Corporate Social Responsibility in Family and Non-Family SMEs in Mexico

Gonzalo Maldonado-Guzman,Araceli Alvarado-Carrillo,Sandra Yesenia Pinzón-Castro

doi:10.5539/ibr.v11n8p171

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Corporate social responsibility (CSR) has been practically oriented towards large companies, and few studies have analyzed this construct in a context of family businesses, but there are few studies that relate CSR in small and medium-sized enterprises Family businesses (SMEs) and non-family businesses. Therefore, this empirical study has the essential objective of analyzing CSR in a context of family and non-family SMEs in Mexico. The results show that CSR is exactly the same in both family SMEs and non-family SMEs in Mexico.

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The debate related to Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in the current literature of business and management sciences has focused mostly on big enterprises (Baumann-Pauly et al, 2013), especially in multinational ones (Spence, 2007; Jamali et al, 2009; Ladzani & Seeletse, 2012)
Villalonga and Amit (2004), as well as Allouche et al (2008), suggested that any definition of family enterprise must include three essential elements: 1) one or more families will need to have most of the capital; 2) the family members will need to have most of the control of the enterprise including the distribution of capital, most of the rights to vote in the organization as well as the legal restrictions and, 3) the members of the family will have to be in the administrative positions of the enterprise
The nomological validity of the theoretical model of CSR was examined through the Chi-square test, which compared the results obtained between the theoretical model of CSR and the measurement model of CSR

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The debate related to Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in the current literature of business and management sciences has focused mostly on big enterprises (Baumann-Pauly et al, 2013), especially in multinational ones (Spence, 2007; Jamali et al, 2009; Ladzani & Seeletse, 2012). The analysis and discussion about the nature and operation of family enterprises and the discussion of the existing CSR in this type of enterprises mostly in family SMEs has received little attention from researchers and scholars (Gersick et al, 1997; Chua et al, 1999; Déniz & Cabrera, 2005). It is possible to find investigations in the current literature that imply that family enterprises tend to make decisions that allows them to be more socially responsible than non-family ones (Dyer & Whetten, 2006; Berrone et al, 2010). SMEs generally diminish the negative impacts of their industrial activities and make the most of their positive impacts through the improvement of social, economic and environmental problems as well as they contribute significantly to the development of the community and the society where they belong to which creates a higher level of social responsibility (Rundle-Thiele et al, 2008; Lindgreen & Swaen, 2010)

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