The Causal Effect of Corporate Governance on Corporate Social Responsibility

By H. Jo, Maretno Agus Harjoto. Journal of Business Ethics, 2011

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Subfields: Accounting, Strategy and Management

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In Accounting

1. H. Jo
2. E. Akben-Selcuk
3. Jinhua Cui
4. Yongtae Kim
5. Maretno Agus Harjoto
6. Li Cai
7. A. Cheung
8. Carrie Pan

In Strategy and Management

1. H. Jo
2. E. Akben-Selcuk
3. Jinhua Cui
4. Maretno Agus Harjoto
5. Yongtae Kim
6. Li Cai
7. A. Cheung
8. Carrie Pan

Citations in the corpus

• The Effects of Corporate and Country Sustainability Characteristics on The Cost of Debt: An International Investigation (2014, neutral): “Cui et al. (2016) take the view of Jo and Harjoto (2011, 2012), who posit that firms use CSR engagements as a mechanism to increase informational flow and improve communication to non-investing stakeholders, thereby enhancing conflict resolution and decreasing information asymmetries.”
• Corporate Social Responsibility and Firm Financial Performance: The Mediating Role of Productivity (2016, background): “Recent literature emphasizes the important role of CSR as an effective corporate governance mechanism to resolve conflicts among various stakeholder groups and reduce agency costs (Freeman 1984; Jensen 2001; Jo and Harjoto 2012; Cespa and Cestone 2007).”
• Value-Enhancing Capabilities of CSR: A Brief Review of Contemporary Literature (2014, background): “Jo and Harjoto (2012) demonstrated that the lag of CSR does not affect corporate governance variables, but a lag in corporate governance variables positively affects firms’ CSR engagement.”
• Corporate Board and Corporate Social Responsibility Assurance: Evidence from China (2016, neutral): “The board makes essential strategic, operational and financial decisions and considers the needs of firms’ stakeholders (Jo and Harjoto 2012).”
• Is Institutional Ownership Related to Corporate Social Responsibility? The Nonlinear Relation and Its Implication for Stock Return Volatility (2015, positive): “Our approach is similar to those in Baron et al. (2011) and Jo and Harjoto (2012).”