| Publication type: | Working paper – expertise – study |
| Title: | The hidden benefits of corporate social responsibility |
| Authors: | Grieder, Manuel Kistler, Deborah Schmitz, Jan |
| et. al: | No |
| DOI: | 10.2139/ssrn.3744900 |
| Extent: | 46 |
| Issue Date: | 2021 |
| Publisher / Ed. Institution: | SSRN |
| ISSN: | 1556-5068 |
| Language: | English |
| Subjects: | CSR; Field experiment; Consistency; Spillover; Pro-environmental behavior; Hidden benefit |
| Subject (DDC): | 658.408: Security management, environmental management |
| Abstract: | Environmental activities, for instance actions against climate change, are an important part of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). This paper studies how a employer’s environmental CSR activities affect the pro-environmental behavior of its employees. To do so, we conducted a large-scale field experiment on a crowd-working platform in which the employer’s environmental CSR level varied exogenously. We find that employer CSR positively influenced workers’ pro-environmental behavior outside the job. Workers who received information that their employer engaged in environmental CSR were more likely to contribute, and contributed higher amounts, to an environmental charity in a private donation decision. Our findings indicate that the impact of CSR may be farther reaching than directly observable by firm activities alone. By using CSR, employers have the potential to influence the behavior of their employees in nonwork domains. Our findings have important implications for managers of organizations engaging (or planning to engage) in environmental CSR. |
| URI: | https://digitalcollection.zhaw.ch/handle/11475/27693 |
| License (according to publishing contract): | Licence according to publishing contract |
| Departement: | School of Management and Law |
| Organisational Unit: | Center for Energy and Environment (CEE) |
| Appears in collections: | Publikationen School of Management and Law |
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Grieder, M., Kistler, D., & Schmitz, J. (2021). The hidden benefits of corporate social responsibility. SSRN. https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3744900
Grieder, M., Kistler, D. and Schmitz, J. (2021) The hidden benefits of corporate social responsibility. SSRN. Available at: https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3744900.
M. Grieder, D. Kistler, and J. Schmitz, “The hidden benefits of corporate social responsibility,” SSRN, 2021. doi: 10.2139/ssrn.3744900.
GRIEDER, Manuel, Deborah KISTLER und Jan SCHMITZ, 2021. The hidden benefits of corporate social responsibility. SSRN
Grieder, Manuel, Deborah Kistler, and Jan Schmitz. 2021. “The Hidden Benefits of Corporate Social Responsibility.” SSRN. https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3744900.
Grieder, Manuel, et al. The Hidden Benefits of Corporate Social Responsibility. SSRN, 2021, https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3744900.
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