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Mandatory Corporate Social Responsibility Legislation Around the World

By Li-Wen Lin November 20, 2020 by renholding

Corporate social responsibility (CSR) is typically assumed to be a voluntary rather than mandatory initiative. Yet, over the past few decades, a growing number of countries have adopted laws that explicitly require corporations to undertake CSR.

To date, most scholarly …

How Corporate Social Responsibility Affects Product Market Perception and Firm Value

By Katsiaryna Salavei Bardos, Mine Ertugrul and Lucia Silva Gao November 13, 2020 by renholding

The prominence of corporate social responsibility (CSR) has been growing in recent years, but the empirical relationship between CSR and firm value is still inconclusive. Though many studies show a positive impact of CSR on firm value, others provide evidence …

Environmental and Social Voting at the Big Three

By Caleb N. Griffin June 16, 2020 by renholding

Environmental and social (E&S) issues are an increasingly publicized component of investment management. Large fund families, including the “Big Three” of Vanguard, BlackRock, and State Street, market themselves as advocates for the environment, women, workers in developing countries, and other …

Re-Imagining the Business Trust as a Sustainable Business Form

By Lee-ford Tritt and Ryan Scott Teschner February 28, 2020 by renholding

An important debate has emerged in the United States about how business should encapsulate more fully the sustainability-conscious management paradigm. At issue is the proper role of business in society, and the trend is to consider more than just shareholder …

Do Long-Term Institutional Investors Promote CSR Activities?

By Hyun-Dong Kim, Taeyeon Kim, Yura Kim and Kwangwoo Park October 28, 2019 by renholding

Institutional investors have in recent years become the largest equity holders in the U.S., owning about 80 percent of the market value of S&P 500 index stocks and more than 70 percent  of the shares of the 10 largest U.S. …

#MeToo and the Convergence of CSR and Profit Maximization

By Claire A. Hill July 24, 2019 by renholding

Companies are more concerned with the #MeToo movement than they used to be.  Why this is the case is obvious, but much about the topic is not clear. What does this concern lead companies to do? What should this concern …

The Impact of Socially Responsible Customers of Corporations

By Rui Dai, Hao Liang and Lilian Ng July 22, 2019 by renholding

Corporations worldwide are increasingly integrating corporate social responsibility (CSR) into their operations and emphasizing ethical, safe, and sustainable business practices. Also, anecdotal evidence suggests that many of these corporations are concerned about not only their own CSR standards but also …

The Effect of Corporate Visibility on Social Responsibility

By Zhichuan Frank Li, Taylor Morris and Brian Young June 27, 2019 by renholding

The general public can be a stakeholder in a firm, even when it does not have direct ownership. And as the public becomes more vested in a firm’s actions, the firm may be more likely to engage in corporate social …

Does Corporate Social Responsibility Reduce Profit Shifting?

By Iftekhar Hasan, Panagiotis Karavitis, Pantelis Kazakis and Woon Sau Leung February 21, 2019 by renholding

In recent decades, economies have become bound together through globalization, a phenomenon that integrates societies and creates business opportunities but also challenges tax policies. The amount of taxes corporations pay is a heatedly debated topic among policy makers, academics, and …

Private Benefits and Corporate Investment and Financing Decisions: The Case of Corporate Philanthropy

By Ronald W. Masulis and Syed Walid Reza January 31, 2019 by renholding

What is the opportunity cost of private benefits of control? Using dollar cost of corporate giving to measure private benefits of control, we show in a recent study that (i) the consumption of private benefits creates a managerial aversion to …

How Corporate Social Responsibility and Influential Institutional Ownership Affect Firm Value

By Bonnie G. Buchanan, Cathy Xuying Cao and Chongyang Chen September 26, 2018 by renholding

Corporate social responsibility (CSR) is defined as “actions that appear to further some social good, beyond the interests of the firm and that which is required by law” (McWilliams and Siegel, 2001). According to this definition, CSR activities not only …

Making Sustainability Disclosure Sustainable

By Jill E. Fisch September 10, 2018 by renholding

Issuers, investors, and regulators are paying increasing attention to corporate sustainability.  Commentators have proffered a variety of explanations for this attention ranging from the argument that corporations are morally obligated to act in a socially responsible manner to the claim …

How Markets Learn to Value the Financial Performance of Socially Responsible Firms

By Zhichuan Frank Li, Jun Wang and Chong Yu August 30, 2018 by renholding

Market reactions to a company’s performance on environmental and other social issues are ambiguous, because it is difficult to measure social and financial performance and how they affect each other. We, however, create a virtual value-weighted portfolio based on the …

Corporate Social Responsibility v. Corporate Shareholder Responsibility

By Amal P. Abeysekera and Chitru S. Fernando July 9, 2018 by renholding

Whether corporate social responsibility (CSR) is beneficial to shareholders remains a topic of considerable debate. Recent studies suggest that some socially beneficial corporate expenditures (e.g., to reduce environmental harm and thereby the firm’s risk exposure) create value for shareholders. In …

Wachtell Lipton Discusses Boards’ Role in Sustainability and Corporate Social Responsibility

By David M. Silk, David A. Katz, Sabastian V. Niles and Carmen X.W. Lu July 3, 2018 by renholding

In light of evolving—and sometimes actively debated—perspectives on the role of public companies with respect to sustainability, corporate social responsibility and other ESG matters (e.g.,  Barron’s recent report on Sustainable Investing), we are providing a high-level overview …

Social Enterprise Laws and Director Primacy’s Demise: Risks to Governance and Growth

By Joshua P. Fershee March 22, 2018 by renholding

Businesses often face criticism for putting profit over people and for sometimes ignoring the needs of various stakeholders, including employees and communities. This reality has led to a variety of efforts, including the corporate social responsibility movement, seeking to encourage …

Has Their Time Come? A Tale of Two Corporate Responsibility Movements

By Joanne Bauer and Elizabeth Umlas February 2, 2018 by renholding

Amid the many calls for corporations to be socially responsible, two movements that have emerged since the turn of the 21st century stand out as being particularly serious about defining and holding corporations accountable to higher standards. One is the …

How Corporate Social Responsibility Affects Audit Fees

By Mónica LópezPuertas- Lamy December 15, 2017 by renholding

The past two decades have witnessed a dramatic increase in firms’ engagement with Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in response to the needs and expectations of a wide range of stakeholders. CSR practices can be understood as voluntary steps to improve …

It’s Time to Redefine Corporate Social Responsibility

By Inara K. Scott and Gerlinde Berger-Walliser November 28, 2017 by renholding

After years of growing concern over the reach and power of multinational corporations (MNCs), there has been increasing interest in a variety of means to improve their transparency and accountability. In particular, many people have focused on the responsibility of …

Corporations’ Duty to Promote Human Rights Includes Fighting Corruption

By David Hess October 11, 2017 by renholding

In the last two decades, anti-corruption has become a global norm, as the OECD and the United Nations have made clear in adopting anti-corruption conventions. As a result, combatting corruption in international business has joined upholding human and labor rights …

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