Business Ethics the Environment & Responsibility最新文献

{"title":"Board cultural diversity and bank social performance: The mediating role of corporate social responsibility strategy","authors":"Francesco Gangi,&nbsp;Nicola Varrone,&nbsp;Maria Coscia","doi":"10.1111/beer.12580","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/beer.12580","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The study investigates how board cultural diversity (BCD) affects bank stakeholder engagement through improved corporate social performance (CSP) and whether banks' corporate social responsibility (CSR) strategy mediates the relationship between BCD and banks' social performance. Adopting an international sample of 379 banks from 2010 to 2019, we found that BCD improves engagement in socially responsible issues in the banking sector. Moreover, we show a mediating role of strategic CSR on the relationship between BCD and banks' social performance. Hence, we contribute to the research on the role of corporate governance mechanisms as drivers of CSR engagement. Furthermore, based on the mediation effect of strategic CSR, we advance the discussion on the link between BCD and banks' social performance. Our findings provide implications for banks and policy-makers, indicating the opportunity to promote cultural diversity, which supports socially responsible banking, while a CSR strategy positively impacts the stakeholder approach in the banking industry.</p>","PeriodicalId":29886,"journal":{"name":"Business Ethics the Environment & Responsibility","volume":"32 4","pages":"1310-1320"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2023-08-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50135761","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Family firm status and environmental disclosure: The moderating effect of board gender diversity","authors":"Barbara Maggi,&nbsp;Rafaela Gjergji,&nbsp;Luigi Vena,&nbsp;Salvatore Sciascia,&nbsp;Alessandro Cortesi","doi":"10.1111/beer.12578","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/beer.12578","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Building on agency and resource-based view theories, this study investigates the level of environmental disclosure (ED) practices of family versus non-family firms and explores the moderating role of board gender diversity. We test our hypotheses on a 3-year (2018–2020) panel data sample comprising 324 observations of Italian small- and medium-sized enterprises traded on the Euronext Growth Milan. Findings show that, compared to non-family firms, companies with a family firm status are characterized by lower levels of ED. Gender diversity on the board, however, moderates this relationship, reducing this gap, to the extent that the family firm status is associated with higher ED when the number of women directors is high enough to constitute a critical mass. We consequently contribute to the studies on family business, corporate governance, and corporate social responsibility.</p>","PeriodicalId":29886,"journal":{"name":"Business Ethics the Environment & Responsibility","volume":"32 4","pages":"1334-1351"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2023-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50114989","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Star CEOs and ESG performance in China: An integrated view of role identity and role constraints logics","authors":"Mengyao Li,&nbsp;Min Huang,&nbsp;Dong Wang,&nbsp;Xiaobo Li","doi":"10.1111/beer.12579","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/beer.12579","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This study seeks to shed light on the effect of star CEOs on the environmental, social, and governance (ESG) performance of Chinese firms. Relying on the theoretical perspective of role identity and role constraints, we analyze data from 1222 Chinese firms listed on the Shanghai and Shenzhen Stock Exchanges from 2006 to 2019. The results analyzed using the ordinary least squares estimate method reveal a positive effect of star CEOs' extreme confidence and legitimacy pressure mechanisms on ESG performance. We also find that this positive relationship is negatively moderated by higher organizational slack but strengthened by a lower level of regional marketization, as the degree of firms' dependence on external stakeholders' resources differs significantly. Additionally, this study finds that ESG activities are less likely to be associated with firm performance if star CEOs pursue them to satisfy their need for star status. These findings supplement the early tests of the influence mechanism of star CEOs on organization-level results and expand the context discussion of role identity and role constraints theory in the Chinese institutional environment.</p>","PeriodicalId":29886,"journal":{"name":"Business Ethics the Environment & Responsibility","volume":"32 4","pages":"1411-1428"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2023-07-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50148648","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Not all green innovations are equally green: State ownership, green innovation generality and contingencies","authors":"Guannan Qu,&nbsp;Xin Pan","doi":"10.1111/beer.12577","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/beer.12577","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This research scrutinises the correlation between state ownership and the attributes of green innovation, specifically underscoring generality as a primary trait of innovation favoured by governments. Green innovation with generality, due to its applicability across diverse contexts at reduced expense, becomes an appealing strategy for states to address environmental concerns. Consequently, we suggest that state ownership encourages the prevalence of green innovation characterised by generality. Furthermore, we delve into two contingencies related to ascribed and achieved political connections, positing that they, respectively, impose negative and positive moderating influences. Support for our propositions comes from data gathered from Chinese listed firms during the period 2004–2019. By emphasising the importance of green innovation characteristics over their quantity, our research offers a significant contribution to the literature on green innovation in the context of state ownership.</p>","PeriodicalId":29886,"journal":{"name":"Business Ethics the Environment & Responsibility","volume":"32 4","pages":"1532-1546"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2023-07-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50144636","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Examining the role of knowledge sharing among stakeholders and firm innovation performance: Moderating role of technology usage","authors":"Ranjan Chaudhuri,&nbsp;Sheshadri Chatterjee,&nbsp;Demetris Vrontis,&nbsp;Gianpaolo Basile","doi":"10.1111/beer.12575","DOIUrl":"10.1111/beer.12575","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Knowledge sharing is a typical activity of using different ways to share ideas, skills, expertise, and opinions among friends, family members, peers, communities, and employees. Knowledge can be shared with a firm's internal and external stakeholders, and it can improve process efficiency as well as product quality. Not many studies have examined the influence of knowledge sharing among different stakeholders of a firm and its impact on a firm's innovative performance. Also, studies that understand the role of modern technology usage in firm innovation performance are scant. Using stakeholder theory, other views, and existing literature, we have developed a theoretical model that was validated using the PLS-SEM technique to analyze 341 respondents from different firms in India. The study demonstrates that knowledge sharing has a significant impact among stakeholders on improving firm innovation performance. The study also finds that stakeholder usage of modern technology has a significant moderating impact on the relationship between process innovation, product innovation, and innovation performance of firms.</p>","PeriodicalId":29886,"journal":{"name":"Business Ethics the Environment & Responsibility","volume":"34 1","pages":"43-57"},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2023-07-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79839570","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Technology, capitalism, and the social contract","authors":"Philip Stiles,&nbsp;Eleanor Toye Scott,&nbsp;Pradeep Debata","doi":"10.1111/beer.12567","DOIUrl":"10.1111/beer.12567","url":null,"abstract":"&lt;p&gt;Capitalism is intimately bound up with technology. Societies change through advances in technology, and technology sets the boundaries for what is possible within work organisations and social institutions. Debates about the direction of capitalism emerge periodically following the introduction and uptake of new technologies (Harcourt, &lt;span&gt;2014&lt;/span&gt;). The most recent candidate for generating discussion about the future of capitalism is digital technology, which includes artificial intelligence, machine learning, algorithms, and the internet of things (Brynjolfsson &amp; McAfee, &lt;span&gt;2014&lt;/span&gt;). Digital technology has been placed at the heart of ‘the fourth industrial revolution’ (Schwab, &lt;span&gt;2017&lt;/span&gt;). The capacity for these technologies to alter how organisations and employees work together and with it, capitalism itself, has generated a burgeoning and disparate literature. Two broad competing narratives have emerged. First, some scholars have predicted an intensification and entrenchment of capitalism. Scholars in the labour process tradition (e.g., Kellogg et al., &lt;span&gt;2020&lt;/span&gt;; Thompson &amp; Briken, &lt;span&gt;2017&lt;/span&gt;) have highlighted how key elements of digital technology have shifted far greater control towards the employer in the employment relationship, leading to increasing exploitation of certain groups of workers and less influence and ownership by individuals. For example, digital technology can provide, through the use of monitors or tags or sensors, the ability to track employees and bring heightened predictability and control of employees, bringing about what has been terms variously as “datafication of employment” (O'Neil, &lt;span&gt;2016&lt;/span&gt;), or the “digitalisation of the worker” (Warhurst &amp; Hunt, &lt;span&gt;2019&lt;/span&gt;). The complexity of new technology can also entail that employees become passive users of it, rather than being active in its development and roll out, leading to their deskilling (Bader &amp; Kaiser, &lt;span&gt;2019&lt;/span&gt;; Russell, &lt;span&gt;2012&lt;/span&gt;). A second theme is that digital technology has led to a “tipping point” in capitalism (Thompson, &lt;span&gt;2019&lt;/span&gt;). There are two distinct aspects to this. The first concerns the possibility for new technology to reshape traditional ways of working. For example, research on “cognitive capitalism” (Hardt &amp; Negri, &lt;span&gt;2001&lt;/span&gt;) has argued that technological innovation will dramatically drive down the costs of production, and knowledge will spread widely, to such an extent that capitalism will no longer be an effective economic approach, and a new social order of collaborative networks will develop, which will be characterised by greater democracy and emancipation.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The second tipping point is “post-work”. New technology raises the possibilities of greater automation and with it the likelihood of increasing unemployment. As unemployment increases, this will have a strong negative effect on consumption by individuals. Given the foundational n","PeriodicalId":29886,"journal":{"name":"Business Ethics the Environment & Responsibility","volume":"34 1","pages":"32-42"},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2023-07-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/beer.12567","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81812894","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Corporate environmental efforts, government environmental subsidies, and corporate non-environmental R&D intensity: Evidence from listed firms","authors":"Weihong Chen,&nbsp;David Diwei Lv,&nbsp;Christina W. Y. Wong","doi":"10.1111/beer.12574","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/beer.12574","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Drawing on the behavioral theory, this study examines how the misalignment between a firm's environmental effort and the level of subsidies received from the government in affecting the firm's investment in non-environmental R&amp;D. Based on a sample of Chinese A-share listed firms from 2008 to 2019 and using polynomial regression techniques, our findings reveal that firms in the “low effort-high subsidies” group exhibit lower non-environmental R&amp;D intensity compared to firms in the “high effort-low subsidies” group. This study contributes to the literature by shedding light on the interplay between corporate environmental efforts, government subsidies, and non-environmental R&amp;D investment. The findings suggest the importance of aligning the environmental efforts of firms with subsidy levels from the government to effectively allocate resources for different types of R&amp;D. The implications of this research suggest that firms should carefully consider aligning their environmental efforts with government subsidies to optimize their investment in non-environmental R&amp;D and overall innovation strategy. Furthermore, the study indicates that firms and governments should prudently balance the relationship between environmental R&amp;D and non-environmental R&amp;D to avoid any negative impact on the latter.</p>","PeriodicalId":29886,"journal":{"name":"Business Ethics the Environment & Responsibility","volume":"32 4","pages":"1321-1333"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2023-07-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50135811","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Not all stakeholders are equal: Corporate social responsibility variability and corporate financial performance","authors":"Yongqiang Gao,&nbsp;Yumeng Nie,&nbsp;Taïeb Hafsi","doi":"10.1111/beer.12576","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/beer.12576","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The advocates of “doing well by doing good” have advised firms to invest in corporate social responsibility (CSR), but firms may get lost on how to invest their limited resources in it since CSR is a complex concept involving many activities and different types of stakeholders. In this work, we draw upon the perspective of stakeholder saliency and the stakeholder resource-based view (SRBV) to propose that stakeholders may have different levels of expectations for CSR and contribute to firm value creation differently. Therefore, firms using different CSR to treat different stakeholders (high CSR variability) will have better financial performance. We further propose that context, in particular media coverage and state ownership, moderates the relationship between CSR variability and firm performance, as stakeholders of highly visible firms and state-owned enterprises (SOEs) may frown upon a discriminate treatment in CSR. Findings based on a sample of 3313 publicly listed firms and 15,324 firm-year observations in China's stock markets during the 2010–2018 period provide good support for our predictions.</p>","PeriodicalId":29886,"journal":{"name":"Business Ethics the Environment & Responsibility","volume":"32 4","pages":"1389-1410"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2023-07-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50131375","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Impact of digital transformation on performance of environment, social, and governance: Empirical evidence from China","authors":"Quan-Jing Wang,&nbsp;Hai-Jie Wang,&nbsp;Gen-Fu Feng,&nbsp;Chun-Ping Chang","doi":"10.1111/beer.12573","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/beer.12573","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This research empirically investigates the static and dynamic impacts of firms' digital transformation on environmental, social, and governance (ESG) performance by employing data of listed Chinese companies from 2011 to 2020 via estimations of propensity score matching and difference in differences. First, we find that digital transformation does some good to improve firms' ESG, which is confirmed after conducting several robustness tests. Second, digital transformation benefits the three aspects of ESG (environmental performance, social responsibility, and governance), and its impact is dynamic, promote ESG two years after the digital reform. Third, the impact of digital transformation on ESG is not constant among different firms. Specifically, digital transformation's impact on ESG is stronger among firms located in western or central regions of China and to those in polluting and competitive industries, as well as among non-stated-owned enterprises.</p>","PeriodicalId":29886,"journal":{"name":"Business Ethics the Environment & Responsibility","volume":"32 4","pages":"1373-1388"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2023-07-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50149933","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Personal values, consumer identities, and attitudes toward electric cars among Egyptian consumers","authors":"Omneya M. Yacout","doi":"10.1111/beer.12571","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/beer.12571","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Marketing scholars have extensively examined the role of altruistic and ecological personal values and pro-environmental identity in ethical consumption decisions. Conversely, the role of egoistic personal values and other identities has received scant attention from researchers. This research examines the role of altruistic, egoistic, and ecological personal values in triggering two types of identities: pro-environmental and car-authority. The effects of values and identities on personal norms and attitudes toward electric cars were also examined. A sample of Egyptian consumers responded to an electronic survey, and collected data were analyzed using SEM. The findings generally support the VIP framework, where biospheric values significantly affect pro-environmental identity, and pro-environmental identity affects personal norms. Furthermore, personal norms affected attitudes positively. A different path was obtained which starts with biospheric and altruistic values affecting car authority positively and negatively, respectively. Car authority identity was found to affect attitudes directly, although this is accepted at lower confidence levels. A discussion of research findings, implications, and research limitations were also presented.</p>","PeriodicalId":29886,"journal":{"name":"Business Ethics the Environment & Responsibility","volume":"32 4","pages":"1563-1574"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2023-07-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50123903","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}