Journal article
Strategic responses of stigmatized Chinese manufacturing firms to formal and informal environmental regulative pressures through enhanced corporate social responsibility effort
Corporate social-responsibility and environmental management, Vol.26(6), pp.1235-1260
11/2019
DOI: 10.1002/csr.1744
Abstract
Linking two forms of regulative pressures to different motivations for firms' strategic choices, we propose that stigmatized firms' effort to enhance their corporate social responsibility (CSR) reflects legitimacy considerations when faced with formal regulative pressures, but efficiency considerations when faced with informal regulative pressures. We provide empirical support for our theory by investigating publicly listed Chinese manufacturing firms' environmental CSR performance after they are stigmatized for environmental pollution. Our data strongly support our predictions. Stigmatized firms show a lower CSR effort when formal regulative pressure is low and they can easily shun responsibility for polluting the environment, whereas they show a higher CSR effort when informal regulative pressure is high and they cannot easily shun responsibility for the pollution. These findings highlight the unique insight that can be gained by studying stigmatized firms' reactions to different types of regulative pressures as a function of responsibility dilution in an emerging economy.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Strategic responses of stigmatized Chinese manufacturing firms to formal and informal environmental regulative pressures through enhanced corporate social responsibility effort
- Creators
- Jia Xu - Univ Sci & Technol China, Sch Management, Hefei, Anhui, Peoples R ChinaJiuchang Wei - University of Science and Technology of ChinaHaipeng (Allan) Chen - University of Kentucky
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Corporate social-responsibility and environmental management, Vol.26(6), pp.1235-1260
- Publisher
- Wiley
- DOI
- 10.1002/csr.1744
- ISSN
- 1535-3958
- eISSN
- 1535-3966
- Number of pages
- 26
- Grant note
- DOI: 10.13039/501100001809, name: National Natural Science Foundation of China, award: 71828102 and 71522013
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 11/2019
- Academic Unit
- Marketing
- Record Identifier
- 9984618643802771
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