Corporate Social Responsibility: a Theory of the Firm Perspective

By Abagail McWilliams, Donald S. Siegel. 2001

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Corporate social responsibility, customer satisfaction, and financial performance: The moderating effect of the institutional environment in two transition economies (2017, background): “According to stakeholder theory, firms need to consider the interests of their shareholders, such as customers (McWilliams and Siegel, 2001; Yu and Choi, 2014).”
A Multi-level Perspective for the Integration of Ethics, Corporate Social Responsibility and Sustainability (ECSRS) in Management Education (2016, background): “CSR refers to actions carried out by firms to promote social (and/or environmental) good, beyond the interests of the firm and its legal obligations (McWilliams and Siegel 2001).”
CSR disclosure and firm performance: The mediating role of corporate reputation and moderating role of CEO integrity (2020, neutral): “Management scholars have focused attention on the instances when managers use CSR instrumentally; that is, promoting CSR either for their own benefit (Friedman 1970) or for their firm profitability (McWilliams & Siegel 2001).”
INVESTOR ACTIVISM, MANAGERIAL RESPONSIVENESS, AND CORPORATE SOCIAL PERFORMANCE (2007, neutral): “To determine the optimal level of CSP (McWilliams and Siegel, 2001) they must decide which shareholder proposals warrant responsiveness.”
Bridging corporate social responsibility and compassion at work (2014, background): “either egoistic or altruistic motives), CSR involves any discretionary corporate act aimed at positive social change and the promotion of social welfare beyond the narrow economic, technical, and legal interests of the firm (Aguilera et al., 2007; McWilliams and Siegel, 2001).”
Multiperiod effects of corporate social responsibility on supply chain networks, transaction costs, emissions, and risk (2008, background): “Here, as in McWilliams and Siegel (2001), the ideal level of CSR should be determined by a long term cost benefit analysis.”
Corporate Social Responsibility: Three Key Approaches (2006, neutral): “The revived economic perspective ( Jensen, 2000; McWilliams and Siegel, 2001), while harking back to Adam Smith, Friedman, and the utilitarian moral core of economics, addresses new conditions of rising market-like demand and political agitation for various kinds of CSR by increasingly activist stak”
State-owned Enterprises Around the WORLD as Hybrid Organizations (2015, background): “This database should also include information on the triple bottom line so that societal and environmental impacts are considered in addition to profits (McWilliams & Siegel, 2001).”
Corporate Social Responsibility Theories: Mapping the Territory (2004, background): “Concern for profits does not exclude taking into account the interests of all who have a stake in the firm (stakeholders).”