Managerial values and corporate social responsibility practices: multilevel and multistakeholder analysis

Habtie Alemnew Belay, Fentaye Kassa Hailu and Gedif Tessema Sinshaw

Social Responsibility Journal, 2023, vol. 20, issue 2, 261-287

Abstract: Purpose - This study aims to posit that managerial value would be one of the responsible factors for the difference in corporate social responsibility practice among businesses. It then empirically tested the effect of managerial value, with the moderation of organizational culture, on corporate social responsibility practice. Design/methodology/approach - The authors have devised a “moderated micro-macro model” type of multilevel model, wherein managerial value took the micro (individual level) predictor variable role, stakeholder-based corporate social responsibility practice the macro (organizational level) outcome variable role and organizational culture the macro level moderating variable role. Because they need the attention of inquiry, large manufacturing firms in the Amhara region of Ethiopia, with a sample size of 53, constituted the organizational level units. The recent performance of the firms against corporate social responsibility practice and organizational culture have been judged by 473 randomly chosen employees. Managerial value has been rated by randomly picked managers, numbered 253. Analytically, Croon and van Veldhoven’s multilevel analytical package and Mplus software suited the designed model. Findings - The study has revealed that managerial value, indeed, is a potential positive driver of CSR practice, the two managerial value dimensions demonstrated differential effects on corporate social responsibility practice and only one of the organizational culture dimensions, hierarchical culture, played a moderation role in managerial value – corporate social responsibility practice link. Originality/value - The model and this empirical test have not been previously verified.

Keywords: Croon and van Veldhoven approach; Micro-macro model; Large manufacturing firms; CSR; Stakeholder theory; Cultural theory; Social responsibility; Business ethics; Corporate citizenship; Business and society; Business in society; Ethiopia (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.1108/SRJ-01-2023-0012

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