In the face of marketplace polls that attest to the increasing influence of corporate social responsibility (CSR) on consumers' purchase behavior, this article examines when, how, and for whom specific CSR initiatives work. The findings implicate both company-specific factors, such as the CSR issues a company chooses to focus on and the quality of its products, and individual-specific factors, such as consumers' personal support for the CSR issues and their general beliefs about CSR, as key moderators of consumers' responses to CSR. the results also highlight the mediating role of consumers' perceptions of congruence between their own characters and that of the company in their reactions to its CSR initiatives. More specifically, the authors find that CSR initiatives can, under certain conditions, decrease consumers' intentions to buy a company's products.

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/Delivery.cfm/SSRN_ID2333479_code333677.pdf?abstractid=2333479&type=2

Does Doing Good Always Lead to Doing Better? Consumer Reactions to Corporate Social Responsibility

Despite numerous efforts to bring about a clear and unbiased definition of CSR, there is still some confusion as to how CSR should be defined. In this paper five dimensions of CSR are developed through a content analysis of existing CSR definitions. Frequency counts are used to analyse how often these dimensions are invoked. The analysis shows that the existing definitions are to a large degree congruent. Thus it is concluded that the confusion is not so much about how CSR is defined, as about how CSR is socially constructed in a specific context. Copyright © 2006 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd and ERP Environment.

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/csr.132

How corporate social responsibility is defined: an analysis of 37 definitions

This study provides an integrated analysis of the interrelations among (1) environmental disclosure, (2) environmental performance, and (3) economic performance. Based on the argument that management's (unobservable) overall strategy affects each of these corporate responsibilities, we conjecture that prior literature's mixed results describing their interrelations may be attributable to the fact that researchers have not considered these functions to be jointly determined. After endogenizing these corporate functions in simultaneous equations models, we obtain results that suggest “good” environmental performance is significantly associated with “good” economic performance, and also with more extensive quantifiable environmental disclosures of specific pollution measures and occurrences.

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The relations among environmental disclosure, environmental performance, and economic performance: a simultaneous equations approach

This comprehensive survey of multisector, economy-wide planning models weighs their power to address issues of trade, distribution, growth, and structural change. The authors combine theoretical discussion of the properties of applied equilibrium models with numerical applications to particular countries, and problems. The models consider ranges from input-output and linear programming to the more recent nonlinear computable general equilibrium models. The authors examine how these models can be used to measure growth and structural change, to select an appropriate foreign exchange regimen, and to evaluate the impact of alternative development strategies on the distribution of income. The empirical applications draw on the experience of particular countries, and comparisons among countries to demonstrate how such models provide a useful framework for policy analysis. Particular attention is given to the difficulties of formulating plans and policies in mixed-market economies and to the problems of capturing the real constraints on policymakers within the abstractions of a model.

General equilibrium models for development policy

Начала политической экономии и податного обложения = The principles of political economy and taxation

Why Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)? * The Need for a Planetary Bargain * The Seven Azimuths: Who Are the Stakeholders? * Codes of Ethics * Corporate Social Responsibility in Practice * Corporate Social Responsibility in Selected Industrialized Countries * Frameworks to Measure Corporate Social Responsibility * How Best to Measure What is Corporate Social Responsibility * Empirical Application of CSR Indicators * Implications of a Planetary Bargain for Developing Countries * Conclusion: The Next Millennium * Notes * References * Index

The Planetary Bargain: Corporate Social Responsibility Matters

What and Why Socially Responsible Enterprises - The Need for a Planetary Bargain - The Seven Azimuths: Who are the Stakeholders ? - Codes of Ethics - SRE in Practice - The Multi-cultural View in Selected Industrialised Countries - Frameworks to Measure SRE - The Theoretical Literature behind Measuring Corporate Performance - Empirical Application of SRE Indicators - Developing Country Implications - Conclusion the Next millennium

The Planetary Bargain: Corporate Social Responsibility Comes of Age

This paper defines corporate social responsibility (CSR) and sets up a framework to measure it. To date, the measurement systems used and the various concepts of CSR have no systematic basis. Indicators seem to be chosen on the whim of the moment. However, at least some data now exist to measure progress on social aspects of corporate behaviour. In fact, it is even possible to use some of the available data that companies now make available in order to hazard a guess at to whether CSR is getting better or worse. Yet, the power of the "average" seems to hide a variety of sins, as seen in the short review and comparison of how CSR is measured in six well-known measurement frameworks.

Measurement of corporate social responsibility

Human development revisited: A new UNDP report

Can CSR Pave the Way for Development? * What is CSR all About and Where is it Going? * Corporate CSR Development Case Studies: Failures and Success * Failures of Development: A Global View * Corporations Should Abandon Philanthropy and Concentrate on CSR * A Critique of CSR and Development * CSR and Poverty * Supply Chain Issues * CSR in developing countries * Limitations of International Agencies * Socially Responsible Investment in Developing Countries * Main Actions for Companies Involved in Development * Index

Michael Hopkins

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The Planetary Bargain: Corporate Social Responsibility Matters

The Planetary Bargain: Corporate Social Responsibility Comes of Age

Measurement of corporate social responsibility

Human development revisited: A new UNDP report

Corporate Social Responsibility and International Development: Is Business the Solution?