Market and Institutional Factors in Corporate Contributions

Mescon Timothy S. Tilson Donn J. , “Corporate Philanthropy: A Strategic Approach to the Bottom-Line,” California Management Review, 29/2 (Winter 1987): 49–61; Post James S. Murray Edwin A. Jr. Dickie Robert D. Mahon John F. , “Managing Public Affairs: The Public Affairs Function,” California Management Review, 26/1 (Fall 1983): 135–150.

See, for instance, Preston Lee E. , “Corporate Power and Social Performance: Approaches to Positive Analysis,” in Preston Lee E. , ed., Research in Corporate Social Performance and Policy (Greenwich, CT: JAI Press, 1981); and Keim Gerald D. Ziethaml Carl P. Baysinger Barry D. , “New Directions for Corporate Political Strategy,” Sloan Management Review, 25 (Spring 1984): 53–62.

Smith Hayden W. , A Profile of Corporate Contributions (New York, NY: Financial Aid to Education, 1983).

Useem Michael , “Corporate Philanthropy,” in Powell Walter W. , ed., The Nonprofit Sector: A Research Handbook, (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1987); McElroy Katherine Maddox Siegfried John J. , “The Effect of Firm Size and Mergers on Corporate Philanthropy,” in Bock Betty Goldschmid Harvey J. Millstein Ira M. Scherer F. M. , eds., The Impact of the Modern Corporation, (New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 1984).

Levy Ferdinand K. Shatto Gloria M. , “Social Responsibility in Large Electric Utility Firms: The Case of Philanthropy,” in Preston Lee E. , ed., Research in Corporate Social Performance, Vol. 2. (Greenwich, CT: JAI Press, 1980); Burt Ronald S. , Corporate Profits and Cooptation (New York, NY: Academic Press, 1983); Fry Louis W. Keim Gerald D. Meiners Roger E. , “Corporate Contributions: Altruistic or For-Profit?” Academy of Management Journal, 25 (1982): 94–107.

Rudney Sally , “Polaroid,” a case-study of the Polaroid Foundation, Yale University School of Management, 1987.

Platzer Linda Cardillo , Annual Survey of Corporate Contributions, 1986 Edition (New York, NY: Conference Board, 1986).

Kedia Banwari Kuntz Edwin C. , “The Context of Social Performance: An Empirical Study of Texas Banks,” in Preston Lee E. , ed., Research in Corporate Social Performance and Policy, Vol. 3 (Greenwich, CT: JAI Press, 1981); Preston Lee E. , op. cit., p. 9; Cochran Philip L. Wood Robert A. , “Corporate Social Responsibility and Financial Performance,” Academy of Management Journal, 27 (1984): 42–56.

White Arthur H. , “Corporate Philanthropy: Impact on Public Attitudes,” in Corporate Philanthropy in the Eighties (Washington, D.C.: National Chamber Foundation, 1980); Wokutch Richard E. Spencer Barbara A. , “Corporate Saints and Sinners: The Effects of Philanthropic and Illegal Activity on Organizational Performance,” California Management Review, 29/2 (Winter 1987): 62–77; Galaskiewicz Joseph , Social Organization of an Urban Grants Economy: A Study of Business Philanthropy and Nonprofit Organizations (New York, NY: Academic Press, 1985), p. 214.

Useem Michael Kutner Stephen I. , “Corporate Contributions to Culture and the Arts: The Organization of Giving, and the Influence of the Chief Executive Officer and Other Firms on Company Contributions in Massachusetts,” in DiMaggio Paul , ed., Nonprofit Organizations in the Production and Distribution of Culture (New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1986).

Knauft E.B. , Profiles of Effective Corporate Giving Programs, (Washington, D.C.: The Independent Sector, 1985), p. 14.

Useem Kutner , op. cit.; White Arthur H. Bartolomeo John , Corporate Giving: The Views of Chief Executive Officers of Major American Corporations (Washington, D.C.: Council on Foundations, 1982); White Arthur H. Bartolomeo John , “The Attitudes and Motivations of Chief Executive Officers,” in Corporate Philanthropy: Philosophy, Management, Trends, Future, Background (Washington, D.C.: Council on Foundations, 1982); Galaskiewicz , op. cit.

Siegfried John J. McElroy Katherine Maddox Biernot-Fawkes Diane , “The Management of Corporate Contributions,” in Preston Lee E. , ed., Research in Corporate Social Performance, Vol. 5 (Greenwich, CT: JAI Press, 1983); McElroy Siegfried , op. cit.; Wolpert Julian Reiner Thomas A. , The Metropolitan Philadelphia Philanthropy Study (Philadelphia, PA: School of Public and Urban Policy, University of Pennsylvania, 1980).

Harris James F. Klepper Anne , Corporate Philanthropic Public Service Activities (New York, NY: Conference Board 1976); Council for Financial Aid to Education, Corporate Support of Higher Education, 1982 (New York, NY: Financial Aid to Higher Education, 1984); Maxwell Joan Medgyesi-Mitschang Suzanne , Giving: A Comparison of Philanthropic Resources of Seven Metropolitan Areas (Washington, D.C.: Greater Washington Research Center, 1985).

Useem Michael , The Inner Circle: Large Corporations and the Rise of Business Political Activity in the U.S. and U.K. (New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1984), pp. 125–129.

Maddox Katherine E. Siegfried John J. , “The Effect of Economic Structure on Corporate Philanthropy,” in Siegfried John J. , ed., The Economics of Firm Size, Market Structure, and Social Performance (Washington, D.C.: Bureau of Economics, Federal Trade Commission, 1980); Burt , op. cit.

Desruisseaux Paul , “Mergers Held Unlikely to Cause Overall Drop in Company Giving,” Chronicle of Higher Education, March 19, 1986, pp. 21–22.

Siegfried John J. Sweeney M. Jane Barr , “The Social and Political Consequences of Conglomerate Mergers,” in Keenan Michael White Lawrence J. , eds., Mergers and Acquisitions (Lexington, MA: Heath, 1982); McElroy Siegfried , op. cit.; Lord Benjamin , Corporate Philanthropy in America: New Perspectives for the Eighties (Washington, D.C.: Taft Corporation, 1985).

Independent Sector, Daring Goals for a Caring Society: A Blueprint for Substantial Growth in Giving and Volunteering in America (Washington, D.C.: Independent Sector, 1986).