海外企业社会责任信息披露研究综述及启示

研究发现，企业进行社会信息披露的外在驱动因素主要有两种：一是来自规章制度和立法的压力；二是来自投资者及其他利益相关者对企业社会责任信息的需求。而企业进行社会责任信息披露的内在影响因素主要有：成本和利益、战略、企业绩效、公司规模、行业属性等。当前国外企业社会责任信息披露实践和理论研究成果主要表现在企业社会责任信息披露能够给企业资本市场行为带来的利益，如较高的股价、较低的股票风险和较低的资本成本，而且，随着投资者对企业社会责任信息需求的增多，投资者关系的内涵也在扩展，与投资者沟通企业社会责任信息已成为国外企业的发展趋势。     

智力资本信息披露困境评析

本文依据“资源基础论”阐述智力资本与企业持续竞争位势之间的关系,指出智力资本信息披露对企业外部利益相关者的重要性,分析目前智力资本信息披露的困境,并从产权制度、会计模式、产品市场竞争、信息披露政治动机、智力资本理论发展等多个角度剖析智力资本信息披露困境的根源,提出促进智力资本信息披露的几点建议。     

社会责任会计信息披露探析——基于利益相关者

<正>社会责任会计被誉为会计史上的"第四次革命",其信息披露问题是当前理论界与实务界关注的焦点。从利益相关者视角探讨社会责任信息披露能清楚地界定企业对社会各利益相关者承担社会责任的范围,使企业披露的社会责任信息更具有预测和决策价值。一、利益相关者界定及构成上世纪60年代斯坦福研究院的学者给出的利益相关者的定义是:对企业来说存在这样一些利益群体,如果没有他们的支持,企业就无法生存(Clark,1998)。Freeman(1984)提出利益相关者是"那些能够影响企业目标实现,或者能够     

我国企业社会责任会计信息披露研究

企业社会责任信息披露问题是当前国内外会计界研究的热点和难点问题。建立有效的企业社会责任会计信息披露体系,可以更好的督促企业自觉履行应承担的社会责任。企业社会责任要求实现利益相关者利益的最大化,而不仅仅只关注股东的权益。本文从企业利益相关者需求的角度来分析研究我国社会责任信息披露,采用指数评分法分析研究我国社会责任信息披露的现状和存在的问题,并提出构建以需求为导向的社会责任披露模式。     

企业社会责任信息披露与资本成本的互动关系——基于信息不对称视角的一个分析框架

信息不对称是增加企业资本成本的一个重要因素,企业社会责任信息披露有助于降低信息不对称,从而降低资本成本,但该作用的发挥受制于企业是否真实、适当地进行了社会责任信息披露;而基于较低的资本成本约束,企业社会责任信息披露动机、水平和质量也会受到影响,企业社会责任信息披露与资本成本之间存在互动关系。     

公司治理结构与碳信息披露的相关性研究

在温室效应日益加剧的大背景下,"低碳"经济已成为了各国的经济发展主题。企业各利益相关者都十分关注企业的碳排放量以及社会责任,进行碳信息披露是满足利益相关者需求的必要手段。然而,企业碳信息披露的决策受到多方面的影响,本文从公司治理结构和碳信息披露关系的角度出发,研究各公司治理结构特征对碳信息披露的影响。     

智力资本信息披露的困境

目前各国企业的智力资本信息披露都严重不足,这主要是由"物质资本至上"的财务会计模式、产品市场竞争、信息披露政治动机和不成熟的智力资本理论所共同造成的,应加强智力资本理论研究,积极构建利益相关者会计,以促进智力资本信息的有效披露,政府部门也应该积极介入智力资本信息披露的协调与规范工作.     

公司社会责任信息披露与公司治理的研究——以有色金属行业上市公司为例

我国越来越多的上市公司选择披露社会责任信息,在完善公司治理结构过程中增加对利益相关者诉求的关注。文章在梳理前人研究的基础上,以有色金属行业上市公司为样本对公司社会责任信息披露与公司治理的关系进行了实证研究。研究发现,国有持股比例、董事会人数、独立董事比例、监事会次数对公司社会责任信息的披露有显著正的影响,而高管持股人数对社会责任信息披露没有显著影响。     

公司社会责任信息披露与公司治理的研究——以有色金属行业上市公司为例

我国越来越多的上市公司选择披露社会责任信息,在完善公司治理结构过程中增加对利益相关者诉求的关注.文章在梳理前人研究的基础上,以有色金属行业上市公司为样本对公司社会责任信息披露与公司治理的关系进行了实证研究.研究发现,国有持股比例、董事会人数、独立董事比例、监事会次数对公司社会责任信息的披露有显著正的影响,而高管持股人数对社会责任信息披露没有显著影响.     

企业环境信息披露影响因素实证分析:2010~2011年A股重污染行业上市公司观察

以2010～2011年A股重污染行业上市公司作为研究对象,从产品市场竞争、公司治理角度考察了企业环境信息披露的影响因素。结果显示：公司治理结构的合理安排能够对提升企业环境信息披露质量产生一定的积极作用,但是产品市场竞争与公司治理机制之间的关系尚不明确。本文的研究结论意味着,在我国当前的制度背景下,要提高企业环境信息披露水平,保护利益相关者利益,有必要继续完善上市公司治理结构;同时,本研究也说明产品市场竞争并不能解释重污染行业企业环境信息披露的动机。     

Corporate social responsibility disclosure and the cost of equity capital: The roles of stakeholder orientation and financial transparency

We examine the benefits associated with corporate social responsibility (CSR) disclosure in an international setting covering 31 countries. Using variables such as the legal status of labor protection, CSR disclosure requirements, and public awareness of and attitudes toward CSR issues, we divide countries into more and less stakeholder-oriented groups. We find a negative association between CSR disclosure and the cost of equity capital; this relationship is more pronounced in stakeholder-oriented countries. We also find evidence that financial and CSR disclosures act as substitutes for each other in reducing the cost of equity capital. This study furthers our understanding of CSR disclosure and its consequences.     

Quality of Corporate Social Responsibility Disclosure and Cost of Equity Capital: Lessons from China

This article explores the relationship between the quality of corporate social responsibility (CSR) disclosure and the cost of equity capital by analyzing the financial data and CSR reports of A-share listed firms in China from 2008 to 2014. The quality of the CSR disclosure is shown to be negatively related to the cost of equity capital of the listed firms. This negative correlation proves to be more prominent among firms of environmentally sensitive industries. Taking the ownership of the listed firms into consideration, it is further confirmed that the negative relationship between the CSR disclosure and the cost of equity capital is of higher significance for state-owned enterprises. Our findings also empirically demonstrate that the quality of CSR disclosure is more negatively related to the cost of equity capital among the large listed firms than the smaller ones.     

Discussion of ‘Strange bedfellows? Voluntary CSR disclosure and politics’

This article discusses the paper by Griffin and Sun (2013). Griffin and Sun (2013) investigate (i) the association between the company individuals and stakeholders political interests and the intensity of voluntary corporate social responsibility (CSR) disclosures, and (ii) investors response to these CSR disclosures. This discussion focuses on issues relating to five key areas of Griffin and Sun (2013), namely, the relationship between political interests and CSR disclosure intensity, the relationship between political interests and investors reactions to CSR disclosure, the political interest proxies employed, sample selection and the empirical analyses.     

Informative or distracting: CSR disclosure of peer firms and analyst forecast accuracy

We investigate the relationship between the CSR disclosure of peer firms and the analyst forecast accuracy of the focal firm. We find a negative association between peer CSR disclosure and analyst forecast error of the focal firm, indicating that peer CSR disclosure is informative. This negative association is more pronounced when the information environment of the focal firm is worse, when the correlation in fundamentals between the focal firm and its peers is higher, when the business of the focal firm is less complex, when the focal firm has more expert analyst coverage, when the focal firm's financial performance is more sensitive to CSR engagement, or when the quality of peer CSR disclosure is higher. Overall, we show that peer CSR disclosure conveys value-relevant information about the focal firm. Our study enriches the literature on both analyst forecasts and peer information, and we also provide important implications for practitioners in understanding the role of CSR disclosure in capital markets.     

Corporate social responsibility and degrees of operating and financial leverage

We examine the relationship between corporate social responsibility (CSR) and firms’ degrees of operating (DOL) and financial leverage (DFL). Combining the enlightened value maximizing and capital structure theories, we hypothesize that CSR as firms’ strategic choice to internalize the cost from implicit contracts between the firms and their non-investing stakeholders affects firms’ operating and financial leverage. We find empirical evidence that CSR and CSR strengths are positively (negatively) related to firms’ DOL (DFL). CSR concerns are positively related firms’ DOL and DFL. We also document that CSR is positively related to firms’ operating cost and we find evidence that CSR acts as a substitute for corporate debt tax shield when firms’ financial leverage is low.     

Social disclosure, financial disclosure and the cost of equity capital

We test the relation between financial and social disclosure and the cost of equity capital for a sample of Canadian firms with year-ends in 1990, 1991 and 1992. We find that, consistent with prior research, the quantity and quality of financial disclosure is negatively related to the cost of equity capital for firms with low analyst following. Contrary to expectations, there is a significant positive relation between social disclosures and the cost of equity capital. This positive relationship is mitigated among firms with better financial performance. We consider some biases in social disclosures that may explain this result. We also note that social disclosures may benefit the firm through its effect on organizational stakeholders other than equity investors.     

Mandatory corporate social responsibility disclosure and dividend payouts: evidence from a quasi‐natural experiment

Employing the enactment of a regulation that mandates a subset of firms to disclose their corporate social responsibility (CSR) activities as a quasi‐natural experiment, we find that mandatory CSR disclosure reduces firms’ dividend payouts significantly. Further analyses indicate that the negative relation is more pronounced for firms with weaker corporate governance mechanisms, where shareholders lack of effective tools to protect themselves against pressures from stakeholders, and a shift of relative power towards stakeholders is more likely to occur. Our paper provides a specific channel through which mandatory CSR disclosure benefits stakeholders at the expense of shareholders.     

A Textual Analysis of US Corporate Social Responsibility Reports

We employ computer-based textual analysis to examine disclosure patterns for a sample of US corporate social responsibility (CSR) reports from the period 2002–2016. Starting from 466 features commonly used in computational linguistics, our results show that the linguistics or disclosure patterns in CSR reports can be used to accurately predict the actual CSR performance type of CSR reporters. Specifically, we find that the two most commonly used disclosure characteristics, number of words and number of sentences, alone can be used to predict reporting firms’ CSR performance type with 81% accuracy. The accuracy of prediction increases to 96% when the top 50 linguistics features most relevant to firms’ CSR performance are included in the prediction model. In addition, we find that the linguistic features of CSR disclosure identified by our study are incrementally value relevant to investors even after controlling for the actual CSR performance score from the professional CSR rating agencies. This finding suggests that the linguistic features of CSR disclosure can be an important venue for capital market participants in evaluating firms’ CSR performance type, especially when professional CSR performance ratings are not available.