THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN ECOLOGICAL CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY AND ORGANIZATIONAL PERFORMANCE IN CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY

  • Chung-Fah Huang (Department of Civil Engineering, National Kaohsiung Univ. of Applied Sciences) ;
  • Ho-Chi Lien (Department of Civil Engineering, National Kaohsiung Univ. of Applied Sciences) ;
  • Cheng-Yung Tseng (Department of Civil Engineering, National Kaohsiung Univ. of Applied Sciences)
  • Published : 2011.02.16

Abstract

Corporate Social Responsibility has become a hot issue for modern enterprises recently. Under this trend, companies have to focus on what they can do for society instead of on just making profits. This paper is to explore the relationship between ecological corporate social responsibility and organizational performance in the construction industry in Taiwan. 192 samples were collected from Taiwan's general contractors and analyzed using factor analysis, correlation analysis and path analysis. This study found: (1) in general, the contractors in Taiwan don't devote much to realizing ecological corporate social responsibility, and there is still much room for improvement; (2) the correlation analysis results indicated there are significant positive relationships between ecological corporate social responsibility and organizational performance; and (3) according to the path analysis results, a contractor can improve its business performance by improving its realization of corporate social responsibility.

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