Family Business Participation in Community Social Responsibility: The Moderating Effect of Gender

Small family businesses have generally been shown to exhibit significant concern for social responsibility, especially at the community level. Despite the reported heterogeneity of family firms in their preferences for and participation in social responsibility, the drivers of such differences are n...

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Veröffentlicht in:Journal of business ethics 2017-05, Vol.142 (2), p.325-343
Hauptverfasser: Peake, Whitney O., Cooper, Danielle, Fitzgerald, Margaret A., Muske, Glenn
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Sprache:eng
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Zusammenfassung:Small family businesses have generally been shown to exhibit significant concern for social responsibility, especially at the community level. Despite the reported heterogeneity of family firms in their preferences for and participation in social responsibility, the drivers of such differences are not agreed upon in the literature. We draw from enlightened self-interest and social capital theories by exploring their complementary and competing implications for the effect of duration and community satisfaction on participation in community-oriented social responsibility (CSR). Additionally, drawing on the association between gender and self-construal and evidence that gender shapes helping and giving behaviors, we assess the moderating role of the gender of the firm manager in these relationships. We test our hypotheses on a sample of 279 family businesses and find support that gender moderates the relationship between community duration and satisfaction and measures of CSR.
ISSN:0167-4544
1573-0697
DOI:10.1007/s10551-015-2716-z