Ownership, Firm Size, CSR Awareness and Charitable Donations of Public Utilities: Evidence from Water Supply Companies in China

Yong-zhong Liao (), Yun-feng Wang and Zhao Zhao
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Yong-zhong Liao: Hebei University of Technology
Yun-feng Wang: Hebei University of Technology
Zhao Zhao: Hebei University of Technology

A chapter in Proceedings of 20th International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management, 2013, pp 1019-1026 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Corporate social responsibility (CSR) has become a hot topic in academic and in practitioners, and corporate charitable donation is one important component of CSR. The paper studies the influences of three factors on Chinese public utilities’ charitable donations by means of 35 water supply companies’ information on their official websites during the period of 2008–2011. The empirical results show that only the factor of CSR awareness of a company has positive and significant relations with public utilities’ charitable donations. The results suggest the crucial importance of cultivating and constructing CSR culture in public utilities.

Keywords: CSR awareness; Charitable donations; Firm size; Ownership; Public utilities (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-40072-8_101

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