Keywords
stakeholder theory, industry, empirical
Abstract
Corporate social responsibility (CSR) is a tortured concept. A number of alternative definitions of the construct exist at the theoretical level, and much debate surrounds the meaning (and its related implications for practice) of the term. Empirically, CSR research reaches few remarkable conclusions. In this article, the authors reconceptualize CSR into a number of discrete corporate social responsibilities (CSRs), each of which can have a positive or negative social impact, and each of which has an endogenous managerially driven component and an exogenous stakeholder-driven component. Using an industry-level sample drawn from the KLD database, the authors test the impact of hypothesized drivers of CSR on various CSRs.
Original Publication Citation
Godfrey, Paul C., Nile W. Hatch, and Jared M. Hansen, “Toward a General Theory of CSR’s: The Roles of Beneficence, Profitability, Insurance, and Industry Heterogeneity,” Business & Society, July 2010.
BYU ScholarsArchive Citation
Godfrey, Paul C.; Hatch, Nile; and Hansen, Jared M., "Toward a General Theory of CSR’s: The Roles of Beneficence, Profitability, Insurance, and Industry Heterogeneity" (2010). Faculty Publications. 9800.
https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/facpub/9800
Document Type
Peer-Reviewed Article
Publication Date
2010
Publisher
Business & Society
Language
English
College
Marriott School of Business
Department
Marketing
Copyright Status
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