Private Politics, Corporate Social Responsibility, and Integrated Strategy

By David P. Baron. 2001

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Corporate Social Responsibility and Social Entrepreneurship (2007, positive): “(25) 20 Baron (2001) focuses on the motive for CSR activities and considers CSR activities induced by private politics in the form of an activist-led boycott.”
Corporate social responsibility in the banking industry: Motives and financial performance (2013, background): “The altruism motive indicates that companies conduct CSR activities for their own sake (Baron, 2001), thereby negatively affecting FP.”
Market Effects of Changes in Consumers' Social Responsibility (2009, positive): “However, Stigler and Becker (1977) and Becker (1996) assume that, even when individual choices vary, the underlying preferences are stable, while people develop social and personal capital that changes their consumption decisions over time.”
Three lenses on the multinational enterprise: politics, corruption, and corporate social responsibility (2006, methodology): “The use of CSR to capture value is referred to as strategic CSR by Baron (2001) who points out that “it is the motivation for the action that identifies socially, as opposed to privately, responsible action.””
Mandatory CSR and sustainability reporting: economic analysis and literature review (2019, background): “These interests and preferences can change quickly over time, as, for instance, when the firm becomes the target of a social activist campaign (e.g., Baron 2001), or as a 8 For surveys of the CSR literature see, for instance, Renneboog et al. (2008), Kitzmueller and Shimshack (2012), Crane and…”
Spinning gold: The financial returns to stakeholder engagement (2014, background): “Baron, Harjoto & Jo (2009) find that social pressure diverts resources away from corporate financial performance towards corporate social performance, social performance has no net effect on financial performance (though further analysis shows that the result is positive in consumer goods and”
Strategic CSR: A Concept Building Meta‐Analysis (2019, positive): “The concept of Strategic CSR was first coined by Baron (2001), and subsequently developed further by McWilliams and Siegel (2001) and Waldman and colleagues (2006), who explicitly connected it to the strategic management field’s academic objective of explaining firm competitive advantages from…”
Corporate-sponsored foundations and earnings management (2006, background): “Baron (2001) provides a theory of private politics where one reason for a corporation to redistribute wealth is a threat by activists. Neiheisel (1994) finds that firms use contributions as a political currency to gain access to politicians and influence policy. Prior research suggests two additiona”
Corporate Social Responsibility: Three Key Approaches (2006, neutral): “However, widespread security and justice are necessary conditions antecedent to socially desirable market outcomes. Ethical CSR addresses these conditions. Friedman (1970) states the basic case for minimalist government regulation of markets as doing what firms cannot accomplish voluntarily: effecti”