a r t i c l e i n f o Over the last decade, educators, administrators, and policy makers increasingly focus on corporate social responsibility. However, no studies examine the relationships among corporate social responsibility, brand equity, and firm performance. This study uses quantile regression and structural equation modeling to explore the causal linkages among these factors in Taiwanese...

Corporate responsibility marks a historical turnaround in corporate culture because it attributes to it a role in which many costs externalised by the company to society and to the planet, but in fact produced directly or indirectly by it. A correct cultural approach and greater familiarity, particularly with the issues of manufacturing processes and products that have no impact on the environm...

Purpose Many consumer-focused corporate social responsibility (CSR) studies suggest a positive link between the responsibility demonstrated by a company and consumers’ intention to favor the company in their purchases. Yet an analogous causal effect between corporate social and financial performances is not evident. This chapter conceptualizes how social desirability and cynicism contribute to ...

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the impact of voluntary disclosure about corporate social responsibility (CSR) on firm’s financial performance. First, a state of the art about corporate social responsibility and social reporting is presented. After that, the problems of measurement of CSR are indicated and the hypotheses are proposed. In the empirical analysis, regression models are...

Interpretations of the term Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) are many, but academics have achieved approximate consensus about what it consists of. An issue that started off as an interestand motive-based activity for businesses is becoming more commonplace and has increased in importance over time. Governments have a role to play in ensuring that corporations behave according to the rules...

Today’s corporations are increasingly implementing responsible behaviours as they pursue profit-making activities. A thorosugh literature review suggests that there is a link between corporate social responsibility (CSR) or corporate social performance (CSP) and financial performance. In addition, there are relevant theoretical underpinnings and empirical studies that have often used other conc...

Background: Accurate and timely disclosure of information is one of the most important tools for company managers to reduce the cost of capital. The purpose of this study is to investigate the role of managerschr('39') ownership in the relationship between the disclosure of corporate social and moral responsibility and the cost of equity in companies listed on the Tehran stock exchange. Method...

This article places corporate social responsibility in the context of the resourcebased view of the firm, then uses relationship management to explain the growing involvement of businesses in corporate social responsibility activities. It argues that the value of the public relations function to an enterprise is in its capacity to aid relationship management, but at a level linked to corporate ...

As an effective way to share corporate social responsibility, corporate donation comes forth rapidly and has become a tendency. Based on the relative study, we construct the theoretical model and analyze the relationship between corporate donation and corporate competitive advantage. The results are listed that five donation characteristics, that is, donation aims, donation methods, donation su...