The assessment of corporate social responsibility: The construction of an industry ranking and identification of potential for improvement

Oliveira, Renata Melo e Silva de; Zanella, Andreia; Camanho, Ana S.

doi:10.1016/j.ejor.2018.11.042

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“…The literature shows that the application of CSR practices enables companies to achieve better performance and economic results of importance to interest groups, which have a positive effect on productivity and organizational competitiveness [74,75]. Hammann et al [76] and Oliveira et al [77] assert that interest groups are extremely important as a strategic resource for SMEs. These firms must, thus, maintain a close relationship with their environment, thereby enhancing their performance on a social level and facilitating their growth.…”

Section: Csr and Performancementioning

confidence: 99%

Corporate Social Responsibility as an Antecedent of Innovation, Reputation, Performance, and Competitive Success: A Multiple Mediation Analysis

2019

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Corporate social responsibility (CSR) facilitates increased innovation and enhanced reputation and business performance. Small and medium-sized enterprises are commonly acknowledged to be a driver of economic growth, so these firms’ CSR and the competitive advantages it generates are of great interest. This study examined whether corporate managers’ positive predisposition toward CSR initiatives explains their companies’ level of innovation, achieved performance, competitive success, and reputation. Structural equation modeling was used to analyze a sample of 109 companies operating in Spain’s Autonomous Community of Extremadura. The results confirm that companies generally have a favorable orientation toward CSR and this strategy’s benefits include developing and improving firms’ reputation.

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Section: Csr and Performancementioning

confidence: 99%

Corporate Social Responsibility as an Antecedent of Innovation, Reputation, Performance, and Competitive Success: A Multiple Mediation Analysis

2019

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“…As well, Asante et al [ 42 ] employed a multi-objective linear optimization based on distances to obtain a ranking of the barriers to implement renewable energies in developing countries. In the case of Oliveira et al [ 43 ] and d’Inverno and de Witte [ 44 ], both developed composite indicators based on distances, and Wheeler et al [ 45 ] proposed a post-optimal analysis of the obtained Pareto points based in distances in order to select the solution that best fulfills the decision-makers’ preferences. Within the food sector, Abejón et al [ 28 ] used a distance-to-target approach based on the definition of a normalized weighted distance to provide practical and effective optimization guidelines by measuring the magnitude towards the sustainable quantitative targets in the minimization of economic and nutritional costs associated to food loss and waste.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Multi-Objective Optimization of Nutritional, Environmental and Economic Aspects of Diets Applied to the Spanish Context

Abejón

Batlle-Bayer²,

Laso

et al. 2020

Foods

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Current food consumption patterns must be revised in order to improve their sustainability. The nutritional, environmental, and economic consequences of these dietary patterns must be taken into consideration when diet guidelines are proposed. This study applied a systematic optimization methodology to define sustainable dietary patterns complying with nutritional, environmental, and economic issues. The methodology was based on a multi-objective optimization model that considered a distance-to-target approach. Although the three simultaneous objectives (maximal nutritional contribution, minimal greenhouse gas emissions, and minimal costs) could be divergent, the proposed model identified the optimal intake of each food product to achieve the maximal level of nutritional, environmental, and economic diets. This model was applied to six different eating patterns within the Spanish context: one based on current food consumption and five alternative diets. The results revealed that dietary patterns with improved nutritional profiles and reduced environmental impacts could be defined without additional costs just by increasing the consumption of vegetables, fruits, and legumes, while reducing the intake of meat and fish.

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“…Although previous studies focusing on near-miss management in the construction industry provides various definitions of near-miss [8,40,41], the feature that construction activity processes are usually not standardized [78,79], compared to other industries such as manufacturing and aviation, was neglected. The proposed broad definition of the near-miss concept here involves six categories: unsafe behavior, unsafe conditions, incidents with property loss, incidents with possible damage to the environment, incidents with potential to have more damage, and incidents with a challenged baseline, making it easily understood and discovered by construction workers.…”

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confidence: 99%

Exploring the Potential Use of Near-Miss Information to Improve Construction Safety Performance

Zhou

Li²,

et al. 2019

Sustainability

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Construction project management usually has a high risk of safety-related accidents. An opportunity to proactively improve safety performance is with near-miss information, which is regarded as free lessons for safety management. The research status and practice; however, presents a lack of comprehensive understanding on what near-miss information means within the context of construction safety management. The objective of this study is to fill in this gap. The main findings enrich the comprehensive understanding of the near-miss definition, the near-miss causation model, and the process of near-miss management. Considering that near-misses are more tacit and obscure than accidents, the process for near-miss management involves eight stages: discovery, reporting, identification, prioritization, causal analysis, solution, dissemination, and evaluation. The first three stages aim to make near-misses explicit. The other five are adopted to better manage near-miss information, compiled in a well-designed near-miss database (NMDB). Finally, a case study was conducted to show how near-miss information can be utilized to assist in construction safety management. The main potential contributions here are twofold. Firstly, corresponding findings provide a knowledge framework of near-miss information for construction safety researchers who can go on to further study near-miss management. Secondly, the proposed framework contributes to the guidance and encouragement of near-miss practices on construction sites.

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The assessment of corporate social responsibility: The construction of an industry ranking and identification of potential for improvement

Cited by 37 publications

References 63 publications

Corporate Social Responsibility as an Antecedent of Innovation, Reputation, Performance, and Competitive Success: A Multiple Mediation Analysis

Corporate Social Responsibility as an Antecedent of Innovation, Reputation, Performance, and Competitive Success: A Multiple Mediation Analysis

Multi-Objective Optimization of Nutritional, Environmental and Economic Aspects of Diets Applied to the Spanish Context

Exploring the Potential Use of Near-Miss Information to Improve Construction Safety Performance

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