Corporate social responsibility and firm performance: The moderation of investment horizon and corporate governance

The current study proposes an integrated theoretical frame work, to explain the moderating role of institutional investors, their investment horizon and corporate governance mechanism in the sustainability of corporate social responsibility (CSR) and firm’s performance nexus. The proposed model expl...

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Autores principales: Abdul Waheed, Shahzad Hussain, Hasan Hanif, Hamid Mahmood, Qaisar Ali Malik
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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:3d45500515e14c99b3c6bd40951cfcfb2021-12-02T16:50:00ZCorporate social responsibility and firm performance: The moderation of investment horizon and corporate governance2331-197510.1080/23311975.2021.1938349https://doaj.org/article/3d45500515e14c99b3c6bd40951cfcfb2021-01-01T00:00:00Zhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1080/23311975.2021.1938349https://doaj.org/toc/2331-1975The current study proposes an integrated theoretical frame work, to explain the moderating role of institutional investors, their investment horizon and corporate governance mechanism in the sustainability of corporate social responsibility (CSR) and firm’s performance nexus. The proposed model explains how, the positive association between CSR and firm performance relationship, established on the basis of the stakeholder and corporate citizenship theories, can be further strengthened (effective monitoring hypothesis) or weakened (myopic institutions theory) by the presence of institutional investors in the firm’s ownership structure and corporate governance mechanism (agency theory). The study tested the proposed model on the unbalanced sample of 327 non-financial firms listed on the Pakistan stock exchange (PSX). The study concludes that, based on the agency theory, institutional investors (as a homogeneous group) positively moderates the CSR and firm performance relationship. However, agency theory failed to explain the negative moderation of short term investment horizon institutional investors and firm performance. The study further confirms the agency role of effective corporate governance mechanism in the sustainable CSR and firm performance relationship. The current study explored some of the major theoretical contradictions in the field of corporate finance literature, which are puzzling for the practitioners and scholars.Abdul WaheedShahzad HussainHasan HanifHamid MahmoodQaisar Ali MalikTaylor & Francis Grouparticleinstitutional investorsinvestment horizonagency theorystakeholder theorycorporate citizenship theoryintegrated theoretical frame workBusinessHF5001-6182Management. Industrial managementHD28-70ENCogent Business & Management, Vol 8, Iss 1 (2021)
institution DOAJ
collection DOAJ
language EN
topic institutional investors
investment horizon
agency theory
stakeholder theory
corporate citizenship theory
integrated theoretical frame work
Business
HF5001-6182
Management. Industrial management
HD28-70
spellingShingle institutional investors
investment horizon
agency theory
stakeholder theory
corporate citizenship theory
integrated theoretical frame work
Business
HF5001-6182
Management. Industrial management
HD28-70
Abdul Waheed
Shahzad Hussain
Hasan Hanif
Hamid Mahmood
Qaisar Ali Malik
Corporate social responsibility and firm performance: The moderation of investment horizon and corporate governance
description The current study proposes an integrated theoretical frame work, to explain the moderating role of institutional investors, their investment horizon and corporate governance mechanism in the sustainability of corporate social responsibility (CSR) and firm’s performance nexus. The proposed model explains how, the positive association between CSR and firm performance relationship, established on the basis of the stakeholder and corporate citizenship theories, can be further strengthened (effective monitoring hypothesis) or weakened (myopic institutions theory) by the presence of institutional investors in the firm’s ownership structure and corporate governance mechanism (agency theory). The study tested the proposed model on the unbalanced sample of 327 non-financial firms listed on the Pakistan stock exchange (PSX). The study concludes that, based on the agency theory, institutional investors (as a homogeneous group) positively moderates the CSR and firm performance relationship. However, agency theory failed to explain the negative moderation of short term investment horizon institutional investors and firm performance. The study further confirms the agency role of effective corporate governance mechanism in the sustainable CSR and firm performance relationship. The current study explored some of the major theoretical contradictions in the field of corporate finance literature, which are puzzling for the practitioners and scholars.
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author Abdul Waheed
Shahzad Hussain
Hasan Hanif
Hamid Mahmood
Qaisar Ali Malik
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Shahzad Hussain
Hasan Hanif
Hamid Mahmood
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title Corporate social responsibility and firm performance: The moderation of investment horizon and corporate governance
title_short Corporate social responsibility and firm performance: The moderation of investment horizon and corporate governance
title_full Corporate social responsibility and firm performance: The moderation of investment horizon and corporate governance
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