Corporate decisions about philanthropic contributions have become more strategic in recent years. Contributions are targeted not only to benefit recipient nonprofit organizations, but also to fulfill major business objectives. This article develops a typology of strategic corporate philanthropy that distinguishes between strategic process and three strategic outcomes. It reports the extent of strategic philanthropy categories in an exploratory study of large firms headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area. Relationships between philanthropy and industry sector, organizational placement of the philanthropy function, firm age, and firm size are identified
This paper proposes that a corporation’s vulnerability to public scrutiny drives its corporate givin...
The conceptual literature increasingly portrays corporate philanthropy (CP) as an old-fashioned and ...
Although corporate decision makers may justify charitable contributions on stra-tegic grounds, extre...
Corporate decisions about philanthropic contributions have become more strategic in recent years. Co...
This paper examines the diversity of corporate philanthropic practices and aims to determine wheth...
Scholars and practitioners alike indicate a movement in corporate philanthropy to-ward “strategic ” ...
Strategic philanthropy, according to the literature, is becoming the state of the art in corporate c...
The study sought to demonstrate that corporate giving is driven by specific corporate goals rather t...
Businesses are increasingly held accountable both to their owners and to the larger society in which...
Corporate philanthropy refers to the allocation of organizational resources toward social causes, in...
This Article provides a new perspective on corporate philanthropy by examining a previously unnotice...
Evaluating agency theory and optimal contracting theory views of corporate philanthropy, we find tha...
Because it promises to benefit business and society simultaneously, strategic philanthropy might be ...
Ostensibly, modern corporate philanthropy involves a business corporation’s commitment to humanity a...
This article reports the results of a national survey of corporate philanthropy programs in which th...
This paper proposes that a corporation’s vulnerability to public scrutiny drives its corporate givin...
The conceptual literature increasingly portrays corporate philanthropy (CP) as an old-fashioned and ...
Although corporate decision makers may justify charitable contributions on stra-tegic grounds, extre...
Corporate decisions about philanthropic contributions have become more strategic in recent years. Co...
This paper examines the diversity of corporate philanthropic practices and aims to determine wheth...
Scholars and practitioners alike indicate a movement in corporate philanthropy to-ward “strategic ” ...
Strategic philanthropy, according to the literature, is becoming the state of the art in corporate c...
The study sought to demonstrate that corporate giving is driven by specific corporate goals rather t...
Businesses are increasingly held accountable both to their owners and to the larger society in which...
Corporate philanthropy refers to the allocation of organizational resources toward social causes, in...
This Article provides a new perspective on corporate philanthropy by examining a previously unnotice...
Evaluating agency theory and optimal contracting theory views of corporate philanthropy, we find tha...
Because it promises to benefit business and society simultaneously, strategic philanthropy might be ...
Ostensibly, modern corporate philanthropy involves a business corporation’s commitment to humanity a...
This article reports the results of a national survey of corporate philanthropy programs in which th...
This paper proposes that a corporation’s vulnerability to public scrutiny drives its corporate givin...
The conceptual literature increasingly portrays corporate philanthropy (CP) as an old-fashioned and ...
Although corporate decision makers may justify charitable contributions on stra-tegic grounds, extre...