Corporate Social Responsibility: Rewriting the Relationship between Business and Society

Relationship between Corporate Social Responsibility and Corporate Governance

The Relationship between Corporate social Responsibility and Equity Costs, Considering the Protection of Investors

The cost of equity plays a crucial role in financing and investment decisions. Investors tend to invest in stocks of companies which their cost of equity is low, therefore, factors affecting the cost of equity are important from both theoretical and practical point of view. Corporate social responsibility activities can reduce equity costs. But this can be achieved within the mechanism of prote...

The Mediating Role of Corporate Image on the Relationship between Corporate Social Responsibility and Firm Performance: An Empirical Study

This study attempted to investigate the effects of corporate social responsibility on firm performance. It also tried to identify the mediating role of corporate image on the relationship between corporate social responsibility and firm performance. This research collected data on latent constructs through a questionnaire administered survey of managers across a spectrum of industries in Bangla...

Does Corporate Social Responsibility Benefit Society?

In short, it depends on the ownership type. We construct an event-based outcome measure of firm-level environmental, social, and governance (ESG) impact for public and private firms globally from 2007 to 2015 using data from RepRisk. Then, we measure the societal impact of corporate social responsibility (CSR) engagements using participation in the United Nations Global Compact as a proxy. We d...

Corporate Social Responsibility for International Business

The recent proliferation of corporate social responsibility (CSR) codes and standards has been matched only by the boom in writings on the subject. This paper will focus mainly on the interaction between these codes and formal legal requirements, at national and international levels. It starts from the perspective that the recent spate of voluntary corporate codes for TNCs must be understood in...