Investment Inefficiency and Corporate Social Responsibility

Tadesse G. Engida; Christopher F. Parmeter; Xudong Rao; Alfons G.J.M. Oude Lansink

doi:10.1007/s11123-022-00641-4

Investment Inefficiency and Corporate Social Responsibility

Tadesse G. Engida^*, Christopher F. Parmeter, Xudong Rao, Alfons G.J.M. Oude Lansink

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Abstract

We demonstrate how earlier approaches to model the impact that corporate social responsibility (CSR) has on investment inefficiency are likely to be incorrect and propose use of the stochastic frontier methodology to model this relationship. We
apply the approach to a sample of European listed companies, providing robust evidence that CSR performance is negatively associated with investment inefficiency. This result is consistent with the claim that high CSR firms are characterized by low
information asymmetry and high stakeholder solidarity, which may represent a source of competitive advantage, helping to decrease investment inefficiency.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	95-108
Number of pages	14
Journal	Journal of Productivity Analysis
Volume	58
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s11123-022-00641-4
Publication status	Published - 27 Jun 2022

Keywords

Partly linear model
Stochastic frontier model
corporate social responsibility
FRONTIER ESTIMATION
MANAGEMENT
NONFINANCIAL DISCLOSURE
DETERMINANTS
PERFORMANCE
INFORMATION
FIRMS
Corporate social responsibility
FINANCIAL-REPORTING QUALITY
CONSTRAINTS
EFFICIENCY

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