This is an exploratory study designed to investigate the extant and nature of corporate social responsibility disclosure (CSRD) in corporate annual reports (CAR) of listed companies in Bangladesh. Specifically, the report examines the relationship between corporate attributes and firm-specific...

This paper argues that mainstream economic the- ory, far from providing an indisputable plea in favor of shareholder value-maximization, oers striking arguments showing quite the opposite : pro t-maximization cannot be a legitimate prioritarian goal for private rms. This opens the door for a...

We study the effect of social capital on financial capital. Specifically, we study how similarity (matching) of borrowers’ and lenders’ cohorts along their corporate social responsibility dimension affects the cost of debt financing. The main finding is that borrowers’ ethical posture...

In this paper we argue that socially responsible policies have positive short-term and long-term impact on equity of global brands. We find that corporate social responsibility towards all stakeholders, whether primary (customers, shareholders, employees and suppliers) or secondary (community),...

In this article, we study the impact of implementing corporate social responsible (CSR) practices on a firm’s inventory policy. Our proposal is that there is an inverted U-shape relationship between firms’ CSR and their inventory levels. Two elements explain such proposal. First,...

In this paper, we will define social responsibility. We are also going to demonstrate the advantages and disadvantages of being socially responsible toward labor. Then, we will explain the characteristics of social responsibility and the government role in this issue.

The growing awareness of the issue of corporate social responsibility (CSR) has raised the questions about how responsible behavior of firms would impact employees’ well-being. This paper investigates the link between corporate social responsibility and job satisfaction, which is a more widely...

The theory "corporate social responsibility" (CSR) is characterized in the paper. The paper expresses the authors´ opinion, that CSR as a mere proclamation of necessity of the firms´ ethic behavior does not enforce this into praxis. The internal economic motivation to CSR is the necessary...

Awareness of corporate social responsibility (CSR) practices is relatively new in emerging markets such as Romania. However, with the intensifying integration of markets and the increasing investment from multinational companies, supply of and demand for corporate socially responsible behaviour...