EFA Keynote Speech: “Corporate Governance and Corporate Social Responsibility: What Do Investors Care about? What Should Investors Care about?”

By Laura T. Starks. 2009

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Subfields: Accounting, Strategy and Management

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The Relative Value Relevance of Shareholder Versus Stakeholder Corporate Governance Disclosure Policy Reforms in South Africa (2012, unknown): “Opinion-based survey conducted by Mercer Consulting in 2006, for example, indicates that institutional investors consider CSR issues to be important (Starks, 2009: 465).”
Value-Enhancing Capabilities of CSR: A Brief Review of Contemporary Literature (2014, background): “…CSR performance have better access to ﬁnance, and the relationship is driven primarily by the environmental dimension of CSR. Researchers have also reported that CSR activities reduce not only social risks but also operational, litigation, product, and technology-related risks (Starks, 2009).”
Corporate social responsibility, firm value, and influential institutional ownership (2018, background): “…holding sizable and stable stakes in a firm, large shareholders, such as blockholders and long-term dedicated institutions, specialize in monitoring activities and play a crucial role in corporate governance (Gillan and Starks, 2003; Chen, Harford, and Li, 2007; Starks, 2009; Gillan et al., 2010).”
Corporate Governance and Performance in Socially Responsible Corporations: New Empirical Insights from a Neo‐Institutional Framework (2013, unknown): “However, and to the extent that good CG is associated with better monitoring, it can be expected to positively influence CSR (Starks, 2009; Arora & Dharwadkar, 2011).”
Socially Responsible Firms and Endogenous Choice of Strategic Incentives (2012, unknown): “Both, investors and consumers put increasing pressure on companies to consider social and environmental issues alongside business goals (Fernández-Kranz and Santalo 2010, Kitzmueller and Shimshack 2010, Starks 2009, Mohr et al. 2001).”
Corporate Social Responsibility and Credit Ratings (2013, background): “Similarly, Frederick (1995), King (1995), Starks (2009), and El Ghoul et al. (2011) show that investors perceive socially irresponsible firms as having a higher level of risk than other firms.”