Formal vs. Informal CSR Strategies: Evidence from Italian Micro, Small, Medium-sized, and Large Firms

By Angeloantonio Russo, Antonio Tencati. 2009

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Subfields: Business and International Management, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Strategy and Management

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SMEs and CSR in Developing Countries (2017, background): “…is used to refer to intangible assets such as reputation, trust, and legitimacy, accumulated through relationships and networks across various spheres of society (Habisch, Meister, & Schmidpeter, 2001; Jamali, Yianni, & Abdallah, 2011; Russo & Tencati, 2009; Spence, Habisch, & Schmidpeter, 2004).”
Firm size and sustainable performance in food supply chains: Insights from Greek SMEs (2014, background): “This is an original finding considering the scarcity of research work examining firm size differences in relation to sustainability performance for food firms despite the fact that many authors have recommended research in that domain (see Bititci et al., 2012; Russo and Tencati, 2009).”
An Innovative Model to Promote CSR among SMEs Operating in Industrial Clusters: Evidence from an EU Project (2010, methodology): “This element facilitates the use of informal CSR policies adopted by SMEs (Chiesi, 2005; Perrini et al., 2007; Russo and Tencati, 2009), a process also known as ‘implicit CSR’ (Matten and Moon, 2004; 2008), or ‘silent CSR’ (Jenkins, 2004).”
Capabilities, Proactive CSR and Financial Performance in SMEs: Empirical Evidence from an Australian Manufacturing Industry Sector (2011, background): “Some recent research (e.g. Fitjar, 2011; Russo and Tencati, 2009) does raise a question about the basis for these assumptions; it suggests the possibility that some proactive CSR may indeed be occurring in SMEs but, because the language of CSR is often not used for reporting, it goes unrecognised…”
Organizing Corporate Social Responsibility in Small and Large Firms: Size Matters (2011, unknown): “formal nature of MNCs that contrasts with the informal approach in SMEs (Russo and Tencati 2009).”
The Circular Economy: An Interdisciplinary Exploration of the Concept and Application in a Global Context (2015, background): “…Circular Economy is a highly relevant concept to examine given the plethora of academic debates on sustainable and socially responsible business (Russo and Tencati 2009; Junior et al. 2014; Dossa and Kaeufer 2014), in which economic sustainability is often found to be privileged over…”
Corporate Social Responsibility That “Pays”: A Strategic Approach to CSR for SMEs ** (2017, background): “These results are in tune with extant research (Baron 2001; Perrini, Russo, and Tencati 2007; Russo and Tencati 2008) and point toward the need for further industry specific investigation into the relationship between CSR activities and SME growth.”
Corporate social responsibility in the food sector (2011, background): “They are most concerned with investing in social capital and securing a licence to operate in their own community (Murillo and Lozano, 2006; Russo and Tencati, 2009; Walther et al., 2010).”