社会责任与企业价值创造机理：一个研究框架

目前对企业承担社会责任的经济后果还没有取得一致的结论,在社会责任对企业价值创造的具体影响机理、程度和计量方式等企业关心的重要问题上还缺乏系统的研究。通过构建社会责任对企业价值创造影响的“社会责任、信誉资本与企业价值创造”的规范性分析框架模型,可以揭示企业承担社会责任对企业长期价值影响的方向、影响机理和影响程度等亟待探索的关键问题。本文提出了社会责任与企业价值研究领域的研究内容与分析方法．为进一步研究社会责任与企业价值的内生决定关系提供了全新分析框架。     

基于利益相关者视角下的企业社会责任探究

进入经济新常态后,传统的企业利益至上理念受到巨大挑战,利益相关者理论地位日渐提升。社会责任与企业的人力和技术等竞争要素同等重要,企业积极承担对利益相关者的社会责任有利于其实现价值创造。本文基于利益相关者视角,对企业社会责任的定义、计量、披露、价值创造机理以及如何落实企业社会责任进行了探究,希望能为我国企业履行社会责任提供理论和实践上的指导。     

战略性企业社会责任的边界、评价与价值实现

社会责任和企业战略是企业竞争优势和价值创造的来源,战略性企业社会责任的研究越来越受到学术界与企业界的关注。通过分析SCSR的内涵与边界、评价过程和价值实现,研究探讨SCSR的影响因素及其与企业价值实现之间的作用机理,分别从五个维度和四个层次分析SCSR的评价框架和实现企业价值的路径。企业只有将战略与CSR充分融合,选择适合企业的社会活动,才能从社会责任中获得竞争优势并实现企业价值。研究结论不仅完善了SCSR的相关理论,还为企业有效开展SCSR实践提供了理论支持。     

企业社会责任价值创造与价值发现研究——基于企业价值理论和资本市场理论

履行社会责任能否增加企业价值?本研究首先对企业社会责任及社会责任价值等基本概念进行理论界定;然后,基于企业价值理论,阐述企业社会责任价值创造的机理及其制约因素,并基于资本市场理论,揭示影响企业社会责任价值发现的关键因素;最后,分别从社会环境、企业内部管理和资本市场的角度阐释提升企业社会责任价值创造和价值发现能力的路径。     

社会责任对企业价值创造影响的实证研究——来自上市公司2009年社会责任报告的经验证据

文章以我国发布了2009年社会责任报告的433家上市公司为样本,分别采用市场指标和财务指标对企业价值进行计量,研究企业承担社会责任对企业价值创造的影响。实证结果表明,政府所得贡献率、社会责任评分对每股收益的影响是显著正相关的,即选择每股收益衡量企业价值时,承担社会责任是能够提升企业价值的。而当选择托宾Q值衡量企业价值时,托宾Q值与社会责任评分显著负相关,与政府所得贡献率、职工所得贡献率显著正相关。     

企业履行ESG责任对财务绩效的影响路径研究

ESG（环境、社会和公司治理）理念关注企业发展的可持续性,面对日益加剧的环境、社会及治理问题,企业履行ESG责任的重要性愈发凸显,承担ESG责任对财务绩效产生的影响,也逐渐成为推动企业可持续发展的重要议题。文章梳理了ESG责任的内涵,并基于杜邦分析框架从盈利能力、营运能力、财务杠杆、财务负担和税收负担等5个因素分析履行ESG责任对财务绩效的影响路径,最后提出相应的对策建议,以期推动企业平衡经济利益与履行ESG责任,实现长期价值的创造和可持续发展。     

企业社会责任与绩效的关系——以海天污水处理技术研究开发中心为例

企业社会责任是企业在创造价值、对股东承担法律责任的同时,还要承担对公司、员工、顾客、供应商、政府部门、社区和环境的责任。企业社会责任要求企业必须超越把利润作为唯一目标的传统理念,强调要在生产过程中对人的价值的关注,强调对消费者、环境、社会的贡献。文章在对企业社会责任及绩效分析的基础上,构建了以社会责任为企业绩效的管理体系,并以海天污水处理技术研究开发中心为例,研究分析了该企业承担社会责任与其绩效之间的关系,以及该企业以社会责任为绩效的管理体系。     

企业社会责任与企业价值相关性研究

随着社会的飞速发展,当前的市场竞争愈发激烈,企业的发展对资源的依赖程度越来越高。企业所承担的社会责任主要体现在促进我国经济的平稳发展以及维持资源环境的可持续发展。因此,通过分析企业社会责任与企业价值的相关性研究,可以在一定程度上披露我国的企业社会责任,对促进我国社会的可持续发展有着重要的作用。本文介绍了企业价值的概念与相关理论、企业社会责任对企业价值的影响及企业社会责任与企业价值的相关措施,希望可以对提高企业社会责任有一定的积极作用。     

社会创新：为企业社会责任提供“正能量”

企业社会责任是以企业为主体所应承担的经济责任、法律责任、道德责任和慈善责任的总和。当代社会责任实践正在经历着从“赚钱行善”向“行善赚钱”的重要转变,这就是由德鲁克第一次提出并阐释的企业社会创新。企业社会创新将社会问题、社会需求纳入企业经营的战略框架,通过解决社会问题、满足与创造社会需求来引领企业创新,从而使企业履行社会中责任成为创造企业与社会共享价值的过程,为企业可持续履行社会责任提供了正能量。     

内控审计视角下公司治理与企业社会责任分析

本文从提高企业内控审计水平为前提，探讨在此视角下的公司治理与企业社会责任。在内控审计基础上，构建公司治理与企业社会责任一体化整合框架，并且分别从价值创造、利益均衡、责任承担三个方面，总结内部控制审计在整合框架的价值体现路径。充分发挥内控审计作用，加强公司治理能力的同时，以期能够承担起企业社会责任，从而在激烈的市场竞争中占据有利位置，为企业实现高效内控审计提供支持。     

Toward a Theory of Activist-Driven Responsible Innovation: How Activists Pressure Firms to Adopt More Responsible Practices

Accounts of stakeholder influence on corporate social responsibility (CSR), situated in the CSR domain, have recognized that activists mitigate information asymmetries between firms and consumers. However, depictions of activists as information disseminators do not explain how they perform their quintessential role – pressuring resistant firms to engage in responsible innovation that emphasizes the creation of socioenvironmental value. Drawing from social movement theory that identifies claims as the instrument of such pressure, we examine four activist organizations’ use of claims across six campaigns to drive firms to adopt more socially and environmentally responsible practices, a form of responsible innovation. Our core contribution is an empirically grounded theory of activist-driven responsible innovation (ARI) that proposes how activists use claims to drive firms to engage in responsible innovation, as well as how features of the two sides may shape this outcome. Our ARI theory primarily enriches accounts of stakeholder influence on corporate social responsibility in the CSR domain and, in doing so, secondarily enriches accounts of the influence of activists’ claims on firms in the social movement domain. These contributions also speak to the resolution of grand challenges, a core interest of the special issue.     

An analysis of environmental corporate social responsibility

This article investigates corporate social responsibility (CSR) practices while taking into account their product substitutability and environmental responsibility. CSR firms, integrating environmental and social concerns into its business operations, are introduced. The effects of the firms' social concerns, environmental responsibility, and product substitutability are all captured. First, firms' social concerns improve both outputs and CSR firms' objective function value, while reducing the profit maximization firm's profits. Second, environmental responsibility has the contrary effects. Both the outputs and the objective function values of both firms decrease with their product substitutability. Finally, social concern effects on CSR firms' performance are uncertain.     

Corporate Social Responsibility and Social Entrepreneurship

Milton Friedman argued that the social responsibility of firms is to maximize profits. This paper examines this argument for the economic environment envisioned by Friedman in which citizens can personally give to social causes and can invest in profit‐maximizing firms and firms that give a portion of their profits to social causes. Citizens obtain social satisfaction from corporate social giving, but corporate giving may not be a perfect substitute for personal giving. The paper presents a theory of corporate social responsibility (CSR) and shows that CSR is costly when it is an imperfect substitute. When investors anticipate the CSR, shareholders do not bear its cost. Instead, the entrepreneurs who form the CSR firms bear the cost. Shareholders bear the cost of CSR only when it is a surprise, and it is to such surprises that Friedman objects. A social entrepreneur is willing to form a CSR firm at a financial loss because either doing so expands the opportunity sets of citizens in consumption‐social giving space or there is an entrepreneurial warm glow from forming the firm. Firms can also undertake strategic CSR activities that increase profits, and a social entrepreneur carries strategic CSR beyond profit maximization and market value maximization. The paper also examines the implications of taxes and the effect of the market for control for the sustainability of CSR.     

Carbon performance and corporate financial performance: The moderating role of consumer awareness of corporate social responsibility

The paper detects the association between carbon performance (CP) and corporate financial performance (CFP) and the moderating role of consumer awareness (CA) of corporate social responsibility (CSR). We find that CP has consistent positive impacts on CFP in the short and long term, whereas CA has opposite moderating effects on CFP. These results indicate that companies should increase corporate value by improving CP. In addition, improving CA of CSR is an effective way to promote CFP.     

Corporate Social Responsibility Disclosure and the Value of Cash Holdings

This study investigates whether corporate social responsibility (CSR) reports mitigate the value destruction associated with increases in cash holdings. We find that the issuance of a standalone CSR report increases the marginal value of cash holdings and this effect is more pronounced for firms in a less transparent information environment and for firms with weaker external monitoring. Our results suggest that information in CSR reports can facilitate monitoring and thus induce more efficient use of cash holdings.     

论我国企业社会责任导向机制

企业社会责任作为时代发展和社会进步的产物,体现的不仅是企业主体的态度和行为方式,更是政府和社会主体的态度和行为的表达。因此,促使企业承担社会责任离不开政府和社会主体的积极引导。文章从企业社会责任竞争机制、监督机制、评价机制和激励机制4个方面,探讨了＂完善企业社会责任导向机制,营造良好的责任竞争环境＂这一主题。     

A phenomenological study of corporate social responsibility in the Niger delta,Nigeria

Over the past half‐century, organization‐centric approaches to corporate social responsibility (CSR) dominated management practice. Though scholars and practitioners have embraced integrative CSR models, there are insufficient data about rural community constructs of corporate social behavior. Drawing largely from primary research conducted in the Niger Delta region, this article explores the meanings communities ascribe to corporate social responsibility. Through open‐ended interviews, this article examines the subtle underlying meanings of the narratives provided by the indigenes to identify clues potentially useful for developing effective CSR programs in the Niger Delta. The findings show that the Niger Delta people frame their views about CSR through the experience of poverty, loss of the traditional economy, erosion of traditional values, and degradation of the environment. Thus, CSR is associated with the restoration of control over land, alleviation of poverty, and community development.     

Board internationalization and corporate social responsibility

This study examines the association between board internationalization and firms’ corporate social responsibility (CSR) performance in China during 2009–2019. Using a large dataset of director nationalities and CSR scores, we find that foreign directors promote CSR performance as evidenced by higher CSR scores. We further document that this relationship is more pronounced among government-controlled firms, firms with better corporate governance, and firms operating under stricter institutional environments. These findings remain valid after sequential robustness checks. Overall, our findings imply that foreign directors motivate the board of directors and their firms to actively pursue and practice social responsibility. Our study enriches the literature on the outcomes of board internationalization and determinants of CSR and provides the internationalization of corporate governance mechanisms a reasonable basis.     

Too Much of a Good Thing? The Boomerang Effect of Firms’ Investments on Corporate Social Responsibility during Product Recalls

Prior research shows that a good record of corporate social responsibility (CSR) has an insurance-like effect on shareholder value in negative events. We posit and provide empirical evidence that excessive CSR activities can also cause a boomerang effect during negative events. In the setting of product recalls, we show that overinvestment in CSR has a boomerang effect on shareholder value when a company with excessive CSR activities announces a recall. Further analysis shows that the boomerang effect is exacerbated when institutional ownership is low or when customer awareness is high. Our study adds to the literature new insights on how CSR affects shareholder value during a reputation crisis.