Yes / In the field of business-to-business marketing, corporate ethical identity and corporate brand identity are crucial subjects for discussion. Business organizations function under social norms, and to establish an ethical identity, they must show corporate ethical responsibility, embrace ethical standards, and maintain open communication with suppliers. While an organization's reputation is impacted by the absence of an ethical identity, its financial success is unaffected. Extant literature has not thrown a spotlight on social and environmental performance which indicates that less focus has been given by academics than by practitioners. To fill the lacuna in the existing literature, this study examines the relationships between corporate ethical identity, corporate brand identity, social and environmental performance. The study uses a deductive research approach and develops hypotheses which are further tested using variance based structural equation modeling. The study offers a distinctive contribution to ethics theory and stakeholder theory by showing that developing an ethical identity requires more than just adhering to moral guidelines and upholding open communication. Companies must show that they are ethically responsible towards society. The study provides evidence of the influence corporate brand identity has on environmental and social performance. The findings can be useful in developing business-to-business marketing strategies.

Titel: Kulturens modererande effekter på sambandet mellan CSR och CFP Nivå: Examensarbete på grundnivå (kandidatexamen) i ämnet företagsekonomi. Författare: Ferdous Foroughi och Shabab Hasan Handledare: Jan Svanberg Datum: 2019 - juni Syfte: Företagens sociala ansvar (CSR) har utvecklats till ett viktigt ämne både för företag och dess intressenter. Varierande resultat gällande effekten av CSR-insatser på företagsprestanda har tidigare rapporterats. Tidigare studier undersöker och fokuserar på en liten del av CSR med många olösta teoretiska och empiriska frågor till följd av detta. Det har även visats att kultur påverkar beslutsfattandet i synnerhet i relation till CSR. Syftet är därmed att undersöka om nationell kultur har modererande effekter på sambandet mellan CSR och finansiell prestation (CFP) hos börsnoterade bolag i världen.   Metod: Studiens vetenskapsteoretiska utgångspunkt är positivism med hypotetiskt-deduktiv ansats. En kvantitativ forskningsstrategi används för 3230 börsnoterade företag med data från en femårsperiod 2013 - 2017. Datan baseras på sekundärdata inhämtad från Thomson Reuters Eikon, Världsbanken och Hofstedes kulturindex, vilken analyserats med univariata och bivariata statistiska tester samt multipla regressionsanalyser i statistikprogrammet IBM SPSS Statistics. Resultat & slutsats: Det finns ett positivt samband mellan CSR och CFP. Nationella kulturer har modererande effekter på det sambandet. Genom att använda Hofstedes kulturdimensioner har det visats att maktdistans (PD), osäkerhetsundvikande (UAI), maskulinitet (MAS) och långtidsorientering (LTO) har negativ modererande effekter, medan individualism (IDV) och tillfredsställelse (IND) har positiv modererande effekter på sambandet mellan CSP och CFP. Examensarbetets bidrag: Studien bidrar med ny kunskap för att fylla forskningsgapet gällande nationella kulturers modererande effekter på sambandet mellan CSR och finansiell prestation. Studien bidrar på ett värdefullt sätt till både tidigare teori och empiri samt lyfter fram nationella kulturers påverkande roll för företagens finansiella prestation. Förslag till vidare forskning: Det behövs flera liknande studier med andra variabler som kontrollerar och analyserar sambandet. Vidare föreslår vi också att genomföra en liknande studie som även inkluderar icke-börsnoterade bolag, för att omfatta flera länder och dessutom en längre tidsperiod än fem år för att se om nationella kulturer påverkar sambandet på ett annat sätt. Nyckelord:Corporate social responsibility, corporate social performance, corporate financial performance, nationell kultur, Hofstedes kulturdimensionsteori. / Title: Culture’s moderating effects on the relationship between CSR and CFP Level: Student thesis for Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration Authors: Ferdous Foroughi och Shabab Hasan Supervisor: Jan Svanberg Date: 2019 - june Aim: Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) has been developed to become an important subject for both corporates and their stakeholders. Varying results have been reported regarding the effect of CSR initiatives. Prior studies investigate and focus on a small part of CSR with following unresolved theoretical and empirical questions. It has also been shown that culture affects decision making, particularly in relation to CSR. The aim of this study is hence to investigate whether national culture has moderating effects on the relationship between CSR and corporate financial performance (CFP) among listed corporations in the world. Method: A positive research methodology has been applied with a hypothetical-deductive approach. A quantitative research strategy is used for 3230 listed corporations with data from a five-year time period 2013 - 2017. Data is based on secondary data from Thomson Reuters Eikon, World Bank and Hofstedes cultural index, which were analyzed with univariate, bivariate and multivariate analyses in the statistical software IBM SPSS Statistics. Result & Conclusion: There is a positive correlation between CSR and CFP. National cultures have moderating effects on that correlation. Using Hofstede's cultural dimensions, it has been shown that power distance (PD), uncertainty avoidance index (UAI), masculinity (MAS) and long-term orientation (LTO) have negative moderating effects, while individualism (IDV) and indulgence (IND) have positive moderating effects on the relationship between CSP and CFP. Contribution of the thesis: The study contributes with new knowledge to fill the research gap regarding national cultures’ moderating effects on the relationship between CSR and financial performance. The study contributes in an insightful way to both prior theory and empirical data and emphasizes the role of national cultures on the corporates’ financial performance. Suggestion for future research: Several similar studies are needed with other variables that control and analyze the relationship. Furthermore, we also propose to carry out a similar study that also includes non-listed companies, to include several countries and, moreover, a longer time period than five years to see if national cultures affect the relationship in another way. Keywords:Corporate social responsibility, corporate social performance, corporate financial performance, national culture, Hofstede’s cultural dimension theory.

Examensarbete, Civilekonomprogrammet, Ekonomihögskolan vid Linnéuniversitetet Författare: Gustav Johannesson och Martin Westport Handledare: Andreas Stephan Medbedömare: Anna Stafsudd Titel: Sambandet mellan Corporate Social Performance och finansiell risk - En kvantitativ studie som undersöker nordiska företag Bakgrund: Företags sociala ansvar har ständigt funnits på företagsagendan under senaste åren efter ökade globala utmaningar och större påtryckningar från intressenter. Man kan se allt större risker som är kopplade till företags hållbarhetsarbete. Med bakgrund till detta finns det ett stort intresse och en uppåtgående trend kring hållbara investeringar där Norden är ledande inom området. Syfte: Studiens syfte är att förklara sambandet mellan Corporate Social Performance, både på en sammanslagen och individuell nivå, och finansiell risk. Metod: Genom den deduktiva forskningsansatsen och den kvantitativa forskningsstrategin som är baserad på paneldata testar författarna sina hypoteser. Författarna bygger sina hypoteser på intressentteorin och riskhanteringsteorin som testas med ett nordiskt urval på 144 företag under tidsperioden 2002-2016. Slutsats: Studiens resultat visar att det finns ett negativt samband mellan Corporate Social Performance och finansiell risk. Det finns även ett negativt samband mellan företags sociala prestationer och finansiell risk. Detta är i linje med författarnas förväntningar. Däremot visar resultatet inga samband mellan företags miljömässiga och styrningsmässiga prestationer och deras finansiella risk. / Degree Project, The Business Administration and Economics Programme, School of Business and Economics at Linnaeus University Authors: Gustav Johannesson and Martin Westport Supervisor: Andreas Stephan Co-assessor: Anna Stafsudd Title: The relationship between Corporate Social Performance and Financial Risk - A quantitative study that examines Nordic companies Background: Corporate Social Responsibility has been on the corporate agenda in recent years following increased global challenges and greater pressure from stakeholders. One can see more risks associated with corporate sustainability. This has led to a great interest globally and an upward trend in Socially Responsible Investing where the Nordic region is at the leading edge. Purpose: The purpose of the study is to explain the relationship between Corporate Social Performance, both at a combined and an individual level, and financial risk. Method: Through the deductive research approach and the quantitative research strategy that is based on panel data, the authors test their hypotheses. The authors base their hypotheses on stakeholder theory and risk management theory and test them with a Nordic sample of 144 companies over the period 2002-2016. Conclusion: The study results show that there is a negative relationship between Corporate Social Performance and financial risk. There is also a negative relationship between social performance and financial risk. This is in line with the authors’ expectations. However, the results show no relationship between companies’ environmental and governance performance and their financial risk.

Syfte: Det ställs idag högre krav på att företag inte enbart kan fokusera på att tjäna pengar utan att de också måste börja ta ansvar för miljö, samhälle och ekonomi. Till följd av de ökade kraven på företagen har vikten av begreppet Corporate social responsibility (CSR) ökat de senaste årtiondena. En populär inriktning hos tidigare studier inom området CSR är om CSR påverkar företagets finansiella prestation (CFP), vilka visat på motsägelsefulla resultat. Dock har forskning identifierat ett äkthets-gap mellan företags uttalade ansvarstagande och vad som i verkligheten utförs. Det har även konstaterats att en CSR-kommitté samt att konsekvent CSR påverkar äktheten i CSR. Syftet med denna studie är därför att undersöka hur äktheten hos investeringar i Corporate social responsibility, CSR, med avseende på hur en CSR-kommitté och konsekvent CSR, påverkar företagens lönsamhet, CFP. Metod: Studien antar en positivistisk forskningsfilosofi med en hypotetiskt deduktiv ansats. Utifrån ett kvantitativt tillvägagångssätt har sekundärdata inhämtats från databasen Thomson Reuters Datastream. En longitudinell design har använts där data har inhämtats över en sexårsperiod där det slutgiltiga urvalet har analyserats med hjälp av multipla regressionsanalyser i statistikprogrammet IBM SPSS. Resultat & slutsats: Studien visar att lönsamheten är högre hos företag som innehar en CSR-kommitté, än för företag utan CSR-kommitté, vilket indikerar att företag genom ett äkta engagemang i CSR uppnår ökad lönsamhet. Ledningens benägenhet att förmedla socialt ansvarstagande leder till ett bättre samarbete med företagets intressenter som ger ett högre finansiellt utfall. Förslag till fortsatt forskning: Studier som undersöker företags konsekventa CSR-aktiviteter över en längre tidsperiod för att identifiera effekterna av den nya hållbarhetslagen. Eftersom förekomsten av en CSR-kommitté påverkar företags lönsamhet önskar vi även ytterligare forskning angående vilka faktorer som kan förstärka eller försvaga utfallet. Uppsatsens bidrag: Ur ett teoretiskt perspektiv bidrar denna studie till redovisningslitteraturen genom att undersöka sambandet mellan finansiell prestation och äktheten hos bolagens CSR-motiv. Ur ett praktiskt perspektiv kan denna studie vara betydelsefull för företag som planerar att implementera en CSRkommitté eftersom detta bidrar till företags lönsamhet. / Aim: Todays’ companies are facing an increased demand from society that they need to shift their priorities from just making money to being socially responsible. Due to the increased demand, the importance of the concept Corporate social responsibility (CSR) has also increased in the last decades. A popular branch in prior CSR studies has been to investigate if CSR-investments affects the Corporate financial performance (CFP) which has shown conflicting results. However, previous research has identified an authentic gap between what companies are promising and what they implement in reality. Therefore the aim with this study is to investigate how authentic investments in CSR, with regard to how a CSR committee and consistent CSR, influence corporate financial performance (CFP). Method: The study is based on the philosophy of positivism with a hypothetical deductive approach. Secondary data has been collected from Thomson Reuters Datastream with a quantitative approach. A longitudinal design has been used where data has been collected over a period of six years and the final sample has been processed and analyzed with regression analysis in IBM SPSS. Result & Conclusions: This study shows that companies’ financial performance is higher in the presence of a CSR-committee, which indicates that a company by engaging in authentic CSR-activities gets a higher financial performance. Management preferences to communicate the company's social responsibility results in a better financial performance due to a better relationship with the stakeholders Suggestions for future research: Suggestions for future research may investigate how the consistency of companies CSR is influenced by the new legislation over a longer period of time. Since the CSR-committee is influential for the financial performance we would also like to see further studies involving factors that might weaken or strengthen this relationship. Contribution of the thesis: From a theoretical perspective this study contributes to the accounting literature by investigating the relationship between financial performance and authentic CSR motives. From a practical perspective this study can be of interest for companies that are planning to implement a CSR-committee since this is an influential factor for the financial performance.

Submitted by Silvana Teresinha Dornelles Studzinski (sstudzinski) on 2015-10-23T15:47:57Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Francisco Sperotto Flores_.pdf: 437036 bytes, checksum: 48604df4848c773fbdbb73cceecc244d (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2015-10-23T15:47:57Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Francisco Sperotto Flores_.pdf: 437036 bytes, checksum: 48604df4848c773fbdbb73cceecc244d (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015-03-18 / Nenhuma / O objetivo deste trabalho é avaliar o relacionamento entre a sustentabilidade e o desempenho exportador dos frigoríficos exportadores de carne bovina. Para isso, foi utilizada análise de dados em painel a partir da coleta de dados secundários das exportações de carne bovina in natura fresca ou resfriada, oriundas de diversos países, para os mercados italiano, norte-americano, holandês, francês, mexicano, japonês, alemão e para o Reino Unido, entre os anos de 2002 e 2012, totalizando uma média de 125 observações para cada país importador. A sustentabilidade dos exportadores, foi avaliada através do seu desempenho social, utilizando como proxy o Índice de Desenvolvimento Humano (IDH), e do desempenho ambiental, avaliado a partir da Poupança Líquida Ajustada (ANS). Os resultados obtidos pela análise econométrica demonstram que a dimensão social da sustentabilidade exerce uma influencia positiva sobre o desempenho exportador dos frigoríficos exportadores de carne bovina para alguns mercados, enquanto a dimensão ambiental da sustentabilidade está associada à capacidade de entrada e manutenção destas empresas no mercado internacional da carne bovina. Embora a análise utilize dados em nível de país, visto o nível elevado de concentração na indústria exportadora de carne e, ainda, que a cadeia de valor e o mercado internacional do produto são dominados por um pequeno grupo de grandes empresas com presença global, considera-se que, através da análise do comportamento do comércio entre países, seja possível inferir o comportamento do comércio da commodity em nível de firma. / The purpose of this study is evaluating the relationship between sustainability and the export performance of beef exporters. It is used panel data analysis form the collection of secondary data of exports of fresh or chilled beef with regard to Italy, Dutch, French, Mexican, Japanese, German and the UK between the years 2002 and 2012, totaling an average of 125 observations for each importing country. The sustainability of exporters was evaluated through its social performance, using as proxy the Human Development Index (HDI), and environmental performance, evaluated from the Net Adjusted Savings (ANS). The results obtained by econometric analysis show that the social dimension of sustainability has a positive influence on the export performance of refrigerators exporters of beef, while the environmental dimension of sustainability is associated with the input capacity and maintenance of these companies in the international beef market. Although the analysis uses data at the country level, given the hight concentration level in the meat export industry and also that value chain and the beef international market are dominated by a small group of large companies with global presence, it is considered that, by analyzing the behavior of trade between countries, it is possible to infer the commodity trading behavior at firm level.

Bullying behavior is a contributing factor to hostile work environments, and can cause human consequences that affect morale, performance, and productivity. The purpose of this qualitative exploratory case study was to identify the strategies that ombudsmen and human resource managers (HR) use in mitigating workplace conflict. Corporate social performance was the conceptual framework that guided this research. Nine HR managers, an ombudsman representative, and 8 ombudsmen located in New York City and in other states were interviewed based on their experience in conflict mitigation. Data extracted from the participants' shared stories along with position description documents were synthesized thematically and analyzed for emergent themes. Six themes emerged through analysis: neutrality, trust, interactive coaching competencies, contrasting roles, preventive conflict mitigation strategies, and systemic and cultural analysis. The theme of trust emerged as a key strategy to resolve conflict. The implications for social change include increased organizational accountability, fairness, security, and reduction of discrimination as the work of ombudsmen indirectly lead to cultural changes within organizations.

This study investigates the relationship between corporate social performance (CSP)and corporate financial performance (CFP) within the context of a particular CSPelement: environmental investment. Two models of the determinants of companies’environmental investment are estimated in order to capture the difference betweenfirms’ actual and expected level of environmental investment. The regressionresiduals are used as our measure of corporate social performance. Both market-basedand accounting-based measures of financial performance are applied to representcorporate financial performance. With the analysis of a sample encompassing 223Chinese heavy-polluting companies, we have found that it is more likely to observe asignificantly positive relationship between firms’ environmental endeavors and theiraccounting-based financial performance among firms that are more active to disclosecorporate information. Besides, building on our empirical findings that corporatesocial performance is positively correlated with accounting-based financialperformance but has no correlation with market-based financial performance, wesuggest a priority for managers from Chinese heavy-polluting industries when theyfulfill social demands of various stakeholders.

In the past years supply chain integration has become focus of interest, due to the discussion in the literature, that a positive direct relationship exists between higher supply chain integration and higher performance. Additionally, the environmental and social performance of supply chains gained much interest based on the new sustainability focus in the 21st century. The production of electrical and electronic equipment is one of the fastest growing global manufacturing activities. However, due to technological advancements, the quick obsolescence of electronics result in increased generation of waste of electrical and electronic equipment. Germany is one of the leading electrical and electronic equipment markets within Europe and is strongly affected by the EU directives and regulations, which aim not only to protect human health but also to improve the environmental performance of the electrical and electronic equipment operators in particular. Therefore, the environmental and social performance of German electrical and electronic equipment manufacturers is increasingly gaining importance. Respectively, the purpose of this study is to investigate what effect the depth of upstream supply chain integration has on the environmental and social performance of German electrical and electronic equipment manufacturers. This study is based on the quantitative research method. The required empirical data is generated through an online questionnaire, which has been sent to German electrical and electronic equipment manufacturers. An initial operationalization of upstream supply chain integration depth and environmental and social performance is used as a foundation for the questionnaire. It can be concluded that German electrical and electronic equipment manufacturers seem to have a coordinative upstream supply chain integration and presumably have a Abstract 4 moderate environmental and social performance. Furthermore, it can be assumed that the upstream supply chain integration depth has an effect on the environmental and social performance of German electrical and electronic equipment manufacturers.

Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-17T13:53:32Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 ElitaniaTS.pdf: 467541 bytes, checksum: 2ad53dd44c2d98261a97103ba2f3cc92 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2006-08-03 / The present work is about a study of multiple cases with exploratory and descriptiveperspective and qualitative emphasis. Its field of study is constituted by three local companieswith description of social performance, with emphasis in the personal interview with thecontrollers. Its main objective consists of understanding as it has occurred the marketingrelation with the enterprise social performance in the context of these companies located inthe State of the Rio Grande do Norte who carry out social investments. For this, it hassearched to analyze the types and characteristics of the developed social actions, to evaluatethe motivations and objectives of the accomplishment of social actions, to verify theimportance and influence of the social performance in the dynamics of the companies, toverify the level of specific knowledge and information in the areas of marketing and socialperformance in the companies and to evaluate the process of communication (promotion andspreading) of the social performance carried out by the companies. It has been verified thatthe company A directly associates it its social and ambient activities with differentiationbenefits, competitiveness, creation of value, loyalty, relationships, image, prestige,positioning of the company, sale and financial return, beyond benefits in the internal level asbigger motivation of its employees and retention of talents, not existing rejection to theinterlacement of the concepts related to the marketing and the social one. Already in companyB rejection in relating its practical social to the marketing, being observed after posteriorquestionings, that the relation of direct and indirect form exists and those divulgations of theseactions are carried out, contradicting the arguments of the controllers of that the actions wouldnot be carried out to generate media. In company C, it been verified rejection andcontradiction with relation to the concepts related to the marketing, alleging itself that theimage of the harnessed company to its social performance is not used in proper benefit,evidencing itself that this company divulges its action and is marketable benefited, even so isnot this the main objective of its social programs. It has concluded that the association ofthese two concepts is positive and favorable to the development of the businesses and thesocial actions of the companies, legitimizing them and benefiting the involved company,groups in the actions and the society that profits socially from the private social involvement in the social matters / O presente trabalho consiste em uma abordagem sobre a rela??o do marketing com a atua??osocial das empresas, dentro de uma nova tend?ncia do mundo dos neg?cios de valoriza??o deassuntos relacionados ? sociedade e ao meio ambiente. O seu objetivo principal consiste emcompreender como se d? rela??o do marketing com a atua??o social empresarial no contextode tr?s empresas localizadas no Estado do Rio Grande do Norte que realizam investimentossociais. Para isso, busca-se analisar os tipos e caracter?sticas das a??es sociais desenvolvidas,avaliar as motiva??es e objetivos da realiza??o de a??es sociais, verificar a import?ncia einflu?ncia da atua??o social na din?mica das empresas, verificar o n?vel de conhecimento einforma??oespec?ficos nas ?reas de marketing e de atua??o social nas empresas e avaliar oprocesso de comunica??o (promo??o e divulga??o) da atua??o social realizado pelasempresas. O trabalho possui ?nfase qualitativa, realizado atrav?s de um estudo de casosm?ltiplos com perspectiva explorat?ria e descritiva. Seu campo de estudo ? constitu?do portr?s empresas locais com hist?rico de atua??o social, com enfoque na entrevista pessoal comos dirigentes. Constata que h? uma imbrica??o do marketing com o social em todas asempresas analisadas, sendo que a empresa A associa diretamente as suas atividades sociais eambientais com benef?cios de diferencia??o, competitividade, cria??o de valor, fidelidade,relacionamentos, imagem, prest?gio, posicionamento da empresa, retorno de vendas efinanceiro, al?m de benef?cios no n?vel interno como maior motiva??o de seus funcion?rios ereten??o de talentos, n?o existindo rejei??o ao entrela?amento dos conceitos relacionados aomarketing e ao social. J? na empresa B h? rejei??o em relacionar suas pr?ticas sociais aomarketing, sendo observado, ap?s questionamentos posteriores, que existe a rela??o de formadireta e indireta e que s?o realizadas divulga??es dessas a??es, contradizendo os argumentosdos dirigentes de que as a??es n?o seriam realizadas para gerar m?dia. Mostra que na empresaC, h? tamb?m rejei??o e contradi??o com rela??o aos conceitos relacionados ao marketing,alegando-se que a imagem da empresa atrelada ? sua atua??o social n?o ? utilizada embenef?cio pr?prio, constatando-se que essa empresa divulga suas a??es e beneficia-emercadologicamente delas. Assim, o estudo conclui que h? uma tens?o entre os conceitos queenvolvem o marketing e o social, na medida em que os discursos sejam enf?ticos em neg?-lose a pr?tica mostre contradi??o, tratando-se de uma quest?o de estudo complexa

CoordenaÃÃo de AperfeiÃoamento de Pessoal de NÃvel Superior / O estudo analisa como caracterÃsticas organizacionais e do ambiente institucional no qual as empresas se inserem, podem influenciar no seu desempenho social corporativo (DSC). Segundo a Teoria dos Stakeholders algumas caracterÃsticas das empresas podem ser influenciadas por seus grupos de interesse, de forma que, essa influÃncia pode afetar a predisposiÃÃo que elas tÃm de se engajarem em prÃticas socialmente responsÃveis, refletindo no seu DSC. AlÃm disso, essas prÃticas socialmente responsÃveis tambÃm sofrem influÃncia do ambiente institucional no qual as empresas estÃo inseridas. De acordo com a Teoria do Sistema de NegÃcios, existem alguns aspectos chave que moldam o Sistema Nacional de NegÃcios em um paÃs como o intervencionismo do estado e a corrupÃÃo, o grau com que um paÃs adota um mercado de capitais, seu sistema educacional e de trabalho. Essas caracterÃsticas institucionais acabam moldando as prÃticas gerenciais e, consequentemente, dÃo um padrÃo na forma como as empresas atuam, incluindo aà suas decisÃes acerca de prÃticas socialmente responsÃveis. Para avaliar como essas caracterÃsticas financeiras e institucionais moldam o DSC, realizou-se uma pesquisa descritiva e quantitativa, que utilizou dados secundÃrios de empresas Brasileiras e Canadenses, no perÃodo de 2007 a 2014. As empresas selecionadas foram aquelas dos setores de utilidade pÃblica, petrÃleo e gÃs e materiais bÃsicos, presentes na lista Forbes 2000, no ano de 2008. O DSC foi calculado a partir de informaÃÃes dos relatÃrios de sustentabilidade publicados pelas empresas durante o perÃodo avaliado, enquanto as caracterÃsticas financeiras foram retiradas dos relatÃrios anuais e as caracterÃsticas institucionais foram medidas por meio de indicadores de diversos ÃrgÃos internacionais: Banco Mundial, World Economic Forum (WEF), The Heritage Foundation, Transparency International e Programa das NaÃÃes Unidas para o Desenvolvimento (PNUD). Na anÃlise dos resultados, foram utilizadas tÃcnicas de estatÃstica descritiva, testes de hipÃteses como Teste T e Teste de Wilcoxon, anÃlise de clusters e regressÃo de dados em painel e regressÃo hierÃrquica linear. Os resultados mostram que o ambiente institucional à mais importante do que as caracterÃsticas financeiras das empresas na determinaÃÃo do DSC. AlÃm disso, o ambiente institucional brasileiro à permite que as empresas adotem uma estratÃgia mais orientada para a gestÃo de seus recursos do que o ambiente canadense. Evidenciou-se ainda que as caracterÃsticas do ambiente institucional brasileiro e canadense influenciam de modo oposto o DSC. / The study analyzes how organizational features and the institutional environment in which companies operate, may influence their corporate social performance (CSP). Stakeholder Theory says that some business characteristics can be influenced by their groups of interest, and this may affect their willingness to engange in socially responsible practices, reflecting on their CSP. Moreover, these socially responsible practices are also influenced by the institutional environment they operate. According to the business-system approach, there are some key aspects that shape the national business system of a country like corruption, the degree of state interventionism, the degree to which the country adopts a capital market and its educational and job systems. These institutional features end up shaping management practices and hence standardizes the way companies operate, including their decisions about socially responsible practices. In order to evaluate how these financial and institutional characteristics shape CSP, a descriptive and quantitative research was conducted, using secondary data from Brazilian and Canadian companies that ranged from 2007 to 2014. The companies selected were those of utility, oil and gas operations and materials sectors, that were in the Forbes 2000 list in the year 2008. The CSP was calculated using information from sustainability reports published by those companies during the analyzed period. The financial characteristics were taken from annual reports and the institutional aspects were measured by indicators from several international organizations: World Bank, World Economic Forum (WEF), the Heritage Foundation, Transparency Interational and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). In order to analyze the data, it was used descriptive statistics, hypothesis testing such as T test and Wilcoxon test, cluster analysis, panel data regression and hierarchical linear regression. The results show that the institutional environment plays a more important role than financial characteristics in determining the CSP. In addition, Brazilian institutional environment allows companies to adopt a more resource oriented strategy than the Canadian environment. The results also show that the Brazilian and Canadian institutional characteristics influence CSP in an opposite way.