@article{Cominetti:138500,
      recid = {138500},
      author = {Cominetti, Paolo and Poddi, Laura and Vergalli, Sergio},
      title = {The Push Factors for Corporate Social Responsibility: A  Probit Analysis},
      address = {2012-09},
      number = {829-2016-55241},
      series = {ES},
      pages = {21},
      year = {2012},
      abstract = {In the last two decades in OECD countries there has been  increased development of Social Responsible (CSR is the  acronym of Corporate Social Responsibility) certified  firms. This certification is assigned by public and private  companies which guarantee that the behaviour of a certain  firm is environmentally and sociologically correct. The  first part of our work is devoted to establishing a  certification index defined as the intersection of two of  the three main international indices (Domini 400 Social  Index, Dow Jones Sustainability World Index, FTSE4Good  Index). The purpose of this is to overcome certain problems  related to the multiplicity of CSR definitions and  certifications. The sample obtained is a data panel of 417  enterprises (317 CSR firms and 100 firms as a control  sample) belonging mainly to OCSE countries. The core of our  analysis makes some probit analyses in order to study the  structural causes that push enterprises towards social  certification. The descriptive statistics, combined and  supported by probit analysis, seem to stress the focal role  of economic development as one of the main causes of social  certification. Moreover, we have also studied the role of  industrial sectors in social certification and other  variables such as critical consumption and the structural  production system of the enterprises.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/138500},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.138500},
}