Global Marketing Ethics and CSR

Schlegelmilch, Bodo B.

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-26279-6_10

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“…Carroll [ 5 ] defines a four-dimensional CSR that includes economic, legal, ethical, and philanthropic, where the first set of responsibilities is an economic and legal responsibility, the ethical responsibility is also important for businesses. In addition, there are several issues in the CSR domain, namely the closure of plants [ 6 ], Labor relations [ 7 ], human rights [ 8 ], rules to conduct the businesses [ 9 ], public relations [ 10 ], and environmental issues [ 11 ]. It was found that the business response to social, ethical, and environmental issues includes a variety of factors.…”

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A Contemporary Issue of Micro-Foundation of CSR, Employee Pro-Environmental Behavior, and Environmental Performance toward Energy Saving, Carbon Emission Reduction, and Recycling

Shabbir

Ariza-Montes

et al. 2021

IJERPH

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The contemporary literature has largely addressed corporate social responsibility (CSR) at the macro or institutional level, whereas its effect at the micro-level is largely ignored. In addition, contemporary researchers have also ignored the importance of employee pro-environmental behavior to reduce the environmental footprint of small and medium enterprises (SMEs). With this background, the present study attempts to decrease the environmental footprint of the SME sector of China by implementing CSR at the micro-level through the involvement of employees because employees spend a significant amount of their time at workplaces, and hence their environment-related behavior may significantly contribute to improve the natural environment. In this regard, here we examined the impact of the micro-foundation of CSR on SMEs' environmental performance with mediating effect of employees’ pro-environmental behavior. The data were collected from the different organizations in China. Our sample constitutes a supervisor–subordinate dyad from which we collected 562 filled questionnaires (281 from each). We used the structural equation modeling technique using AMOS software for data analysis, the results show that CSR, directly and indirectly, through employee’s pro-environmental behavior affects the environmental performance of SMEs, and employee pro-environmental behavior partially mediates this relationship. The findings of the present study are helpful for policymakers of the SME sector of China to address widespread environmental issues caused by their business operations.

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