Examining the Effects of Financial Performance Feedback on Corporate Social Responsibility

作     者：Sandy Wongwaiwate 

作者单位：上海交通大学 

学位级别：硕士

导师姓名：Zhou Zucheng

授予年度：2020年

学科分类：120202[管理学-企业管理（含：财务管理、市场营销、人力资源管理）] 12[管理学] 1202[管理学-工商管理] 

主      题：corporate social responsibility behavioral theory of a firm aspirations performance feedback search financial performance 

摘      要：Corporate social responsibility(CSR)has been a highly debated topic in these past years,as businesses are looking to move towards more “sociallyresponsible business ***,CSR has been viewed as a multidimensional *** example,Aguinis and Glavas(2012)define CSR as “context-specific organizational actions and policies that take into account stakeholder s expectations and the triple bottom line of economic,social and environmental performance.One main stream of CSR research focuses on investigating the antecedents of *** is,scholars have examined the factors that are able to influence whether and why firms initiate CSR *** studies have largely highlighted external *** from the organizational field,which includes groups of organizations to which the firm is aligned,is a key determinant of CSR(Hoffman 1999).In the realm of philanthropic giving,firms take cues from their institutional peers(Marquis and Tilcsik 2016).In addition,the context/climate of the firm s surroundings is identified as a critical factor for determining the firm s CSR activities,particularly in country-specific corporate governance structures(Williams and Aguilera2009),country context(Brammer,Pavelin,and Porter 2009)and sociocultural environment(Victor and Cullen 1988).Many of these predictors are found in institutional environments and operate *** these external factors have been demonstrated to influence CSR engagement,the decision-making process of a firm to initiate and engage in CSR practices has not been thoroughly *** order to both understand actual decision-making processes and extend the research on CSR,this study places CSR in the context of firm *** from the behavioral theory of the firm(BTOF),which is a theory particularly relevant to firm decision-making,this study aims to explore how financial performance feedback can play a role in determining CSR of a *** this way,a behavioral-theory-bas