Affiliation:
1. School of Management Guangzhou University Guangzhou China
2. School of Business Administration South China University of Technology Guangzhou China
Abstract
AbstractThis paper investigates how entrepreneurs' social media usage affects corporate philanthropy. Departing from the extant literature, which focuses on the instrumental role of social media, we draw upon the normative perspective of stewardship theory and propose that entrepreneurs' social media usage promotes their ethical and prosocial motivation for corporate philanthropy. In particular, we theorize that entrepreneurs' social media usage enhances their self‐perceived status and philanthropic identification, thus affecting corporate philanthropy. Our analysis of a sample of Chinese ventures provides empirical support for the mediating effects of self‐perceived status and philanthropic identification on the relationship between entrepreneurs' social media usage and the philanthropic propensity and intensity of their ventures. Our study has implications for the role of social media in promoting corporate philanthropy and contributes to the literature on entrepreneurship and corporate philanthropy.
Funder
National Natural Science Foundation of China
Subject
Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law,Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management,Economics and Econometrics,Philosophy,Business and International Management