The Pursuit of a Green Image in Family Firms: Exploring the Role of Organizational Leadership and Positive Psychology

摘要

Frequent press headlines about CSR scandals reveal that not all organizations have fully embraced the importance of responsible behavior.To investigate the root causes for these variations,scholars showed impressive efforts to explore internal drivers for a sustainable image(Agnus-Leppan,Metcalf,and Benn,2010;Petrenko,Aime,Ridge,and Hill,2016).A topic of key interest was thereby the impact of family ownership.There has been a multiplicity of studies comparing CSR in family and nonfamily firms(e.g.,Bingham,Dyer,Smiths,and Adams,2011;Dyer and Whetten,2006).However,these studies have built on the assumption that family firms act as a homogenous group(van Gils,Dibrell,Neubaum,and Craig,2014).Already some years ago,Bingham et al.(2011)have pointed out that"distinguishing between family firms characterized by active family participation in management versus passive family ownership might have important implications for CSP[Coiporate Social Performance] activity and stakeholder relationships."Yet,research still lacks an understanding of how leadership characteristics affects CSR in family firms(Canvati,2018).We therefore aim to address following questions: