AUTHOR=Zheng Minna , Ren Guangqian , Zhuang Lingling 

TITLE=Family Sibling Effect and Executives’ Corporate Social Behavior

JOURNAL=Frontiers in Psychology

VOLUME=Volume 12 - 2021

YEAR=2021

URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.667529

DOI=10.3389/fpsyg.2021.667529

ISSN=1664-1078

ABSTRACT=Corporate social responsibility is enterprises’ important business strategy, scholars had done many beneficial researches on the relationship of executives’ recognitive traits and firms’ CSR behavior, but rarely focus on the impact of executives’ early recognitive derived from family sibling interaction. This paper takes Chinese A-shared private listed companies from 2014 to 2017 as the research samples, to investigate the effect of executives’ sibling number on the early family sibling and corporate social responsibility behavior. We further study the moderating effect of birth order and gender composition in siblings on this relationship. The results show that there is an inversed U-shaped relationship between the number of executives’ siblings of and corporate social responsibility behavior. Further research shows that the relationship between the number of executives’ siblings and CSR behavior is strengthened when an executive is first-born or have opposite sex siblings.