What drives companies to do good? A “universal” ordering of corporate social responsibility motivation

The classic question of why companies do corporate social responsibility (CSR) is central to much theoretical, regression-based, and experimental research. Guiding research into this question is a tripartite schema of normative, instrumental, and political CSR motivations that has become increasingl...

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Main Authors: LIM, Alwyn, POPE, Shawn
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spelling sg-smu-ink.soss_research-46712022-05-25T00:57:06Z What drives companies to do good? A “universal” ordering of corporate social responsibility motivation LIM, Alwyn POPE, Shawn The classic question of why companies do corporate social responsibility (CSR) is central to much theoretical, regression-based, and experimental research. Guiding research into this question is a tripartite schema of normative, instrumental, and political CSR motivations that has become increasingly established in the CSR literature. This paper challenges the schema’s status as a typology of equally plausible alternatives through an integration and analysis of a worldwide literature of 120 existing academic surveys on CSR motivation. Rather, the paper reformulates the schema into a surveyed ordering of CSR motivations that might be called “universal” in having remarkable stability across time periods, industries, company sizes, geographic regions, question formats, types of survey respondents, and types of survey producers. The paper challenges the schema also by documenting robust internal heterogeneity that it conceals, particularly where instrumental motivations are concerned, which are among the most and least self-selected CSR motivations in our results. 2022-01-01T08:00:00Z text application/pdf https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/3414 info:doi/10.1002/csr.2199 https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soss_research/article/4671/viewcontent/Lim___Pope___What_Drives_Companies_to_Do_Good_.pdf http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ Research Collection School of Social Sciences eng Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University Corporate social responsibility CSR motivations normative motivations instrumental motivations political motivations CSR and image CSR surveys CSR meta-analysis Business Law, Public Responsibility, and Ethics Civic and Community Engagement Social Psychology and Interaction
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topic Corporate social responsibility
CSR motivations
normative motivations
instrumental motivations
political motivations
CSR and image
CSR surveys
CSR meta-analysis
Business Law, Public Responsibility, and Ethics
Civic and Community Engagement
Social Psychology and Interaction
spellingShingle Corporate social responsibility
CSR motivations
normative motivations
instrumental motivations
political motivations
CSR and image
CSR surveys
CSR meta-analysis
Business Law, Public Responsibility, and Ethics
Civic and Community Engagement
Social Psychology and Interaction
LIM, Alwyn
POPE, Shawn
What drives companies to do good? A “universal” ordering of corporate social responsibility motivation
description The classic question of why companies do corporate social responsibility (CSR) is central to much theoretical, regression-based, and experimental research. Guiding research into this question is a tripartite schema of normative, instrumental, and political CSR motivations that has become increasingly established in the CSR literature. This paper challenges the schema’s status as a typology of equally plausible alternatives through an integration and analysis of a worldwide literature of 120 existing academic surveys on CSR motivation. Rather, the paper reformulates the schema into a surveyed ordering of CSR motivations that might be called “universal” in having remarkable stability across time periods, industries, company sizes, geographic regions, question formats, types of survey respondents, and types of survey producers. The paper challenges the schema also by documenting robust internal heterogeneity that it conceals, particularly where instrumental motivations are concerned, which are among the most and least self-selected CSR motivations in our results.
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author LIM, Alwyn
POPE, Shawn
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title What drives companies to do good? A “universal” ordering of corporate social responsibility motivation
title_short What drives companies to do good? A “universal” ordering of corporate social responsibility motivation
title_full What drives companies to do good? A “universal” ordering of corporate social responsibility motivation
title_fullStr What drives companies to do good? A “universal” ordering of corporate social responsibility motivation
title_full_unstemmed What drives companies to do good? A “universal” ordering of corporate social responsibility motivation
title_sort what drives companies to do good? a “universal” ordering of corporate social responsibility motivation
publisher Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University
publishDate 2022
url https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/3414
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