Permanency of CSR Activities and Firm Value
This paper investigates whether the pattern of firms’ corporate social responsibility (CSR) activities affects firm value. If firms do permanently CSR activities for strategic purposes, firms’ value is more likely to increase. Using firms known to do CSR in Korea, we examine the valuation effect by...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Springer Science + Business Media B. V
2018
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| In: |
Journal of business ethics
Year: 2018, Volume: 152, Issue: 1, Pages: 207-223 |
| Further subjects: | B
CSR activity permanency
B Agency costs B CSR activity pattern B Earnings response coefficients B Strategic behavior B Stakeholder’s view |
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| Summary: | This paper investigates whether the pattern of firms’ corporate social responsibility (CSR) activities affects firm value. If firms do permanently CSR activities for strategic purposes, firms’ value is more likely to increase. Using firms known to do CSR in Korea, we examine the valuation effect by adopting an earnings response coefficient (ERC) model and document firms with permanent CSR activities, which show higher ERCs than other firms regardless of the level of CSR activities. This result partly explains the inconsistency among the results of previous studies by showing the differential implication for firm value depending on the CSR activity pattern. Also, the results of our paper imply that investors need to consider the pattern of firms’ CSR activities in their economic decision making. |
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| ISSN: | 1573-0697 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of business ethics
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1007/s10551-016-3273-9 |