A Study of the Relationship Between Personal Values and Moral Reasoning of Undergraduate Business Students

Consumer perception of corporate social responsibility (CSR) can be directly influenced by individual value structures. This research aims to provide new knowledge regarding the relationship between basic human values and the public's perception of CSR. It focuses on the values of higher education students and their views regarding a particular corporate social initiative. The study reveals that social, educational, and economic circumstances influence human values. Those values in turn influence why different students perceive CSR differently. These findings are relevant to companies as they provide a more detailed understanding of why certain consumer groups perceive certain CSR initiatives the way that they do. They also suggest that universities should increase their awareness of the importance of integrating human values and CSR in the curricula of future business managers and social leaders. KEYWORDS RAE-Revista de Administração de Empresas | FGV/EAESP

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“…A universal definition regarding human values is not found in the literature (Lan, Gowing, McManhon, Rieger, & King, 2008).…”

Section: Human Values and Schwartz's Value Theorymentioning

confidence: 99%

Relation Between Background Variables, Values and Corporate Social Responsibility

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“…Various defi nitions of CSR Source: Mcwilliams et al, 2006;Meehan et al, 2006;Leitão and Silva, 2007. Besides traditional Confucian values, emerging market values also impact on contemporary Chinese value structures (Whitcomb et al, 1998;Redfern and Crawford, 2004). The transition to a market-based economy in China since 1978 has led to changes, and contemporary Chinese values refl ect a mixed structure which can be divided into the following three orientations: (1) Chinese traditional values, displaying strong Confucian dynamism and long-term orientation; (2) western values, represented by individualism and materialism; and (3) a combination of Chinese traditional values and imported western values, including communism and collectivism (Chung et al, 2008;Lan et al, 2008).…”

Section: Pyramid Of Csrmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Wong et al (2009) found that Chinese students are more tolerant of accepting of making facilitating payments to get things moving. According to Lan et al (2008), western values represented by individualism and materialism have a great infl uence on Chinese youth. In their study, Chinese accounting students ranked self-respect, capable, social recognition, and pleasure as the top values.…”

Section: Pyramid Of Csrmentioning

confidence: 99%

The effects of value on the perception of corporate social responsibility implementation: A study of Chinese youth

Wang

Juslin

2010

Corp Soc Responsibility Env

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This study tries to determine the effects of personal values on individual perceptions of CSR issues. We investigated 980 Chinese young people, fi nding that: (1) Chinese youth display a mixed value structure of traditional and emerging western values, stronger selftranscendent values than self-enhancement values, and stronger openness values than conservation values. (2) Chinese youth have negative perceptions of corporate social responsibility (CSR) performance of corporations in China, especially on the environmental dimension. (3) Personal values have a signifi cant effect on perception of Chinese youth of CSR, with young Chinese who value self-transcendence or openness more having more negative perceptions of the CSR performance of Chinese corporations. In contrast, those who value self-enhancement or conservation more have more positive perceptions. The practical contribution of this study is to suggest that value cultivation is a good way to develop ethical behaviour and responsibility, which in turn affect the development of CSR in China.

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“…[1] Wood and Jones (1995) suggested three roles of stakeholders to justify the importance of stakeholders, evaluation on CSR: (1) stakeholders are the source of expectations of CSR, (2) stakeholders experience the effects of CSR, and (3) stakeholders will make evaluation on CSR. Therefore, many scholars have applied the stakeholder approach to running their empirical studies, such as [19], [16], [20], [21], [22].…”

Section: Stakeholder Theory and Csrmentioning

confidence: 99%

Perception of Local Community on Corporate Social Responsibility of Brewery Firms in Ethiopia

2016

IJSR

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Abstract:The main objective of this study is to examine the perception of local communities towards corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives of Brewery firms in Ethiopia. For the study purpose, a cross-sectional research design and survey method was employed. Convenience sampling technique was used to select participants and collected primary data from a total of 595 local communities of major five brewery firms. The study involved some quantitative analyses with the use of statistical tools (descriptive and inferential). The finding of this study revealed that awareness level of local community about the firms' CSR initiatives was somewhat good, however, still there were substantial portion of the host community had low level of awareness about CSR initiatives. The study also suggested that the local community with high level of awareness had higher positive perception toward CSR initiatives of firms. In this study CSR initiatives were categorized under the headings of sponsorship and donation; community development and helping the poor; employment opportunities; and environmental responsibility. The study concluded that the local community had positive perception to all categories of CSR initiatives of brewery firms as they rated above the average point (above 3.0). However, firms accorded a limited attention to community development and helping the poor. This study will contribute to the previous research on the practical aspects of CSR by highlighting the influence of demographic factors on perceptions of individuals, including gender, age, and level of education. Thus, this study concluded that gender and level of education influence the perception of local community toward the CSR initiatives of brewery firms but not age factor.

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A Study of the Relationship Between Personal Values and Moral Reasoning of Undergraduate Business Students

Abstract: business undergraduate majors, cognitive moral development, defining issues test-2, maintains norms, personal interest, personal values, post-conventional, schwarts values questionnairc, value types,

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Relation Between Background Variables, Values and Corporate Social Responsibility

Relation Between Background Variables, Values and Corporate Social Responsibility

The effects of value on the perception of corporate social responsibility implementation: A study of Chinese youth

Perception of Local Community on Corporate Social Responsibility of Brewery Firms in Ethiopia

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