Family Sibling Effect and Executives’ Corporate Social Behavior

Zheng, Minna; Ren, Guangqian; Zhuang, Lingling

doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2021.667529

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“…In other words, earlier-born CEOs tend to implement more CSR than later-born CEOs, while the later-born CEOs are inclined to take less CSR behaviors. The findings of this paper are basically consistent with the previous literature of sibling prosocial behaviors and sibling rivalry (Zheng L. J. et al, 2021 ; Zheng M. et al, 2021 ). It suggests that earlier-born individuals are more likely to exhibit prosocial behaviors to their siblings and others.…”

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“…Moreover, elder siblings usually have a stronger ability of competition for resources (Freese et al, 1999 ), thus they easily get more household resources (Hotz and Pantano, 2015 ) and involve less in sibling rivalries. However, the amount of family resources available to each child would gradually decrease with the increase of the sibling number (Zheng M. et al, 2021 ). Meanwhile, the competition and conflict for parents' attention and family resources may be more intensified (Weng et al, 2019 ).…”

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“…Family factors, such as family size, play a crucial role in entrepreneurship performance (Ge et al, 2022 ). Birth order is an important factor in personal early family life, and may shape individuals' recognition formation and behavioral tendencies (Zheng M. et al, 2021 ). Based on sibling affection literature, earlier-born siblings tend to exhibit more prosocial behaviors, while later-born individuals are usually engaged in less prosocial behaviors (Hughes et al, 2018 ).…”

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CEO birth order and corporate social responsibility behaviors: The moderating effect of female sibling and age gap

Zheng

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Front. Psychol.

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Corporate social responsibility (CSR) is one of the most important business strategies which helps enterprises obtain competitive advantage and improve performance. Scholars have conducted many beneficial studies on the driving factors of CSR behaviors from the perspective of CEO traits, but rarely focus on the impact of the CEO's early family experiences. This study aims to fill this research gap by investigating the influence of CEO birth order on firms' CSR behaviors, and further exploring the possible moderating effects of the presence of a female sibling and the age gap between the CEO and the closest sibling. This study takes Chinese non-financial private listed companies from 2010 to 2017 as the research samples, and empirically tests the relationship between CEO birth order and a firm's CSR behaviors. The empirical results show that CEO birth order negatively influences corporate social responsibility behaviors, and this relationship would be weakened when the CEO has a female sibling or the age gap between CEO and the closest sibling is larger. This paper extends the research on personal family factors from the field of social psychology to the business field and finds a new driving factor of corporate social responsibility behavior from the perspective of the CEOs' early family factors.

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CEO birth order and corporate social responsibility behaviors: The moderating effect of female sibling and age gap

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“…However, the existing research in the literature focuses primarily on the birth order of CEOs and its impact on CEOs’ management style (e.g. Campbell et al , 2019; Wan et al , 2021; Li et al , 2021; Zheng et al , 2021). As per the CSR engagement of CEOs, Zheng et al (2022) discovered that the CEO birth order is negatively associated with CSR behaviors.…”

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The effect of CEOs’ being the only children in the family on their CSR engagement

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Chen

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Purpose This study aims to investigate the influence of CEO’s only-child status on corporate social responsibility (CSR) practices. It seeks to extend the understanding of upper echelon theory by examining unexplored CEO characteristics and their impact on CSR decisions. Design/methodology/approach The paper uses manually collected CEO family information and Chinese Stock and Market Accounting Research data as a basis to examine the influence of CEOs’ early-life experiences on their engagement in CSR activities. The study applies attachment security theory from developmental psychology and uses upper echelon theory, particularly focusing on CEOs’ only-child status. A comparative analysis of philanthropic donations between CEOs who are only children and those who have siblings is conducted. The study also examines the moderating effects of corporate slack resources and CEO shareholdings. Findings Preliminary findings suggest that CEOs who are only children are more likely to engage in CSR compared to their counterparts with siblings. However, the difference in donation amounts between the two groups tends to attenuate with decreased slack resources and increased CEO shareholdings. Originality/value To the best of the authors’ knowledge, this research represents the first attempt to investigate being the only child in one’s family and the CSR-related decision of CEOs, which extends the upper echelon theory by introducing the family science theory into the management domain.

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Family Sibling Effect and Executives’ Corporate Social Behavior

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CEO birth order and corporate social responsibility behaviors: The moderating effect of female sibling and age gap

CEO birth order and corporate social responsibility behaviors: The moderating effect of female sibling and age gap

The effect of CEOs’ being the only children in the family on their CSR engagement

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