scholarly journals BOARD INDEPENDENCE, CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY AND FIRM PERFORMANCE: EVIDENCE FROM CHINA

Author(s):  
Junainah Jaidi ◽  
Miao Wenhao ◽  
Rosle Mohidin

The purpose of this paper was to investigate the relationship between board independence and the firm performance of Chinese firms listed in the Shanghai Stock Exchange, under the moderating role of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). A total of 860 firm-year observations over a period of ten years, that is from 2010 to 2019 was collected. The panel data regression technique was employed to analyze the data and determine the relationship between board independence and the firm performance of the Chinese firms under investigation. After a robustness check, the empirical results showed that the level of the CSR moderated (reduced) the positive relationship between board independence and firm performance. Therefore, the results seemed to imply that although the CSR has been seen as a useful business strategy, the level of the CSR in China still needed to be improved. In order to improve firm performance through practicing the CSR, the Chinese government and enterprises should be encouraged to continuously improve the level of the CSR.

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (2/3) ◽  
pp. 184-199 ◽  
Author(s):  
Muhammad Safdar Sial ◽  
Zheng Chunmei ◽  
Tehmina Khan ◽  
Vinh Khuong Nguyen

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the relationship between corporate social responsibility (CSR) and firm performance and the moderating role of earnings management on the relationship between CSR and firm performance. Design/methodology/approach The empirical study used the updated data set (3,481 unbalanced observations for period 2009–2015) from Chinese listed companies on Shenzhen and Shanghai stock exchanges. The generalized method of moments (GMM) statistical approach has been used for the analysis. The authors utilized STATA to test GMM on a sample of Chinese listed firms data over the period 2009–2015. The unbalanced sample obtained 3,481 observations from China stock market and accounting research database and CSR ratings provided by Rankins (RKS). Findings The results demonstrated that CSR has a positive and significant relationship with firm’s performance; also, earnings management has a negatively moderate relationship between CSR and firm performance. These results imply that a high value of earnings management, which results in high level of symbolic CSR, converts to low firm performance of the Chinese firms. CSR actions (only as symbolic measures) promoted by managers as a means to cover their profit management incite an adverse effect on the company’s performance. This study has highlighted the impact of two different corporate social responsibilities: substantive and symbolic (genuine CSR vs greenwashing) on firm performance. Research limitations/implications The results of this investigation will be of distinct interest to company owners who wish to ascertain the effectiveness of the sustainability decisions of directors and managers, and also to investors and public authorities to estimate the positive relationship between CSR and company’s reputation and image, and thus, the positive influence on firm performance. Originality/value Previous studies have generally focused on the relationship between CSR and firm performance. This study provides the impact of earnings management (measurement of both aspects of accrual-based earnings management and real earnings management) on this relationship. Furthermore, this study examines the state of CSR in the Chinese market and provides empirical evidence of this relationship in emerging markets.


2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 85-95
Author(s):  
Miao Wenhao ◽  
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Junainah Jaidi ◽  
Rosle Mohidin ◽  
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This paper investigates the moderating effect of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) on the relationship between capital structure and firm performance on the Chinese capital market. This paper applied a panel data regression technique using data composition represented by SSE180 index for a period spanning from 2010 until 2019. A total of 86 representative large listed firms was employed in this study for the period of 10 years with a total of 860 firm-year observation. The empirical results showed that debt has a significant negative relationship with firm performance. More importantly, this paper found that the level of CSR moderates the relationship between capital structure and firm performance. The study also found that, the relationship between capital structure and firm performance diminishing when the level of CSR is higher. In China capital market context, the debt ratio is quite high and CSR is a useful business strategy that could diminish the negative impact of capital structure on firm performance. Therefore, firms should comprehensively consider relevant influencing factors, such as CSR, and apply appropriate methods in determining the optimal capital structure in improving their firm performance.


2020 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Windijarto Windijarto ◽  
Sekar Ajeng Savitasari

Abstract : This study aims to analyze the relationship between corporate governance (board independence dan board size) to the implementation of environmental standards in corporate social responsibility. This study uses a sample of 200 manufacturing companies listed on the Indonesia Stock Exchange (IDX) taken from 2015-2016. The result of this research is that there is a significant and positive influence between board independence and board size of commissioners on the environmental strength in corporate social responsibility. Keywords: corporate governance, board independence, board size, environmental strength, corporate social responsibility


2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 41-48 ◽  
Author(s):  
Md. Jahidur Rahman ◽  
Yu Fang

The purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship between corporate social responsibility and firm performance in China. We have used the sample of A-share listed firms from Shenzhen and Shanghai Stock Exchange for the period 2011 to 2017. We used pooled ordinary least squares (OLS) regression as a baseline methodology. We find that corporate social responsibility has a significantly positive effect on firm performance in China. Our results suggest that Chinese companies having better financial performance undertake more CSR reporting. This paper contributes to the existing literature by investigating the effect of firm performance on CSR reporting of Chinese listed companies.


2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Vusumuzi Sibanda ◽  
Imelda Sekai Shoko ◽  
Ruramayi Tadu

Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) has remained topical and contentious as various schools of thought are put forward on its relationship to cost versus profitability for businesses. This study explored the relevance of CSR and its effect on the survival of businesses during an economic meltdown in Zimbabwe. The study purposively sampled 31 companies that are listed on the Zimbabwe Stock Exchange and have sound CSR programmes. A total of 93 questionnaires were administered and a Chi-square was conducted to test and establish the relationship between CSR strategies and business survival. The study concluded that companies with CSR strategies had a higher chance of surviving during turbulent times. Following the findings of the study, it is recommended that government comes up with CSR policies for different industries and that organisations continue investing in CSR especially in times of economic challenges.


2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Senja Nuansari

AbstractThe role of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) as a moderating variable in the effect of probability, leverage, and size of the company, on the company values listed on the Stock Exchange from 2015 through 2018 is examined in this study. The target population consists of 96 companies and 51 of them are considered as the sample according to a pool sampling method. Moderate Regression Analysis (MRA) is considered as the main method to identify and describe the relationship between the variables. These results reveal that the size of the company’s profitability and the size of a firm have a positive and significant impact on corporate value. On the other hand, leverage was found to have an insignificant effect on corporate value. Besides, CSR show to moderate the effect of probability, leverage, and size of the firm, on the value of the company.Keywords: CSR, Corporate Value, Profitability, Leverage, and size of a firm  AbstrakPeran tanggung jawab sosial perusahaan (CSR) sebagai variabel moderat memberikan efek probabilitas, leverage, dan ukuran pada nilai perusahaan yang tercantum di BEI periode 2015-2018 dalam penelitian ini. Dari populasi 96 perusahaan dan dipilih 51 sebagai sampel sesuai dengan metode pool sampling. Moderat regresi analisis (MRA) dianggap sebagai metode utama untuk mengidentifikasi dan menggambarkan hubungan antara variabel. Hasil ini mengungkapkan bahwa profitabilitas dan ukuran perusahaan memiliki dampak positif dan signifikan pada nilai perusahaan. Di sisi lain leverage ditemukan memiliki efek yang tidak signifikan dari nilai perusahaan. Selain itu, CSR menunjukkan dapat memoderasi probabilitas, leverage dan ukuran perusahaan, pada nilai perusahaan.Kata Kunci: CSR, nilai perusahaan, profitabilitas, leverage, ukuran perusahaan


Author(s):  
Rashidul Islam ◽  
Man Wang ◽  
Leo Vashkor Dewri

Financial flexibility has engrossed considerable interest of researcher over the last three decades. It is considered as most critical element of capital structure decision. The objectives of this research are to synthesize the existing literature on financial flexibility and find the literature gap. First, we show the relationship between theories and financial flexibility from existing literature and discuss the relationship between cash holding, leverage, payout policy and impact on firm performance during and after financial crisis. Second, we discuss how off balance sheet instruments impact on leverage and financial flexibility. We also discuss the relationship between corporate governance, corporate social responsibility and financial flexibility. We evidence from existing literature that financial flexibility has positive relationship on investment and firm performance during and after financial crisis. In addition to that we conclude that the off balance sheet instrument financing is increasing abnormally, and it has effect on debt policy and financial flexibility that yet to be studied verified. We further document from the current literature that corporate social responsibility and corporate governance may also widen financial flexibility in the US market but no significant researcher addressed these issues in the developed markets. While using Altman’s Z-Score for measuring financial flexibility it is unable to accommodate off balance sheet items therefore market demands for adjusted Z-Score.


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