社会责任履行对企业价值的影响

经济全球化使得世界各国联系更为紧密,全球环境污染、气候变化、企业信用危机等的挑战,共同推动企业社会责任运动的蓬勃发展。企业作为最重要的社会生产组织,积极履行社会责任是遵循人口、资源与环境可持续发展理念的重要表现,也是企业追求价值增值的实际需要。在对国内外文献评述的基础上,基于利益相关者理论,阐述了企业履行社会责任对企业价值的影响路径,并利用A股上市公司2009-2011年292组数据,检验企业社会责任履行与企业价值的相关关系。研究结论表明企业社会责任与企业价值之间存在显著正相关关系,这为企业自觉履行社会责任提供了一定的理论指导。     

浅谈企业如何履行社会责任

从最近几年企业发生的重大社会责任案例来分析,作者认为企业在创造利润、对股东负责的同时,必须重视并切实履行社会责任,它关系到企业的前途、命运,也是对国家、社会、人类负责.本文讲述了企业如何履行社会责任并对出现社会责任危机时的处理措施.     

企业履行社会责任与其财务业绩的相关性研究——基于2010-2013年采矿业上市公司的面板数据

对于企业履行社会责任与其财务业绩的相关性问题的研究已经逐渐成为国内外理论研究的热点问题.对于企业履行社会责任是否会提高其业绩表现,一直都有不同观点.论文以我国采矿业70家上市公司作为研究对象,通过分析其2010年-2013年公开披露的财务报告以及社会责任报告,对其履行社会责任与其财务业绩的相关关系进行实证分析.结果表明本期和上一期的财务业绩会对公司履行社会责任产生正向的积极影响,且本期财务业绩的影响更为显著;公司本期履行社会责任状况会对当期公司的财务业绩产生显著的正向影响,上一期履行社会责任对本期财务业绩有不显著的逆向影响.     

浅谈企业的社会责任

近两年来,社会各界在广泛地讨论企业的社会责任问题,笔者就企业社会责任的概念,企业与企业的社会责任关系,企业履行社会责任的意义,当前我国企业在履行社会责任中存在的问题及原因,国家和企业在企业履行社会责任方面应采取的措施及社会责任的发展趋势等方面表达了息己的观点.     

社会责任视角下企业财务管理目标问题研究

企业履行其应承担的社会责任是企业和社会可以和谐长远发展的要求,随着社会的发展,对企业履行社会责任的要求越来越必要,本文在分析了社会责任和企业财务管理目标的关系及传统的财务管理目标之后,提出了在社会责任视角下嵌入社会责任的企业财务管理目标——企业社会增加值最大化,希望企业在实现其增加值最大化的同时能够平衡各方利益相关者之间的关系,实现企业和社会的可持续发展.     

浅谈企业如何履行社会责任

从最近几年企业发生的重大社会责任案例来分析,作者认为企业在创造利润、对股东负责的同时,必须重视并切实履行社会责任,它关系到企业的前途、命运,也是对国家、社会、人类负责。本文讲述了企业如何履行社会责任并对出现社会责任危机时的处理措施。     

浅谈企业的社会责任

近两年来,社会各界在广泛地讨论企业的社会责任问题,笔者就企业社会责任的概念,企业与企业的社会责任关系,企业履行社会责任的意义,当前我国企业在履行社会责任中存在的问题及原因,国家和企业在企业履行社会责任方面应采取的措施及社会责任的发展趋势等方面表达了自己的观点。     

政府信任关系、企业社会责任与企业竞争力

稳固的政府信任关系不仅能有效促进企业组织力的增强,还能够帮助企业优化治理结构,增强风险抵抗能力,提高组织韧性.保持深入的政府信任关系会使企业注重社会责任的履行,有助于企业形象的塑造,但同时也会占用企业有限的资源.以资源依赖理论、制度理论、信号传递理论、利益相关者理论为基础,选取529个A股上市公司2011-2018年连续8年的数据,研究政府信任关系、企业社会责任对企业竞争力的影响,结果发现:政府信任关系对企业社会责任的履行具有促进作用,企业履行社会责任对企业竞争力会有长期促进作用,政府信任关系对企业竞争力的提升具有促进作用,政府信任关系削弱了企业社会责任对企业竞争力的促进作用.该研究可以为新发展阶段企业构建和谐清朗的政企信任关系、增强企业履行社会责任意识、提升企业可持续竞争力等提供一定的经验证据和政策启示.     

企业社会责任对股价波动的影响研究

企业社会责任与股价波动二者之间的关系是本文研究的重点.在此,笔者以2011-2015年A股上市公司披露社会责任报告的公司作为研究对象,实证结果表明:(1)企业社会责任与股价波动风险之间呈现显著的负相关关系,说明在中国资本市场中企业履行社会责任的情况越好,股价走势越好;(2)企业社会责任对股价的抑制作用仅在自愿披露的企业中存在,而在强制披露的企业中不存在.     

企业品牌价值与社会责任履行情况相关性研究

本文用社会责任发展指数代表企业社会责任履行情况,通过对中国社会科学院经济学部企业社会责任研究中心发布的2010年中国企业社会责任发展指数和世界品牌实验室(World.Brand Lab)发布的2010年度《中国500最具价值品牌排行榜》企业的品牌价值进行实证分析,发现企业社会责任发展指数与品牌价值存在正向的相关关系,从而为企业提高品牌价值寻找到了新方向,也对积极履行社会责任并进行恰当披露的企业起到一定的激励作用.     

Social Capital,Trust, and Firm Performance: The Value of Corporate Social Responsibility during the Financial Crisis

During the 2008–2009 financial crisis, firms with high social capital, as measured by corporate social responsibility (CSR) intensity, had stock returns that were four to seven percentage points higher than firms with low social capital. High‐CSR firms also experienced higher profitability, growth, and sales per employee relative to low‐CSR firms, and they raised more debt. This evidence suggests that the trust between a firm and both its stakeholders and investors, built through investments in social capital, pays off when the overall level of trust in corporations and markets suffers a negative shock.     

Corporate social responsibility and stakeholder value maximization: Evidence from mergers

Using a large sample of mergers in the US, we examine whether corporate social responsibility (CSR) creates value for acquiring firms' shareholders. We find that compared with low CSR acquirers, high CSR acquirers realize higher merger announcement returns, higher announcement returns on the value-weighted portfolio of the acquirer and the target, and larger increases in post-merger long-term operating performance. They also realize positive long-term stock returns, suggesting that the market does not fully value the benefits of CSR immediately. In addition, we find that mergers by high CSR acquirers take less time to complete and are less likely to fail than mergers by low CSR acquirers. These results suggest that acquirers' social performance is an important determinant of merger performance and the probability of its completion, and they support the stakeholder value maximization view of stakeholder theory.     

Social Capital,Trust, and Corporate Performance: How CSR Helped Companies During the Financial Crisis (and Why It Can Keep Helping Them)

The authors summarize the findings of their study, published recently in the Journal of Finance, that shows that CSR investments can help companies when they perhaps need it most—that is, during sharp downturns when overall trust in companies and markets declines. Companies with high‐CSR rankings experienced stock returns that were five to seven percentage points higher than their low‐CSR counterparts during the 2008–2009 financial crisis, and even larger excess returns during the Enron crisis of 2001–2003. High‐CSR companies during the crisis also reported better operating performance, higher growth, higher employee productivity, and greater access to debt markets—while continuing to generate higher shareholder returns as late as the end of 2013. Many of these operating improvements continued well into the post‐crisis period, though at more modest levels. As the authors view their findings, the ‘social capital’ built up by corporate CSR programs complements effective financial capital management in increasing shareholder wealth mainly by limiting companies' downside risk. CSR is seen as not only reducing systematic as well as firm‐specific risk, but as also providing protection against overall ‘loss of trust.’ The social capital created by CSR programs is said to provide a kind of insurance policy that pays off when investors and the overall economy face a severe crisis of confidence.     

Does CSR matter in times of crisis? Evidence from the COVID-19 pandemic

The debate over how firm stakeholder engagement is tied to preserving shareholder wealth has received growing attention in recent years, especially in the wake of the COVID-19 crisis. Against this backdrop, we examine the relation between corporate social responsibility (CSR) and stock market returns during the COVID-19 pandemic-induced market crash and the post-crash recovery. Using a sample of 1750 U.S. firms and two major sources of CSR ratings, we find no evidence that CSR affected stock returns during the crash period. This result is robust to various sensitivity tests. In additional cross-sectional analysis, we find some supporting evidence, albeit weak, that the relation between CSR and stock returns during the pandemic-related crisis is more positive when CSR is congruent with a firm's institutional environment. We also find that Business Roundtable companies, which committed to protecting stakeholder interests prior to the pandemic, do not outperform during the pandemic crisis. We conclude that pre-crisis CSR is not effective at shielding shareholder wealth from the adverse effects of a crisis, suggesting a potential disconnect between firms' CSR orientation (ratings) and actual actions. Our evidence suggests that investors can distinguish between genuine CSR and firms engaging in cheap talk.     

Long-term financial performance of corporate social responsibility

We conduct an empirical investigation of the relationship between corporate social responsibility (CSR) and long-term stock performance in Japan. This study is set in the Japanese context. We find, first, that CSR activities are positively related to long-term stock returns. Second, shareholders and financial institutions that have long-term investments with strong governance promote CSR activities. Third, discussion with stakeholders, such as loyal well-socialized consumers in developed countries, supports firms' CSR activities, especially environmental issues in Europe and governance in North America. Finally, short-term CSR investment does not yield good stock performance. By applying robust methodology to over 10 years of data, our study supports the hypothesis that investors in the Japanese market are significantly concerned about the social activities of firms, and that these concerns are reflected in the markets. This study provides quantitative evidence of the positive effect that CSR has on long-term stock investments in the Japanese market. In addition, it concludes that CSR has the potential to be a tool to moderate myopic short-termism.     

How does corporate social responsibility have influence on firms' access to trade credit

This study identifies and examines the channels through which corporate social responsibility (CSR) impacts firms' access to trade credit. Using a sample of Chinese firms, we identify two channels through which CSR impacts firms' access to trade credit: (i) better CSR performance reduces firms' systematic risk; and (ii) better CSR performance enhances trust from suppliers. We also document that the positive effect that CSR has on firms' access to trade credit is more pronounced in firms with limited access to formal financial resources, i.e., in non-state-controlled enterprises, especially those without political connections, and in firms located in regions with a lower level of social trust. Our findings are robust to a series of tests that address the endogeneity issue. Overall, we argue that CSR performance enhances firms' access to trade credit through the channels of systematic risk and trust enhancing.     

Corporate social responsibility: An umbrella or a puddle on a rainy day? Evidence surrounding corporate financial misconduct

We examine the way a fraudulent firm's pre‐ and post‐misconduct corporate social responsibility engagement is associated with its stock performance to investigate the reputational role of corporate social responsibility (CSR). In the short term, firms with good CSR performance suffer smaller market penalties upon the revelation of financial wrongdoing, supporting the buffer effect, as opposed to the backfire effect, of a good social image. We also find that the misbehaving firms’ post‐misconduct CSR efforts are negatively associated with delisting probabilities, and positively with stock returns. These findings support the argument that increasing post‐crisis CSR engagement can be an effective remedy for a damaged reputation.     

Pre-deal differences in corporate social responsibility and acquisition performance

Drawing on the portability theory, we examine how the pre-deal gap in corporate social responsibility (CSR) between the bidder and target affects announcement returns in the international takeover market. We find that the higher the bidder's CSR scores relative to the target's, the higher is the synergy captured by combined cumulative abnormal returns of bidders and targets. It supports our hypothesis that synergistic gains are higher when the ex-ante bidder-target CSR gap is positive. The results also show that the synergy effect of CSR is not shared between bidder and target firms; thereby, bidders earn abnormal returns while targets lose. We further document that the acquirers with higher CSR practices before the acquisition are more likely to engage in related and non-cash-financed deals, and capital markets reward these acquisition choices. Finally, the results show that a positive CSR gap reduces the takeover premium and the time taken to complete the deal. Overall, the results suggest a positive valuation for the shareholders of the combined firm resulting from the portability of higher CSR practices from bidders to targets. Our results are subject to a battery of robustness tests, including alternative measures of combined returns and CSR, and tests for endogeneity.     

Over‐investment or risk mitigation? Corporate social responsibility in Asia‐Pacific,Europe, Japan,and the United States

We study the relationship of corporate social responsibility (CSR) and the distribution of stock returns for an international sample. Firms with a high level of CSR generally exhibit superior stock price synchronicity in the markets of Europe, Japan, and the United States. In particular, we identify optimal levels of CSR to minimize idiosyncratic risk for each region. Moreover, CSR has a mitigating effect on crash risk in Europe and the United States. In contrast, firms from the Asia‐Pacific region display CSR over‐investment followed by a higher crash risk. This appears to be a consequence of globalization, which forces firms from Asia‐Pacific to overinvest in CSR to adapt western standards.     

社会养老保险“多轨制”与家庭股票市场参与

依据中国家庭金融调查数据,运用Probit模型和Tobit模型,考量社会养老保险“多轨制”对家庭股票市场参与的影响。结果显示：社会养老保险“多轨制”通过缓解收入风险、健康风险与风险厌恶程度等,影响家庭股票市场参与;家庭净资产水平和信任水平异质性,影响家庭股票市场参与差异。其中,参加企职保或机关事业单位养老保险促进家庭股票市场参与显著,参加城乡居保影响不显著。鉴于此,应进一步整合社会养老保险“多轨制”,提高城乡居保的养老保障水平,充分发挥社会养老保险对家庭股票市场参与的促进作用。