scholarly journals The self-centered philanthropist: family involvement and corporate social responsibility in private enterprises

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Bin Zhu

AbstractAlthough corporate social responsibility (CSR) has attracted increasing attention in recent years, systematic studies on the CSR of Chinese enterprises are absent from academic publications. This study examines the effects of family involvement in the CSR of private enterprises. Using private enterprise data in China, the article reveals that, on the one hand, family involvement will improve CSR investment toward community stakeholders; on the other hand, family involvement has a negative effect on the CSR of contractual stakeholders. With the influence of “chaxu geju,” the author argues that Chinese families tend to shift between different logics of behavior when faced with people with whom they have different types of relationships and incorporate this behavioral mode into company practices when they engage themselves in management and business affairs.

2019 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 77-98 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hanh Thi Song Pham ◽  
Hien Thi Tran

Purpose This paper aims to investigate the effects of board model and board independence on corporate social responsibility (CSR) disclosure of multinational corporations (MNCs). Design/methodology/approach The authors developed an empirical model in which CSR disclosure is the dependent variable and board model (two-tier vs one-tier), board independence (a proportion of independent directors on a board) and the interaction variable of board model and board independence together with several variables conventionally used as control variables are independent variables. The authors collated the panel dataset of 244 Fortune World’s Most Admired (FWMA) corporations from 2005 to 2011 of which 117 MNCs use the one-tier board model, and 127 MNCs use the two-tier board model from 20 countries. They used the random-effect regression method to estimate the empirical models with the data they collated and also ran regressions on the alternative models for robustness check. Findings The authors found a significantly positive effect of a board model on CSR disclosure by MNCs. Two-tier MNCs tend to reveal more CSR information than one-tier MNCs. The results also confirm the significant moderating impact of board model on the effect of board independence on CSR disclosure. The effect of board independence on CSR disclosure in the two-tier board MNCs tends to be higher than that in the one-tier board MNCs. The results do not support the effect of board independence on CSR disclosure in general for all types of firms (one-tier and two-tier board). The impact of board independence on CSR disclosure is only significant in two-tier board MNCs and insignificant in one-tier board MNCs. Practical implications The authors advise the MNCs who wish to improve CSR reporting and transparency to consider the usage of two-tier board model and use a higher number of outside directors on board. They note that once a firm uses one-tier model, number of IDs on a board does not matter to the level of CSR disclosure. They advise regulators to enforce an application of two-tier board model to improve CSR reporting and transparency in MNCs. The authors also recommend regulators to continue mandating publicly traded companies to include more external members on their boards, especially for the two-tier board MNCs. Originality/value This paper is the first that investigates the role of board model on CSR disclosure of MNCs.


2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (02) ◽  
pp. 211-234
Author(s):  
Levi Martantina ◽  
R. Soerjatno

This study aims to examine the effect  of Corporate Social Responsibility on Tax Avoidance in which Good Corporate Governance is moderating variable. Corporate Social Responsibility is independent variable whereas dependent variable is Tax Avoidance. The result of testing the first hyphothesis found that Corporate Social Responsibility has a negative effect on Tax Avoidance. In other words, the company that does extensive disclosure, the company does not practice Tax Avoidance. The result of testing the second hypothesis found that the exixtence of Good Corporate Governance in the board of directors mediate the influence of Corporate Social Responsibility with Tax Avoidance. So that the existence of the board of directors is able to contribute in making extensive disclosure towards Corporate Social Responsibility and practice of Tax Avoidance.


2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 63
Author(s):  
Riza Aulia Fitri ◽  
Agus Munandar

This research aimed to examine the influence of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), profitability, and leverage toward tax aggressiveness by considering the size of the company as the moderating variable. The population was 111 companies listed on the Indonesian Stock Exchange (BEI) from 2010 to 2015. Determination of the sample used purposive sampling method, and it obtained a sample of 36 manufacturing based on certain criteria. The analysis technique used was the multiple regression analysis. The results show that CSR and leverage have a significant and negative effect influence on the tax aggressiveness of the corporate tax. Meanwhile, profitability does not significantly influence the tax aggressiveness in corporate taxes, and the size of company cannot moderate the influence of CSR, the profitability, and leverage on tax aggressiveness.


2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 60-77
Author(s):  
Mohc. Velian Muhajir ◽  
Tias Andarini Indarwati

Bubble drink products are one of the beverage trends that have developed this year, even during the Covid 19 pandemic. One of the bubble drink brands that is in demand by the public especially teenagers in Indonesia is Chatime, in which consumers do not buy Chatime just once. The purpose of this paper is to study the effect of corporate social responsibility, food quality, customer satisfaction, on repurchase intention, through customer satisfaction. The research sampling techniques used are nonprobability sampling by judgmental sampling. This study focuses on Chatime consumers who bought Chatime products during a pandemic Covid-19. The data analysis technique is used path analysis. The results show that CSR has a negative effect on repurchase intention and customer satisfaction, food quality has a positive effect on repurchase intention and customer satisfaction, perceived value has a negative effect on repurchase intention, but has a positive effect on customer satisfaction.


2019 ◽  
Vol 27 (4) ◽  
pp. 632-652 ◽  
Author(s):  
Haijing Liu ◽  
Hyun-Ah Lee

Purpose This paper aims to verify the effect of corporate social responsibility (CSR) on Chinese listed firms’ earnings management and tax avoidance. Specifically, this study investigates whether government-guided CSR implementation indeed drives firms to behave in a responsible manner by constraining earnings management and tax avoidance. Design/methodology/approach The paper analyses a sample of Chinese listed companies that are confronted with the unique situation of CSR being developed at a rapid pace by government-led policy and regulation. The study further investigates whether the effect of CSR on earnings management and tax avoidance is different for state-owned and private enterprises by partitioning the sample into these two subgroups. Findings The findings of this study show that government-guided CSR could be effective in reducing the firms’ earnings management and tax avoidance, even though the effect is limited to state-owned enterprises. Originality/value This paper provides new evidence on the relation of CSR with earnings management and tax avoidance in the Chinese context and sheds light on the importance of differentiating between the state-owned and private enterprises when studying the corporate behaviors of Chinese firms.


2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (18) ◽  
pp. 7545 ◽  
Author(s):  
An-Pin Wei ◽  
Chi-Lu Peng ◽  
Hao-Chen Huang ◽  
Shang-Pao Yeh

Academic research has shed light on the empirical relationships among a firm’s corporate social responsibility (CSR), corporate social irresponsibility (CSiR) and firm performance and on the firm’s customer satisfaction–firm performance relationship in different markets. However, little notice has been taken of whether the coexistence of corporate social responsibility, corporate social irresponsibility and customer satisfaction has an interactive effect on firm performance. This study aims to examine the effects of their interaction on firm performance from an investment perspective. Using unbalanced panel regression to test a sample of publicly traded firms from the United States, this study finds that, in general, firms with higher customer satisfaction earn positive changes in abnormal stock returns. For firms that engage in CSR, CSR positively affects corporate performance, whereas firms’ social irresponsibility activities reduce firms’ financial performance. All else equal, a positive interactive effect of CSiR and customer satisfaction on stock return was observed. The results reveal that high customer satisfaction can alleviate the negative effect of corporate social irresponsibility on firms’ financial performance. Our findings will help management executives and investors to understand that the negative effect of a firm’s unforeseen events on firm performance can be weakened by increasing customer satisfaction.


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