基于企业社会责任的财务绩效评价研究

长期以来,企业发展一直局限于股东财富最大化这一目标。在此目标驱使下,企业自身的生产经营虽然得到了长足的发展,但是却导致了非常严重的社会问题。企业作为社会经济活动的主体,对改善既有的社会和环境问题有无法推卸的责任。本文在界定企业社会责任概念及其主要内容基础上,分析企业社会责任与财务绩效的关系,为财务绩效评价体系的创新提供了理论基础。同时结合我国当前绩效评价体系现状,构建一个全面综合的企业社会责任财务绩效评价体系,作为解决当前企业社会责任缺失问题的基本框架。     

名流企业家的社会责任

在中国市场经济高速发展和企业家财富快速增长的同时，企业家的社会责任和管理企业的责任应该和市场经济的发展同时增长。名流企业家是社会的标杆，他承担着更大的社会责任。     

财务报告发展与企业社会责任进步

财务报告的发展是会计发展的风向标，本文通过将企业社会责任分为四个从高到低的层次，并且将财务报告和社会责任的发展相配比，发现企业社会责任会随着二者的发展而进步，同时说明了会计发展与企业社会责任进步的关系。事实上，二者是相互促进，相互影响的，这为我们研究财务报告、信息披露的发展方向提供了一定的理论依据。     

社会责任信息披露的影响因素分析

以财富最大化为目标的企业在高速发展过程中产生了一系列社会问题,自2006年起我国证券交易所和国资委相继颁布法规鼓励企业披露社会责任信息,企业的社会责任信息披露日益成为研究热点。本文结合已有的研究结论,从国家宏观、利益相关者、企业微观三个层面分析了社会责任信息披露的影响因素,并深入探讨这些影响产生的根源和作用机制。最后提出提高企业社会责任信息披露积极性的建议。     

我国企业社会责任会计信息披露现状与对策思考

社会为企业的发展创造条件和提供各种形式的资源,企业除了为股东创造财富之外,还应该承担一定的社会责任,从社会的长远利益出发组织经营活动。但是近年来企业的一些不负责任的行为已经威胁到了社会的可持续发展,例如企业产品质量低下、劳资关系紧张、自然环境污染等等。如何督促企业更好的承担社会责任,实现经济、社会和环境的可持续发展,是我们必须要解决的问题。而要求企业披露社会责任信息是达到这一目的的最好方法。我国对这一问题的研究相对较晚,理论研究与实务操作还处于摸索阶段,至今还未制定出一套完整的社会责任信息披露     

刍论我国建立社会责任会计的必然性

社会责任会计在社会上出现已有３０多年的历史，但在我国至今尚未建立。笔者通过走访几十个企业，从掌握企业履行社会责任的第一手材料中，深感我国企业建立社会责任会计已刻不容缓。本文从本世纪末世界上出现的企业新概念和我国可持续发展战略的提出出发，论述我国企业建立社会责任会计的必然性。一、企业新概念的提出必然要求我国建立社会责任会计。企业—人道主义论坛协会会长约翰·马雷斯卡在其所著《企业新概念》一文中说：“今天世界出现了一种崭新的企业新概念，即企业已不再被看作只是为拥有者创造利润和财富的工具，它还必须对整个…     

保险公司社会责任信度评价体系初探

一、国内企业社会责任评价体系研究综述 随着西方国家企业社会责任运动的兴起，我国学术界和企业界从上世纪90年代开始逐渐认识到企业社会责任问题的重要性，包括保险公司在内的许多企业积极响应全球企业社会责任运动和联合国“全球协议”计划，探索企业社会责任的内涵和实现形式。天安保险公司和中国人寿先后发布了“公司责任报告书”和“社会责任报告”，分别阐述了保险公司社会责任的内涵和建设内容。     

企业社会责任评价指标体系构建研究

企业社会责任评价是当前理论研究和企业实践中一个急需解决的问题。本文从企业理论视角对企业社会责任理论的演进历程进行了回顾,并对企业社会责任进行了界定,在此基础上把企业社会责任评价指标体系构建统一于生产力和生产关系的分析框架。本文认为,企业社会责任就是在处理好企业与社会、环境关系基础上,实现企业可持续发展并进而获取企业整体价值最大化,构建企业社会责任评价指标体系应从企业与社会和自然关系两个维度展开,按照这一逻辑思路,本文构建了企业社会责任评价指标体系。     

建立我国社会责任会计的若干思考

社会责任会计是会计学的一个新分支。它于20世纪60年代末始创于美国，以后在世界各国，特别是西欧各国，得到了传播和发展。随着市场经济的确立和发展，我国经济已逐渐融于世界经济之中；与此同时，我国又正面临着环境污染、资源枯竭、人员下岗失业等一系列社会经济问题，这就使得研究建立我国社会责任会计具有极大的现实意义。一、社会责任会计的本质及其内容传统的财务会计理论及业务处理只涉及两个或者两个以上的经济实体之间的交易，而社会责任会计则是要测定、计量、揭示一个企业在处理经济问题中对社会环境的影响，揭示经济实体的社会…     

企业社会责任评价指标体系构建研究

企业社会责任评价是当前理论研究和企业实践中一个急需解决的问题.本文从企业理论视角对企业社会责任理论的演进历程进行了回顾,并对企业社会责任进行了界定,在此基础上把企业社会责任评价指标体系构建统一于生产力和生产关系的分析框架.本文认为,企业社会责任就是在处理好企业与社会、环境关系基础上,实现企业可持续发展并进而获取企业整体价值最大化,构建企业社会责任评价指标体系应从企业与社会和自然关系两个维度展开,按照这一逻辑思路,本文构建了企业社会责任评价指标体系.     

The futures of family businesses and the development of corporate social responsibility

Existing theoretical and empirical research on the diffusion of social responsibility in family businesses (FBs) has largely focused on the differences in corporate social responsibility (CSR) activities between family firms and nonfamily firms. But the differences in CSR activities and perceptions among different types of family businesses has not yet been researched, even if there are important differences in family businesses. Drawing on the evolution of CSR approach from positive to post positive and to Habermasian approach, and integrating it with a view of family firms as systems made of three different subsystems that over the course of time can be differently preponderant, we identify a typology of family firms. Our typology supports a fine-tuned understanding of the dynamics of CSR and family businesses in different configurations and facilitates envisioning the futures of family businesses in the development of CSR through the different types but also beyond. With this work we contribute to the literature by suggesting that patterns of CSR can be conceived by drawing on the evolving political conception of CSR. Specifically, we show that family firms can represent an ideal laboratory to depict the possible evolution of family firms CSR behaviors and test the tenets of the Habermasian approaches in addition to other approaches.     

Corporate social responsibility and the wealth gains from dividend increases

This study examines whether corporate social responsibility (CSR) influences the stock price response to dividend increase announcements and changes in subsequent operating performance. We find that dividend increasing firms with lower CSR scores elicit higher abnormal announcement returns and greater improvements in industry‐adjusted operating performance. These findings support the argument in the literature that socially responsible firms are more transparent and commit to higher ethical standards than other firms, suggesting that they suffer fewer agency and informational problems (Kim, Park, & Wier, 2012). Consequently, larger dividend payouts reduce agency costs in firms with lower CSR commitments, thereby generating higher wealth gains for shareholders.     

Does corporate social responsibility protect shareholder value from the shock of COVID-19? Evidence from China

Our study examines whether and how increased engagement in social responsibility activities by a firm affects movements in its stock prices during the COVID-19 public health crisis, which is regarded as an exogenous shock to economic ties between focal firms and their customers, employees, and suppliers. We find that corporate social responsibility has an inverted U-shaped relationship with shareholder value. The nonlinear relationship is more dominant at firms with higher cash-flow constraints and weaker cost-adjustment capabilities. Our research also generates meaningful implications for business practices.     

Managerial ability,corporate social culture,and M&As

We investigate the predictive power of corporate social culture, as measured by corporate social responsibility (CSR) intensity, on shareholder wealth when mergers and acquisitions (M&As) are carried out by managers with different traits. We find acquiring firms with talented managers are more inclined to engage in CSR activities to shape corporate social culture, thereby realizing larger short- and long-term gains than their counterparts. We also document that acquiring firms with higher levels of CSR commitment led by talented managers tend to acquire targets of similar corporate social culture and experience significantly positive post-merger returns, suggesting that corporate cultural similarity constitutes an important source of M&A synergies. These findings suggest that corporate culture built through stakeholder relations acts as a differentiation strategy that pays off when skilled managers engage in M&As, which typically prompt information asymmetries between managers and outsiders.     

Public family businesses and corporate social responsibility assurance: The role of mimetic pressures

Extant research focuses on firms’ voluntary demand for corporate social responsibility assurance (CSRA) and highlights the roles of country- and industry-level factors on firms’ CSRA decisions. We use different types of agency problems to explain their CSRA decisions at the firm level and explain why over time public family businesses (PFBs) vary in their resistance to the mimetic pressures from earlier CSRA adopters in the same sector. We analyze a sample of firms listed on the Taiwan Stock Exchange and Taipei Exchange firms during 2014–2017 and find that the likelihood of acquiring CSRA is lower in PFBs than in non-family firms. Furthermore, we find that the industry-level mimetic pressures weaken the negative association between the likelihood of acquiring CSRA and PFBs with less severe central agency problems. However, PFBs with severer central agency problems are still unwilling to acquire CSRA even under the pressure from peer CSRA adopters.     

Corporate social responsibility versus corporate shareholder responsibility: A family firm perspective

Recent literature suggests that some socially responsible corporate actions benefit shareholders while others do not. We study differences in policy toward corporate social responsibility (CSR) between family and non-family firms, using environmental performance as the proxy for CSR. We show that family firms are more responsible to shareholders than non-family firms in making environmental investments. When shareholder interests and societal interests coincide, i.e., when it comes to alleviating environmental concerns that have potential to harm society and elevate the firm's risk exposure, family firms do at least as well as non-family firms in protecting shareholder interests. However, when shareholder and societal interests diverge, i.e., when it comes to making environmental investments that might benefit society but do not benefit shareholders, family firms protect shareholder interests by undertaking a significantly lower level of such investments than non-family firms. Our findings suggest that lack of diversification by controlling families creates strong incentives for them to act in the financial interest of all shareholders, which more than overcomes any noneconomic benefits families may derive from engaging in social causes that do not benefit non-controlling shareholders.     

Spreading the sin: An empirical assessment from corporate takeovers

An acquisition of a company involved in socially undesirable activities can have important value implications. On the one hand, stocks in sin industries can be undervalued, and positive wealth effects might be created through risk sharing and a halo effect. On the other hand, acquiring sin stocks could increase litigation risk and the chance of product boycotts, and could hurt relations with employees and other stakeholders. Moreover, many investors avoid investments in sin stocks by applying negative screening. This article empirically establishes that shareholders of acquirer firms on average discount sin acquisitions. The negative wealth effects are stronger in countries with a greater focus on corporate social responsibility and for deals that are more likely to receive public attention. The article concludes that the costs of “sin” are considerable.     

企业履行社会责任的共赢效应——基于精准扶贫的视角

本文以沪深A股非金融上市公司作为样本,研究实施精准扶贫对扶贫企业以及被扶贫地区的影响。研究发现,对于扶贫企业而言,实施精准扶贫能够显著缓解其融资约束。从扶贫方式来看,产业扶贫和教育扶贫的效果最为明显。从经济后果来看,实施精准扶贫不仅提高了扶贫企业的经营业绩,而且增加了股东的财富水平。对于被扶贫地区而言,精准扶贫显著提高了地区经济发展和居民可支配收入的增长速度,更重要的是,该地区的生态环境并未遭受明显破坏。在企业实施精准扶贫的动机方面,本文发现管理者私利动机并不能解释企业的精准扶贫行为。上述结果表明,与慈善捐赠有所不同,企业实施精准扶贫并不是企业自利的工具,而是利他性动机与战略性动机的结合,能够实现企业、社会与环境三者的共赢。     

Does It Pay to Be Socially Responsible? Evidence from Spain's Retail Banking Sector

This paper extends the research on the relation between financial performance and corporate social responsibility in two respects. First, it develops a model of strategic competition that includes consumer perceptions with respect to firm social performance. It is shown that in the presence of a positive valuation of social responsibility practices by consumers, a firm that endorses this responsible behaviour may obtain a better strategic position in the market, along with higher margin, demand, and profit. Second, the model's predictions are tested with a sample of Spanish banking firms. The empirical analysis confirms that consumers significantly value other features apart from price in making deposit and mortgage decisions, particularly a financial institution's social responsibility. A more disaggregated analysis shows first, that not every CSR dimension has relevance for consumers and second, that customers equally value activities that can have a direct impact on their well‐being (e.g., culture and leisure), as well as other activities that can be viewed more generally as public goods (e.g., heritage and the environment). These conclusions are of interest in the debate about a firm's social or ethical activities. It is shown that, provided that consumers value corporate social responsibility activities, firms can improve both their competitive position in the market and their profits by behaving in a socially responsible manner. Therefore, the design and implementation of corporate social responsibility practices could confer upon firms an initial competitive advantage over their competitors.     

Corporate social responsibility overinvestment in mergers and acquisitions

Corporate social responsibility (CSR) has been advocated by scholars and practitioners whereas overinvestment in CSR can destroy value. This paper investigates how CSR overinvestment influences firm value in the context of mergers and acquisitions (M&As). Specifically, we examine the shareholder wealth and financial performance of firms who bid on targets with CSR overinvestment. The results suggest that firms purchasing CSR-overinvesting targets experience significant declining market reactions to the M&A announcements and deteriorating financial performance following the M&A transactions. We further show significant improvement in CSR ratings and CEO pay among acquirers purchasing CSR-overinvesting targets. Moreover, the adverse effects of CSR-overinvesting targets on M&A outcomes are more pronounced for the acquiring firms with weak corporate governance or with retiring CEOs. Our findings suggest that a firm makes a value-destroying M&A with a CSR-overinvesting target probably for the benefit of improved CSR and CEO gains. This study provides evidence for the agency view of CSR investment in the context of M&As.