How Co-creation Increases Employee Corporate Social Responsibility and Organizational Engagement: The Moderating Role of Self-Construal
Bonnie Simpson (),
Jennifer L. Robertson () and
Katherine White ()
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Bonnie Simpson: Western University
Jennifer L. Robertson: Western University
Katherine White: University of British Columbia
Journal of Business Ethics, 2020, vol. 166, issue 2, No 8, 350 pages
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Abstract This research merges literature from organizational behavior and marketing to garner insight into how organizations can maximize the benefits of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) for enhanced CSR and organizational engagement of employees. Across two field experiments, the authors demonstrate that the effectiveness of employee co-creation activities in increasing employees’ positive CSR perceptions is moderated by self-construal (i.e., whether an individual views the self as relatively independent from or interdependent with others). In particular, the positive effect of co-creation on CSR perceptions emerges only for employees with a salient interdependent self-construal (either measured as an individual difference or experimentally manipulated). Moreover, the results demonstrate that increased positive CSR perceptions then predict increased CSR engagement and organizational engagement. The research thus highlights the need to consider self-construal when trying to utilize co-creation to predict CSR engagement and organizational engagement, via CSR perceptions.
Keywords: Corporate social responsibility (CSR); Co-creation; Sustainability; Engagement; Self-construal (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.1007/s10551-019-04138-3
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