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CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY AND ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT
卷 30, 期 3, 页码 1258-1272出版社
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/csr.2417
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corporate financial performance; corporate social responsibility; ESG; signaling theory; stakeholder engagement; stakeholder theory
Since stakeholders cannot directly observe CSR efforts, companies use CSR signals to enhance their sustainability claims. The credibility of these signals is influenced by the scrutiny of stakeholders. This study examines how stakeholder scrutiny shapes the credibility of CSR signals and finds a positive effect through the mediated-moderated impact of CSR on firm performance.
Since stakeholders cannot directly observe corporate social responsibility (CSR) efforts, companies attempt to back up their increasing sustainability claims by sending CSR signals. The environment in which signaling takes place influences the credibility of the signals. Among the factors that make up the signaling environment, the overall exposure of the company to different stakeholders (i.e., stakeholder scrutiny) has been neglected by the literature. Using signaling and stakeholder theories, we argue how stakeholder scrutiny shapes CSR signals' credibility. We empirically analyze a sample of 5762 firms across several sectors from 23 developed countries from 2013 to 2017. Stakeholder scrutiny exercises a positive effect on the credibility of CSR signals through a mediated-moderated impact of CSR (across environmental, social, and governance dimensions) on firm performance.
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