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Organizing Corporate Social Responsibility in Small and Large Firms: Size Matters

Journal of business ethics, 2013-07, Vol.115 (4), p.693-705 [Peer Reviewed Journal]

2013 Springer Science+Business Media ;Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2013 ;ISSN: 0167-4544 ;EISSN: 1573-0697 ;DOI: 10.1007/s10551-013-1827-7 ;CODEN: JBUEDJ

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Title:
Organizing Corporate Social Responsibility in Small and Large Firms: Size Matters
Author: Baumann-Pauly, Dorothée ; Wickert, Christopher ; Spence, Laura J. ; Scherer, Andreas Georg
Subjects: Business and Management ; Business Ethics ; Business structures ; Civil society ; Communication ; Corporate responsibility ; Corporate social responsibility ; Corporations ; Education ; Employees ; Ethics ; Management ; Multinational corporations ; Observational studies ; Operations management ; Organizational analysis ; Philosophy ; Qualitative analysis ; Quality of Life Research ; Size of enterprise ; Small business ; Social interaction ; Social responsibility ; Startup costs ; Studies ; Supply chain management
Is Part Of: Journal of business ethics, 2013-07, Vol.115 (4), p.693-705
Description: Based on the findings of a qualitative empirical study of corporate social responsibility (CSR) in Swiss MNCs and SMEs, we suggest that smaller firms are not necessarily less advanced in organizing CSR than large firms. Results according to theoretically derived assessment frameworks illustrate the actual implementation status of CSR in organizational practices. We propose that small firms possess several organizational characteristics that are favorable for promoting the internal implementation of CSR-related practices in core business functions, but constrain external communication and reporting about CSR. In contrast, large firms possess several characteristics that are favorable for promoting external communication and reporting about CSR, but at the same time constrain internal implementation. We sketch a theoretical explanation of these differences in organizing CSR in MNCs and SMEs based on the relationship between firm size and relative organizational costs.
Publisher: Dordrecht: Springer
Language: English
Identifier: ISSN: 0167-4544
EISSN: 1573-0697
DOI: 10.1007/s10551-013-1827-7
CODEN: JBUEDJ
Source: ProQuest One Psychology
Alma/SFX Local Collection
ProQuest Central

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Organizing Corporate Social Responsibility in Small and Large Firms: Size Matters

2013 Springer Science+Business Media ;Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2013 ;ISSN: 0167-4544 ;EISSN: 1573-0697 ;DOI: 10.1007/s10551-013-1827-7 ;CODEN: JBUEDJ

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