A CEO’s Childhood Family Decline and Corporate Social Responsibility: The Mediating Role of Long-Term Orientation

Mengyu Cai and Nan Zhou ()
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Mengyu Cai: State Grid Shandong Electric Power Company Jinan Power Supply Company
Nan Zhou: Tongji University

Journal of Business Ethics, 2025, vol. 200, issue 3, No 7, 623-648

Abstract: Abstract The relationship between a chief executive officer’s childhood experience of family decline and his or her firm’s social responsibility rating was explored using data on more than 1000 Chinese listed firms. Such childhood experience is shown to predict better CSR ratings. This may be because adversity in childhood shifts the cognitive map through accommodation process, and further fosters cognitive processing ability and a long-term orientation. Career variety and education level are shown to moderate the imprinting effect by altering its strength. Career variety weakens the relationship whereas education level strengthens it.

Keywords: Imprinting; Childhood family decline; Long-term orientation; CSR; Corporate social responsibility; China (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
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