The impact of leadership on followers´ attitude towards corporate social responsibility: an empirical exmination

• Autor(a) principal: Peters, Miriam
• Data de Publicação: 2020
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10362/104477
• topic: Corporate social responsibility; Ethical leadership; Servant leadership; Trans-formational leadership; Domínio/Área Científica::Ciências Sociais::Economia e Gestão

This paper investigatesthe field of Corporate Social Responsibility(CSR). As existing litera-ture merely focuseson the macro-perspective of CSR, this paper examines the relationship be-tween leadership and followers’ attitude towards CSR to derive practical implications for or-ganizations that seek to invest into CSR. Results show that regardless of companies’ positionsin sustainability rankings, servant and ethical leaders have a significant positive effect on fol-lowers’ attitude towards CSR, while there is no significant impact of transformational leader-ship. Therefore, firms that want to invest into CSRshould focus on fostering sensitivity towards sustainability and employing people with servant and ethical characteristics.