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

• Main Authors: LIM, Alwyn, POPE, Shawn
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2022
• Subjects: 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
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/3414; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soss_research/article/4671/viewcontent/Lim___Pope___What_Drives_Companies_to_Do_Good_.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

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...