Doing good to do well? Corporate social responsibility reasons, practices and impacts in small and medium accommodation enterprises

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1. What have the authors contributed in "Citation for published version garay, l. & font, x. (2012). doing good to do well? corporate social responsibility reasons, practices and impacts in small and medium" ?

2. What are the future works mentioned in the paper "Citation for published version garay, l. & font, x. (2012). doing good to do well? corporate social responsibility reasons, practices and impacts in small and medium" ?

3. What are the two types of respondent?

4. What should be the focus of the future?

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This study aims to fill this gap through analyzing how these enterprises take responsibility.. Finally the authors conclude that further implementation of these practices is necessary to achieve new competitive advantages, and that the role of public administrations will be crucial to support and encourage these.

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Further research is needed analyzing the self reported practices with sitebased audits, coupled with manager interviews to understand the underlying reasons for their answers.. Emphasis in the future should be placed on improving the CSR planning and management and on communication and customer loyalty resulting from more real, authentic experiences.. A variety of further studies are needed, amongst them a longitudinal study with the same population analyzing the impact of specific government interventions, sustainability learning processes by firms moving from values to actions, site audits of sampled businesses representative of the different typologies to measure the value-action gap, and comparative studies between more and less developed tourist destinations, would all provide further valuable explanations for the changing behavior of small tourism firms towards taking responsibility for being more sustainable.

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The second typology of respondent is motivated by economic and competitiveness issues, especially cost-reduction and image differentiation.

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Emphasis in the future should be placed on improving the CSR planning and management and on communication and customer loyalty resulting from more real, authentic experiences.

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Most practices, especially the environmental ones, still remain in the early operational stages and are driven by cost-savings, although there has been progress in the economic and social dimensions.

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While small and medium enterprises have fewer skills and opportunities that larger companies to implement these measures, the entrepreneurial character and altruistic values of many of its managers and owners have facilitated the introduction of such measures.

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The largest group is driven by environmental and societal altruistic and lifestyle reasons, consistent with Tzschentke et al. (2008a), Greenback (2000), Carlsen et al., (2001) and Vernon, Essex, Pinder, & Curry (2003); they include love or passion for an area, which brings entrepreneurs to make decisions unrelated to business profits (Shane, Locke, & Collins, 2003).

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The research however provides evidence that CSR-CFP is stronger for enterprises motivated for reasons other than altruism, but instead competitiveness (image differentiation) and stakeholder compliance (public sector norms compliance) reasons.

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This paper presents how these small and medium enterprises are introducing responsibility mainly for altruistic reasons, related with the need of protect environment and personal and lifestyle values.

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It is worth re-emphasizing that the data shows how sustainability is explained as a value-driven journey, influenced primarily by the development of environmental consciousness and personal, sociocultural and situational factors of the individual business-owners.

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These practices embrace all three environmental, social and economic dimensions, and they are implemented through operational and to a lesser extent organizational mechanisms.

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The relation canbe best explained by the “Resource-based” view of the enterprise, with most CFP improvements arising from cutting operational costs related with environmental issues and so gaining a competitive advantage.

Doing good to do well? Corporate social responsibility reasons, practices and impacts in small and medium accommodation enterprises

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2. What are the future works mentioned in the paper "Citation for published version garay, l. & font, x. (2012). doing good to do well? corporate social responsibility reasons, practices and impacts in small and medium" ?

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4. What should be the focus of the future?

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