of 154 Brazilian companies. It was found that CSRM exerts influence on the SIM and that both positively influence the BP. The use of these models can assist companies in creating value, generating competitive advantage, and promoting superior performance.

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Influence of maturity on corporate social responsibility and sustainable innovation in business performance

Bacinello

Tontini

Alberton

2019

“…In the second phase (the selection of data), only the documents useful to the research framework, that is, containing pertinent information to investigate the application of the conceptual model, have been stored (Corbin & Strauss, 2008). In the third phase (the analysis of data), the data saved have been analyzed by coding into key themes coherent with our 1 With social innovations we mean the innovations contributing in new technological, environmental, and social ways to improve the quality of life for society, while also generating sustainable economic benefits (Alonso-Martínez, González-Álvarez, & Nieto, 2019;Poussing, 2019). 2 The selected case study has already been analyzed in the article of Silvestri and Veltri (2017) addressed to investigate whether an alliance guided by ethic principles could effectively conjugate ethics and business with reciprocal advantages for the organizations and the territory.…”

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Exploring the relationships between corporate social responsibility, leadership, and sustainable entrepreneurship theories: A conceptual framework

Silvestri

Veltri

2019

The main aim of the paper is to provide evidence that merging the corporate social responsibility (CSR), the leadership, and the social entrepreneurship literatures informs and benefit all these literatures. With this aim, a literature review on the studies investigating how leaders affect organizational CSR, why organizations engage in CSR, and how the environment affects the leader and the organizational CSR approach has been carried out. The outcome is a microfocused, multilevel, and multitheoretical conceptual framework, able to underline the links between the role of the leader, the organizational CSR approach, and the sustainable development of the territory. The conceptual framework has been applied to the GOEL case study, a strategic alliance operating in an unfavorable context. The findings provide evidence of the pivotal role of the leader in defining the organizational CSR approach and that the societal and cultural contexts affect the way in which leader faces the sustainability challenges.

“…In order to promote the transition toward a greener economy, the United Nations Environment Programme identifies eco‐innovation as one key policy approach (UNEP, 2015). At the company level, there is evidence that companies are increasingly adopting eco‐innovation practices by integrating them into their corporate strategies to improve overall corporate competitiveness (Cai & Li, 2018; He, Miao, Wong, & Lee, 2018; O'Brien et al, 2018; Poussing, 2019; UNEP, 2014).…”

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Disclosure of eco‐innovation activities in European large companies' sustainability reporting

Vieira

Radonjič

2020

This study examines how eco‐innovations activities are disclosed within sustainability reporting of European large companies and provides one of the first studies on the intersection of both fields. To achieve such goal, the research was carried out based on the qualitative content analysis of the sustainability reports of the European companies selected on their ranking of research and development expenditure and Dow Jones Sustainability Index. We investigated if and how eco‐innovations activities were contemplated and communicated. The findings show a generalized lack of direct reference to the term eco‐innovation. Analysis of the reports showed that companies disclosed information on different types of eco‐innovation, albeit not referring to them explicitly as eco‐innovations. Benefits of using eco‐innovation mentioning in sustainable reports are also discussed and guidelines are given how to report on eco‐innovation in such documents.