Article: Evaluating a tool for the practice of corporate social innovations: a survey of Brazilian companies Journal: International Journal of Environment and Sustainable Development (IJESD) 2024 Vol.23 No.1 pp.21 - 39 Abstract: To help reduce inequality, businesses are turning to corporate social innovations (CSI) to achieve both business results and social value. This study aims to evaluate and validate the CSI framework proposed by Mirvis and Googins as a tool for practicing CSI. We based our study on a survey conducted with Brazilian companies that participate in the UN Global Compact, the largest corporate sustainability initiative in the world to mobilise companies and stakeholders to do business responsibly, including 142 answers out of a sample of 609 companies. The data were analysed through a structural equation modelling (SEM) conducting confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) of the CSI framework to confirm the correlation between the five constructs, therefore establishing the validity of this framework as a tool for the practice of CSI. We expect to offer both a theoretical and a practical contribution by reinforcing the relevance of the CSI concept along with testing and validating the CSI framework as a tool to help evaluate, analyse, and implement CSI initiatives, advancing its practice and promoting the CSI concept. Inderscience Publishers - linking academia, business and industry through research

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Title: Evaluating a tool for the practice of corporate social innovations: a survey of Brazilian companies

Authors: Marcelo A. Dionisio; Eduardo Raupp de Vargas

Addresses: Instituto COPPEAD de Administracao, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rua Pascoal Lemme, 355 – Cidade Universitária da Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro – RJ, 21941-918, Brazil ' Instituto COPPEAD de Administracao, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rua Pascoal Lemme, 355 – Cidade Universitária da Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro – RJ, 21941-918, Brazil

Abstract: To help reduce inequality, businesses are turning to corporate social innovations (CSI) to achieve both business results and social value. This study aims to evaluate and validate the CSI framework proposed by Mirvis and Googins as a tool for practicing CSI. We based our study on a survey conducted with Brazilian companies that participate in the UN Global Compact, the largest corporate sustainability initiative in the world to mobilise companies and stakeholders to do business responsibly, including 142 answers out of a sample of 609 companies. The data were analysed through a structural equation modelling (SEM) conducting confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) of the CSI framework to confirm the correlation between the five constructs, therefore establishing the validity of this framework as a tool for the practice of CSI. We expect to offer both a theoretical and a practical contribution by reinforcing the relevance of the CSI concept along with testing and validating the CSI framework as a tool to help evaluate, analyse, and implement CSI initiatives, advancing its practice and promoting the CSI concept.

Keywords: corporate social innovation; CSI; survey; LinkedIn; social innovation; structural equation modelling; SEM; confirmatory factor analysis; CFA.

DOI: 10.1504/IJESD.2024.135632

International Journal of Environment and Sustainable Development, 2024 Vol.23 No.1, pp.21 - 39

Received: 04 Dec 2021
Accepted: 21 Jul 2022
Published online: 20 Dec 2023 *

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