...Abstract This article examines the relationship between corporate social responsibility (CSR) on organizational performance. The objective of this study is to determine the relationship between corporate social responsibility and organizational performance. Base on the literature reviews, the studies support that there is a positive relationship between corporate social responsibility and organizational performance in terms of financial or management. Keywords: Corporate social responsibility, organizational performance, 1.0 – Introduction The concept of corporate social responsibility (CSR) is being discuss and debate over the decade. The discussion of CSR started since 1950s and it continued to grow in importance and significance. In spite of the seeming endless discussion about it, it has seen a lot of development in both academic and practitioner communities all over the world (Carroll and Shabana, 2010). According to Nolan et. al (2009), CSR is use to build up good rapport with the public. Corporates always use it as a strategy to save their skin from unforeseen risks and corporate scandals, brand differentiation, governmental rules and regulations, possible environmental accidents, protect eye-catching profits, and better relationship with employees based on volunteerism terms. Corporation like Gardenia, Nestle and YTL corporation always publish their CSR activities on their websites, sustainability reports and their advertising campaigns...
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...Atatürk Üniversitesi İktisadi ve İdari Bilimler Dergisi, Cilt: 28, Sayı: 3, 2014 189 INVESTIGATING THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY AND FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE IN TURKEY Funda ÖZÇELİK Burcu AVCI ÖZTÜRK Sevda GÜRSAKAL Abstract: This paper examined the relationship between corporate social responsibility and firm financial performance in Borsa Istanbul 100 index companies between the years 2010 and 2012. In order to test our hypothesis that the companies issuing corporate social responsibility reports have higher performance in terms of financial accounting ratios, we applied a logistic regression analysis. Corporate social responsibility was used as the dependent variable and financial performance measures, firm size, firm risk, and type of ownership as independent variables. We found that there was a significant relationship between company size and corporate social responsibility. We were not able to find any significant relationship between financial performance, risk, type of ownership and corporate social responsibility. Key Words: Corporate Social Responsibility, Sustainability Reporting, Financial Performance TÜRKİYE’DE KURUMSAL SOSYAL SORUMLULUK VE FİNANSAL PERFORMANS ARASINDAKİ İLİŞKİNİN ARAŞTIRILMASI Özet: Bu çalışmada, kurumsal sosyal sorumluluk ile finansal performans arasındaki ilişki Borsa İstanbul 100 endeksinde yeralan şirketlerin 2010-2012 yılları arasındaki verileri esas alınarak incelenmiştir. Kurumsal sosyal sorumluluk raporu...
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...Effects of Corporate Social Responsibility in the financial reports:- Contents Abstract- 4 Acknowledgement- 5 Chapter-1 5 Introduction- 5 Background and overview: 6 Scope of the dissertation: 7 Research questions: 8 The aim and the research tasks: 9 Structure of dissertation 10 Chapter-2 11 Literature review: 11 1. Theories on Corporate Social Responsibility: 11 2. Motivation behind Corporate Social Responsibility: 13 3. Financial performance as motivation: 14 4. Relation between CSR and Financial Performances: 16 Theories on CSR: 19 Instrumental theories: 19 Political theories: 19 Integrative theories: 20 Ethical theories: 20 Measurement of Financial Performances: 22 Chapter-3 22 Research Methodology: 22 Introduction 22 Research model and approach 25 Research collection 29 Process of data analysis 33 Chapter-4 34 Analysis 34 Survey questions 34 Focus group discussion 42 Chapter-5 43 Result and findings 43 Implications for practitioners 44 Implications for future research 45 Chapter-6 45 Recommendations and conclusions 45 Appendix-1 49 Questionnaire- 49 Interview questions- 51 Bibliography 52 Abstract- In today’s business world the word, “Corporate Social Responsibility” (CSR) is more than a buzzword to the stakeholders. The concept of CSR is evolving in the business world from decades; however, the actual meaning with its impact is yet to be achieved. The emergence of Corporate Social responsibility...
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...Claremont Colleges Scholarship @ Claremont CMC Senior Theses CMC Student Scholarship 2012 Corporate Social Responsibility and Financial Performance: Does it Pay to Be Good? Harmony J. Palmer Claremont McKenna College Recommended Citation Palmer, Harmony J., "Corporate Social Responsibility and Financial Performance: Does it Pay to Be Good?" (2012). CMC Senior Theses. Paper 529. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/529 This Open Access Senior Thesis is brought to you by Scholarship@Claremont. It has been accepted for inclusion in this collection by an authorized administrator. For more information, please contact scholarship@cuc.claremont.edu. CLAREMONT McKENNA COLLEGE CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY AND FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE: DOES IT PAY TO BE GOOD? SUBMITTED TO PROFESSOR MATTHEW MAGILKE AND DEAN GREGORY HESS BY HARMONY J. PALMER FOR SENIOR THESIS FALL 2012 DECEMBER 3, 2012 Acknowledgements I have many people to thank for their help with this study. First and foremost, I want to thank my thesis reader, Professor Magilke, for all his help. This study would have be quite difference without his constant guidance and our numerous meetings and e-mail exchanges. Second, I would like to thank Mary Martin, the Reference & Instruction Librarian for Business and Law, at the Claremont Colleges Library. Obtaining the CSR data would not have been possible without her help and the library’s funding. Third, I want to thank the Kravis Leadership Institute...
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...benefit to a company’s performance? Over decades, corporate social responsibility (CSR) has been gaining magnitude in terms of corporation strategic decision. Public perception of CSR gradually evolves from oversimplified notion of social contribution into the integration of both social good and corporation interests. In 2004, Business for Social Responsibility (BSR) defined CSR as “achieving commercial success in ways that honor ethical values and respect people, communities, and the natural environment.”(Arumugam, Selvakumar& Sivamurugam, 2014). Simultaneously, heated debates on impact that CSR imposed on corporation performance is long lasting without reaching universal consensus. Nevertheless, implementing CSR initiatives on business strategy has becoming a remarkable trend and rages across major corporations globally. Therefore, this essay aims at constructing overall positive correlation between CSR and corporate performance whereas acknowledging complexity of the relationship due to intra-industrial variance of corporation natures and inter-industry difference in corporate ability. To better structuring the justification, the essay elaborates on financial performance and operational performance separately from multiple dimensions of stakeholders, including employee, customer, shareholder and government. 1.Financial performance To demonstrate the correlation lies between CSR and financial performance, this part examines the effects on corporate accounting value and...
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...what extent is Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) beneficial to a company’s performance? An analysis of the relationship between CSR and financial soundness, quality of marketing, people management and long-term investment value. Introduction Since the late 1990s, corporate social responsibility (CSR) has been increasingly discussed in the society and it slowly becomes one of the important components in the business world (Jenkins, 2005). McWilliams and Siegel (2006) interpret CSR as ‘situations where the firm goes beyond compliance and engages in “actions that appear to further some social good, beyond the interests of the firm and that which is required by law”’. In general, CSR is believed to, in long-term, enhance business performance and boost employee morale. Also, CSR could be a tool to improve company image and to prevent crises (Weber, 2008). This essay argues that CSR has a positive relationship with a company’s performance, meaning that it brings benefits to corporate performance to a large extent. To measure one’s performance, three key aspects are considered, namely financial soundness, quality of marketing and people management. These three aspects are chosen from the criteria for Britain's Most Admired Companies 2014 (Management Today, 2014). Effects of CSR on Financial Soundness One of the most crucial criteria to determine a company’s performance is by analysing its financial soundness. Common indicators for financial performance are Return...
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...INTRO Business Ethics (also known as corporate ethics) is a form of applied ethics or professional ethics that studies the ethical principles and moral or ethical problems that arise in a business environment (source: Wikipedia). This applies to all aspects of business conduct and is relevant to the behavior of individuals and organizations overall business. Applied ethics is a field of ethics dealing with ethical questions in many fields such as medicine, engineering, law and business ethics. Business ethics can be a discipline both normative and descriptive. As the practices of the company and a career specialization, the field is primarily normative. The scope and quantity of business ethics reflects the degree to which its business is considered contrary to the social values of non-economic. , For example, today most major corporate sites put pressure on the commitment to promote social values of non-economic under various posts (eg code of ethics, social responsibility). In some cases, companies have to reformulate their core values in the light of considerations of business ethics....
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...To what extent is Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) beneficial to a company’s performance? CSR—A double-edged sword for company’s performance Starting from the refined corporate social responsibility (CSR) strategies issued by the European Commission in 2011, a stinging debate is being aroused on the influence of CSR to the whole society. The most influential critic is Noble Prize winner Milton Friedman, who regards CSR as a waste of stockholders’ money (1970). However, many other articles claim, opposite Friedman, that CSR actually improves companies’ financial performance in the long run (Bagnoli and Watts, 2003; McWilliams and Siegel, 2001). There are plenty of arguments on CSR’s influence on company’s performance. As far as I am concerned, CSR plays as a double-edged sword in company performance. The definition of CSR is quite easy to understand. According to Business for Social Responsibility (BSR), CSR is defined as “achieving commercial success in ways that honor ethical values and respect people, communities, and the natural environment.” McWilliams and Siegel (2001:117) describe CSR as “actions that appear to further some social good, beyond the interest of the firm and that which is required by law.” These suggest that a socially responsible corporation should take a step forward and adopt strategies and business practices that go beyond the profit requirements and contribute to some social-friendly activities. However, when companies choose to engage in CSR...
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...Recommendations 5 Conclusion 6 References 7 Executive Summary The main objectives of this report were to evaluate and determine if business ethics and corporate citizenship initiatives would increase employee efficiency within the workplace, the impact of these programs on the reputation of the organization and their effect on the organization’s relationship with employees, investors, and customers. A variety of relevant books and modern journal articles were used to research on this subject. The review of these articles and books revealed that corporate social responsibility initiatives play a fundamental role in building the image of the company as well as strengthening the organization’s relationship with its customers. Ethical programs on the other hand guide employee actions and in effect minimize any points of conflict that may arise within the workplace thereby increasing workplace efficiency and overall employee productivity. Ethical programs also ensure that financial reporting abides by the stipulated standards. This ensures that the information contained in financial reports is reliable and therefore increases investor confidence and strengthens the relationship between them (investors) and the organization. It is therefore critical that our organization develops ethical and corporate citizenship programs that can be implemented and monitored and necessary adjustments made. This would see our organization reap the benefits that come with having these...
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...“Good corporate Governance as a vital constituent of Corporate Social Responsibility” with reference to Indian MNCs Type: Literature review Name of Research Scholar: Santosh Basavaraj, Research Scholar, Anna University of Technology, Coimbatore. Research Supervisor: Dr.B.Rajasekaran, Principal, RKKR School of Management Studies Ettimanickampatty, Coimbatore Road, SALEM – 637 504 Contact Number & Email ID:997209785,santosh_bs2001@yahoo.com Purpose: This research paper aims at gaining an insight into the concepts of Corporate Governance and CSR which enables this researcher to generate new ideas on concepts under study. The central purpose of this research paper is to determine how companies Corporate Social Responsibility practices blended in Corporate Governance and to study integration of CSR with CG which enable future researchers to study how companies are able to sustain its Competitive edge with good CSR activities by considering some good practices followed in industry and their critical evaluations in recent events. This research sets the foundation for future study and refers literature to develop a new hypothesis in the concept of CSR. An additional objective of this research paper is to review the Literature on Corporate governance and studying the Juxtaposition of CG and ethical issues for better corporate social responsibility. Design/methodology/approach This is an exploratory research design and it is used to seek insight in general nature...
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...Misery Loves Companies: Whither Social Initiatives by Business? Joshua D. Margolis Harvard University jmargolis@hbs.edu 617-495-6444 James P. Walsh University of Michigan jpwalsh@umich.edu 734-936-2768 December 16, 2002 We want to thank Christine Oliver, our three anonymous reviewers, Paul Adler, Howard Aldrich, Alan Andreasen, Jim Austin, Charles Behling, Mary Gentile, Tom Gladwin, Morten Hansen, Stu Hart, Nien-he Hsieh, Linda Lim, Nitin Nohria, Lynn Paine, Gail Pesyna, Rob Phillips, Lance Sandelands, Debora Spar, Joe White, Richard Wolfe and the students in Jim Walsh’s “The Corporation in Society” Ph.D. seminar for their constructive comments on earlier versions of this paper. We also want to thank Marguerite Booker, John Galvin and Nichole Pelak for their helpful research assistance. The Harvard Business School, the University of Michigan Business School, and the Aspen Institute’s Initiative for Social Innovation through Business provided invaluable support for this project. Misery Loves Companies: Whither Social Initiatives by Business? Abstract Companies are increasingly being asked to provide innovative solutions to deep-seated problems of human misery. Organization and management scholarship can play an important role in understanding and guiding possible corporate responses. Theory and research to date have sought to reconcile possible corporate responses with economic premises about the purpose of the firm. Our goals in this paper are to reorient the...
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...Topic: An analysis of the corporate social responsibility demonstrated by BP in the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico | | | | | 9/15/2010 | | ------------------------------------------------- Topic: An analysis of the corporate social responsibility demonstrated by BP in the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico SECTION 1: Introduction The explosion on the Deepwater Horizontal rig on 20 April 2010 led to a serious consequence. A large area of oil spill spread through the Gulf of Mexico. Unfortunately, this accident killed 11 people. (BP Global, 2010) Generally speaking, BP on the surface achieve the highest level of CSR, the discretionary responsibility which is the highest level in the pyramid of CSR. It includes economic, legal, ethical, and philanthropic (discretionary) responsibilities (From bottom to the top) (Carroll, 1999, as cited by Lindgreen, et al, 2009). However, comments from the public and the US government appear to be unsatisfactory to the action taken by BP in this case. This essay will analysis the social responsibility demonstrated by BP by first looking at three journal articles from 2000 to 2010 written by Bird, Hall, Momente and Reggiani (2007); Shen and Chang (2009); and Udayasankar (2008), to further elaborate the insights in the articles and the academic theories into the application of the oil spill case in the Gulf of Mexico SECTION 2: Corporate Social Responsibility Article one Bird, Hall, Momente and Reggiani (2007) examine in...
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...Corporate Social Responsibility & the Law Assessment 1: Individual Essay Introduction Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is defined by Ferrell et al (2011) as “an organisation’s obligation to maximize its positive impact on stakeholders and minimize its negative impact”. CSR can therefore be viewed as a corporation's agreement with the world. CSR is most commonly used alongside the “ethics” term but they actually differ as ethics are the guidelines to be used for business decision making. Ethics, according to Preston (1996), is concerned with what is right, fair, just or good, about what we ought to do, not just what can be done or what is most acceptable or expedient. Ethics allows for set standards and rules to be used to guide behaviours which form just one level of the considerations of CSR. The International Labour Office (2006) identifies CSR as giving consideration to operational impacts on society and affirming values in their internal methods, processes and external interactions – CSR is voluntary, enterprise-driven and refers to activities considered to exceed legal compliance. With the expectation that business will give as well as take from a society and environment in which it operates, the concept of social obligation proposes that a firm has obligations to area that spread beyond making profit. Additionally, the community expects socially and environmentally responsible behaviour practices; the so-called triple bottom line approach. This anticipation...
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...The issue of corporate social responsibility has got a lot of attention in the business and political world since the early 1990’s and the major reason behind this was corporate scandals. Organizations had started to realize that the basis on which they were achieving economic growth was unsustainable and hence there was a need to develop a process which would intend at balancing economic growth with environmental sustainability and societal expectations. In fact the origin of corporate social responsibility can be found in the 1950s and 60s whereby successful companies were trying to link corporate social responsibility to the power that business holds in society. The theoretical progresses were subdivided in ethical and accountability and the stakeholder approach to strategic management. CSR can be distinguished from the three terms which are included in its designation phrase and these words are; ‘Corporate’, ‘social’ and ‘responsibility’. Hence CSR can be explained as being the responsibilities that a company undertakes for the society within which it carry out its operations. To be specific, CSR require a business to identify its stakeholders and include their needs and values in the tactical day to day decision making process of the company. Consequently the society within which a business function and which identify the number of stakeholder to which the organization owe a responsibility can be broad depending on the type industry within which it operate. The different...
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...Environmental Reporting & Corporate Social Responsibility Briefly discuss what is difficult about environmental reporting based on the following items Measurement Issues Transparency And Disclosure Issues Accountability Substitutability Title and Content Layout • Add your first bullet point here Corporate Social Responsibility Environmental Reporting Public disclosure by a firm of its environmental performance information, similar to the publication of its financial performance information. Environmental Reporting & withCorporate Social List Responsibility • Addcompany’s sense bullet point here A your second • Add your thirdand environment (bot the community bullet point here of responsibility towards h ecological and social) in which it operates. Companies express this citizenship (1)through their waste and pollution reduction pr ocesses, (2) by contributing educational and social programs, (3) by earning adequate returns on the employed resources. Measurement Issues There are serious concerns on the appropriateness of attempting to monetize nature in this way. No satisfactory method of assessing, basing our decision-making on the wider implications of our activities. Time Horizons Business decisions tend to be made on the basis of what is likely to happen in the next financial year, year up to five years into the future. Unfortunately some of the environmental impacts that result from business activities can continue to have a negative ...
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