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Examining Chinese Corporate's Philanthropy for the Sustainable Development Goals

Defense date2021-09-08
Abstract

Enterprises, as principal decision-making units in the market and cells of the national economy, can play a crucial role in promoting sustainable economic, social, and ecological development. In response to the call of the United Nations, enterprises in China have taken on more responsibility in the joint efforts toward Sustainable Development Goals. In 2019, the total amount of social donations in China reached totaling 170 billion yuan, and 55% of them are from enterprises (China Charity Alliance, 2020). However, research tracking and assessing their impacts and outcomes achieved is scarce. In order to investigate the patterns, mechanisms, and outcomes of corporate philanthropy in China under the UN 2030 Agenda, this study intends to examine Chinese enter prises' philanthropy for SDGs through both quantitative and qualitative analysis. We 1) construct a donation database towards SDGs covering over 6 million donation events from 2008 to 2020 with outer partners, 2) conduct four quantitative analyses of corporate donations to SDGs in four different scenarios including contributions of leading companies, the contributions in 2015, the donating preferences of companies in the power industry, and the enterprises' donating behaviors during the Covid 19 pandemic, and 3) provide several case studies on Chinese enterprises' donations to SDGs to explore who the stakeholders engaged in the process are and how the donations could be managed and finally go towards certain sustainable development goals. Accordingly, a panorama of Chinese enterprises' philanthropy for SDGs is developed eventually and suggestions are proposed for relevant stakeholders to facilitate the corporate participation in SDGs through philanthropy.

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Keywords
  • Philanthropy
  • SDGs
Citation (ISO format)
ZHA, Hao, MA, Jinghuan, WU, Haiming. Examining Chinese Corporate’s Philanthropy for the Sustainable Development Goals. 2021.
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