The influence of firm, industry and network on the corporate social performance of Japanese firms

K. O’Shaughnessy (), Eric Gedajlovic () and Patrick Reinmoeller ()

Asia Pacific Journal of Management, 2007, vol. 24, issue 3, 283-303

Abstract: We develop and test the thesis that corporate social performance (CSP) constitutes a socially constructed and shared strategic asset, which is not only influenced by factors specific to a firm, but also by the social performance of firms in its industry and inter-corporate network. Using variance decomposition, we analyze data from 130 large Japanese firms and find that both firm-specific and industry-level factors account for significant variance in CSP, but network-level factors do not. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2007

Keywords: Corporate social performance; Japan; Variance decomposition; Keiretsu; Networks; Industry-effects; Resource based view (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2007
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DOI: 10.1007/s10490-007-9043-6

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