Social Status and Corporate Social Responsibility: Evidence from Chinese Privately Owned Firms
Social Status and Corporate Social Responsibility: Evidence from Chinese Privately Owned Firms
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社会地位与企业社会责任：来自中国私营企业的证据
DOI：
10.1007/s10551-020-04547-9
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发表时间：
2020-06-08
影响因子：
6.1
通讯作者：
Wei, Jiang
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作者：
Liu, Yang;Dai, Weiqi;Wei, Jiang
在中国这样的国家，儒家思想是国家文化的支柱，高社会地位的企业家倾向于从事企业社会责任（CSR）活动，因为他们认为来自利益相关者的高压力和履行CSR的高能力。本文通过对中国民营企业的大规模调查发现，社会地位较高的民营企业家更倾向于承担社会责任。此外，社会地位高的中国企业家更有可能参与社会责任的努力，因为他们在政治上的联系越来越紧密，而且该地区越来越以市场为导向。这些研究结果从一个新的角度（即，企业家的社会地位），并从制度的角度厘清社会地位-企业社会责任环节的边界条件。
In countries such as China, where Confucianism is the backbone of national culture, high-social-status entrepreneurs are inclined to engage in corporate social responsibility (CSR) activities due to the perceived high stress from stakeholders and high ability of doing CSR. Based on a large-scale survey of private enterprises in China, our paper finds that Chinese entrepreneurs at private firms who have high social status are prone to engage in social responsibility efforts. In addition, high-social-status Chinese entrepreneurs are even more likely to engage in social responsibility efforts as they become more politically connected and as the region becomes more market-oriented. These findings extend the upper echelons perspective of CSR into Chinese context by shedding light on antecedents of CSR from a new perspective (i.e., entrepreneurs’ social status) and clarifying the boundary conditions of the social status–CSR link from the institutional perspective.