Walk your reputation: The impact of corporate social responsibility decoupling on the hospitality and tourism firm value in the time of crisis

Kewen Wang ^[1] ; Yongqi Yu ^[1] ; Xin Wang ^[1] ; Haidong Zheng ^[2]
1. [1] Qingdao University
  
  Qingdao University
  
  China
2. [2] China University of Petroleum
  
  China University of Petroleum
  
  China
Localización: Tourism economics: the business and finance of tourism and recreation, ISSN 1354-8166, Vol. 30, Nº. 6 (Septiembre), 2024, págs. 1580-1599
Idioma: inglés
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Resumen
- A growing body of research has tested the protective effect of pre-COVID-19 CSR reputation or during-COVID-19 CSR action for hospitality and tourism firms but has obtained inconclusive results. These inconclusive results may have been because of the decoupling of during-COVID-19 CSR action from pre-COVID-19 CSR reputation. From the perspective of institutional theory, we use a sample of Chinese hospitality and tourism listed firms during the COVID-19 pandemic and a cluster-adjusted panel data regression with robust standard errors to reveal that the decoupling of a firm’s during-COVID-19 CSR action from its pre-COVID-19 CSR reputation negatively impacts firm value, and the negative impact is amplified for firms under stronger stakeholder scrutiny. Our findings could contribute to institutional theory by proving that decoupling is under close stakeholder scrutiny during crises and by identifying a specific type of CSR decoupling, and could offer practical implications for firms to protect their firm values during crises.