Moderating effect of firm size on the influence of corporate social responsibility in the economic performance of micro-, small- and medium-sized enterprises

Hernández, Juan Pablo Sánchez-Infante; Yáñez-Araque, Benito; Moreno‐Garcia, Juan

doi:10.1016/j.techfore.2019.119774

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“…Third , this study investigated the mediating effect of environmental practices. Recent studies report the moderating effect of firm size on CSR's economic performance impact (Sánchez-Infante Hernández et al, 2020 ; Sardana et al, 2020 ). The scholars may explore the firm size's moderating effect on the relationships studied in this paper, where the size can be measured using the employee strength or annual turnover.…”

Section: Limitations and Future Scope Of Researchmentioning

confidence: 99%

Environment Practices Mediating the Environmental Compliance and firm Performance: An Institutional Theory Perspective from Emerging Economies

Gupta

2021

Glob J Flex Syst Manag

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Coercive pressure has forced firms to take up environmental measures in the last two decades in emerging economies. Under normative pressure, large firms with farsightedness take up the environmental practices as industry leaders. In a little mature emerging economy, such as India, where triple bottom line awareness is growing, the government facilitates the firms to operate in an environment-friendly ecosystem. We investigate how do environmental compliance and environmental practices influence the overall firm performance? The performance was measured in terms of financial, customer, internal business process, and learning and growth performance. A survey instrument was designed using well-established scales and administered to the middle to top-level corporate management executives to gather 240 data from the Indian firms. A rigorous statistical validity, diagnostics, and SEM were used to test the hypotheses. The environmental practices showed a full mediation effect on the effect of environmental compliance on performance. The examination of mediation relationships in an environmental context is limited in the reported literature. This paper is among the initial works that deal with complicated mediation relationships drawn from institutional theory propositions. The study established and argued that environmental practices' ecosystem would turn firms towards voluntary environmental compliance and eventually enjoy the long-term performance.

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Section: Limitations and Future Scope Of Researchmentioning

confidence: 99%

Environment Practices Mediating the Environmental Compliance and firm Performance: An Institutional Theory Perspective from Emerging Economies

Gupta

2021

Glob J Flex Syst Manag

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“…Though there is no widely accepted definition of CER [7,8,23,24,25,26,27,28,29,30], for the sake of convenience, we support that CER is one of three facets of CSR, and focuses on pollution prevention and cleaner production. Furthermore, we regard the following terms as equivalent to CER: CSR in the environment, environmental CSR, environmental corporate responsibility.…”

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 64%

Optimal Strategies of Product Price, Quality, and Corporate Environmental Responsibility

Peng

Xin

Kwon

2019

IJERPH

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With the awakening of environmental consciousness, more and more firms desire to go “green” by shifting their focus of corporate social responsibility (CSR) from charitable contributions to environmental actions called corporate environmental responsibility (CER). We develop a monopoly differential game to depict optimal corporate strategies of product price, quality, and CER. Using the Hamilton–Jacobi–Bellman (HJB) equation, we analyze optimal feedback equilibrium strategies for pricing and investing in both quality and CER with/without government subsidies. Numerical simulations show that government subsidy can improve CER and profit.

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“…The final cluster with 10% of the references is characterized by studies that analysed the relationship between CSR and performance in SMEs. Previous research has empirically shown that CSR activities in SMEs are a potential driver of a company's performance [63,80,81] and that this positive and significant relationship in micro, small, and medium-sized enterprises is moderated by the size of these organizations; the larger the size, the stronger the relationship [82]. There are also studies that consider this relationship to be partial [59] or even positive but weak [83].…”

Section: Cluster 4: Social Responsibility Practices and Performance Imentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The main variables identified and treated in the literature as control variables and mediating variables were included in the relationship between practices that promote responsible innovation and performance in SMEs as: Size [15,20,22,39,44,[48][49][50][51][52][53][54][55]60,61,63,72,80,82,84,85,89,[94][95][96][99][100][101]; industry [38,39,45,49,51,53,54,60,65,89,92,94,96,[99][100][101][102]; age [15,22,39,49,…”

Section: Contingent Variablesmentioning

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Responsible Innovation in SMEs: A Systematic Literature Review for a Conceptual Model

2020

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Responsible innovation has always been an important issue in discourses addressing the major challenges faced by humankind in terms of natural resource degradation, climate change, economic progress and societal well-being. However, its integration into industry is still in its infancy, and even more so when it comes to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). The aim of this research is to use a systematic literature review to develop a conceptual model for responsible innovation and its relationship with SME performance, in connection with sustainable innovation and corporate social responsibility practices. A bibliometric analysis of 102 articles collected between 2000 and April 2020 from the Web of Science database was used, in addition to the systematic literature review using the Gephi and NVivo software. The study presents an overview of the articles, authors, and most influential journals and research clusters identified, and provides a solid conceptual framework to be applied in this field and in the context of SMEs.

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Moderating effect of firm size on the influence of corporate social responsibility in the economic performance of micro-, small- and medium-sized enterprises

Cited by 118 publications

References 63 publications

Environment Practices Mediating the Environmental Compliance and firm Performance: An Institutional Theory Perspective from Emerging Economies

Environment Practices Mediating the Environmental Compliance and firm Performance: An Institutional Theory Perspective from Emerging Economies

Optimal Strategies of Product Price, Quality, and Corporate Environmental Responsibility

Responsible Innovation in SMEs: A Systematic Literature Review for a Conceptual Model

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