Corporate Social Responsibility and Stock Prices After the Financial Crisis: The Role of Strategic CSR Activities

0545617 - ÚTIA 2024 RIV NL eng J - Journal Article
Havlínová, A. - Kukačka, Jiří
Corporate Social Responsibility and Stock Prices After the Financial Crisis: The Role of Strategic CSR Activities.
Journal of Business Ethics. Roč. 182, č. 1 (2023), s. 223-242. ISSN 0167-4544. E-ISSN 1573-0697
Grant - others:GA UK(CZ) PRIMUS/19/HUM/17
Institutional support: RVO:67985556
Keywords : corporate social responsibility * strategic CSR * business ethics * corporate financial performance
OECD category: Business and management
Impact factor: 6.1, year: 2022
Method of publishing: Limited access
http://library.utia.cas.cz/separaty/2021/E/kukacka-0545617.pdf https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10551-021-04935-9

We analyze the relationship between corporate social responsibility and the stock market performance in the post-global financial crisis period. A new measure of social responsibility by Thomson Reuters, called the ESG Combined Score, is used. As a novel feature of our analysis, socially responsible engagement is divided into the strategic activities closely related to the examined companies’ core business and the remaining secondary activities. The results of the fixed effects regression show a positive and statistically, as well as economically, significant impact of the strategic activities on the corporate stock market performance of companies. This impact is up to 103% higher compared to the secondary activities. The empirical results suggest that if companies aim to increase their share prices via the corporate social responsibility channel, they should strategically select their socially responsible initiatives.
Permanent Link: http://hdl.handle.net/11104/0322310