CEO ability and sustainability disclosures: The mediating effect of corporate social responsibility performance

2020 ◽  
Vol 27 (4) ◽  
pp. 1565-1577 ◽  
Author(s):  
Isabel‐María García‐Sánchez ◽  
Beatriz Aibar‐Guzmán ◽  
Cristina Aibar‐Guzmán ◽  
Tânia‐Cristina Azevedo
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Social Responsibility ◽  
Social Responsibility ◽  
Mediating Effect ◽  
Corporate Social

Corporate social responsibility, visibility, reputation and financial performance: empirical analysis on the moderating and mediating variables from Korea

2017 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 856-871 ◽  
Author(s):  
SeHyun Park
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Social Responsibility ◽  
Social Responsibility ◽  
Financial Performance ◽  
Least Square ◽  
Mediating Effect ◽  
Financial Benefit ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Long Run ◽  
Short Run ◽  
Corporate Social

Purpose This paper aims to substantiate the mechanism through which corporate social responsibility (CSR) affects financial performance (FP). Specifically, this paper focuses on the moderating effect of visibility and mediating effect of reputation in the relationship. Design/methodology/approach This paper investigates 175 Korean firms from 2010 to 2012 that have been listed in the Korean Economic Justice Index for all three years. The hypotheses are tested using various measures of visibility and the Korea’s Most Admired Company index as proxy for reputation. The logistics regression and the ordinary least square are used. Findings This paper initially demonstrates that the visibility moderates the correlation between CSR and reputation. On this finding, it further proves that CSR has positive effect on the long-run FP, measured in the Tobin’s Q, both directly and indirectly through reputation. However, the influence is irrelevant in the short run. In sum, visibility moderates the correlation between CSR and reputation, which mediates the CSR-FP relationship in the long run. Practical implications This paper argues for the importance of visibility in practicing CSR, especially when reputation building and financial benefit is sought through CSR. Originality/value Despite its strategic importance, the visibility of CSR has not been sufficiently studied. Moreover, as scholars have recently suggested that the CSR–FP relationship is rather indirect, there is even more significance in investigating the moderating and mediating variable. Hence, with the intuitive results, this paper lays an integral foundation in the literature.

scholarly journals The Effect of Corporate Visibility on Corporate Social Responsibility

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (13) ◽  
pp. 3698 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frank Li ◽  
Taylor Morris ◽  
Brian Young
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Social Responsibility ◽  
Social Responsibility ◽  
Firm Size ◽  
Positive Relationship ◽  
Corporate Social Performance ◽  
Social Performance ◽  
Mediating Effect ◽  
The Public ◽  
Corporate Social ◽  
The Relationship

Outside of direct ownership, the general public may feel it is an implicit stakeholder of a firm. As the public becomes more vested in a firm’s actions, the firm may be more likely to engage in Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) activities. We proxy for the public’s stake in a firm with public visibility. Based on 3400 unique newspaper publications from 1994–2008, we measure visibility for the S&P 500 firms with the frequency of print articles per year concerning the firm. We find that visibility has a signficant, positive relationship with the CSR rating. Evidence also suggests this relationship may be causal and working in one direction, from visibility to CSR. While the existing literature provides other factors that influence CSR, visibility proves to have the most significant impact when tested alongside those other factors. Visibility also has a mediating effect on the relationship between CSR rating and firm size. CSR rating and firm size relate negatively for the lowest visibility firms and positively for the highest. This paper provides strong evidence that visibility is an important factor to consider for studies on corporate social performance.

scholarly journals The Mediating Effect of Organizational Citizenship Behavior in the Relationship between Transformational Leadership and Corporate Social Responsibility Practices: Middle Eastern Example/Jordan

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (10) ◽  
pp. 4248 ◽  
Author(s):  
Khaled Alshihabat ◽  
Tarik Atan
Keyword(s):  
Transformational Leadership ◽  
Corporate Social Responsibility ◽  
Social Responsibility ◽  
Organizational Citizenship ◽  
Organizational Citizenship Behavior ◽  
Mediating Effect ◽  
Citizenship Behavior ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Corporate Social ◽  
The Relationship

The main objective of this study was to investigate the mediating effect of organizational citizenship behavior (OCB) in the relationship between transformational leadership (TLS) and corporate social responsibility practices (CSR). Another objective was to present adequate properties regarding the reliability of the scores, and evidence of the validity of the internal structure of the measurement instrument. Structure equation modeling (SEM) was used to analyze the data, which was randomly collected from 392 participants from the universities of Jordan. The overall assessment of the model was accepted and TLS was found to indirectly and significantly impact CSR practices through OCB, where the direct effect was significant, though lower than the indirect impact. This means that TLS is a good predictor of CSR practices, especially with the mediation of OCB. One of the implications of this finding is that leaders should promote OCB among their employees, as this will be reflected in their CSR practices, which is one of the requirements of sustainability. The originality of this research lies in it being the first to explore the indirect effect of TLS on CSR practices through OCB.

scholarly journals The Mediating effect of Corporate Social Responsibility and Dividend Policy on the Effect of Corporate Governance Mechanism on Firm Value among Publicly Listed Companies in the Philippines

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (6S) ◽  
pp. 602-605
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Governance ◽  
Corporate Social Responsibility ◽  
Social Responsibility ◽  
Firm Value ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Mediating Effect ◽  
Governance Mechanism ◽  
Governance Mechanisms ◽  
Corporate Governance Mechanism ◽  
Corporate Social

— Corporate social obligation has become an vital part of commercial company exercise during the last decade or so. In fact, many businesses dedicate a phase of their annual reports and company internet web sites to CSR activities, illustrating the importance they attach to such sports. On the opposite hand, Good company governance exercise has a number of observable outcomes on economic results of the company. Corporate governance recommendations are strongly associated with income quality or the quantity to which the firm’s disclosed economic basic performance reflects its right performance. This have a look at investigates in the main the mediating effect of Corporate Social Responsibility and Dividend Policy on the impact of corporate governance mechanism on firm value amongst publicly listed organizations inside the Philippines. It examined forty seven publicly indexed businesses inside the Philippines for a four-yr period from 2013 to 2016. A structural equation modeling (SEM) approach changed into used for the evaluation. Results show that Corporate Social Responsibility does not act as a mediating variable with regards to company governance mechanisms to firm rate. It manner that CSR does now not act as a variable so one can give a boost to corporation governance mechanisms that during developing the charge of the commercial enterprise corporation. Also, dividend coverage does no longer act as mediating variable at the effect of enterprise governance mechanisms on company value. Finally, the end result confirmed that there is a terrible but large effect of dividend price on business enterprise value.

Intellectual capital: the missing link in the corporate social responsibility–financial performance relationship

2020 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Niccolò Nirino ◽  
Alberto Ferraris ◽  
Nicola Miglietta ◽  
Anna Chiara Invernizzi
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Social Responsibility ◽  
Social Responsibility ◽  
Financial Performance ◽  
Intellectual Capital ◽  
Ordinary Least Squares ◽  
Mediating Effect ◽  
Least Squares Regression ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Csr Strategies ◽  
Corporate Social

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to propose and empirically test intellectual capital (IC) as a mediator in the corporate social responsibility (CSR) and financial performance (FP) relationship.Design/methodology/approachThe empirical research was conducted on 345 European firms listed in the STOXX Europe 600 index. To evaluate the mediating effect of IC, we applied the four-step Baron and Kenny model, tested through an ordinary least squares regression analysis.FindingsThe findings highlighted a partial mediation of IC on the CSR–FP relationship, suggesting that the implementation of CSR strategies has a positive effect on the development of firms' IC, which in turn enhances firms' competitive advantage and superior long-term FPs.Originality/valueWe found a new mediator in the CSR–FP relationship and we contribute to a new line of research that aims to study environmental and sustainability aspects strictly interrelated with IC and performances (sustainable intellectual capital).

CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY DISCLOSURE, MEDIA COVERAGE AND FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE: AN EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS IN THE CHINESE CONTEXT

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-18
Author(s):  
WANG LU ◽  
LI YANXI ◽  
LI XIAOCHONG
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Social Responsibility ◽  
Social Responsibility ◽  
Financial Performance ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Mediating Effect ◽  
Chinese Context ◽  
Firm Financial Performance ◽  
Corporate Social Responsibility Disclosure ◽  
The Media ◽  
Corporate Social

Incorporating instrumental views of corporate social responsibility (CSR), this paper analyzes CSR in the Chinese context to reveal the media-based mechanism, which clarifies how corporate social responsibility disclosure (CSRD) generates shareholder value. Our results show that firms with better CSRD attract more attention in the media, and high CSRD is positively related to corporate financial performance (CFP), partially mediated by the media coverage. With further investigation, we find that the mediating effect of media coverage is significant only in customer-sensitive industries. This study implies that the strategic use of CSRD to create economic benefits for firms may be of value to managers and investors who desire to understand the effect of CSR and media coverage on firm financial performance.

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