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Putting the “love of humanity” back in corporate philanthropy : the case of health grants by corporate foundations

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Boodoo, Muhammad Umar, Henriques, Irene and Husted, Bryan W. (2022) Putting the “love of humanity” back in corporate philanthropy : the case of health grants by corporate foundations. Journal of Business Ethics, 178 . pp. 415-428. doi:10.1007/s10551-021-04807-2 ISSN 0167-4544.

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Abstract

With the growing call for private sector actors to address global challenges, it is necessary to first assess whether regions with the greatest needs are accessing corporate philanthropy. In this paper, we ask whether corporate philanthropy is reaching those with the greatest health-care needs. Drawing on economic geography and corporate homophily, we argue that corporate philanthropy tends to exacerbate health inequality as grants are destined for counties with fewer health problems. We test and find support for this hypothesis using data on health grants made by US corporate foundations and county-level health data. Our results that corporate health grants are less likely to go to counties which have a lower proportion of medical service providers and insured citizens suggest that corporate foundations are unwittingly complicit in worsening the resource gap between small, poor, rural counties and large, wealthy, urban counties. From an ethical perspective, we provide some guidance as to how this may be corrected.

Item Type: Journal Article
Subjects: H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor
H Social Sciences > HG Finance
H Social Sciences > HT Communities. Classes. Races
H Social Sciences > HV Social pathology. Social and public welfare
R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine
Divisions: Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): Corporations -- Charitable contributions , Social classes -- Health aspects, Equality -- Health aspects, Social responsibility of business
Journal or Publication Title: Journal of Business Ethics
Publisher: Springer Netherlands
ISSN: 0167-4544
Official Date: June 2022
Dates:
DateEvent
June 2022Published
10 April 2021Available
24 March 2021Accepted
Volume: 178
Page Range: pp. 415-428
DOI: 10.1007/s10551-021-04807-2
Status: Peer Reviewed
Publication Status: Published
Access rights to Published version: Open Access (Creative Commons)
Date of first compliant deposit: 14 April 2021
Date of first compliant Open Access: 14 April 2021

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