Firm Characteristics and Corporate Social Responsibility: The Case of Czech Transportation and Storage Industry

Činčalová, Simona; Hedija, Veronika

doi:10.3390/su12051992

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“…The main initiatives undertaken in this regard mainly concern corporate social responsibility (CSR) [5], green supply chain management [6] and eco-design [7]. The concept of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is not easy to define, as it is a constantly evolving phenomenon [8]. The most shared definition of CSR concerns the integration of social, ethical, environmental, and philanthropic aspects in the company s activity and, more generally, in the company strategy [9].…”

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The Key Drivers of Born-Sustainable Businesses: Evidence from the Italian Fashion Industry

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Environmental pollution has become one of the most pressing preoccupations for governments, policymakers, and consumers. For this reason, many companies make constant efforts to comply with international laws and standards on ethics, social responsibility, and environmental protection. Fashion companies are among the main producers of pollution because their manufacturing processes result in highly negative outcomes for the environment. In recent years, numerous fashion industries have been transforming their production policies to be sustainable, while others are already born as sustainable businesses. Based on Resource-Based View (RBV) theory and Natural Resource-Based View theory (NRBV), this paper aims at understanding how internal and external factors stimulate born-sustainable businesses operating in the fashion sector, adopting a multiple case study methodology. Our analysis shows that culture, entrepreneurial orientation of the founders, and the proximity of the suppliers among the internal factors, combined with the increase of green consumers as an external factor, foster the creation of green businesses. At the same time, neither current legislation nor the dynamism and competitiveness of markets have influenced the choice of the companies’ founders to start a business based on green production logic. These results reveal the centrality of the founders’ sensitivity toward green strategies to create a sustainable business. The findings have practical implications because they could support regulatory institutions to introduce some incentives that more clearly encourages companies that choose to adopt sustainable business models from the founding, by acting to the internal and external key factors that drive born-sustainable businesses. This study also provides an extension of the existing literature on sustainable born companies, offering researchers useful information on internal and internal factors that promote the adoption of green policies in the fashion industry.

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The Key Drivers of Born-Sustainable Businesses: Evidence from the Italian Fashion Industry

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“…A research carried out by Madueño et al (2016) Orlitzky, Schmidt, and Rynes (2003), the core part of this theory is that CSR may be an organizational tool which might ensure a more effective use of resources, which in turn has a positive effect on the financial performance of the business. To summarize, there are many scholars who investigated the relationship between CRS and the corporate financial performance, and the consensus among them is that this relationship is positive (Činčalová & Hedija, 2020;Madueño et al, 2016;Perrini, Russo, Tencati, & Vurro, 2011). On the contrary, regarding the relationship of the CSR and the innovation performance, there is a lack of knowledge, and the connection is not fully established (Bocquet, Le Bas, Mothe, & Poussing, 2017, 2019Martinez-Conesa et al, 2017).…”

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Corporate social responsibility and sustainability issues of small‐ and medium‐sized enterprises

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Corporate social responsibility (CSR) presents a valuable tool of a better management of enterprises for the benefit of the whole society. Small‐ and medium‐sized enterprises (SMEs) have been facing this challenge for a shorter time than large enterprises. The aim of the article is to evaluate the impact of the CSR indicators on the sustainability of SMEs in Central European (CE) countries. Factors of the sustainability of SMEs are innovative ways to win new markets and retain existing customers, the innovation of our products and services, and lower probability of SMEs' bankruptcy. Linear regression analysis was applied to verify causal relationships. The sample size was constructed of 1,585 SMEs on basis of the questionnaire's answers. The results show that the knowledge of the CSR concept and its assertion in business is the most important CSR indicator with a positive impact on each factor of SMEs' sustainability.

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“…Many previous studies have found that CSR functions as a strategic resource to facilitate competitive advantages in companies [ 6 , 7 , 8 ]. For example, CSR increases a variety of dimensions of organizational effectiveness, including customer evaluations of the firm and its products, corporate reputation, employees’ positive reactions, and financial performance [ 4 , 6 , 8 , 9 , 10 , 11 ].…”

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“The Power of Ethical Leadership”: The Influence of Corporate Social Responsibility on Creativity, the Mediating Function of Psychological Safety, and the Moderating Role of Ethical Leadership

Kim

2021

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A body of existing literature delves into how corporate social responsibility (CSR) affects employees’ cognition, emotion, and behavior within an organization. These previous studies, however, pay relatively little attention to the influence of CSR on levels of creativity in employees. Considering that creativity is closely related to innovative capability, which is critical for a firm to survive, the relationship between CSR and employees’ creativity and its elaborate underlying processes need further investigation. Based on a group creativity model, we argue that CSR may increase levels of creativity in employees through mediation of enhanced levels of psychological safety in employees. In addition, existing works on CSR have relatively underexplored the contextual role of leadership in translating CSR practices into employees’ attitudes, perceptions, and behaviors. Using three-wave time-lagged survey data from 311 employees in South Korea, we found that CSR enhances employees’ creativity via mediation of psychological safety. Additionally, ethical leadership positively moderates the relationship between CSR and psychological safety. Our findings suggest that psychological safety in employees functions as an important underlying mechanism to describe the CSR–employee creativity link. Furthermore, this paper emphasizes the importance of the moderating role of ethical leadership in the process of CSR activities.

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Firm Characteristics and Corporate Social Responsibility: The Case of Czech Transportation and Storage Industry

Cited by 59 publications

References 43 publications

The Key Drivers of Born-Sustainable Businesses: Evidence from the Italian Fashion Industry

The Key Drivers of Born-Sustainable Businesses: Evidence from the Italian Fashion Industry

Corporate social responsibility and sustainability issues of small‐ and medium‐sized enterprises

“The Power of Ethical Leadership”: The Influence of Corporate Social Responsibility on Creativity, the Mediating Function of Psychological Safety, and the Moderating Role of Ethical Leadership

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