Strategic orientation and corporate citizenship: Are there differences in strategy types?

Corporate citizenship is a strategic imperative, one that can significantly affect firm competitiveness. However, there is little research to demonstrate what actually shapes or drives firms towards a more proactive posture with respect to corporate citizenship. This paper makes a case that strategi...

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Main Author: Galbreath, Jeremy
Format: Working Paper
Published: Curtin University of Technology 2007
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/31584
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description Corporate citizenship is a strategic imperative, one that can significantly affect firm competitiveness. However, there is little research to demonstrate what actually shapes or drives firms towards a more proactive posture with respect to corporate citizenship. This paper makes a case that strategic orientation is one such driver, in that a firm?s strategic behavior in adapting to the environment is linked to corporate citizenship. However, levels of corporate citizenship are argued to differ depending on the type of strategy pursued. By examining a sample of 280 firms in Australia, the findings suggest that differences do exist across Defenders, Prospectors, Analyzers and Reactors with respect to corporate citizenship. Further analysis reveals differences across the strategy types on two dimensions of corporate citizenship; namely economic and legal citizenship. The results provide empirical insights that have not been previously reported.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-315842017-01-30T13:26:15Z Strategic orientation and corporate citizenship: Are there differences in strategy types? Galbreath, Jeremy strategy types strategic orientation firm competitiveness stakeholders corporate citizenship Corporate citizenship is a strategic imperative, one that can significantly affect firm competitiveness. However, there is little research to demonstrate what actually shapes or drives firms towards a more proactive posture with respect to corporate citizenship. This paper makes a case that strategic orientation is one such driver, in that a firm?s strategic behavior in adapting to the environment is linked to corporate citizenship. However, levels of corporate citizenship are argued to differ depending on the type of strategy pursued. By examining a sample of 280 firms in Australia, the findings suggest that differences do exist across Defenders, Prospectors, Analyzers and Reactors with respect to corporate citizenship. Further analysis reveals differences across the strategy types on two dimensions of corporate citizenship; namely economic and legal citizenship. The results provide empirical insights that have not been previously reported. 2007 Working Paper http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/31584 Curtin University of Technology fulltext
spellingShingle strategy types
strategic orientation
firm competitiveness
stakeholders
corporate citizenship
Galbreath, Jeremy
Strategic orientation and corporate citizenship: Are there differences in strategy types?
title Strategic orientation and corporate citizenship: Are there differences in strategy types?
title_full Strategic orientation and corporate citizenship: Are there differences in strategy types?
title_fullStr Strategic orientation and corporate citizenship: Are there differences in strategy types?
title_full_unstemmed Strategic orientation and corporate citizenship: Are there differences in strategy types?
title_short Strategic orientation and corporate citizenship: Are there differences in strategy types?
title_sort strategic orientation and corporate citizenship: are there differences in strategy types?
topic strategy types
strategic orientation
firm competitiveness
stakeholders
corporate citizenship
url http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/31584