Tailoring CSR Strategy to Company Size?

Zbuchea, Alexandra; Pînzaru, Florina

doi:10.25019/mdke/5.3.06

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“…Pressure from top management and stakeholder is considered as major influence in businesses going green. Both Zbuchea and Pinzaru's () and Sarvaiya, Eweje, and Arrowsmith's () research showed that strong commitment from managers would increase sustainability strategies and implementation. Hamann, Smith, Tashman, and Marshall's () survey of 55 South African wine firms also showed that managers' environmental responsibility is the key driver of their environmental behavior of SMEs.…”

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An analysis of environmental sustainability in small & medium‐sized enterprises: Patterns and trends

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One of the greatest challenges facing the world today is climate change. The need to consistently advance with environmentally sustainable practices in today's businesses is crucial, and businesses are demanded to be more environmentally sustainable every day. This study conducts an analysis of the literature on small and medium‐sized enterprises' (SMEs) environmental sustainability by carefully examining 122 studies from 58 journals published from 2013 to 2019. We investigate the trends in drivers and barriers of sustainability adoption to inform both SMEs managers and policymakers. Our results also classify the reviewed studies on the basis of their methodologies and show the distribution of studies across industry sectors and locations in order to set directions for future research on sustainability practices of SMEs.

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“…In recent years, organisations recognised their social responsibility with more clarity and started considering it to be a part of their identity (Commission of the European Communities, 2001). Seeing that CSR can contribute to competitiveness (European Competitiveness Report, 2008), an increasing number of organisations are promoting socially responsible initiatives in response to the variety of environmental, social, and economic pressures ( Gazzola, 2017;Zbuchea and Pînzaru, 2017) and have CSR agendas (Hejjas et al, 2019).…”

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Universalism values and organisational citizenship behaviour referring to employee perception of corporate social responsibility

Stankevičiūtė

Wereda

2020

Management &Amp; Marketing. Challenges for the Knowledge Society

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AbstractOver the past decade, the number of studies investigating corporate social responsibility (CSR), its drivers and benefits has been growing. However, several gaps still remain. Previous research mostly investigated customer perceptions of CSR, leaving the employee perceptions in the sidelines and accordingly neglecting the employee importance. Furthermore, although acknowledging that employee perception of CSR is beneficial for the organisation, most of the previous studies have focused on employee attitudes as a desirable outcome forgetting about the employee behaviour, including organisational citizenship behaviour (OCB), which can be a source of competitive advantage. Moreover, although values have been recognised as key determinants of human attitudes and behaviour, it seems that the potential of values, including the universalism values, for driving the employee perception of CSR and OCB has not been revealed. Trying to close the gap, the paper aims at revealing the relationship between the employee perceptions of CSR, employee OCB and universalism values. In doing this, quantitative data were collected (301 responses in total). Consistent with the expectations, the survey indicated that employee perceptions of CSR directed at four main stakeholder groups, namely employees, customers, government, and social and non-social stakeholders had a positive effect on OCB. As it was expected, universalism values drive both the employee perception of CSR and employee OCB. Moreover, the findings support the idea that the employee perception of CSR partly mediates the relationship between the universalism values and OCB. Generally, the obtained results highlight the necessity for organisations to invest not only in CSR, but also in employee perceptions of CSR, as this could drive extra-role employee behaviour, namely OCB.

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“…With the exception of large companies, none had implemented/certified an environmental management system. This result was expectable because usually micro and small companies have neither the personnel nor financial resources for such activity, and CSR is dedicated mainly to large corporations [54]. On the other hand, all of them communicated with stakeholders about environmental issues.…”

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“…The hypothesis comes from the general opinion that CSR is useful mostly in cases of large budgets and, therefore, it is dedicated to large enterprises [54].…”

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Corporate Social Responsibility of Companies Producing PFOA Containing Waxes for Cross-Country Skiing

Švermová

Černík

2020

Sustainability

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The chemical industry is a particularly sensitive sector that very often works with toxic, harmful and dangerous substances. This paper offers insight into the corporate socially responsible (CSR) behaviour of a specific segment of the chemical industry—the production of fluorinated ski waxes. Perfluorinated compounds, which excel in water and fat stability and repellency, are nowadays considered as harmful to human health and nature. During 2020, the basic compound, perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA), will be banned, and finding its replacement will be a difficult task. So far, there are no alternatives in terms of environmentally friendly compounds that can maintain the desired properties of extreme ski glide. Based on a questionnaire distributed to twenty wax producers worldwide, we have concluded that, although the attitudes of companies towards CSR certification was rather negative (87.5%), and companies had not developed or documented any CSR policy/strategy with specific goals, they found CSR activities/instruments beneficial and important. The survey highlighted the fact that companies were aware that their products are dangerous for the environment, and that environmental issues are important for all of the responders, despite them being mostly without certified systems. The size of a company had no significant effect on their attitude. Micro and small producers were involved in raising awareness of environmental policies and responsibilities to the same extent (maybe even more) as medium or large companies. We also found varying behaviours between companies involved in environmental programs and those who were not. The companies involved felt a strong attitude towards all three pillars of CSR, which are the environment, as well as social and economic aspects. Those companies not involved had a strong attitude towards their customers, but not towards their employees, suppliers or the wider community. They also had stronger feelings about the quality of their products and economic profit, but without a strong approach to the related environmental issues. The Norwegian approach and the commitment of the company Swix to CSR are two positive examples leading to a fluorine-free future.

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Tailoring CSR Strategy to Company Size?

Abstract: Abstract. Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is one of the most debated topics in

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An analysis of environmental sustainability in small & medium‐sized enterprises: Patterns and trends

An analysis of environmental sustainability in small & medium‐sized enterprises: Patterns and trends

Universalism values and organisational citizenship behaviour referring to employee perception of corporate social responsibility

Corporate Social Responsibility of Companies Producing PFOA Containing Waxes for Cross-Country Skiing

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