Family Sibling Effect and Executives’ Corporate Social Behavior

Frontiers in Psychology

Lingling Zhuang¹  Minna Zheng¹  Guangqian Ren² 

[1] Business School, Nankai University, China Academy of Corporate governance, Tianjin, China;Business School, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, China;

关键词: family sibling interaction;    executives’ sibling number;    corporate social responsibility behavior;    birth order;    female sibling;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fpsyg.2021.667529

来源: Frontiers

【 摘 要 】

Corporate social responsibility is an important business strategy for enterprises. Scholars have conducted much beneficial research on the relationship of executives’ recognitive traits and firms’ CSR behavior, but rarely focus on the impact of executives’ early recognitive traits derived from family sibling interaction. This paper takes Chinese A-shared private listed companies from 2014 to 2017 as the research samples to investigate the effect of the number of executives’ siblings on the early family sibling and corporate social responsibility behavior. We further study the moderating effect of birth order and gender composition in siblings on this relationship. The results show that there is an inversed U-shaped relationship between the number of executives’ siblings and corporate social responsibility behavior. Further research shows that the relationship between the number of executives’ siblings and CSR behavior is strengthened when an executive is first-born or has female sibling(s).

【 授权许可】

CC BY