The current article is one of the first studies to address the role of corporate social responsibility strategy (CSRS) in the development of performance-oriented sustainable product attributes (SPA) mix in manufacturing firms. We specifically analyze whether the extent of SPA development by the firm's CSRS matches SPA contribution in export performance or do firms need to adapt CSRS to develop a performance-oriented SPA mix. The empirical analysis uses a panel dataset of 433 manufacturing firms from the United States during 2002–2017. The findings reveal the difference between SPA's outcome (contribution) and SPA development in firms. Further analysis of disaggregated SPA explains the reasoning behind this difference because the firm's CSRS' emphasis on developing distinct attributes of SPA tends to mismatch the proportionate contribution of distinct attributes of SPA in export performance. Our study contributes to SPA, CSRS, and export performance literature by establishing the differences in performance contribution and development of aggregated and disaggregated SPA in manufacturing firms.

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企业社会责任战略、可持续产品属性和出口业绩

本文是最早探讨企业社会责任战略 (CSRS) 在制造企业以绩效为导向的可持续产品属性 (SPA) 组合发展中的作用的研究之一。我们专门分析了公司 CSRS 开发 SPA 的程度是否与 SPA 对出口绩效的贡献相匹配，或者公司是否需要调整 CSRS 以开发以绩效为导向的 SPA 组合。实证分析使用了 2002-2017 年美国 433 家制造公司的面板数据集。调查结果揭示了 SPA 的结果（贡献）与公司 SPA 发展之间的差异。对分解的 SPA 的进一步分析解释了这种差异背后的原因，因为公司的 CSRS 强调发展 SPA 的独特属性往往与 SPA 的独特属性对出口绩效的贡献比例不匹配。我们的研究通过确定制造企业中聚合和分解 SPA 在绩效贡献和发展方面的差异，为 SPA、CSRS 和出口绩效文献做出了贡献。