Corporate social responsibility disclosure, dividend payments and firm value - relations and mediating effects

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Corporate social responsibility disclosure, dividend payments and firm value - relations and mediating effects
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We examine the relations between corporate social re-sponsibility (CSR) disclosures, dividend payments and firm value. We use an international sample and measure CSR disclosures based on Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) disclosure levels, which we divide into two parts (unexpected and expected disclosures). We find three main results. First, firms with higher levels of unexpected CSR disclosure pay higher dividends, and this association is attributable to firms where unexpected CSR disclosure is aligned with CSR performance. Second, only the un-expected part of CSR disclosures is positively associated with share prices. Third, this positive association is fully mediated by dividends.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/1467629x
Accounting
Creator
De Villiers, Charl Johannes
Ma, Diandian
Marques, Ana
Publisher
Date
2023-10-27T05:11:31Z
2023-10-27T05:11:31Z
2024-03
Type
Article
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application/pdf
application/pdf
Identifier
De Villiers, C., Ma, D. & Marques, A. (2024) Corporate social responsibility disclosure, dividend payments and firm value – Relations and mediating effects. Accounting & Finance, 64(1), 185-219. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1111/acfi.13140.
0810-5391 (print)
1467-629X (online)
10.1111/acfi.13140
http://hdl.handle.net/2263/93092
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en
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© 2023 The Authors. Accounting & Finance published by John Wiley & Sons Australia, Ltd on behalf of Accounting and Finance Association of Australia and New Zealand.

This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs License.
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