TY - JOUR
T1 - Entrepreneurs’ personal values and CSR orientations
T2 - evidence from SMEs in Zambia
AU - Choongo, Progress
AU - Paas, Leo Jasper
AU - Masurel, Enno
AU - van Burg, Elco
AU - Lungu, John
PY - 2019/8/15
Y1 - 2019/8/15
N2 - Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to examine the relationship between entrepreneurs’ personal values and corporate social responsibility (CSR) orientations among small- and medium-sized enterprises in a developing country, Zambia. Design/methodology/approach: Data were collected through questionnaires. Two linear regression models were used to test the hypotheses. Findings: Self-transcendence values have a significant positive influence on socially oriented CSR but do not influence environmentally oriented CSR. Self-enhancement values do not affect social and environmental CSR orientations. Conservation values have a marginally positive influence on environmentally oriented CSR but no influence on socially oriented CSR. Finally, openness to change has a significant positive influence on environmentally orientated CSR but no influence on socially oriented CSR. Research limitations/implications: The limitations of this study relates to the sector from which the sample was drawn, other predictors of CSR orientations, use of cross-sectional data, and the replication of this study to validate its findings. Practical implications: The findings inform policy-makers, scholars, educators, and regulators on the importance of aligning personal values with environmental and social concerns, thereby influencing entrepreneurs’ CSR orientations for the well-being of society and the natural environment. Originality/value: This paper shows the influence of personal values on CSR orientations among entrepreneurs in a hardly researched Sub-Saharan Africa country.
AB - Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to examine the relationship between entrepreneurs’ personal values and corporate social responsibility (CSR) orientations among small- and medium-sized enterprises in a developing country, Zambia. Design/methodology/approach: Data were collected through questionnaires. Two linear regression models were used to test the hypotheses. Findings: Self-transcendence values have a significant positive influence on socially oriented CSR but do not influence environmentally oriented CSR. Self-enhancement values do not affect social and environmental CSR orientations. Conservation values have a marginally positive influence on environmentally oriented CSR but no influence on socially oriented CSR. Finally, openness to change has a significant positive influence on environmentally orientated CSR but no influence on socially oriented CSR. Research limitations/implications: The limitations of this study relates to the sector from which the sample was drawn, other predictors of CSR orientations, use of cross-sectional data, and the replication of this study to validate its findings. Practical implications: The findings inform policy-makers, scholars, educators, and regulators on the importance of aligning personal values with environmental and social concerns, thereby influencing entrepreneurs’ CSR orientations for the well-being of society and the natural environment. Originality/value: This paper shows the influence of personal values on CSR orientations among entrepreneurs in a hardly researched Sub-Saharan Africa country.
KW - Africa
KW - Corporate social responsibility
KW - Developing country
KW - Personal values
KW - SMEs
KW - Zambia
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U2 - 10.1108/JSBED-02-2017-0080
DO - 10.1108/JSBED-02-2017-0080
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85054903266
SN - 1462-6004
VL - 26
SP - 545
EP - 570
JO - Journal of Small Business and Enterprise Development
JF - Journal of Small Business and Enterprise Development
IS - 4
ER -