Corporate social responsibility strategy and corporate environmental and social performance: The moderating role of board gender diversity

2020 ◽  
Vol 27 (4) ◽  
pp. 1664-1676 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nurlan Orazalin ◽  
Mady Baydauletov
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Social Responsibility ◽  
Social Responsibility ◽  
Social Performance ◽  
Gender Diversity ◽  
Board Gender Diversity ◽  
Corporate Social ◽  
Moderating Role

Does board gender enhance Palestinian firm performance? The moderating role of corporate social responsibility

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohammed W.A. Saleh ◽  
Mohammad A.A. Zaid ◽  
Rabee Shurafa ◽  
Zaharaddeen Salisu Maigoshi ◽  
Marwan Mansour ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Social Responsibility ◽  
Firm Performance ◽  
Panel Data ◽  
Social Responsibility ◽  
Gender Diversity ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Listed Firms ◽  
Board Gender Diversity ◽  
Corporate Social

Purpose This study aims to examine how the salient board gender diversity among board directors affects firm performance both directly and indirectly, through the role of corporate social responsibility (CSR) in listed firms on the Palestine Stock Exchange over the period 2010–2017. Design/methodology/approach Based on panel data of 384 observations from all firms listed on the Palestine Security Exchange during the period from 2010 to 2017, this study uses panel data regression to examine the effect of the predictors on firm performance. In addition, to mitigate the endogeneity issue, the analysis was repeated by using one-step generalized method of moments. Findings The results show that board gender diversity has a positive and insignificant influence on firm performance. However, under the moderating effect of CSR, the finding turns from positive insignificant to positive significant. Originality/value The study is timely given that gender diversity plays pivotal roles in determining the performance in terms of monitoring and controlling and further willing to engage in social responsibility. The prior research in Palestine has never investigated the effect of board gender diversity. As such, Palestine has not established a legal quota of minimum female representation on boards, and because of it, the country has weak women’s representation among firms. It, therefore, becomes a necessity to examine the influence of board gender diversity on the financial performance of listed firms in Palestine. Besides, the mixed result in previous literature on the board gender diversity and firm performance indicates that there is an indirect effect that needs alternative explanations.

scholarly journals The Relationship between Female Top Managers and Corporate Social Responsibility in China: The Moderating Role of the Marketization Level

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (18) ◽  
pp. 7730
Author(s):  
Qianwen Lu ◽  
Shouming Chen ◽  
Peien Chen
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Social Responsibility ◽  
Social Responsibility ◽  
Institutional Environment ◽  
Gender Diversity ◽  
Negative Relationship ◽  
External Pressure ◽  
Top Managers ◽  
Corporate Social ◽  
Moderating Role

This study links the gender diversity of the top management team (TMT) to corporate social responsibility (CSR) and examines the moderating role of the marketization level in their relationship. According to the token theory, females are “tokens” and have difficulty playing their roles when they are rare in groups, where their presence is used for providing legitimacy. Meanwhile, CSR is implemented to gain legitimacy. Therefore, we predicted that there was a negative relationship between female top managers and CSR, and that the marketization level positively moderated their relationship. The hypotheses were supported by the data from 17,032 manager-year observations of listed companies in China. The results indicated that the female top managers’ presence and CSR performance had the same function of gaining legitimacy. With limited resources, firms added females at the expense of decreasing investment in CSR when under the external pressure of increasing female top managers. Furthermore, this negative relationship was stronger in firms with a less-developed institutional environment because firms with weak institutions have strong incentives to find alternatives to fill the institutional void, which helps to gain access to resources and reduce transaction costs.

scholarly journals Corporate social responsibility and COVID-19: Research implications

2020 ◽  
pp. 135481662097813
Author(s):  
Seoki Lee
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Social Responsibility ◽  
Social Responsibility ◽  
Risk Measures ◽  
Global Public Health ◽  
Research Topics ◽  
Csr Strategy ◽  
Tourism And Hospitality ◽  
Corporate Social ◽  
Moderating Role

Considering the unprecedented event of COVID-19 as both global public health and economic crisis, its impacts on society including businesses are almost unimaginable. In particular, since the tourism and hospitality industries are among the hardest hit, tourism and hospitality researchers should examine how to understand its implications for these industries. This article takes a view from the corporate social responsibility (CSR) standpoint in relation to the current pandemic and attempts to provide some research implications, especially from the financial economics and strategic management perspectives. Potential research topics discussed in the article include emerging CSR initiatives throughout the pandemic, a comparison between pre- and post-pandemic financial implications of CSR, a moderating role of CSR strategy, various performance measures including risk measures, and culture and industry as boundary conditions.

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