This dissertation is composed with 3 studies. The topic of study 1 is "critical review of previous corporate social responsibility (adhere, CSR) studies based on stakeholder approach." CSR related studies can be divided by two streams. One stream is a...
This dissertation is composed with 3 studies. The topic of study 1 is "critical review of previous corporate social responsibility (adhere, CSR) studies based on stakeholder approach." CSR related studies can be divided by two streams. One stream is about perspective of CSR. Until 1960’s, main perspective of CSR was the classic economics view. Classic economists insisted that companies have a responsibility to only shareholders. After 1970’s, neo-classic economists persisted that companies satisfy stockholder’s interest, not shareholder’s. In the short-run, engaging in CSR may erode a corporation’s short-term profit rate, but in the long-run, it would help all social constituents including the corporation itself. This view is called as enlightened self-interest. In 1990’s, socio-economists asserted that companies should manage stakeholder’s interests at the same time for surviving and growing. If companies satisfy shareholders’ demands, resistance of other stakeholder can be induced. So, socio-economists focused on how companies manage the conflict among stakeholder’s interests. In 2000’s, a concept of sustainable development was emerged. According to insistence of politicians and ecological economists, companies should develop and consume natural resources sustainably and responsibly.
Researchers in management area have focused on effect of CSR on relationship between corporate and stakeholder. Most of researchers have studied effect on individual stakeholder such as consumers, investors, and employees. Results of previous researches have proven that CSR has influences on individual stakeholder’s attitude and behavior. But, these researches overlooked a possibility that everyone can form multi-identities.
In this study, CSR MAP model was proposed as a tool of CSR management. CSR MAP was composed with CSR motivation, Activity, and Performance. All of CSR components have two aspects; economic and social. So, CSR types can be divided by 8 types.
As results of review, several limitations of previous studies were found. First, previous studies didn't consider the effect of CSR on B2B relationship. Second is the problem of CSR management. Although a few of researchers proposed CSR process models, most of models had several limitations. For overcoming limitations of previous models, CSR MAP model was suggested. But CSR MAP model should be tested empirically in next study. Third limitation of previous studies had dealt with an aspect of individuals among multi identities such as consumer, employee, or investor. But most of individuals have multi identities such as consumer and employee, consumer and investor, employee and investor, and so on. For more exactly measuring effects of CSR on individuals, individuals must be dealt as multi-identity individuals.
The topic of study 2 is "developing new CSR measure for multi-identity individuals." Management researches related CSR have overlooked a possibility that individual stakeholder such investors, employees, and consumers have multi identities. Multi-identity individuals can have conflicts between roles of consumers and investors, or roles of consumers and employees. Therefore, if corporations intend to use CSR as a tool of stakeholder management, corporations should consider multi-identities. But most of previous studies have focused on a facet of multi-identity individuals. For studying about roles of multi-identities, developing new CSR measure is prior to any other works. The goal of This study is to develop new CSR measure according to Churchill(1979)’s procedure. By the result of developing new measure, 7 sub-constructs of CSR and 45 question items were developed.
The topic of study 3 is "effects of perceived CSR motivation and performance on relationship quality." The Purposes of this study are: 1) to identify the relationship between perceived CSR performance and perceived CSR motivation based on attribution theory; 2) to confirm the relationship between perceived CSR motivation and relationship quality. The results indicate that most of sub-constructs of perceived CSR performance have influences on sub-constructs of perceived CSR motivation except between employee's welfare and economic motivation, and social welfare and social motivation. Perceived economic and social motivations have significant effects on relationship quality.