Social
Impact
How organizations create, measure, and account for impact that reaches beyond financial return.
Research considers the design, measurement, and outcomes of corporate efforts to generate social value.
Research Stream · 03
Working Papers & Published Research
This stream collects 39 working papers and published research papers contributed by community members. Each links to the source.
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6 Entries
Small Packs in the Bottom of the Pyramid: Price, Product Variety, and Performance
WP
Peer Influence, Strategic Discretion, and Loan Repayment in Community Lending: Evidence from Indian Demonetization
WP
Punished for Doing Good: Heuristic-Based Judgement and the Contingent Returns to Company Philanthropy Under High Uncertainty
WP
Friend or Foe: How Social Movements Impact Firm Innovation
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Corporate Social Counterpositioning: How Attributes of Social Issues Influence Competitive Response
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Ideological Firms as Issue Entrepreneurs: Evidence from Corporate Giving to Contentious Issues
Publications
33 Entries
Paradox Peers: The Relational Management of a Business-Society Paradox
2022
How Do MNEs and Domestic Firms Respond Locally to a Global Demand Shock? Evidence from a Pandemic
2021
Follow the Smoke: The Pollution Haven Effect in Global Sourcing
2021
Positive Institutional Changes Through Peace: The Relative Effects of Peace Agreements and Non-Market Capabilities on FDI
2021
Microfinance and Entrepreneurship at the Base of the Pyramid
2021
Jurisdiction Shopping and Foreign Location Choice: The Role of Market and Nonmarket Experience in the European Solar Energy Industry
2021
Women’s Disempowerment and Preferences for Skin Lightening Products That Reinforce Colorism: Experimental Evidence from India
2021
MNE Responses to Carbon Pricing Regulations: Theory and Evidence
2021
Technology Licensing and Productivity Growth: Evidence from Manufacturing Firms in Developing Economies
2020
Giving a Little to Many or a Lot to a Few? The Benefits of Specialization and Variety in Corporate Philanthropy
2020
Categorical Cognition and Outcome Efficiency in Impact Investing Decisions
2020
Stakeholder Orientation and Market Impact: Evidence from India
2019
When the Big One Came: A Natural Experiment on Demand Shock and Market Structure in India’s Influenza Vaccine Markets
2019
How Do Firms Feel About Participation by Their Peers in the Regulatory Design Process? An Online Survey Experiment Testing the Substantive Change and Spillover Mechanisms
2019
Contesting Commercialization: Political Influence, Responsive Authoritarianism, and Cultural Resistance
2019
Participation, Government Legitimacy, and Regulatory Compliance: A Firm-Level Field Experiment in Vietnam
2019
Private Action in Public Interest: The Comparative Governance of Social Issues
2019
The Relative Value of Firm and Nonprofit Experience: Tackling Large-Scale Social Issues Across Institutional Contexts
2018
An Economic Case for CSR: The Comparative Efficiency of For-Profit Firms in Meeting Consumer Demand for Social Goods
2018
Winning Us with Trifles: Adverse Selection in the Use of Philanthropy as Insurance
2018
Giving a Little to Many or a Lot to a Few? The Benefits of Variety in Corporate Philanthropy
2017
The Flexible Few: Oligarchs and Wealth Defense in Developing Democracies
2017
Masters of Disasters? An Empirical Analysis of How Societies Benefit from Corporate Aid
2017
Hereafter: How Crises Shape Communities Through Learning and Institutional Legacies
2017
The Danger of Not Listening to Firms: Government Responsiveness and the Goal of Regulatory Compliance
2016
The Great and the Small: The Impact of Collective Action on the Evolution of Interlock Networks After the Panic of 1907
2016
Sovereign Commitment and Property Rights: The Case of Ukraine’s Orange Revolution
2015
Community Constraints on the Efficacy of Elite Mobilization: The Issues of Currency Substitutes During the Panic of 1907
2012
Secure Property as a Bottom-Up Process: Firms, Stakeholders, and Predators in Weak States
2011
Laws of Attraction: Regulatory Arbitrage in the Face of Activism in Right-to-Work States
2011
The Drivers of Greenwashing
2010
Trouble in Store: The Emergence and Success of Protests Against Wal-Mart Store Openings in America
2007
Capitalists of All Russia, Unite! Business Mobilization Under Debilitated Dirigisme