Assessing whether corporate social responsibility influence corporate value

This study used the corporate social responsibility (CSR) index to gauge the corporate value and social responsibility performance of corporations in Taiwan. We investigated whether CSR influences corporate value and whether the extent of that influence varies with corporate value or time. The results indicate that the influence of CSR on corporate value does not change with time. CSR exerts a positive influence on company value, and this influence does not change over time. However, the extent of the influence significantly varies with corporate value. When the corporate value of a company is not high, investing in CSR would only increase costs and fail to effectively increase corporate value. In contrast, if the corporate value of the company is high, investments in CSR in this circumstance would instead promote the effective increase of corporate value.     

基于企业传播视角的我国上市公司社会责任实证研究

本文基于企业传播的视角,通过对<福布斯>2009年全球上市公司2000强中内地上市公司网站、年报和社会责任报告中有关公司社会责任的内容披露的统计分析,围绕上市公司履行社会责任的动机、内容以及利益相关者在其中的应用等问题展开实证分析.研究表明,不同公司履行社会责任的程度各不相同,呈近似正态分布,且与所属行业国际化程度正相关;上市公司中绝大多数公司社会责任受到价值驱动,只有少数公司受到财务绩效或者利益相关者驱动;目前上市公司社会责任实践的三种主要形式依次是从事公益捐赠、遵守道德准则,以及支持各种慈善事业,而志愿服务和质量管理则相对欠缺.     

The effect of firm maturity on corporate social responsibility (CSR): do older firms invest more in CSR?

Motivated by the literature on corporate life cycles, we explore the effect of firm maturity on corporate social responsibility (CSR). Our results based on over 26 000 observations across 21 years reveal that more mature firms invest significantly more in CSR. Furthermore, we find that the effect of firm maturity is not uniform across different categories of CSR. As firms get older, they become much more responsible in terms of diversity and environmental awareness, whereas the effect of firm ageing is much weaker in terms of human rights and product safety. Our study is the first to link corporate life cycles to CSR.     

The influence of CSR on firm value: an application of panel smooth transition regression on Taiwan

Previous studies on the relationship between corporate social responsibility (CSR) and firm value generally belong to one of the two opposing schools of thought: the social impact hypothesis and the shift of focus hypothesis. This study, however, proposes that the relationship between CSR and company value is non-linear and neither wholly positive nor negative. We employed the corporate social responsibility index (CRSI) to test this hypothesis. The panel smooth transition regression (PSTR) model was used to analyse listed Taiwanese firms from 2010 to 2012 and calculate the value transition threshold of CSR, using CSRI as the transition variable. We then applied PSTR to determine whether CSRI shows a two-regime, non-linear relationship, as inferred by our model. Empirical findings show that the threshold value of CSRI is 13.082, thus, we concluded that investment in CSR does not contribute to enhancing company value until it exceeds the value transition threshold.     

企业社会责任对企业绩效影响实证研究--以食品类上市公司为分析对象

本文以沪深股市中食品类上市公司为研究样本,研究企业社会责任对企业绩效的影响,同时分析企业规模、企业所在地区发达程度、企业风险性水平、企业性质这四个变量对企业社会责任影响企业绩效的调节作用。用 SPSS 软件对所得数据进行描述性统计、相关分析、分层回归分析和分组回归分析,识别了食品类企业社会责任对企业绩效有正向影响,企业所在地区发达程度和企业性质都正向调节企业社会责任对企业绩效的影响,企业风险性水平反方向调节企业社会责任对企业绩效的影响,企业规模没有调节企业社会责任对企业绩效的影响。     

Profit maximisation vs. agency: an analysis of charitable giving by UK firms

The charitable giving of a large sample of publicly quoted UKfirms is analysed within a model that explores the profit maximisationand managerial utility enhancement motives for giving. The empiricalmethod draws a distinction between the decision to participatein giving and the determination of the amount of corporate contributions.Firm size and advertising intensity are found to be positivelyassociated with the probability of participation in giving.Stricter corporate governance and the rate of directors' remunerationare negatively related to the probability of participation.Among givers, the rate of giving is related positively to R&Dintensity, the rate of directors' remuneration, and corporateprofitability and negatively to firm indebtedness.     

新时期中国国有企业社会责任的研究浅析

企业社会责任是指企业对除了股东之外其他利益相关者所具有的社会责任。国有企业作为中国重要的经济力量必须积极履行社会责任。通过界定企业社会责任内涵及中国国有企业社会责任的基本特征,从国有企业性质地位、可持续发展要求、国际经济交流合作需要等三方面分析新时期中国国有企业履行社会责任的必要性。同时,提出增强中国国有企业履行社会责任意识、建立并逐渐完善中国国有企业履行社会责任的体制机制、加强中国国有企业间交流与国际合作、建立健全中国国有企业社会责任报告制度。     

我国企业慈善行为的市场反应——基于汶川地震捐赠数据的实证检验

本文以136家中国上市公司为样本,分析了汶川地震后资本市场对企业发布捐赠公告的市场反应,与对照组企业相比,样本中的企业的7天累计超额收益率显著为正.但是,当把样本划分为政府控股企业和私人企业两类后,本文发现两类企业在捐赠行为上存在明显的差异,Godfrey的"慈善捐赠只有被看作是企业社会责任的真实表达时才可以提高企业价值"的观点,在政府控股企业并不适用.     

Corporate Social Responsibility,Values, and Cooperation

Lately, some questions relating to Corporate social responsibility (CSR) have become relevant. The European Commission defines CSR as the enterprises’ contribution to sustainable development. In the field of cooperation, there are numerous examples of enterprises very closely engaged in sustainable development that apply very strict ethical codes to their regular operations. This work tries to think about: (1) the necessity of taking upon, again, the moral teachings of some fathers of economics as Adam Smith or Robert Owen, most of which were scorned since the triumph of utilitarianism and rationalism; (2) the slide of society through post-modern values; and (3) the role of cooperative principles and values in the new cultural environments.

跨国公司企业公民行为评价体系构建研究

企业公民行为是企业社会责任在理论与实践的继承与发展,其相关理念逐渐被认可并成为一个发展趋势。随着国外跨国公司不断进入中国市场和快速发展,在华跨国公司承担企业社会责任出现了主体缺位的现象。文章通过阐释跨国公司企业公民行为的内涵,即公司股东及高层管理者等在公司治理过程中表现出企业公民的权利与义务行为,并对企业公民经济行为、企业公民社会行为、企业公民道德行为与企业公民自然行为4个一级指标及相关二级指标、衡量指标的内涵进行详细阐述;最终从4个一级指标、10个二级指标与32个衡量指标来构建跨国公司企业公民行为评价指标体系,以此规范在华跨国公司治理行为,促进在华跨国公司发挥更大的经济社会等效益与价值。     

农业企业社会责任、企业声誉与竞争力研究——基于上市公司的经验数据

基于农业(涉农)上市公司的经验数据,分析农业企业社会责任、企业声誉和竞争力之间的关系。研究结果表明:农业企业社会责任对企业竞争力具有显著的正向影响。其中,战略性企业社会责任对竞争力的正向影响显著,而利他性企业社会责任对企业竞争力的影响不显著。此外,企业声誉没有在农业企业社会责任向企业竞争力转化的过程中发挥中介作用。因此,要实现企业社会责任向可持续竞争优势转化,农业企业应建立战略性和利他性企业社会责任并重的管理机制。     

Use of social networks in banking: a study in the Czech Republic

Social networks are becoming more and more important nowadays. Apart from regular users of the Internet, companies have started to use them in their business. Their potential is that a great number of people, future clients of big companies, use them on a daily basis. Thus, the aim of this article is to analyse the use of social networks in the banking sector of the Czech Republic, particularly with respect to customer support. The methods of this study include common data analysis and professional analysis. Common data analysis consists of the evaluation of public data from social networks and web pages of the selected bank institutions. The professional analysis is conducted by paid professional analytical tools that provide more detailed statistics. The findings of the study show that social networks are now well-established tools for the Czech banks to attract both their current and potential clients. The Czech banks seem to care about their clients by trying to meet their needs. Customer care and services provided, however, differ with type of bank.     

企业社会责任、公司治理和公司业绩

笔者采用上海国家会计学院编制的上市公司社会责任指数对我国上市公司履行社会责任对其业绩的影响进行检验,其结果并不支持履行社会责任可以提升公司业绩。在回归方程中引入董事会规模、独立董事比例等公司治理变量后,公司履行社会责任则能够提高财务业绩和成长性。公司履行社会责任不能提升公司业绩的原因在于公司没有建立起健全的治理结构,没有将履行社会责任融入公司的战略规划。因此,企业只有将社会责任与公司治理和发展战略结合起来,才能在积极履行社会责任的同时兼顾自身发展。     

基于声誉视角的企业社会责任实施策略研究

企业应当如何寻求社会责任与社交媒体交融背景下的企业社会责任(CSR)实施策略?这已成为全球经济面临的现实难题,对于处在声誉压力下的中国企业更是如此。文章通过全面回顾"声誉机制与CSR之间存在关联"的相关研究成果,以来自中国的两家企业(联想与宏碁)为商业案例,从公司治理、工作环境以及企业公民实践三个维度对其CSR实践进行了详细比较与系统分析,以期验证西方学者提出的"声誉机制对CSR实施策略具有正面影响效应"观点。结果表明:声誉机制确实可以促进企业加强自我约束,选择负责任的商业实践,成为法律规制、政府监管等正式制度的有益补充和替代,对中国企业来说也不例外。最后,结合中国企业现实处境,文章提出从回报角度认知CSR、取得行业标准认证、从局部小处起步等将CSR策略性融入到企业日常运营中的几点启示。     

Corporate social responsibility and the ‘game of catallaxy’: the perspective of constitutional economics

The paper examines the issue of corporate social responsibility (CSR) from the perspective of constitutional economics, focusing on the distinction between a political community’s constitutional choice of the rules of the “market game,” and the market players’ sub-constitutional choice of strategies within these rules. Three versions of CSR-demands are identified and discussed, a “soft,” a “hard”, and a “radical” version. The soft version is concerned with the issue of how “socially responsible” corporations ought to play the market game within existing rules. The hard version is about how the rules of the market ought to be changed in order to induce “socially responsible” corporate behavior. And the radical version questions the compatibility of CSR and the logic of the market game, calling in effect for adopting some alternative economic regime.

Market equilibrium in the presence of green consumers and responsible firms: A comparative statics analysis

This paper analyzes how the interaction between green consumers and responsible firms affects the market equilibrium. The main result is that a higher degree of responsibility of consumers and/or firms may both increase and decrease the total abatement and the social welfare. In general an increment in the degree of CSR of a firm entails an increase of its total clean-up and a reduction of the aggregate abatement of its rival. When the rival firm has a high degree of CSR this second effect is stronger than the first and total abatement falls down. At the same time, when the degree of consciousness of consumers and/or firms is very high, responsible firms overprovide environmental quality: in such case a further increment in the level of social responsibility of a market actor may trigger an increase of firms’ total clean-up but a reduction in social welfare.     

国际贸易中企业社会责任壁垒的演进与应对

企业社会责任理论上不应成为贸易壁垒,然而在现实中常常被发达国家作为贸易保护的借口而成为变相的贸易壁垒,并且日益成为当前可持续发展理念下影响我国外贸发展最难以跨越的障碍,不可小视。了解企业在国际贸易中容易遭遇的企业社会责任壁垒的影响,提出有针对性的应对策略,尤其是政府、行业协会和企业三方联动,有效地化解企业社会责任贸易壁垒,积极促进我国对外贸易。