上市公司社会责任信息披露水平与财务绩效相关性研究
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摘要
近年来,公司社会责任意识逐渐受到国内外的广泛关注,监管部门、投资者等利益相关者对于社会责任信息的需求与日俱增。我国上市公司在履行社会责任方面加大投入的同时,也在有意识地提高公司社会责任信息(CSRI)的披露水平。由于社会责任信息披露属于自愿性信息披露的范围,缺乏相关法律法规的强制约束,我国公司在社会责任信息披露水平方面呈现较大差异。一些资产质量优良、财务业绩突出的公司均通过自愿性信息披露突出自身的竞争优势,以期提高信息披露质量,增强投资者对公司未来成长的信心。那么上市公司提高社会责任信息披露水平能否促进公司财务绩效的提高,同时公司社会责任信息的披露水平是否受前期财务绩效的影响?本文试图回答以上两个问题,并深入探讨公司社会责任信息披露水平与财务绩效之间的关系,为提高社会责任信息披露质量和促进公司价值增长提供参考依据。
     本文选择公司社会责任信息披露水平与公司财务绩效的关系作为研究对象,站在公司利益相关者的角度,首先对公司社会责任与公司财务绩效关系的两大理论基础:公司社会责任思想和相关利益者理论进行了梳理;然后对我国上市公司社会责任信息披露的现状进行了介绍和分析,之后从利益相关者角度对我国社会责任信息披露水平进行评价,并通过相关性分析和回归分析对我国上市公司社会责任信息披露水平与财务绩效的关系进行了实证研究。结果显示,对于我国深市A股上市公司而言,在选用总资产收益率与总资本增长率衡量公司财务绩效时两者之间存在显著的正相关关系。同时两个公司特征变量(公司规模与行业属性)也是影响上市公司社会责任信息披露程度的重要因素。最后本文从提高社会责任信息披露质量的角度提出相关政策建议。
In recent years, corporate social responsibility awareness gained widespread attention gradually at home and abroad, and the demand for social responsibility information of regulators, investors and other stakeholders is growing day by day. China's listed companies increase investment to fulfill their social responsibilities, at the same time; they are also active to improve the level of information disclosure. As the disclosure of social responsibility information belongs to voluntary disclosure of information, China's disclosure level of social responsibility information showed greater differences with the lack of relevant laws and regulations with compulsory requirement. Some listed companies with excellent quality and good performance have adopted voluntarily measures of information disclosure to highlight their competitive superiority, improve the quality of information disclosure, and to enhance investors' confidence in the company's future growth. Whether can the listed companies promote the company's financial performance through the improvement of the disclosure level of social responsibility information, and whether could company's previous financial performance impact the disclosure level of corporate social responsibility information? This paper attempts to answer these two questions and study the relationship between the disclosure level of social responsibility information and financial performance in order to provide reference for improving the quality of information disclosure and the value of the companies.
     From the company stakeholders' perspective, this paper paid focus on the relationship between the disclosure level of corporate social responsibility information and the company's financial performance. At first, the author listed the two major theoretical foundations of corporate social responsibility and corporate financial performance: corporate social responsibility thinking and stakeholders' theory. Then the author listed and analyzed the disclosure status of social responsibility information of China's listed companies. And then from the perspective of the stakeholders, this paper evaluated the disclosure level of social responsibility information of Chinese companies and tested the relationship between the disclosure level of social responsibility information and financial performance of on Chinese listed companies through relationship analysis and multiple regression analysis. The results showed that there was a significant positive correlation between the disclosure level of social responsibility information and the company's financial performance when measured by the overall growth rate and ROA in A-share listed companies of China's Shenzhen Stock Exchange. At the same time, the two companies features variable (company size and industry attributes) also affected the disclosure extent of social responsibility information of listed companies. Finally this paper gave some policy recommendations to improve the disclosure quality of social responsibility to information.
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