The relationship between corporate social responsibility disclosures and financial performance: a mediating role of employee productivity

Autor: Riaz Hussain Jamali, Aamir Ali Mirani, Jin Xiao, Mushtaque Ahmed Laghari, Raza Ali Tunio, Ghansham Das
Rok vydání: 2020
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Zdroj: Environmental Science and Pollution Research. 28:10661-10677
ISSN: 1614-7499
0944-1344
DOI: 10.1007/s11356-020-11247-4
Popis: This study is trying to explore the relationship between corporate social responsibility (CSR) disclosures and financial performances (FP) through mediating role of the employee productivity (EP). This study classifies the CSR performances into four contexts, for instance, environment social governance (ESG), environmental improvement activity scores of CSR, social welfare activity score, and governance structure improvement score. The banking performance is classified into three different aspects such as returns on assets (ROA), returns on equity (ROE), and nominal interest margin profit (NIMP). The study covers the data set start from 2008 to 2019 regarding thirty commercial banks of China. The study uses the linear, non-linear, and quadratic techniques to explore the association between CSR disclosures and banking performances. The linear model result shows that the governance score is significant influencing the banking performance. Moreover, the employee productivities are also positive significant affecting the baking performances. The non-linear results of model show that composite score of ESG with employee productivity has significant influence on financial performance.
Databáze: OpenAIRE
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