TY - JOUR
T1 - The effect of women’s entrepreneurship on corporate social responsibility
AU - Prialé, María Angela
AU - Dávalos, Jorge E.
AU - Daza, Brian
AU - Ninahuanca, E. Frances
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2023, Emerald Publishing Limited.
PY - 2023/12/25
Y1 - 2023/12/25
N2 - Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to identify the causal (not correlational) effect of women’s entrepreneurship on corporate social responsibility (CSR) practices in Latin America. Design/methodology/approach: This study builds on a hitherto unexploited sparse data set on Latin American B Corporations to identify the causal relationship of interest and on a (synthetic) instrumental variable method. Findings: The results confirm that women’s entrepreneurship has a positive causal effect on social responsibility. This study finds that an increase of 1% in the proportion of women entrepreneurs leads to an increase of 0.5 in the B Impact Assessment score, the CSR indicator. Originality/value: This study contributes to the literature by providing robust statistical evidence of a causal relationship between women entrepreneurs and social responsibility practices in the Latin American context. This research captures the multidimensional nature of social responsibility by using a comprehensive and vast metric of CSR obtained from the data of the B Impact Assessment tool. This study illustrates how machine learning methods can be used to address the lack of structure of the Latin American B Impact Assessment data.
AB - Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to identify the causal (not correlational) effect of women’s entrepreneurship on corporate social responsibility (CSR) practices in Latin America. Design/methodology/approach: This study builds on a hitherto unexploited sparse data set on Latin American B Corporations to identify the causal relationship of interest and on a (synthetic) instrumental variable method. Findings: The results confirm that women’s entrepreneurship has a positive causal effect on social responsibility. This study finds that an increase of 1% in the proportion of women entrepreneurs leads to an increase of 0.5 in the B Impact Assessment score, the CSR indicator. Originality/value: This study contributes to the literature by providing robust statistical evidence of a causal relationship between women entrepreneurs and social responsibility practices in the Latin American context. This research captures the multidimensional nature of social responsibility by using a comprehensive and vast metric of CSR obtained from the data of the B Impact Assessment tool. This study illustrates how machine learning methods can be used to address the lack of structure of the Latin American B Impact Assessment data.
KW - B corporations
KW - Causal relationships
KW - Corporate social responsibility
KW - Instrumental variables
KW - Social responsibility
KW - Women’s entrepreneurship
KW - B corporations
KW - Relaciones causales
KW - Responsabilidad social corporativa
KW - Variables instrumentales
KW - Responsabilidad social
KW - Emprendimiento femenino
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U2 - 10.1108/MRJIAM-04-2023-1408
DO - 10.1108/MRJIAM-04-2023-1408
M3 - Article in a journal
AN - SCOPUS:85180211551
SN - 1536-5433
JO - Management Research
JF - Management Research
ER -