Abstract: Party organization embedding is an important guarantee for the high-quality development of private enterprises. Based on data from Chinese Private Enterprise Survey from 2006 to 2016, the present study investigates the relationship between party organization embedding and CSR in private enterprises. The results demonstrate that party organization embedding in a private enterprises is conductive for the Confucian concept of righteousness and interests to extend internally through a top-down manner and develop at grass-roots level, thus making them more active in performing CSR. For environmental responsibility, party organization embedding is conductive for enterprises to carry out more ex ante environmental responsibility rather than ex post environmental responsibility. This paper explores the internal mechanism by which the embedding of party organizations in private enterprises promotes the fulfillment of corporate social responsibility from the perspectives of traditional Chinese Confucian views on righteousness and interests and embedding theory, providing a theoretical basis and empirical evidence for the comprehensive advancement of party building in private enterprises.

Key words: private enterprises, party organization embedding, employee responsibility, environmental responsibility