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European School of Management and Technology
Education•Berlin, Germany•
About: European School of Management and Technology is a education organization based out in Berlin, Germany. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Corporate social responsibility & Competition (economics). The organization has 138 authors who have published 663 publications receiving 35405 citations.
Topics: Corporate social responsibility, Competition (economics), Context (language use), Product (category theory), Empirical research
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine when, how, and for whom specific corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives work and find that CSR initiatives can, under certain conditions, decrease consumers' intentions to buy a company's products.
Abstract: 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.
3,794 citations
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors developed and tested a conceptual framework, which predicts that customer satisfaction partially mediates the relationship between CSR and firm market value (i.e., Tobin's q and stock return), and corporate abilities (innovativeness capability and product quality) moderate the financial returns to CSR, and these moderated relationships are mediated by customer satisfaction.
Abstract: Although prior research has addressed the influence of corporate social responsibility (CSR) on perceived customer responses, it is not clear whether CSR affects market value of the firm. This study develops and tests a conceptual framework, which predicts that (1) customer satisfaction partially mediates the relationship between CSR and firm market value (i.e., Tobin’s q and stock return), (2) corporate abilities (innovativeness capability and product quality) moderate the financial returns to CSR, and (3) these moderated relationships are mediated by customer satisfaction. Based on a large-scale secondary data set, the results show support for this framework. Notably, the authors find that in firms with low innovativeness capability, CSR actually reduces customer satisfaction levels and, through the lowered satisfaction, harms market value. The uncovered mediated and asymmetrically moderated results offer important implications for marketing theory and practice.
2,358 citations
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TL;DR: In this article, a conceptual framework of CSR communication is presented and its different aspects are analyzed, from message content and communication channels to company and stakeholder-specific factors that influence the effectiveness of communication.
Abstract: By engaging in corporate social responsibility (CSR) activities, companies can not only generate favorable stakeholder attitudes and better support behaviors (e.g. purchase, seeking employment, investing in the company), but also, over the long run, build corporate image, strengthen stakeholder–company relationships, and enhance stakeholders' advocacy behaviors. However, stakeholders' low awareness of and unfavorable attributions towards companies' CSR activities remain critical impediments in companies' attempts to maximize business benefits from their CSR activities, highlighting a need for companies to communicate CSR more effectively to stakeholders. In light of these challenges, a conceptual framework of CSR communication is presented and its different aspects are analyzed, from message content and communication channels to company- and stakeholder-specific factors that influence the effectiveness of CSR communication.
1,909 citations
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors demonstrate that the impact of CSR in the real world is not only less pervasive than has been previously acknowledged but also more multifaceted than have been previously conceptualized.
Abstract: This research relied on afield experiment involving a real world instance of corporate philanthropy to shed light on both the scope and limitations of the strategic returns to corporate social responsibility (CSR). In particular, the authors demonstrate that the impact of CSR in the real world is not only less pervasive than has been previously acknowledged but also more multifaceted than has been previously conceptualized. The findings indicated that contingent on CSR awareness, which was rather low, stakeholders did react positively to the focal company not only in the consumption domain but in the employment and investment domains as well. Stakeholder attributions regarding the genuineness of the company's motives moderated these effects.
1,307 citations
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigate how telecommunications infrastructure affects economic growth and find evidence of a significant positive causal link, especially when a critical mass of telecommunications infrastructure is present, in 21 OECD countries over a twenty-year period.
Abstract: This paper investigates how telecommunications infrastructure affects economic growth. This issue is important and has received considerable attention in the popular press concerning the creation of the 'information superhighway' and its potential impacts on the economy. We use evidence from 21 OECD countries over a twenty-year period to examine the impacts that telecommunications developments may have had. We estimate a structural model, which endogenizes telecommunication investment by specifying a micro-model of supply and demand for telecommunication investments. The micro-model is then jointly estimated with the macro-growth equation. After controlling for country-specific fixed effects, we find evidence of a significant positive causal link, especially when a critical mass of telecommunications infrastructure is present. Interestingly, the critical mass appears to be at a level of telecommunications infrastructure that is near universal service.
1,257 citations
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Name | H-index | Papers | Citations |
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Stefan Reichelstein | 47 | 136 | 6670 |
C. B. Bhattacharya | 47 | 88 | 31386 |
Joe Peppard | 40 | 83 | 8102 |
Damien Neven | 35 | 142 | 4180 |
Lars-Hendrik Röller | 30 | 87 | 6517 |
Jan Wieseke | 29 | 85 | 3911 |
Henry Sauermann | 29 | 64 | 4240 |
Sascha Steffen | 28 | 89 | 3196 |
Paul Heidhues | 25 | 73 | 2345 |
Linus Dahlander | 25 | 60 | 6213 |
Stanley Baiman | 22 | 42 | 4159 |
Jörg Rocholl | 21 | 52 | 3190 |
Tamer Boyaci | 20 | 53 | 2475 |
Stefan Wagner | 20 | 57 | 1783 |
Luc Wathieu | 20 | 46 | 1715 |