Publication Type

Conference Proceeding Article

Version

acceptedVersion

Publication Date

10-2003

Abstract

In a preliminary study with 279 MBA’s from two European and three North American business schools we find that reputation-related attributes of caring about employees, environmental sustainability, community/stakeholder relations, and ethical products and services are important in job choice decisions. We use an adaptive conjoint analysis survey tool to discover the relative weighting of a new set of social responsibility job search criteria, including these attributes with traditional job search criteria like financial package, geographical location, etc. In addition, our results show that more than ninety percent of the MBAs in the sample were willing to forgo financial benefits in order to work for an organization with a better reputation for corporate social responsibility and ethics. We find similar results when controlling for region of origin of the respondents.

Keywords

Job choice, corporate social responsibility

Discipline

Business | Business Law, Public Responsibility, and Ethics

Research Areas

Organisational Behaviour and Human Resources

Publication

Innovating for Sustainability: 11th International Conference on the Greening of Industry, San Francisco, 12-15 October 2003

First Page

1

Last Page

24

Identifier

10.2139/ssrn.412124

City or Country

San Francisco

Additional URL

https://gin.confex.com/gin/2003/techprogram/P205.HTM

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