Handbook on Corporate Foundations: Corporate and Civil Society Perspectives

304 Pages·2020·3.72 MB·English

by  Lonneke Roza, Steffen Bethmann, Lucas Meijs, Georg von Schnurbein

Nonprofi t and Civil Society Studies
An International Multidisciplinary Series
Lonneke Roza
Steff en Bethmann
Lucas Meijs
Georg von Schnurbein Editors
Handbook
on Corporate
Foundation
Corporate and Civil Society Perspectives
Nonprofit and Civil Society Studies
An International Multidisciplinary Series
Series Editors
Paul Dekker
Institute for Social Research, The Hague, The Netherlands
Lehn Benjamin
Indiana University – Purdue University Indianapolis, Indianapolis, IN, USA
More information about this series at http://www.springer.com/series/6339
Lonneke Roza • Steffen Bethmann • Lucas Meijs
Georg von Schnurbein
Editors
Handbook on Corporate
Foundation
Corporate and Civil Society Perspectives
Editors
Lonneke Roza Steffen Bethmann
Rotterdam School of Management (RSM) Center for Philanthropy Studies (CEPS)
Erasmus University Rotterdam University of Basel
Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, The Netherlands Basel, Basel Stadt, Switzerland
Lucas Meijs Georg von Schnurbein
Rotterdam School of Management (RSM) Center for Philanthropy Studies (CEPS)
Erasmus University Rotterdam University of Basel
Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, The Netherlands Basel, Basel Stadt, Switzerland
ISSN 1568-2579
Nonprofit and Civil Society Studies
ISBN 978-3-030-25758-3 ISBN 978-3-030-25759-0 (eBook)
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-25759-0
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Contents
1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Lonneke Roza, Steffen Bethmann, Lucas Meijs,
and Georg von Schnurbein
Part I Governance and Management
2 Challenges in Corporate Foundation Governance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
David Renz, Lonneke Roza, and Frans-Joseph Simons
3 Strategic in What Sense? Corporate Foundation Models
in Terms of Their Institutional Independence
and Closeness to Core Business . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Steffen Bethmann and Georg von Schnurbein
4 Families, Firms, and Philanthropy: Shareholder
Foundation Responses to Competing Goals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Joel Bothello, Arthur Gautier, and Anne-Claire Pache
Part II Corporate Foundations in Various Institutional Contexts
5 Corporate Foundations in Europe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
Theresa Gehringer and Georg von Schnurbein
6 Corporate Foundations in the United States . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107
Joannie Tremblay-Boire
7 Do Chinese Corporate Foundations Enhance Civil Society? . . . . . . . 125
Lijun He and Qun Wang
8 Corporate Foundations in Russia: Overview of the Sector . . . . . . . . . 149
Irina Krasnopolskaya
9 Corporate Foundations in Latin America . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167
Marta Rey-Garcia, Michael D. Layton, and Javier Martin-Cavanna
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Part III Stakeholder Perspectives on Corporate Foundations
10 Outsourcing of Corporate Giving: What Corporations
Can(’t) Gain When Using a Collective Corporate
Foundation to Shape Corporate Philanthropy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193
Stephanie Maas
11 The Social Impact of Corporate Citizenship Programs on Their
Beneficiaries and Society at Large: A Case Study . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215
Marjelle Vermeulen and Karen Maas
12 “Capturing People’s Hearts, Hands, and Wallets”: Corporate
Foundations as a Vehicle for Promoting Volunteering . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235
Debbie Haski-Leventhal
13 Revisiting the Political Nature of Corporate Philanthropic
Foundations: The Case of Sweden . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253
Johan Hvenmark and Johan von Essen
14 Nonprofit Organizations’ Views on Corporate Foundations . . . . . . . 271
Sterre Swen, Lonneke Roza, Lucas Meijs, and Alexander Maas
15 Discussion and Conclusion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 287
Lonneke Roza, Steffen Bethmann, Lucas Meijs,
and Georg von Schnurbein
Contributors
Steffen Bethmann Center for Philanthropy Studies (CEPS), University of Basel,
Basel, Switzerland
Joel  Bothello The John Molson School of Business, Concordia University,
Montréal, QC, Canada
Johan von Essen Ersta Sköndal Bräcke University College, Stockholm, Sweden
Arthur Gautier ESSEC Business School, Cergy-Pontoise, France
Theresa Gehringer Center for Philanthropy Studies (CESP), University of Basel,
Basel, Switzerland
Debbie Haski-Leventhal Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Lijun  He Center of Corporate Social Responsibility Development Center,
Shenzhen, China
Institute of Public Service, Seattle University, Seattle, WA, USA
Johan Hvenmark Ersta Sköndal Bräcke University College, Stockholm, Sweden
Irina Krasnopolskaya National Research University Higher School of Economics,
The Centre for Civic Initiatives Assessment, Moscow, Russia
Michael D. Layton Inter-American Foundation, Washington, DC, USA
Alexander Maas University for Humanistics, Utrecht, The Netherlands
Karen  Maas Impact Centre Erasmus (ICE), Erasmus University Rotterdam,
Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Stephanie Maas Rotterdam School of Management (RSM), Erasmus University
Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Javier Martin-Cavanna Fundacion Compromiso y Transparencia, Madrid, Spain
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Lucas  Meijs Rotterdam School of Management (RSM), Erasmus University
Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Anne-Claire Pache ESSEC Business School, Cergy-Pontoise, France
David Renz Midwest Center for Nonprofit Leadership, Henry W. Bloch School of
Management, University of Missouri-Kansas City, Kansas City, MO, USA
Marta Rey-Garcia University of A Coruña, A Coruña, Spain
Lonneke Roza Rotterdam School of Management (RSM), Erasmus University
Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Georg von Schnurbein Center for Philanthropy Studies (CEPS), University of
Basel, Basel, Switzerland
Frans-Joseph  Simons Rotterdam School of Management (RSM), Erasmus
University Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Sterre  Swen Rotterdam School of Management (RSM), Erasmus University
Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Joannie Tremblay-Boire University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA
Marjelle  Vermeulen Impact Centre Erasmus (ICE), Erasmus University
Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Qun Wang Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, USA
List of Figures
Fig. 2.1 Key challenges and tensions to be balanced in corporate
foundation governance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Fig. 3.1 Visualization of independence ratings for two different
foundations. The lines represent two different foundations . . . . . . . 50
Fig. 3.2 Foundations’ clusters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Fig. 3.3 Types of corporate foundations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Fig. 7.1 Geographic distribution of Chinese corporate foundations . . . . . . . 136
Fig. 8.1 Foundations’ budgets for the focused activities, Industrial
vs. Mass market, mln USD∗ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155
Fig. 8.2 Main areas, which are supported by corporate foundations
(n = 16, 2016) (Boldureva 2016) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158
Fig. 10.1 The make-or-buy decision of corporate philanthropy . . . . . . . . . . . 206
Fig. 11.1 ToC behind Social Innovation Relay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220
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List of Tables
Table 3.1 Determinants of the structural relationship between
foundation and corporation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Table 3.2 Sample description . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Table 4.1 Logic prescriptions on three salient dimensions
for shareholder foundations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
Table 4.2 Selected foundations studied in Denmark . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
Table 4.3 Selected foundations studied in Germany . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
Table 4.4 Selected foundations studied in France . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
Table 4.5 Organizational responses to logic prescriptions in Denmark . . . . 75
Table 4.6 Organizational responses to logic prescriptions in Germany . . . . 76
Table 4.7 Organizational responses to logic prescriptions in France . . . . . . 78
Table 5.1 Comparison of key variables over time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
Table 5.2 Comparison of public-benefit and corporate foundations . . . . . . . 92
Table 5.3 Models of non-profit sector regimes (Anheier and
Salamon 1998) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
Table 5.4 Categorization of Vodafone foundations
in European countries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
Table 7.1 Role of nonprofit organizations in contribution
to civil society . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133
Table 7.2 Measures of civil society with a focus on service
and social capital dimension . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134
Table 7.3 Full-time employees, tax-benefit type(s), evaluation
grades, and volunteers of Chinese corporate
foundation vs. all foundations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139
Table 7.4 Financial sustainability of Chinese corporate foundations . . . . . . 141
Table 9.1 Main civil society infrastructures leading
institutionalization of corporate foundations
in the region (author’s elaboration) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168
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