Does the Market Respond to an Endorsement of Social Responsibility? The Role of Institutions, Information, and Legitimacy

By Jonathan P. Doh, Shawn D. Howton, Shelly W. Howton, Donald S. Siegel. 2010

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Subfields: Accounting, Information Systems and Management, Strategy and Management

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Movements, Markets and Fields: The Effects of Anti-Sweatshop Campaigns on U.S. Firms, 1993–2000 (2011, methodology): “Anti-sweatshop campaigns also shaped external evaluations of firms: They strongly influenced specialized ratings of CSR and slightly diminished previously positive corporate reputations.”
Role of Country- and Firm-Level Determinants in Environmental, Social, and Governance Disclosure (2016, unknown): “Panwar et al. (2014) highlight that legitimacy decisions are in part a matter of evaluators’ decision heuristics and cultural values (Bitektine 2011) and are not necessarily dependent on actual knowledge (Doh et al. 2010) or the objective assessment of companies’ actions.”
Organizational Reputation: A Review (2011, background): “…et al. / Organizational Reputation 173 rankings, suffered less reputation loss following firm downsizing than did firms with lower reputations, and Doh et al. (2009) found that a prior reputation for corporate social responsibility tempered negative stock market reaction to the announcement that…”
An Institution of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in Multi-National Corporations (MNCs): Form and Implications (2012, background): “They illustrate the influence of such things as high-impact industries (Jackson and Apostolakou, 2010), deletion from social indices (Doh et al., 2010), health of the economy (Campbell, 2007), or features of particular stakeholders such as communities (Marquis et al., 2007), activist groups (Den…”
Creating and Capturing Value (2011, background): “A key empirical result of the Doh et al. article is that the stock market responds negatively when a company is taken out of an index, which occurs if the firm engages in irresponsible behavior (such as an oil spill or a major lawsuit claiming gender or racial discrimination). For many firms, especi”