Sense of Community Responsibility as a Determinant of Corporate Responsibility

Abstract

Research on the social value of the bus industry in Australia revealed an inconsistency in findings between qualitative and quantitative results in relation to the nature of a bus operator's interaction with the community where they provide a transport service. As part of a larger research project that surveyed bus operators about their corporate social responsibility, bivariate analysis found that the responses to the embedded Sense of Community Index (SOCI) did not provide a predictor of the extent of a bus operator's community interaction or determinant of Corporate Responsibility (CR). However, qualitative comments in the survey suggested that bus operators did display strong positive feelings about their community. Published after the data collection stage was completed, the Sense of Community Responsibility Index (SOCRI) appeared to be a better fit than SOCI to explain the nature of bus operator's interaction with their community. Rather than drawing on community resources, the interaction was shown to be one of leaderships on the part of the operator. Further examination of this relationship using the SOCR would test this finding.

Organizational cultures that support community: Does the competing values framework help us understand experiences of community at work?

“…Empirical scholarship on the community experience model in organizations has primarily focused on determining if SOC and SOC‐R are unique constructs in relation to each other, and to similar factors commonly studied in management science (e.g., Boyd & Nowell, 2014, 2017, 2020). Studies have also focused on the ability of community experiences to distinctively predict employee psychological and behavioral outcomes in accordance with the community experience model (Boyd & Nowell, 2017, 2020; Boyd et al, 2018; Cicognani et al, 2020; Lowe et al, 2016; Nowell & Boyd, 2014; Nowell et al, 2016; Pedersen et al, 2020; Yang, Wang, Hall, et al, 2020; Yang, Wang, Wang, et al, 2020), and how they operate in relation to other motivational constructs (Boyd & Nowell, 2020; Boyd et al, 2018; Brincker & Pedersen, 2020; Pedersen et al, 2020).…”

The Effect of Sense of Community Responsibility on Residents’ Altruistic Behavior: Evidence from the Dictator Game

“…Moreover, a study indicated that the sense of responsibility had cross-context consistency: An individual's sense of responsibility in one context (e.g., family) had a strong predictive effect on his sense of responsibility in another context [34]. People not only have a need to be a part of community but also feel a sense of duty and responsibility toward their community [35,36]. Therefore, perhaps we can speculate on the relationship between SOC-R and altruistic behavior from studies of family responsibility and social responsibility.…”