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Product and environmental social performance: Varying effect on firm performance
Corporate social performance (CSP) consists of actions in different domains that vary in the information they provide stakeholders, and hence, in their effect on firm performance. To demonstrate this, the authors examine the impact of CSP on firm performance in two areas—the product and the environment, referred to as product social performance (PSP) and environmental social performance (ESP), respectively. PSP has a stronger positive impact on firm performance compared to ESP. The findings using disaggregated measures of PSP and ESP indicate negativity bias in that PSP weakness has a stronger negative impact on firm performance compared to PSP strength.
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Determinants and Performance Effects of Social Performance Measurement Systems
This study investigates the performance measurement systems adopted by companies to manage their social responsibility activities, a theme that remains underresearched despite the important role that these mechanisms may play in helping firms control and improve their social performance. An integrative model is developed to examine how the three fundamental drivers of corporate social strategies, i.e., business motivations, perceived stakeholder pressures, and top management's social commitment, influence the use of social performance indicators for internal decision-making and control and how such use impacts companies' social and economic performance. The results from a survey of 97 Italian companies suggest that economic motivations and top management's commitment are associated with a more intensive use of social performance indicators for decision-making and control, whereas perceived pressures from stakeholders do not represent a significant determinant of such use. The use of social performance indicators, in turn, is found to directly influence a firm's social performance and, indirectly, its bottom line.
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Model for Promoting Corporate Social Performance Measurement and Social Change: Elaboration from Causal Analysis Between the Both
The objective of this work is to evaluate the impact of corporate social performance measurement on social change with regard to their typologies, in order to build a model for promoting both. To achieve this objective, structural equation modeling is used with the maximum likelihood method and a confirmatory analysis. This modeling is supported by optimal scaling and stability analysis. The findings show that hidden costs via latent variable \"Social and Hidden Cost Accounting\" is the most significant cause of social change (latent variable) whose most significant typology is its nature, which distinguishes situational change from structural change. They also reveal that the model proposed can be applied in other places and to any other variables with modalities related to social performance and social change. The originality of this work is to analyze the impact of social performance measurement on social change in terms of their typologies via structural equation modeling, while such analysis is underexplored in the social sciences. Also, the model proposed is a novelty for measuring corporate social performance and promoting social change.
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Adhocracy Culture as a Driver of Triple Bottom Line Sustainability: Mediating Role of Corporate Governance
This study examined the impact of adhocracy culture on the economic, environmental, and social sustainability performance of African Civil Aviation Authorities (ACAAs), with corporate governance as a potential mediator, framed within the Triple Bottom Line sustainability paradigm. Employing quantitative, explanatory research design, data were collected from 371 managers across 54 ACAAs using a structured questionnaire. Findings revealed that adhocracy culture significantly and positively influenced all three sustainability dimensions. Corporate governance mediated the relationships between adhocracy culture and environmental and social sustainability but not economic sustainability. The study concludes that while an innovative and flexible culture directly enhances economic outcomes, robust governance structures are essential to translating cultural dynamism into measurable environmental and social gains. Recommendations include fostering adhocracy culture, strengthening governance mechanisms, integrating sustainability into strategy, building leadership capacity, and establishing robust monitoring systems. These findings contribute to the literature by clarifying the interplay between culture, governance, and sustainability in aviation.
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Gómez-Peña unplugged : texts on live art, social practice and imaginary activism (2008-2019)
\"Gómez-Peña Unplugged is an anthology of recent writings from Guillermo Gómez-Peña, a figure who stands alone as unique and ground-breaking in the history of performance art, and as the Artistic Director of transdisciplinary performance troupe La Pocha Nostra. Throughout this collection, Gómez-Peña tackles literature, theory, pedagogy, activism and live art in an eclectic mix that demonstrates how the process of writing is simultaneously a performative exercise in embodied language. The writing stands as a call for action utilizing what Gómez-Peña terms 'imaginary activism' and 'radical citizenship'; it invites the reader to embody a borderless, polygendered, cross generational and race literate ethos. This timely anthology comes straight from the heart of a troubled Trump-era United States and a crime cartel ridden Mexico. Artists are prompted to engage in radical performance pedagogy within the civic realm and to think of themselves as 'artivists' participating in the great debates of our times. By encouraging artists and emerging writers to wildly imagine their practice beyond the normative art world and academia, this book is a unique read for scholars and students of political theatre, performance art, cultural performance, literature, poetry and activism\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Corporate Social Performance and Economic Cycles
Do firms respond to changes in economic growth by altering their corporate social responsibility programs? If they do respond, are their responses simply neglect of areas associated with corporate social performance (CSP) or do they also cut back on positive programs such as profit sharing, public/private housing programs, or charitable contributions? In this paper, we argue that because CSP-related actions and programs tend to be discretionary, they are likely to receive less attention during tough economic times, a result of cost-cutting efforts. However, the various CSP performance areas vary in terms of their resource requirements and their influence on financial performance (short- and long-term), which suggests that firms may respond differently depending on area. Consequently, in addition to examining CSP concerns separately from positive actions and programs (CSP strengths), we also examine the influence of economic growth across the five areas of diversity, employee relations, the environment, product quality/safety, and the community. Based on data from 837 firms over 15 years, our results suggest that firms neglect some areas associated with CSP during economic downturns, resulting in increased concerns about community and employee relations, product safety/quality, and the environment. However, this relationship does not apply to positive actions and programs. Instead, firms tend to increase their positive CSP programs in areas such as diversity, employee relations, and the environment during periods of slow economic growth and reduce them when the economy picks up. We offer potential explanations for our findings and discuss their importance to research on CSP.
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