Selling to Socially Responsible Consumers: Competition and The Private Provision of Public Goods

By Mark Bagnoli, Susan G. Watts. 2003

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Safety Research

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Strategic corporate social responsibility and economic performance (2013, background): “Much of this literature is normative and qualitative, mainly consisting of specific predictions based on increasingly complex theoretical models (Bagnoli and Watts, 2003; Besley and Ghatak, 2007; Baron, 2009).”
Corporate social responsibility and financial performance: A non-linear and disaggregated approach (2016, background): “…allows for targeted CSR activities throughout the value chain of the firm that can also serve the “shared value” (Porter and Kramer, 2011, p.4) approach to CSR and therefore the financial performance of the firm (see, inter alia, McWilliams and Siegel, 2011; Bagnoli and Watts, 2003; Baron, 2001).”
Corporate social responsibility and corporate financial performance: Evidence from Korea (2010, background): “…theory’ (Jones, 1995), companies with superior social performance tend to perform better financially by attracting socially responsible consumers (Bagnoli and Watts, 2003), alleviating the threat of regulation (Lev et al., 2008), improving their reputation with consumers (Orlitzky et al.,…”
How Well Do Social Ratings Actually Measure Corporate Social Responsibility? (2008, background): “Prior research has examined how CSR can benefit companies by attracting socially responsible consumers (Bagnoli and Watts, 2003), reducing the threat of regulation (Maxwell et al., 2000), improving their reputations with consumers (Lev et al., 2006), and reducing concern from activists and…”
A Greater Price for a Greater Good? Evidence that Consumers Pay More for Charity-Linked Products (2010, neutral): “Bagnoli and Watts (2003) study imperfect competition among differentiated firms who set prices and vary in whether they offer charity-linked products.”
An empirical examination of the relationship between business strategy and socially responsible supply chain management (2013, background): “Thus, in the first case, socially responsive activities have been used to signal a positive corporate image (McWilliams and Siegel, 2001; Bagnoli and Watts, 2003), enhance corporate reputation (Brammer and Millington, 2005; Fombrun and Shanley, 1990); and influence consumer choices and purchasing in”
When Necessity Becomes a Virtue: The Effect of Product Market Competition on Corporate Social Responsibility (2010, neutral): “This is a similar assumption as in Bagnoli & Watts (2003), although we do not explicitly consider the public good characteristic of CSR as it happens in their model.”
Corporate Social Responsibility in a Competitive Business Environment (2020, background): “Bagnoli and Watts (2003) agree that the provision of CSR and industry-level competition will be inversely related, so a trade-off exists between the optimal level of CSR activities and firm-level efficiency.”