Financial resource availability and corporate social responsibility expenditures in a sub‐Saharan economy: The institutional difference hypothesis

By Scott D. Julian, Joseph Ofori-Dankwa. 2013

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Subfields: Accounting, Information Systems, Strategy and Management

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Social Entrepreneurship in Sub-Saharan Africa (2015, background): “A stream of research has emerged surrounding institutional theory in the context of emerging economies in particular (Julian & Ofori-Dankwa, 2013; Peng, Sun, Pinkham, & Chen, 2009; Rivera-Santos et al., 2012), emphasizing the weakness of formal institutions and the resulting importance of…”
Impact of Corporate Environmental Responsibility on Operating Income: Moderating Role of Regional Disparities in China (2016, neutral): “A sound institutional environment is conducive to the formation of effective external supervision means, and open and transparent information disclosure (Julian and Ofori-Dankwa 2013).”
Corporate social responsibility reporting and firm performance: evidence from China (2015, background): “The slack resources theory suggests that firms with slack financial resources are therefore more likely to be involved in CSR activities (Surroca et al. 2010; Julian and Ofori-Dankwa 2013).”
Corporate social responsibility and firm performance: The mediating role of marketing competence and the moderating role of market environment (2015, background): “Julian and Ofori-Dankwa (2013) studied a firm in a sub-Saharan African emerging economy and found that the firm’s return on sales, return on equity, and net profitability were negatively related to CSR expenditures.”
Corporate Social Responsibility in Developing Countries as an Emerging Field of Study (2018, neutral): “…Bhanji and Oxley 2013), capitalism theory (e.g. Amaeshi and Amao 2009), Sen’s capability approach (e.g. Ansari et al. 2012) slack resource theory (e.g. Julian and Ofori-dankwa 2013), critical postcolonial theory (e.g. Khan and Lund-Thomsen 2011) and grounded theory (e.g. NewenhamKahindi 2011).”
Bringing Africa In: Promising Directions for Management Research (2016, background): “For example, as a function of limited pressures from local governments to make such investments, one study of 41 large firms across 12 sectors in Ghana found a negative relationship between financial resource availability and CSR spending among firms (Julian & Ofori-Dankwa, 2013).”
A Cognitive Perspective on the Business Case for Corporate Sustainability (2015, neutral): “When discussing why firms engage in corporate sustainability activities many authors take organizational or industry level approaches often drawing on institutional theory (e.g. Brammer, Jackson and Matten, 2012; Campbell, 2006; Doh and Guay, 2006; Husted and Allen, 2006; Jackson and Apostolakou, 20”
Institutional voids, international learning effort and internationalization of emerging market new ventures (2019, result): “First, our study deviates from much of the existing literature that has construed or equated IVs to negative effects for firms operating in the Global South (Mair and Marti, 2009; Meyer, et al., 2009; Ofori-Dankwa and Julian, 2013; Peng, et al., 2008).”
Escaping the iron cage: Liabilities of origin and CSR reporting of emerging market multinational enterprises (2017, background): “Interestingly, recent research on developing country firms suggests that the relationship between the use of CSR initiatives and financial performance can be negative (Julian & Ofori-dankwa, 2013).”
Institutional Strategies in Emerging Markets (2015, background): “Julian and Ofori-dankwa (2013), for example, note that while studies undertaken in developed economies posit a positive relationship between firm financial resource availability and corporate social responsibility (CSR) expenditures, they found that the reverse may be true in emerging economies –…”