When Necessity Becomes a Virtue: The Effect of Product Market Competition on Corporate Social Responsibility

By Daniel Fernandez-Kranz, Juan Santaló. 2010

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Subfields: Marketing, Strategy and Management

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Corporate Social Performance: A Review of Empirical Research Examining the Corporation–Society Relationship Using Kinder, Lydenberg, Domini Social Ratings Data (2017, background): “Levels of public visibility (Chiu & Sharfman, 2011; Dawkins & Fraas, 2011), as well as extent of industry competition and import penetration (Fernandez-Kranz & Santalo, 2010), may be important intervening factors for institutional effects, as they were associated with higher KLD strengths and lower…”
CSR Strategies in Response to Competitive Pressures (2018, background): “This analysis thus extends prior studies that investigate the effect of product market competition on CSR separately, such as when Fernández-Kranz and Santaló (2010) assess whether altruistic or strategic motives dominate or when Flammer (2015) investigates whether CSR is a reaction to exogenous com”
CSR related management practices and Firm Performance: An Empirical Analysis of the Quantity-Quality Trade-off on French Data (2015, background): “For instance, Brammer and Pavelin (2006) use the ratio of pre-tax profits to total assets and Fernandez-Kranz and Santalo (2010) use average profits (in dollars) to control for firm profitability in their empirical estimations.”
Does product market competition foster corporate social responsibility? Evidence from trade liberalization (2015, background): “2 A related strand of literature examines the association between domestic competition—as measured by the HerfindahlHirschman index (HHI) of industry concentration—and CSR (Declerck and M’Zali, 2012; Fernandez-Kranz and Santalo, 2010; Fisman, Heal, and Nair, 2006).”
Competing for Government Procurement Contracts: The Role of Corporate Social Responsibility (2018, neutral): “9In this vein, it has been shown that CSR can help companies differentiate themselves from their foreign and local competitors (Fernandez-Kranz & Santalo, 2010; Flammer, 2015b) and from other employers (Flammer & Luo, 2017).”
The Impact of Corporate Social Responsibility on Firm Value: The Role of Customer Awareness (2012, neutral): “Consistent with the Fisman et al. (2008) argument, Fernandez-Kranz and Santaló (2010) showed that firms in more competitive industries are more likely to engage in CSR, and Siegel and Vitaliano (2007) showed that firms selling experience goods (for which determining product quality is more…”
Corporate social responsibility reporting and organizational stigma: the case of "sin" industries. (2016, methodology): “In this context we tested: industry competition (Fernandez-Kranz & Santalo, 2010), using the Herfindahl-Hirschman index; media exposure (Brammer & Millington, 2006), measured by the number of major headlines in worldwide publications appearing in the LexisNexis database; and foreign activity (Kolk…”
Corporate Governance and Green Innovation (2016, neutral): “environmental activities (Fernandez-Kranz and Santalò 2010).”