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The Impact of CSR On Firm Performance
The Impact of CSR On Firm Performance
RESPONSIBILITY ON FIRM
PERFORMANCE
Hamna Gul
MSBA-011R17P-7
Supervisor
3.7.2.1 ROA..................................................................................................................................... 14
References .................................................................................................................................................. 16
Chapter: 1 INTRODUCTION
!.1 Background
The concept of shared value or Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) has exponentially
attracted the attention of the business world as well as researchers. The overall performance of an
organization is greatly dependent on the ethical business activities and activities related to social
and environmental benefits. These activities will help an organization to sustain its reputation and
goodwill. CSR is actually consists of all the practices of corporate governance which are related
to policies, procedures, practices the focus of which is to improve social conditions, rights,
protections, environmental protections and protection of the interest of all the stockholders of the
business. It is the time not to confine business only for profitability of the firm but associate those
with the social benefit as financial gain are actually associated with a social benefit of society.
CSR is not just investment but a strong link between the firm and its stakeholders.
According to Ruben and Christopher (2009) CSR activities require a responsibility on the part of
corporations toward its stakeholders specifically its customers, employees and community in
addition to its profit maximization goals. These activities include donations or commitments
regarding environment protection; social well being projects, and providing a healthy and safe
Holme and Watts (2007) describe that corporate social responsibility is considered as long term
promise to act as economic development and to improve the living standards of the societies. The
CSR is about understanding and organizing the connection between our trading operations and the
financial system, situation and communities within which we operate Scott (2007).
1.2 Problem Statement
The concepts CSR its profitability are very important for its long term success and its
goodwill. Problem statement of this study is to find the impact of CSR practices on the profitability
and value of the firm in KSE( Karachi Stock Exchange ) top 100 companies of Pakistan.
As per discussed literature it is not cleared that what is the relationship between CSR and
the firm’s financial performance in the short term and the long term as conflicting results have
been observed. This study will attempt to observe the association between CSR and firms
firm’s performance. Corporate social responsibility (CSR) is measured as the summation of the
donation and the environment cost which is taken from annual reports of the companies.
The study that is conducted consists of 100 companies which are listed in Karachi stock exchange
in Pakistan. The companies which selected for sample purpose are taken from 25 sectors. A panel
regression is then performed on the data to validate the impact of corporate social responsibility
The concept of CSR is not very difficult to understand, in simple it is related to activities which
will consider itself a responsible entity of the society which not only fulfill its economic goals but
also fulfills ethical and moral values of the society. The concept of CSR emerged in 1950 by
Bowen, 1953. Carroll model (Carroll and Buchholtz, 2003) suggests that the first important goal
of the organization is to fulfill its economic goals, after that its legal obligation, than ethical and
philanthropic goals.
Moir (2001) have discussed the business loyalty with corporate social responsibility. They
described CSR to know the attitude of people who were known as users. They find out the
outcomes by using the corporate social responsibility for creating loyalty among consumers just
like Ali, Rehman, Yilmaz, Nazir and Ali (2010) and the Al‐Khater and Naser (2003). They have
concluded that response of consumer and CSR were the different segments. They have concluded
that positive attitude had a positive impact on the value of shares which can enhance the loyalty of
business. Four factors which were defined above had positive influence on CSR but out of them
one factor “friendly environment” had negative impacts on some types of consumer groups. They
Singh (2014) has investigated the influence of CSR disclosure on the financial performance of the
companies in UK. He has conducted his research on main three industries consist on sub industries.
The data is taken for the study from annual reports for the period of 5 year from 2008-2012. He
uses linear regression model in his study. He tries to find the CSR influence on the financial
performance the companies. The results show that CSR has no influence on the financial
performance of the companies, both in short-term and long-term for the selected companies in UK.
Kanwal et al. (2013) have explained and tried to find in Pakistan whether that many organizations
had a significant interest in the corporate social responsibility. By taking the data from 15
companies listed on Karachi stock exchange they tried to explore the relationship between FP &
CSR. For social activities there must be strong financial performance of firm or organization and
McGuire, Sundgren and Schneeweis (1988) have highlighted in their study that there was a
positive relationship between corporate social responsibility and financial performance. They use
regression analysis method to analyze the data. They find out that measurement of risk and
corporate social responsibilities were interlinked. Finally their judgment is that there was positive
relationship between corporate social responsibility and the financial performance of firms.
Rapti and Medda (2010) examine in their study corporate social responsibility (CSR) related to
environmental issues. And they also use ratio analysis for some extent purpose. In theoretical
model financial performance of firm is measured. The data is taken from annual reports. They use
ten (10) top airports with branches for the sack of research and calculation. They use data over the
period of 2003-2009. Finally they find that there is positive relationship between corporate social
Sarwar et al (2012) have conducted the research on Financial Performance linkage with the CSR
in Bangladesh banks and finds that the banks that focus on CSR practice have more ROA than
Khalid et al (2012) conduct the research on CSR and Firm performance and they find the positive
relationship between CSR and Firm performance. They also conclude the mediating effect of
leverage.
equity.
Chapter: 3 Research Methodology
The practice unit explains the techniques that will be useful to solve the research
problems. The problems which explain in the first section will be solved through different models.
The second chapter gives a way to identify and literary different work of researchers in a company
societal duty also corporate presentation. This chapter presents the research methodology followed
achievement of objects. This chapter moves the research to the further by showing the ways in
which data collection method helped to prove that company societal accountability and corporate
presentation.
Secondary data collected from annual reports of 100 Pakistani listed companies of KSE
Independent Dependent
variable variables
Social responsibility
Return on Asset
Financial Leverage
Economic
Real Stock
Ethical
Return on equity
3.3 Sampling Method
To understand of the firm’s the research has concentrated only on the companies that stand
The study is based on the probability sampling method. Out of the Probability sampling method
random sampling has been used. Because in the case of knowing the effect of business societal
accountability on the organization’s profitability. There is an equal and known chance of being
training to observe a correlation amongst CSR and four dependent financial variables. A simple
linear regression remains usually cast-off as per numerical technique toward size the connection
among single dependent variable and single independent variable (Yan and Su, 2009). This one
can likewise estimate the way (positive/negative) besides the power of the relationship among the
two variables (Nolan andHeinzen, 2014). The track of the variables is denoted through the Beta
importance which defines in what way considerable the self-governing flexible variations the
or not of manufacture firms, so this is a causal research. This study applied Co-relational research.
The procedure of study dimension stands the essential toward measurable study since that one
delivers the important linking among experiential remark and precise look of numerical affiliation.
3.6 Statistical Model
Y (Economic, Ethical) = C + β1 (ROA) + β2 (LEV) + β3 (REAL STOCK) + β4
(ROE) + ε
Abbreviation Variable
FL Financial leverage
RS Real Stock
the following independent variables to check the relation among corporate societal accountability
then firm economic presentation .These variables remain most appropriate variables toward
related with a answerable and proper appearance, which signs consistency and inspires a trust-
based correlation between culture (Martínez and Rodríguez del Bosque, 2013). This is one article
nowadays is called the public accountability of big business. Even if there have been a lot of papers
on this issue, no one decided meaning of CSR (Armstrong and Green, 2013,).This study reflect
that CSR is still substance discovering as it is a tough idea that has been hypothesized in a sum of
fields such as finances, managing, trade principles, radical concept, sociology and even lawful
2011). But, these discoveries cannot be global as imperfect care has been rewarded to the corporate
variables that stand used toward ration the monetary presentation of the organizations. To measure
the firm’s ethical and economic influence happening organizations’ monetary presentation;
of return on assets. Profitability is measured through return on assets. Profitability ratios measure
(typically yearly revenue) through that one whole asset, and stays shown by way of a ratio. Its
quantity company monetary performance through return on equity, return on asset, and Tobin’s Q.
return on equity too return on asset might be recycled by way of an effectiveness display, although
Tobin’s Q often used such by way of size of a company worth. It’s invention optimistic and
social responsibility guide. M.S.Ak. (2013) studied experiential sign almost the factors of exposé
3.7.2.2 ROE
ROE stays designed through captivating a year’s value of incomes then in-between them
through the average shareholder equity aimed at that year, then remains said by way of a
percentage.
leverage remains similarly recognized by way of exchange proceeding equity. The investigation
similarly establish that influence, panel of official size, organization profile, organization age,
administration possession, then development chances must not at all impact to CSR Rahmavati et
al., (2014) considered the affiliation among corporate financial performance besides social
responsibility trendy a research titled “the impact of corporate social responsibility on financial
performance and real operation as a regulating variable”. Results submitted that real operation in
cash flows leaves a bad influence on the affiliation among corporate social responsibility and
financial performance.
Inventory Turnover
Similar a characteristic income relation, record income particulars how abundant catalog
Sales / Inventory
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