caa a22 4500 605485720 CHVBK 20210128100442.0 cr unu---uuuuu 210128e20150601xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10551-014-2150-7 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10551-014-2150-7 News Visibility and Corporate Philanthropic Response: Evidence from Privately Owned Chinese Firms Following the Wenchuan Earthquake [Elektronische Daten] [Ming Jia, Zhe Zhang] Considerable interest exists regarding the media's influence on corporate reactions, but the link between media visibility and corporate philanthropic response (CPR) is not clear. Natural disasters thus provide an environment that makes visible the general processes relevant to that link. Based on agenda-setting theory, stakeholder theory, and impression-management theory, we propose that corporations that are highly visible in the news media are more likely to engage in CPR and donate more money. We also propose that companies with reputations for irresponsibility or vulnerability strengthen that tendency. Data from Chinese firms after the Wenchuan earthquake on May 12, 2008, and the corresponding empirical results support our hypotheses. This study also shows that CPR is an active conduit for deflecting undesired reputations. Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht, 2014 News visibility nationallicence Corporate philanthropy nationallicence Natural disaster nationallicence Impression management nationallicence Corporate image of irresponsibility nationallicence Corporate image of vulnerability nationallicence Jia Ming School of Management, Northwestern Polytechnical University, 710072, Xi'an, Shaanxi, China aut Zhang Zhe School of Management, Xi'an Jiaotong University, 710049, Xi'an, Shaanxi, China aut Journal of Business Ethics Springer Netherlands 129/1(2015-06-01), 93-114 0167-4544 129:1<93 2015 129 10551 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-014-2150-7 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-014-2150-7 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Jia Ming School of Management, Northwestern Polytechnical University, 710072, Xi'an, Shaanxi, China aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Zhang Zhe School of Management, Xi'an Jiaotong University, 710049, Xi'an, Shaanxi, China aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Journal of Business Ethics Springer Netherlands 129/1(2015-06-01), 93-114 0167-4544 129:1<93 2015 129 10551