Research on Social Responsibility Behavior Preference of Construction Enterprises Based on Stakeholder Theory

Corporate social responsibility is one of the prerequisites for sustainable development in the construction industry. The aim of this research is to analyze the social responsibility behavior of construction enterprises, especially to find whether there is a social responsibility behavior preference in construction enterprises. In this study, the framework for social responsibility assessment of construction enterprises is proposed based on the stakeholder theory. Third-parties data is used to test social responsibility behavior of construction enterprises with method of mean comparison and paired-samples T test. The results confirm the existence of social responsibility behavior preference in construction enterprises, which give priority to the social responsibility of shareholders and employees while government responsibility is easy to be neglected. Meanwhile, results can instruct construction enterprises to improve CSR performance in the future, as well as providing practitioners and the academia with better understanding of CSR issues of construction enterprises.