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Reputation as insurance : how reputation moderates public backlash following a company's decision to profiteer

Arroyos-Calvera, Danae; Powdthavee, Nattavudh - 2022

We examine whether a company's corporate reputation gained from their CSR activities and a company leader's reputation, one that is unrelated to his or her business acumen, can impact economic action fairness appraisals. We provide experimental evidence that good corporate reputation causally...

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Determinants of managerial values on corporate social responsibility : evidence from China

Zu, Liangrong (contributor); Song, Lina (contributor) - 2008

This paper empirically investigates how Chinese executives and managers perceive and interpret corporate social … responsibility (CSR), to what extent firms' productive characteristics influence managers' attitudes towards their CSR rating, and … in poorer regions that are more likely to have managers who opt for a higher CSR rating. Managers' personal …

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Choosing a partner for social exchange : charitable giving as a signal of trustworthiness

Fehrler, Sebastian; Przepiorka, Wojtek - 2016

People benefit from being perceived as trustworthy. Examples include sellers trying to attract buyers, or candidates in elections trying to attract voters. In a laboratory experiment using exchange games, in which the trustor can choose the trustee, we study whether trustees can signal their...

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Women in the workplace and management practices : theory and evidence

Kato, Takao; Kodama, Naomi - 2017

We review recent studies on management practices and their consequences for women in the workplace. First, the High Performance Work System (HPWS) is associated with greater gender diversity in the workplace while there is little evidence that the HPWS reduces the gender pay gap. Second,...

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Prosocial managers, employee motivation, and the creation of shareholder value

Kajackaite, Agne; Sliwka, Dirk - 2018

Milton Friedman has famously claimed that the responsibility of a manager who is not the owner of a firm is "to conduct the business in accordance with their [the shareholders'] desires, which generally will be to make as much money as possible." In this paper we argue that when contracts are...

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The determinants of virtue : modelling changes in the CSR ratings of Chinese firms

Wu, Shuangqi; Appleton, Simon; Song, Lina; Jinming, Wang - 2017

Most empirical studies on Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) use cross-sectional data or case studies, making causality hard to establish. We overcome this limitation by using panel data on Chinese firms. We find no effect of last year's profits on CSR ratings, although their negative...

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The hidden costs of choice in the labor market

Au, Pak Hung; Li, King King; Zhang, Qing; Zhu, Rong - 2023

Freedom of choice is often thought to improve efficiency. We experimentally investigate the effect of giving workers a choice between compensation schemes with and without a CSR component (CSR/NoCSR) on labor market participation decision and work performance, compared to the alternative of...

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Individual and corporate social responsibility

Bénabou, Roland; Tirole, Jean - 2009

Society's demands for individual and corporate social responsibility as an alternative response to market and distributive failures are becoming increasingly prominent. We first draw on recent developments in the "psychology and economics" of prosocial behavior to shed light on this trend, which...

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Are employees better off in socially responsible firms?

Tamm, Katrin; Eamets, Raul; Mõtsmees, Pille - 2010

The growing awareness of the issue of corporate social responsibility (CSR) has raised the questions about how responsible behavior of firms would impact employees' well-being. This paper investigates the link between corporate social responsibility and job satisfaction, which is a more widely...

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Social responsibility in market interaction

Irlenbusch, Bernd; Saxler, David - 2015

A recent debate raises the question whether market interaction erodes social responsibility. In an experiment, we disentangle three major characteristics of market interaction, diffusion of responsibility, social information, and market framing, and provide evidence for how these characteristics...

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