The impact of ethical and CSR factors on engineers’ attitudes towards SMEs sustainability

Belás, Jaroslav; Škare, Marinko; Gavurová, Beata; Dvorský, Ján; Kotásková, Anna

doi:10.1016/j.jbusres.2022.05.056

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“…It should particularly focus on the issues employees might not be sure of being able to resolve appropriately. The studies of Belas et al (2022) and Rafajac and Skare (2017) find support the necessity for more in-depth, organized assessments of the ethical dimensions of micro-CSR businesses at the individual or group level, taking into account various categorical lines.…”

Section: Theoretical Backgroundmentioning

confidence: 94%

Codes of ethics in Czech companies: prevalence and differences in creation, evaluation and amendment

Caha¹,

Urban²,

Mrhálek³

2022

JESI

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Over the long-term, companies, their managements and even employees have been facing increasing external demands from customers, business partners, as well as wider society, to behave ethically. At the same time, similar demands and requirements have been coming from within companies themselves in relation to performance management and employee motivation. These demands are plac ing greater emphasis on the need for ethical management and a code of ethics as the primary tool for promoting and enforcing the ethical conduct of an organisation, its management and employees. This paper focuses on the prevalence and role of codes of ethics in Czech companies, their goals and contents, the principles behind their creation and enforcement, as well as the main prerequisites for their efficacy. It is based on an extensive longitudinal analysis of a broad sample of 1,242 Czech companies of various sizes, the main aim of which was to determine the aforementioned and, in addition, whether those companies that have created codes of ethics, strengthen the consistency of their use by regularly evaluating and updating their contents.

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Section: Theoretical Backgroundmentioning

confidence: 94%

Codes of ethics in Czech companies: prevalence and differences in creation, evaluation and amendment

Caha¹,

Urban²,

Mrhálek³

2022

JESI

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“…Hence, the concept of attitudes becomes important for corporations and their CSR efforts not only because attitudes form the basis for subsequential behavioral processes (Petty and Cacioppo, 1986), but also because once established attitudes are rather difficult to change (Fiske and Taylor, 2017). The way CSR activities are communicated to stakeholders has an impact on stakeholders' attitudes towards the company (Becker-Olsen et al, 2006;Belas et al, 2022). Given the importance of consumer attitudes for companies, this study takes them into account when evaluating the effectiveness of CSR communication tactics.…”

Section: Consumer Attitudes and Ewommentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The way CSR activities are communicated to stakeholders has an impact on stakeholders' attitudes towards the company (Becker-Olsen et al. , 2006; Belas et al. , 2022).…”

Section: Theoretical Frameworkmentioning

confidence: 99%

Consumer skepticism towards Corporate-NGO partnerships: the impact of CSR motives, message frame and fit

Schade

Wang

Prooijen

2022

CCIJ

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PurposeCorporate-NGO partnerships are gaining increasing importance as part of a company's CSR effort. This study aims to understand which communication tactics (CSR motive, CSR message frame, CSR fit) lead to more positive consumer outcomes in the context of corporate-NGO partnerships, and whether consumer skepticism and consumer trust mediate the proposed relationships.Design/methodology/approachAn online experiment was conducted (N = 298) to examine the theoretical predictions, involving a 2 (CSR motive: firm-serving/public-serving) x 2 (CSR message frame: narrative/expositive) x 2 (CSR fit: high/low) between-subjects design.FindingsThe results confirmed that consumer attitudes and electronic Word-of-Mouth (eWOM) can be affected by CSR motives and CSR fit. Also, CSR skepticism and consumer trust both mediate the relationship of CSR motives and consumer outcomes.Practical implicationsThe results of this study make a strong case for expressing public-serving CSR motives and refraining from firm-serving CSR motives when communicating about a corporate-NGO partnership to consumers.Originality/valueFocusing on the communication tactics of corporate-NGO partnerships extends existing literature by uncovering whether and how the factors driving effective communication in other CSR activities can be applied to the context of corporate-NGO partnerships.

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“…Özbay (2018) claims that in today's business world, expectations of high profitability from the past have been replaced by the advantage of sustainable competition and that the boundaries of businesses and their impact on society have been dramatically expanded as a result of the development of information technology and globalisation, which in turn has led to an increase in society's expectations from businesses. For this reason, investors expect companies to be sensitive to social issues in addition to high financial performance (Belas et al 2019(Belas et al , 2022. Over the years, the corporate reputation issue has been discussed within many disciplines.…”

Section: Theoretical Backgroundmentioning

confidence: 99%

Impact of selected financial indicators on a company's reputation

Világi¹,

Konečný²,

Ruschak³

2022

JESI

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This article discusses the financial indicators of selected companies and their impact on the reputation score. In the literature, we encounter the connection between financial indicators and reputation; therefore, the article chooses several financial indicators and compares them with the increase or decrease of reputation scores over the past years. The result is an analysis of selected indicators and their impact on the change in the reputation score. The results will help to understand the impact and create a prerequisite for further analyses of the impact on the reputation score from the point of view of financial management.

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The impact of ethical and CSR factors on engineers’ attitudes towards SMEs sustainability

Cited by 37 publications

References 52 publications

Codes of ethics in Czech companies: prevalence and differences in creation, evaluation and amendment

Codes of ethics in Czech companies: prevalence and differences in creation, evaluation and amendment

Consumer skepticism towards Corporate-NGO partnerships: the impact of CSR motives, message frame and fit

Impact of selected financial indicators on a company's reputation

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