The moderating effect of organisational culture on the commitment to corporate social responsibility (CSR) and the performance of SMEs in Nigeria

Abstract

This research note examines the commitment of corporate social responsibility (CSR) on the performance of SMEs in Nigeria, and also examines the moderating effect of an innovative and supportive organisational culture. Commitment in all activities and programmes is assumed to be one of the most imperative requirements for business to survive and flourish in a volatile environment. This study assesses commitment of CSR and organisational performance among SMEs. The data were collected from managers/owners in Kano State Nigeria and draw on 486 usable questionnaires. Consistent with previous literature the effect of commitment of CSR on the performance of SMEs was statistically insignificant. An innovative and supportive organisational culture was however found to be significantly related to performance, and moderated the relationship between commitment to CSR and SME performance.

Influence of differentiation strategy on performance of hotels: the moderating role of environmental munificence

“…Performance is operationalized as extent to which business records a success or otherwise in a given period of time. The performance scale in this study uses both objective (financial) and subjective (non-financial) measures is adapted from the evaluated using items adapted from Gorondutse and Hilman, (2016);Hilman (2009) and Kaplan and Norton (1996). Respondents were requested to specify the performance of their hotels in the past three years as compared to the performance of their key opponents in the industry (1= Significantly Decrease to 7= Significantly Increase).…”

Testing the Effect of Business-level Strategy on Performance of Hotels

“…The structural model is discussed in Table 6 and shown in Figure 2. The R-square value is 0.168 which suggests that the model variable can explain 17 per cent of the variance of the dependent variable which is moderate (Cohen, 1988;Gorondutse & Hilman, 2016). Hypothesis 1 states that cost leadership is significantly related to a dependent variable business performance and the result is presented in Table 6.…”

“…In sum, the constructs model was considered satisfactory in terms of content and convergent validity, discriminant validity and CR. After the measurement model, the subsequent step in PLS-SEM is to examine the structural model (Gorondutse & Hilman, 2016). Figure 1 shows the model result.…”

“…This study employed cross-sectional, non-contrived study designs using the quantitative approach of research; hotels owners/managers serve as units of analyses (Gorondutse & Hilman, 2016). The population of the study was 83.…”

“…The population of the study was 83. Hence, to be able to generalize the listed hotels, this study adopted the census method where every unit in a population was selected, and this is known as complete census (Gorondutse & Hilman, 2016). Choosing census becomes necessary due to the sample size, a small number of people.…”