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Publication type: | Article in scientific journal |
Type of review: | Peer review (publication) |
Title: | Changes in corporate responsibility management during COVID-19 crisis and their effects on business resilience : an empirical study of Swiss and German companies |
Authors: | Brand, Fridolin Simon Bläse, Richard Weber, Giulia Winistörfer, Herbert |
et. al: | No |
DOI: | 10.3390/su14074144 10.21256/zhaw-25009 |
Published in: | Sustainability |
Volume(Issue): | 14 |
Issue: | 7 |
Issue Date: | Mar-2022 |
Publisher / Ed. Institution: | MDPI |
ISSN: | 2071-1050 |
Language: | English |
Subjects: | Business resilience; COVID-19; Corporate responsibility management; Corporate responsibility reporting |
Subject (DDC): | 658.408: Security management, environmental management |
Abstract: | The COVID-19 pandemic has affected the activities and performance of companies worldwide. This article examines in what ways corporate responsibility management and corporate responsibility reporting activities have changed during the COVID-19 crisis in Switzerland and Germany, and how corporate responsibility management is related to aspects of business resilience in terms of maintaining expected financial performance during the COVID-19 crisis in Swiss companies. To answer these questions, we conducted a quantitative and qualitative content analysis of company reports of the top 10 Swiss and German companies in terms of market capitalization, as well as a quantitative survey among Swiss managers. Our results show that during the period under consideration, (i) a majority of the companies analyzed in Switzerland and Germany expanded their sustainability reporting, both overall and in all sustainability dimensions; (ii) there is a tendency for corporate responsibility management to move away from upstream and downstream sustainability topics and focus more on in-house sustainability topics; and (iii) there is a correlation between the two corporate responsibility topics of local recruitment and occupational health and expected financial performance as an aspect of maintained business resilience in times of crisis. |
URI: | https://digitalcollection.zhaw.ch/handle/11475/25009 |
Fulltext version: | Published version |
License (according to publishing contract): | CC BY 4.0: Attribution 4.0 International |
Departement: | School of Management and Law |
Organisational Unit: | Center for Corporate Responsibility (CCR) Institute of Innovation and Entrepreneurship (IIE) |
Appears in collections: | Publikationen School of Management and Law |
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Brand, F. S., Bläse, R., Weber, G., & Winistörfer, H. (2022). Changes in corporate responsibility management during COVID-19 crisis and their effects on business resilience : an empirical study of Swiss and German companies. Sustainability, 14(7). https://doi.org/10.3390/su14074144
Brand, F.S. et al. (2022) ‘Changes in corporate responsibility management during COVID-19 crisis and their effects on business resilience : an empirical study of Swiss and German companies’, Sustainability, 14(7). Available at: https://doi.org/10.3390/su14074144.
F. S. Brand, R. Bläse, G. Weber, and H. Winistörfer, “Changes in corporate responsibility management during COVID-19 crisis and their effects on business resilience : an empirical study of Swiss and German companies,” Sustainability, vol. 14, no. 7, Mar. 2022, doi: 10.3390/su14074144.
BRAND, Fridolin Simon, Richard BLÄSE, Giulia WEBER und Herbert WINISTÖRFER, 2022. Changes in corporate responsibility management during COVID-19 crisis and their effects on business resilience : an empirical study of Swiss and German companies. Sustainability. März 2022. Bd. 14, Nr. 7. DOI 10.3390/su14074144
Brand, Fridolin Simon, Richard Bläse, Giulia Weber, and Herbert Winistörfer. 2022. “Changes in Corporate Responsibility Management during COVID-19 Crisis and Their Effects on Business Resilience : An Empirical Study of Swiss and German Companies.” Sustainability 14 (7). https://doi.org/10.3390/su14074144.
Brand, Fridolin Simon, et al. “Changes in Corporate Responsibility Management during COVID-19 Crisis and Their Effects on Business Resilience : An Empirical Study of Swiss and German Companies.” Sustainability, vol. 14, no. 7, Mar. 2022, https://doi.org/10.3390/su14074144.
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