This research assesses the impact of combining the economic, social and environmental dimensions of the corporate social responsibility (CSR) on firm innovation. In particular, we test whether the three dimensions of CSR (economic, social and environmental) are interrelated (behavioural complementarity), and whether their joined adoption will generate super-additive innovation performance effects (objective complementarity). To that end, we draw on the Community Innovation Survey (CIS) for Spain during the period 2009–2014. The analyses confirm behavioural complementarity among the three dimensions of CSR, as well as differences on objective complementarities depending on the innovation performance measure considered. In particular, the combination of the social dimension with any of the two others (economic and environmental) is the one that gives the best results in terms of radical innovation, whereas both the economic and environmental dimensions of CSR seem to be fundamental to foster incremental innovation. These results have implications for academics and practitioners, since they provide useful guidelines for the design of CSR in order to enhance firm innovation.

本研究评估了结合企业社会责任 (CSR) 的经济、社会和环境维度对公司创新的影响。特别是，我们检验了企业社会责任的三个维度（经济、社会和环境）是否相互关联（行为互补），以及它们的联合采用是否会产生超加性创新绩效效应（客观互补）。为此，我们借鉴了 2009-2014 年期间针对西班牙的社区创新调查 (CIS)。分析证实了企业社会责任三个维度之间的行为互补性，以及取决于所考虑的创新绩效衡量标准的客观互补性差异。尤其是，社会维度与其他两个维度（经济和环境）的结合是在激进创新方面产生最佳结果的维度，而企业社会责任的经济和环境维度似乎都是促进渐进式创新的基础。这些结果对学者和从业者都有影响，因为它们为企业社会责任的设计提供了有用的指导，以增强企业创新。