Social Responsibility Impacts on Organizational Performance and Competitive Advantages with Mediating Role of Environmental Supplier Development (Case Study: Manufacturing Firms of Qazvin)

Subject Areas : Journal of Cultural Management

zahra  aminafshar ¹ (دانشجوی دکترای آینده پژوهی، دانشکده علوم اجتماعی، دانشگاه بین‌المللی امام خمینی (ره) قزوین، ایران (نویسنده مسئول). [e-mail])
mohsen  hooshangi ² (Department of Management and Accounting, Allame Tabatabaee University, Tehran)

Received: 2019-10-14 Accepted : 2020-01-07 Published : 2019-06-22

Keywords: Competitive advantage, Performance, Social responsibility, Environmental Development, Supplier,

Abstract :

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the impact of corporate social responsibility on the performance of manufacturing organizations with regard the mediating role of environmental supplier development. This study includes 8 industrial parks of Qazvin province with the 93 sample of manufacturers. This research is based on the structural equation modeling and for the analysis of the collected data we applied partial least squares method. There are 9 hypotheses that the analysis revealed that corporate social responsibility has positive and meaningful impact on environmental supplier development dimensions except supplier evaluation. Also, the related hypotheses to company performance indicate that there are positive relation among environmental supplier development dimensions and financial and competitive advantages, but just supplier evaluation has not positive effect on financial performance of companies. The findings of this study revealed that even though company’s social responsibility is costly and time consuming, but at least in the long time will have a significant impact on performance and community reputation of organizations. The results of this study encourage organizations managers to adhere to their social responsibility towards society and the environment.