Do Corporate Social Responsibility Categories Distinctly Influence Innovation? A Resource-Based Theory Perspective

Chen, Suyun; Ji, Yu

doi:10.3390/su14063154

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“… Chen and Ji (2022) discovered that research results may only be confirmed during a period with a negative macro-political environment and fade during other eras. Therefore, it is essential to rule out this other explanation and re-evaluate our samples.…”

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“…The lower the price-to-book ratio, the greater the company’s investment value and growth prospects, and hence its emphasis on sustainable innovation. Several research has previously investigated and proven the inherent positive impact of CSR, innovation, and sustainable development ( Silvestre and Ţîrcă, 2019 ; Sharma et al, 2021 ; Chen and Ji, 2022 ; Liao et al, 2022 ). This study’s findings are consistent with past research in this area.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Based on the previous studies ( Chen and Wan, 2020 ; Chen and Ji, 2022 ; Liao et al, 2022 ; Xie et al, 2022 ), this study establishes Equation 1 and use the OLS regression method to investigate the impact of CSR on the sustainable innovation.…”

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The Impact of Corporate Social Responsibility on Sustainable Innovation: A Case in China’s Heavy Pollution Industry

Yan

Zhu

2022

Front. Psychol.

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Exploring the impact of corporate social responsibility (CSR) fulfillment and disclosure on enterprises’ sustainable innovation capacity can not only expand the research boundary of factors of sustainable innovation and the impact of CSR, but it can also serve as a reference for the decision-making of listed companies in increasing pollution problems. Using a sample of 224 Chinese A-share businesses in the heavy pollution industry listed between 2016 and 2020 and employing an ordinary least square regression, the results provide empirical evidence that CSR is positively associated with sustainable innovation. Second, the business environment can serve as a moderator of the relationship between CSR and sustainable innovation, and the positive relationship between CSR and sustainable innovation is more pronounced in regions with better macroeconomic conditions. Additionally, the improvement of CSR for sustainable innovation is more clear in state-owned firms than in non-state-owned enterprises. After a series of robustness tests that eliminate marketization, law enforcement, and macro-political unpredictability, the results still hold. This study broadens the scope of CSR and sustainable innovation research. In addition, the theoretical and practical significance of this study’s findings is referenced in this paper.

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The Impact of Corporate Social Responsibility on Sustainable Innovation: A Case in China’s Heavy Pollution Industry

Yan

Zhu

2022

Front. Psychol.

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“…This theory highlights the role of demographic characteristics in managers' cognitive models. In addition, the upper echelons theory posits that senior executives are the key element in enterprise innovation decision-making [19]. Based on the upper echelons theory, the present study introduces the concept of executives' low-carbon awareness.…”

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The Effects of System Pressure on Low-Carbon Innovation in Firms: A Case Study from China

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With the signing and implementation of the Paris Agreement, low-carbon models have become the general trend for future development. In this context, many countries have successively introduced relevant low-carbon systems within their companies. These systems bring a lot of pressure on traditional manufacturing enterprises. This study deeply explores the influential mechanism of system pressure on the theory of low-carbon innovation of enterprises. It analyzed 328 questionnaires from 107 enterprises in China by using theoretical models based on the upper echelons theory and the dynamic capability theory. The results of the study indicate that (1) system pressure significantly promotes enterprises’ low-carbon innovation; (2) low-carbon dynamic capability mediates between system pressure and enterprise low-carbon innovation; (3) executives’ low-carbon awareness positively moderates the relationship between system pressure and low-carbon dynamic capability; (4) executive low-carbon awareness moderates the intermediary role of low-carbon dynamic capability between system pressure and enterprise low-carbon innovation. Theoretically, this study deepens empirical studies on system pressure and enterprise low-carbon innovation. This study contributes to the application of the upper echelons theory, dynamic ability theory and enterprise behavior theory in the field of low-carbon research. In view of this, this study intends to serve as a reference material for future low-carbon innovation-related research and a guide for the low-carbon management of enterprises.

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“…However, the relationship between them is still controversial at this stage, both in terms of theoretical explanations and empirical tests. Based on resource-based theory, some scholars believe that the resources available for discretionary use within a firm are limited and that implementing charitable giving and R&D innovation will lead to a "crowding-out" effect as they compete with each other in the firm's resource market [13][14][15][16]. Other scholars, based on stakeholder theory, believe that charitable giving helps firms to build a positive image [17], access external scarce resources [18], and build government-enterprise ties to mitigate the negative impact of policy uncertainty on R&D innovation [19], generating a "synergy" effect [20][21][22][23][24][25][26].…”

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Strategic Charitable Giving and R&D Innovation of High-Tech Enterprises: A Dynamic Perspective Based on the Corporate Life Cycle

Zhang

2022

Sustainability

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As important components of differentiation strategy, charitable giving and R&D innovation can have a profound impact on the survival and growth of high-tech enterprises. However, the strategic interaction between them has not been studied in depth using the whole-life-cycle perspective. With Chinese A-share-listed high-tech enterprises in the 2015–2020 period as the research sample, the Tobit model was used to empirically test the interaction between charitable giving and R&D innovation and analyze differences in their utility over different life cycles. The results show that there was a strategic synergy between charitable giving and R&D innovation and charitable giving could significantly improve R&D innovation, but its utility was affected by changes in the life cycle of firms. Among them, the synergy utility was highest for maturing firms, followed by declining firms, but not significant for growing firms. A further study on the synergistic utility of mature firms found that, for non-state firms where executives have an R&D background, charitable giving could promote integration of external advantageous resources and R&D innovation development. Finally, the regression findings remained significant after accounting for possible endogeneity and heteroskedasticity between charitable giving and R&D innovation.

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Do Corporate Social Responsibility Categories Distinctly Influence Innovation? A Resource-Based Theory Perspective

Cited by 10 publications

References 104 publications

The Impact of Corporate Social Responsibility on Sustainable Innovation: A Case in China’s Heavy Pollution Industry

The Impact of Corporate Social Responsibility on Sustainable Innovation: A Case in China’s Heavy Pollution Industry

The Effects of System Pressure on Low-Carbon Innovation in Firms: A Case Study from China

Strategic Charitable Giving and R&D Innovation of High-Tech Enterprises: A Dynamic Perspective Based on the Corporate Life Cycle

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