Religious Values Motivating CSR: An Empirical Study from Corporate Leaders’ Perspective

Xu, Bo; Ma, Linlin

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“…In line with this, Chin and colleagues (2013) documented the influence of CEOs’ political ideology, manifested in their conservatism or liberalism, on the firm’s overall CSR profile. In a similar vein, Xu and Ma (2022: 487) found that firms with leaders that attended religiously affiliated schools, which presumably promote “caring values”, have higher CSR ratings. Supporting the view that CEOs do exert a considerable influence on the firm’s CSR profile, Wernicke and colleagues (2022) showed that the CEO explains about 30% of the variance in CSR, even in lower discretion industries (at 27%), and that this effect is stable across multiple categories of CSR.…”

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“…First, we add to the growing stream of research on executive-level drivers of CSR (e.g. Chin et al, 2013; Di Giuli and Kostovetsky, 2014; Manner, 2010; Xu and Ma, 2022) and by doing so we further illuminate the role social class background plays in managerial decision making (Kish-Gephart and Campbell, 2015). Through this, we offer a qualified answer to Bowen’s question of whether upwardly mobile executives are more or less socially conscious.…”

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Where the past meets the present: Upward mobility, environmental stimuli, and CEOs’ investment in corporate social responsibility

Campbell

Kish-Gephart

2023

Human Relations

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Does the experience of upwardly mobility make top executives more or less likely to invest in socially conscious initiatives at the firm level? Despite early theorizing, much remains unknown about how top executives’ experiences with upward mobility impact their decisions related to corporate social responsibility (CSR). In this study, we focus on CEOs from lower social class origins, who have arguably achieved extreme upward mobility, and examine the effects of their background on the likelihood of helping others. Drawing on upper echelons and social class literature, we theorize that top executives’ past—where they come from (i.e., social class origins) and what they have experienced on their climb to the top—influence CSR decisions. We argue that CEOs from lower social class origins develop simultaneous, but at times competing, habitus that influence them to invest more in community-centric but less in employee-centric CSR than their counterparts from middle and upper class backgrounds. Drawing on trait activation theory, we also predict the moderating influence of the immediate environmental context, namely local levels of poverty and prosperity. Overall, our results support our hypotheses and provide a complex picture of how upward mobility, and its attendant tensions, can affect executive values and CSR.

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Where the past meets the present: Upward mobility, environmental stimuli, and CEOs’ investment in corporate social responsibility

Campbell

Kish-Gephart

2023

Human Relations

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“…The authors conclude that married life promotes pro-social values among family members that translates into CEOs' pro-social decision-making. Additionally, CEOs that experience childhood poverty or receive religious schooling also increase CSR engagement through greater commitment to CSR principles (Xu & Ma, 2022a, 2022b.…”

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Hunting and Fishing CEOs: Environmental Plunderers or Saviors?

Covington,

Swidler,

Yost

2024

J Bus Ethics

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CEOs who participate in hunting and fishing benefit by appreciating natural environments and permanently consuming natural resources. We examine whether CEOs who hunt and fish make different environmental decisions and find that firms led by CEOs who obtain the most hunting and fishing licenses have lower environmental performance as measured by MSCI-KLD. This effect is strongest in the environmental category of climate change but also extends to pollution, waste, and the protection of natural capital. Furthermore, firms led by CEOs with the most hunting and fishing licenses are significantly more likely to pay a regulatory settlement for an environmental regulatory infraction.

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“…For the above reasons, if culture is considered one of the pillars of sustainable development, it is the central one. Some researchers also point to the growing role of values and religion in the CSR strategy in the light of progressing globalization processes (Ramasamy et al, 2010;Xu, Ma, 2022).…”

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The aim of the study is to indicate the essence of copyright in the context of what was, is, and may be. Drawing attention to the changing reality, the expansion of artificial intelligence as a potential author of a given work, who as the creator will be entitled to legal protection. If we assume that a snail and cancer can be a fish, a carrot can be a fruit, and a machine cannot be an inventor because it is just a tool, then what is copyright in human life? What is the difference between artificial intelligence in copyright law and the natural intelligence of a given author -creator, if both are intelligent creations? Why is there talk of a higher than natural intelligence in a situation in which it is not so much about something completely new and from the beginning, but about something that is simply better, faster, more accurate and more efficient in some respects than an intelligent man, whom this thing does not replace, but only helps. Design/methodology/approach: The research method used in this article is the analysis of legal sources, scientific studies of interdisciplinary scope, supplemented by interviews, observations and experience of the author. The research procedure included the analysis of information sources, a review of Polish and foreign literature, an analysis of legal acts, a method of analysis and synthesis, a case study and logical deductive reasoning in the timespace of yesterdaytodaytomorrow. Findings: For centuries, man has wanted to be better, to overcome basically everything, including Nature, to create something that could have existed so far without his participation or with his indirect participation. The emergence of concepts related to artificial intelligence only seemingly suggests a desire to take control of man. Man is a realistic, rich structure composed of soul and body, which artificial intelligence does not have. Who will be the creator and who will be entitled to the rights and how they will be protected when the object of protection becomes the product of artificial intelligence. Thanks to the algorithms used, an artificial intellectual creator is able to quickly assimilate many things, but first he must know what.Here we come to a very important issuewho should "feed" artificial intelligence data so that the so-called biased algorithms are not created. At the moment, attributing copyright to machines and devices and granting them legal protection as a creator seems to be an action incompatible with the natural protection of man as a creator.Research limitations/implications: The limitations of the results obtained may result from a limited research sample, including textual sample. They may result from too innovative invention of comprehensive use of artificial intelligence, which in the case of copyright is attributed to man. The trick is to come up with an innovative solution and construct some 8 M. Boczek unprecedented thing, but the success of this mainly depends on their widespread use. In many areas, artificial intelligence is to be used on the march, it will be m...

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Religious Values Motivating CSR: An Empirical Study from Corporate Leaders’ Perspective

Cited by 18 publications

References 47 publications

Where the past meets the present: Upward mobility, environmental stimuli, and CEOs’ investment in corporate social responsibility

Where the past meets the present: Upward mobility, environmental stimuli, and CEOs’ investment in corporate social responsibility

Hunting and Fishing CEOs: Environmental Plunderers or Saviors?

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