{"title":"Sustainability and Its Value: Does Corporate Social Responsibility Score Impact Financial Access? A Review of Chinese Manufacturing Firms","authors":"Isaiah Oino, Erli Xi","doi":"10.5771/0935-9915-2022-2-185","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Corporate social responsibility (CSR) in firms has shifted from just being responsible for the environment to strategic CSR by examining how the engagement of CSR activities enhance the company’s financial performance. The paper examine if corporate social responsibility rating impacts financial access and financial efficiency. This paper analyses the CSR performance of 23 Chinese firms' annual data from 2010 to 2016 and their access to credit from financial institutions. The fixed effects model shows that corporate social responsibility significantly correlates with corporate financial access constraints. That is, the higher score of corporate social responsibility, the lower degree of financing access constraints. The study also found that improving corporate social responsibility will reduce the financial efficiency of enterprises by a small margin. The company's financial cost will be relatively reduced as the corporate social responsibility score increases.","PeriodicalId":47269,"journal":{"name":"Management Revue","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":7.6000,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Management Revue","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.5771/0935-9915-2022-2-185","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"0","JCRName":"MANAGEMENT","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Corporate social responsibility (CSR) in firms has shifted from just being responsible for the environment to strategic CSR by examining how the engagement of CSR activities enhance the company’s financial performance. The paper examine if corporate social responsibility rating impacts financial access and financial efficiency. This paper analyses the CSR performance of 23 Chinese firms' annual data from 2010 to 2016 and their access to credit from financial institutions. The fixed effects model shows that corporate social responsibility significantly correlates with corporate financial access constraints. That is, the higher score of corporate social responsibility, the lower degree of financing access constraints. The study also found that improving corporate social responsibility will reduce the financial efficiency of enterprises by a small margin. The company's financial cost will be relatively reduced as the corporate social responsibility score increases.
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Management Revue - Socio-Economic Studies is an interdisciplinary European journal that undergoes peer review. It publishes qualitative and quantitative work, along with purely theoretical papers, contributing to the study of management, organization, and industrial relations. The journal welcomes contributions from various disciplines, including business and public administration, organizational behavior, economics, sociology, and psychology. Regular features include reviews of books relevant to management and organization studies.
Special issues provide a unique perspective on specific research fields. Organized by selected guest editors, each special issue includes at least two overview articles from leaders in the field, along with at least three new empirical papers and up to ten book reviews related to the topic.
The journal aims to offer in-depth insights into selected research topics, presenting potentially controversial perspectives, new theoretical insights, valuable empirical analysis, and brief reviews of key publications. Its objective is to establish Management Revue - Socio-Economic Studies as a top-quality symposium journal for the international academic community.