The Impact of Corporate Social

Springer 2011
Journal of Business Ethics (2011) 103:351383

DOI 10.1007/s10551-011-0869-y
Corporate Governance and Firm Value:

The Impact of Corporate Social
Responsibility
ABSTRACT. This study investigates the effects of

internal and external corporate governance and monitoring mechanisms on the choice of corporate social
responsibility (CSR) engagement and the value of firms
engaging in CSR activities. The study finds the CSR
choice is positively associated with the internal and
external corporate governance and monitoring mechanisms, including board leadership, board independence,
institutional ownership, analyst following, and antitakeover provisions, after controlling for various firm
characteristics. After correcting for endogeneity and
simultaneity issues, the results show that CSR engagement positively influences firm value measured by
industry-adjusted Tobins q. We find that the impact of
analyst following for firms that engage in CSR on firm
value is strongly positive, while the board leadership, board independence, blockholders ownership, and
institutional ownership play a relatively weaker role in
enhancing firm value. Furthermore, we find that CSR
activities that address internal social enhancement within
the firm, such as employees diversity, firm relationship
with its employees, and product quality, enhance the
value of firm more than other CSR subcategories for
broader external social enhancement such as community
relation and environmental concerns.
KEY WORDS: corporate social responsibility, corporate governance, analyst following, firm value
JEL CLASSIFICATION: G34, L2, M14
Introduction
Although there has been a noteworthy discussion
among scholars and practitioners over the last two
decades on what constitutes the best corporate
governance practices, corporate governance across
Hoje Jo
Maretno A. Harjoto
corporate America is more heterogeneous than ever

before. The recent collapse of many firms has not
only proven to be a watershed momentum in U.S.
corporate governance, it also has highlighted the
importance of information transparency. Information problems and managerial incentives typically
limit the effectiveness of corporate governance in
public corporations (Jensen, 1993; Miller, 2005). As
a result, there has been a tremendous acceleration of
corporate governance activities, as well as a convergence of certain trends in corporate governance
over the last few years (Hermalin, 2005). While the
literature indicates that effective corporate governance curtails managerial self-interest and protects
shareholder interests, this study posits that corporate
governance manages the interests of multiple stakeholders and resolves the conflicts of interest between
shareholders and non-investing stakeholders.
Along with the acceleration of corporate governance issue, one of the most significant and contentious corporate trends of the last decade is the
growth of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR).
In essence, CSR is an extension of firms efforts
to foster effective corporate governance, ensuring
firms sustainability via sound business practices that
promote accountability and transparency. However,
there are various definitions of CSR. Friedman
(1970) first defines CSR as follows: Corporate social responsibility is to conduct the business in
accordance with shareholders desires, which generally will be to make as much money as possible
while conforming to the basic rules of society, both
those embodied in law and those embodied in ethical custom. Carroll (1979) and Hill et al. (2007)
define the hierarchical CSR as economic, legal,
moral, and philanthropic actions of firms that
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influence the quality of life of relevant stakeholders.

While the definitions of CSR vary, it generally refers
to serving people, communities, and society in ways
that go above and beyond what is legally required of
a firm. According to Barnea and Rubin (2010),
however, if CSR initiatives do not maximize firm
value, such initiatives are a waste of valuable resources and a potentially value-destroying proposition. CSR has continued to be a highly topical
subject regarding whether investments in CSR are
value-enhancing, value-destroying, or even valueirrelevant. The debates about CSR continue to grow
without a clear consensus on its meaning or value.
In this paper, we first examine the empirical
association between various corporate governance
and monitoring mechanisms and U.S. firms choice
of CSR involvement. We then explore how CSR
engagement and various governance mechanisms
affect firm value after correcting for endogeneity and
simultaneity. Well-designed corporate governance
systems would align managers incentives with those
of stakeholders. Hence, firms with effective corporate governance should place a greater emphasis on
value maximization. We examine two categories of
governance devices: internal (ownership concentration and board structure) and external (institutional
ownership and monitoring by security analysts).
Given that the relations among CSR, corporate
governance, and firm value are mixed, and that
previous studies do not control for the simultaneity
bias and endogeneity, this study explores the impact
of various governance mechanisms on firms choice
of CSR engagement and the effect of this engagement on firm value after controlling for both the
simultaneity bias and endogeneity.1
As one of the essential rationales behind CSR
engagement is to build trust relationships and social
capital, increasing attention is being paid to the effects
that social capital has on economic variables.2 Several
studies analyze the relation between social capital and
economic growth (Knack and Keefer, 1997); social
capital and trust building (La Porta et al., 1997a, b);
social capital and government performance (La Porta
et al., 1999; Putnam, 1993); and social capital and
financial development (Guiso, et al., 2004). In spite
of the increasing attention given to social capital,
however, only a few studies in finance examine CSR
engagement. Aggrawal and Nanda (2004) investigate
the relation between board size and social objectives
and find that the number of social objectives positively affects firms board size. Fisman et al. (2005)
examine the link between firms CSR engagement
and accounting profit. They find that the effect of
CSR on profitability is stronger for firms in more
competitive industries. Barnea and Rubin (2010)
examine the relation between firms CSR ratings and
their ownership and capital structures and find that
insiders tend to over-invest in CSR. Goss and
Roberts (2007) analyze the association between CSR
and the cost of bank loans. They find that firms with
the worst social responsibility scores pay higher loan
costs while firms with good scores do not receive
lower loan costs. Hong and Kacperczyk (2009) find
sin stocks from publicly traded firms that produce
alcohol, tobacco, and gambling have higher risk and
returns indicating that social norms affect stock prices
and returns. Although these studies enhance our
understanding of the important benefits and costs of
CSR engagement, in our view, the previous research
on this issue is still premature to provide any definite
conclusions regarding the impact of CSR engagement on firm value.3
To correctly examine the relationship between
CSR and firm value, we need to consider potential
simultaneity bias and endogenous treatment effects.
Since better quality firms tend to choose CSR
engagement, the contribution of CSR engagement
to firm value will be overstated (Greene, 1993) if we
do not correct for the simultaneity and endogeneity
problems. In this paper, we conduct our endogeneity and simultaneity analyses in two stages. We
examine the factors determining CSR engagement
extensively in the first stage, and then compare the
firm values of CSR engaging versus CSR nonengaging firms in the second stage. Based upon a
large sample of 12,527 firm-year (2952 firms)
observations, including both CSR and no-CSR
firms during the 19932004 period, we initially
perform a first-stage probit regression analysis of
CSR engagement. Consistent with the conflictresolution hypothesis, the results show that the
likelihood of opting for CSR involvement is significantly and positively related to governance
characteristics such as board leadership, board independence, institutional ownership, analyst following,
and anti-takeover provisions after controlling for
such firm characteristics as firm size, leverage, profitability, R&D, a firms diversification, and risk.
Corporate Governance and Firm Value

In the second-stage analysis, we find that after
correcting for the endogenous treatment effect and
simultaneity bias, respectively, firm value, measured
by industry-adjusted Tobins q, is positively
related to the CSR choice or the CSR-combined
scores, suggesting that CSR engagement positively
influences firm value. The results support the
conflict-resolution hypothesis, as opposed to the
overinvestment explanation, and remain robust
under various specifications, including the OLS, the
Heckman two-stage regressions, and the instrumental variables approach. Our results also suggest
that the value enhancement of firms CSR engagement comes from firms internal social enhancement, such as diversity, employee relations, and
product issues more than their CSR involvement in
broader external enhancement, such as activities
related to community and environmental issues. In
addition, after controlling for a potential simultaneity
bias, our inferences concerning the positive association between CSR and firm value remain intact.
Furthermore, we maintain that security analysts
are important information intermediaries who
improve the transparency of a firms CSR activities.
Accordingly, the impact of CSR activities are
stronger when analyst following is higher, and the
impact of analyst following on firm value is also
strongly positive in all models. However, the monitoring impact of institutional investors is occasionally positive, but relatively weaker than that of
security analysts, presumably because of their dual
roles of monitors and investors. Overall, our results
suggest that firms engagement in CSR activities,
together with external monitoring by security analysts, is value enhancing. Furthermore, the positive
impact of CSR activities on firm value implies that
U.S. firms do not over-invest in CSR activities in
the sample period.
This paper contributes to the literature on CSR
and corporate governance in three distinct ways.
First, we conduct a full examination of the determinants of CSR engagement and provide insights
into how corporate governance influences firms
choice to engage in CSR by using all CSR firms
and no-CSR firms available from the Kinder,
Lydenberg, and Dominis (KLD) Stats database,
RiskMetrics (formerly, the Investor Responsibility
Research Centers (IRRC) governance and director) database, and the Institutional Brokers Estima-
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tion Services (I/B/E/S) database during the 1993

2004 period. Second, we consider more extensive
governance and monitoring mechanisms to examine
the impact of CSR on firms value and revisit the
over-investment hypothesis and the conflict-resolution explanation in light of CSR. By appropriately
controlling for the endogenous treatment effects and
simultaneity bias, we are able to determine whether
firms over-invest in CSR activities. We postulate
that the role of corporate governance in the choice
of CSR engagement and the impact of that choice
on firm value might be different for each of the
internal and external governance mechanisms. We
believe that this is the first empirical study to formally address both the simultaneity and endogeneity
issues. Third, we provide further evidence that the
impact of security analyst following on firm value is
one of the most significant among several considered
governance and monitoring mechanisms in the
presence of CSR engagement.
Hypotheses
Why do firms engage in CSR?
Despite large literature on CSR (Bowen, 1953;
Donham, 1927; and for an overview, see Whetten,
et al., 2002), there is no unified theory behind CSR
engagement, and there are at least two alternative
explanations regarding its existence. First, based on
Jensen and Mecklings (1976) agency theory, Barnea
and Rubin (2010) consider CSR engagement as a
principal-agent relation between managers and
shareholders, and argue that affiliated insiders have
an interest in overinvesting in CSR in order to
obtain private benefits of building reputation as good
social citizens, possibly at a cost to shareholders.
As reputation improves, top management will
enjoy better outside career opportunities and greater
negotiation power, which will eventually lead them
to have overconfidence. Malmendier and Tate
(2005) suggest that there is some evidence of overinvestment by overconfident CEOs. Goel and
Thakors (2008) theoretical model also shows that
overconfident managers sometimes make valuedestroying investments. In a related vein, Bertrand
and Mullainathan (2003) argue that when managers are not closely monitored and insulated from
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takeovers, active empire building may not be the

norm and managers may prefer to enjoy a quiet life.
If overconfident CEOs tend to over-invest in order
to build their reputations as good social citizens
without monitoring, we expect an inverse association between monitoring and CSR choice because
the higher internal and external monitoring through
various governance mechanisms should reduce the
insiders incentive for CSR over-investment.
Second, while it may not be completely possible
to satisfy all related stakeholders, there is a growing
literature on conflict resolution based on stakeholder
theory (e,g., Calton and Payne, 2003; Harjoto and
Jo, 2011; Jensen, 2002; Sherere et al., 2006), in
which the role of the corporation is to serve the
interests of other non-investing stakeholders as well.
According to the conflict-resolution hypothesis,
to the extent that managers use effective monitoring/governance mechanisms together with CSR
engagement to resolve conflicts among stakeholders,
CSR engagement should be positively related to
effective governance mechanisms. Alternatively, if
various governance and monitoring mechanisms
view the firms CSR engagement as an effort of
potential conflict resolution among various stakeholders, then we would expect a positive association
between corporate governance and CSR engagement.
According to the over-investment
hypothesis, we expect that the choice of CSR
engagement is inversely associated with governance and monitoring mechanisms after controlling for confounding factors, while according to
the conflict-resolution hypothesis, we expect a
positive association between the choice of CSR
engagement and governance and monitoring
mechanisms.
Hypothesis 1:
CSR, corporate governance, and firm value

The impact of CSR engagement on accounting
performance (i.e., return on assets (ROA)), is a longstanding, but still unresolved question. According to
the management literature summarized by Margolis
and Walsh (2003), over 120 studies between 1971
and 2001 examine the empirical relation between
CSR and financial performance, and the results are

largely inconclusive. They suggest that previous
studies are subject to various imperfections, such as
measurement problems related to both CSR and
financial performance, a lack of necessary analyses of
causality and/or endogeneity, omitted variable
problems, a lack of methodological rigor, and a lack
of theory. While it is hard to draw a definite conclusion because of the imperfect nature of many
studies, the review of the empirical CSR literature
conducted by Margolis and Walsh (2003) indicates a
generally positive association between investing in
socially responsible activities and financial performance.
The impact of CSR engagement on firm value,
however, is relatively less examined.4 In particular,
there is less evidence regarding how corporate
governance and the CSR engagement jointly affect
firm value after controlling for both the simultaneity
bias and endogeneity. According to the overinvestment hypothesis, insiders such as the CEO and
the board have a natural motivation to over-invest in
CSR activities if doing so enhances their reputation
building process (Barnea and Rubin, 2010). Then,
firm value will be negatively influenced by the
CSR engagement. In contrast, the conflict-resolution hypothesis suggests that if managers use effective
governance and monitoring mechanisms in conjunction with CSR engagement to resolve conflicts
among stakeholders, then firm value could be positively associated with CSR engagement and effective
governance mechanisms through reduced conflictof-interests among various stakeholders.
Since there is no clear monitoring mechanism to
prevent firms from over-investing in various CSR
activities, we postulate that there should be some
effective monitoring mechanism out of all considered internal and external governance mechanisms
for the checking and balancing of CSR investments.
Board independence can be important in monitoring
the behavior of top management. Fama and Jensen
(1983) maintain that boards can be effective mechanisms to monitor top management on behalf of
dispersed shareholders by effectuating management
appointments, dismissals, suspensions, and rewards.
Other studies, however, point toward a paradoxical,
insignificant, or negative association between governance quality, as proxied by the percentage of
outside directors on the board, and firm value.

Bhagat and Black (2001), Hermalin and Weisbach
(1991), and Morck et al. (1988) find no significant
relation between board independence and Tobins q.
Coles et al. (2008) examine the relation between
board structure and firm value, and find that one
board size or composition does not provide the same
monitoring benefits for all firms. Furthermore,
Bhagat and Black (2001), Hermalin and Weisbach
(1991), and Mehran (1995) find an insignificant
relation between board independence and accounting performance. Agrawal and Knoeber (1996) find
that Tobins q decreases with an increase in the
proportion of outside directors. Thus, the evidence
regarding the merits of independent boards remains
largely inconclusive.
Internal control systems, such as managerial incentives, corporate charters, and boards of directors,
however, may not be a sufficiently effective mechanism to ensure corporate transparency and the
self-monitoring of firm behavior (Jensen, 1993).
Consequently, external monitoring by institutional
investors who own blocks of the firm has become
increasingly important. Agency theories argue that
pressures from external investors, such as institutional
investors, are necessary to motivate managers to maximize firm value instead of pursuing managerial
objectives (Allen et al., 2001; Jensen, 1986; Shleifer and
Vishny, 1986). Institutional investors are more willing
and able to monitor corporate management than are
smaller and more diffuse investors. Large blockholders
identify that managers are often driven by their selfinterests. Thus, as large shareholders, blockholders
have strong incentive to monitor managers (Demsetz
and Lehn, 1985; Shleifer and Vishny, 1986).
Chung and Jo (1996) indicate that security analysts
play important roles as corporate monitors in
reducing agency costs and motivating managers.
Analysts act as information intermediaries who help
expand the breadth of investors cognizance about
the managerial actions, and therefore, analyst following should have a positive impact on the market
value of firms. Knyazeva (2007) and Yu (2008) also
consider the potential role of analysts as an indirect,
but additional monitoring mechanism and support
the notion that analyst following imposes discipline
on misbehaving managers and helps align managers
with shareholders, thus improving managerial
incentives to undertake more optimal policies. Jo and
Kim (2007, 2008) further indicate that an improved
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corporate transparency through frequent voluntary

disclosure will reduce the information asymmetry
between insiders and outsiders, discourage managerial self-dealings, and therefore, enhance firm value.
Thus, to the extent that institutional investors and
security analysts provide effective external monitoring regarding the information transparency of CSR
engagement, the CSR activities will have positive
effects on firm value. Combined together, the
implication that we draw from the above discussion
leads to the second hypothesis.
(a) If the over-investment hypothesis
(the conflict-resolution hypothesis) is correct,
then firm value measured by Tobins q is inversely
(positively) associated with the choice of CSR
engagement or investing in CSR activities after
correcting for simultaneity and endogeneity; and
(b) Because security analysts and/or institutional
investors provide external monitoring that improves information transparency, we expect a
positive association between CSR engagement
and firm value to the extent that there exist
external monitoring mechanisms.
Hypothesis 2:
If analysts are affiliated with investment banks,

then they face their own conflicts of interest, raising
questions about their effectiveness. For instance,
Dechow et al. (2000) and Lin and McNichols (1998)
suggest that analysts affiliated with investment banks
that underwrite equity issues tend to make higher
growth forecasts than unaffiliated analysts do, and
subsequently have larger forecast errors. If information intermediaries such as financial analysts are
independent, then their information production is
more likely to increase transparency. As we do not
have an access to the data on analyst affiliation, our
results might be biased toward rejecting the analysts
role of enhancing information transparency, and
therefore, the association between CSR engagement
and firm value.
Data, measurement, and methodology

Data
We use CSR measures from the Kinder, Lydenberg,
and Dominis (KLDs) Stats database. KLDs Stats
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database includes over 3000 companies containing

various CSR characteristics. In particular, KLDs
inclusive social rating criteria contain strength ratings
and concern ratings for community, diversity, employee relations, environment, and product. KLD
also has exclusionary screens, such as alcohol, gambling, military, nuclear power, and tobacco (see
Appendix A). Since KLDs exclusionary screens
differ from the inclusive screens in that only concern
ratings, but no strength ratings, are assigned, we only
use the inclusive screens in our main tests. While
KLD contains data from approximately 650 firms
listed on the S&P 500 or Domini 400 Social Indexes
each year prior to 2001, the KLDs ratings comprise
a summary of strengths and concerns assigned to
approximately 1100 (3100) firms listed on the S&P
500, the Domini 400 Social Indexes, or the Russell
1000 (Russell 3000) Indexes as of December 31st of
each year for 2001 and 2002 (2003 and 2004). In
2002, KLD renamed the other category as corporate
governance.
Since KLDs definition of corporate governance,
which includes compensation, ownership, tax disputes, and other issues, is quite different from that of
conventional corporate governance measures, we
use governance and monitoring measures from
RiskMetrics (formerly, the IRRCs governance and
director) database, CDA/Spectrum 13(f) filings, and
the Institutional Brokers Estimation Services (I/B/
E/S) database instead of KLDs corporate governance dimension. The corporate governance and
monitoring measures from the above databases
include the proportion of outside independent
directors, the proportion of institutional holdings,
the proportion of blockholdings, and the number of
security analysts following the firm. Specifically, (i)
our sample firm must be available from the RiskMetrics database; (ii) insider blockholder data must
be available; (iii) the data for outside institutional
holdings must be available from CDA/Spectrum
13(f) filings. These filings contain quarterly information on common-stock positions greater than
10,000 shares or $200,000 for each institution with
more than $100 million in securities under management; and (iv) the number of analysts following a
firm must be available from the I/B/E/S database.
Since we also use various accounting and financial
information, we require that sufficient COMPUSTAT and Center for Research in Security Prices
(CRSP) data are available for our tests. This sample

procedure produces a combined sample of 12,527
firm-year (2952 firms) observations from 1993 to
2004. If there are any (no) observations in the KLD
ratings, then we view them as firms with (no) CSR
engagement. We also verify our results based on the
sample containing only positive CSR scores. Actual
samples used in the analyses are slightly different
because the data availability is different for each
regression analysis.
The RiskMetrics does not publish volumes every
year, but publishes volumes in the years of 1993, 1995,
1998, 2000, 2002, and 2004. We fill in the missing
years by assuming that the governance provisions reported in any given year are also in place in the year
preceding the volumes publication, following Bebchuk and Cohen (2005) and Gompers et al. (hereafter,
GIM) (2003, 2010). In the case of 2003, for instance,
for which there is no RiskMetrics volume in the
subsequent year, we assume that the governance
provisions are the same as those reported in the
RiskMetrics volume published in 2002. We also
verify whether using a different method based on the
arithmetic average of 2002 and 2004 to assume the
case of 2003 does not change the results. To conduct
the robustness test, we further examine only the
RiskMetricss published years of 1993, 1995, 1998,
2000, 2002, and 2004 in the additional test section.
Measurement
To measure external monitoring by institutional
holders, we use the equity ownership of outside
institutional holders as the sum of the greater-thanfive percent owners that are unaffiliated with the
firm (PCTINSTI). We use the number of analysts
who follow the firm to measure external analyst
monitoring by security analysts from the I/B/E/S
database. We measure analyst coverage with the
natural logarithm of one plus the number of analysts following the firm (LOGANAL) because the
number of analysts is highly skewed to the right
(Bushman, et al., 2005; Lim, 2001).
We utilize several structural measures of internal
corporate governance from the RiskMetrics database
(e.g., board characteristics such as independent
outside board proportion, board ownership, and
board leadership, etc.). With these corporate board

variables, we compare and contrast effective versus
ineffective corporate governance. We first focus on
effective corporate governance, using an independent outside director because the rise of such
directors has been a major trend over the last two
decades (see Harris and Raviv, 2008; Hermalin and
Weisbach, 1998, 2003; Raheja, 2005). We follow
the definition of an independent director from that
of the RiskMetrics, which defines an independent
outside director as a director elected by shareholders
who is not affiliated with the company. Based on
Linck et al. (2008), we measure board independence
by the proportion of outside independent directors
(PCTINDEP), and board leadership by a dummy
variable of one if the CEO is the chair of the board
(DUALITY) and another dummy variable if the
CEO is the chair or a member of the nomination
committee (CEONOM).
To measure managerial entrenchment, we use the
governance index (GINDEX) developed by GIM
(2003). The RiskMetrics reports 24 anti-takeover
provisions (ATPs) at the firm level because the basic
ingredients for the GINDEX are ATPs. The GINDEX, therefore, ranges from 0 to 24. A high value
indicates stronger managerial power (less takeover
pressure), and a greater potential for managerial
entrenchment. Bebchuk et al. (2009) create an
entrenchment index (ENTINDEX) based on the
GINDEX, particularly using six provisions four
constitutional provisions that prevent a majority of
shareholders from having their way (e.g., staggered
boards, limits to shareholder bylaw amendments,
supermajority requirements for mergers, and supermajority requirements for charter amendments), and
two takeover-readiness provisions that boards
establish to be ready for a hostile takeover (i.e.,
poison pills and golden parachutes). Bebchuk et al.
(2009) argue that the ENTINDEX based on these
six ATPs drives the main results of firm valuation.
This ENTINDEX ranges from 0 to 6, with a higher
value indicating stronger managerial entrenchment.
Thus, we also use Bebchuk et al.s (2009) ENTINDEX to measure managerial entrenchment. See
the definitions of governance, monitoring, and other
control variables in Appendix B.
We measure firm value with Tobins q, which is a
widely used measure of firm value in accounting,
economics, and finance literature. Tobins q is calculated as: {[Market value of common stock + Book
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value of preferred stock + Book value of long-term

debt + Book value of current liabilities - (Book
value of current assets - Book value of Inventories)]/Book value of total assets}. In particular, we
use industry-adjusted Tobins q (the natural log of
firms q divided by the median q in the firms
industry) instead of levels of Tobins q as a measure
of firm value (Campbell, 1996). The advantage of
using industry-adjusted Tobins q (ADJTOBINQ) is
that it neutralizes the effect of specific industries on
Tobins q.
Methodology
We conduct an endogeneity correction for the
treatment effects because firm value could come
from two broad sources of unique features: the
choice of CSR engagement and corporate governance. The CSR involvements contribution to firm
value could be overstated if we do not control for
the endogeneity problem (Greene, 1993). Specifically, it may be that firms engaging into CSR
activities are simply of higher quality and deliver
better performance, regardless of whether they
choose to become involved in CSR. In this case, the
coefficient on the CSR dummy variable might
reveal a value-add from CSR engagement, when
indeed there is no true effect.
Tobin (1958) first identified this endogeneity
problem. If this endogeneity problem is not taken into
consideration in the estimation procedure, an ordinary least-square estimation (OLS) will produce biased
parameter estimates. Heckman (1976, 1979) proposed
a two-stage estimation procedure using the inverse
Mills ratio to take account of the endogeneity bias. In
the first step, a regression for observing a positive
outcome of the dependent variable is modeled with a
probit (or logit) model. The estimated parameters are
used to calculate the inverse Mills ratio, which is then
included as an additional explanatory variable in the
OLS estimation (Greene, 1993). Using Heckmans
two-stage estimation, we correct the specification for
endogeneity and examine whether CSR activities
enhance firm value.
GIM (2010) employ a different approach, i.e., the
instrumental variable to address the endogeneity problem. Heckman and Robb (1985) and
Moffitt (1999) suggest the instrumental variable (IV)
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method, which focuses on finding a variable (or

variables) that influences the CSR choice, but does
not influence Tobins q (and thus is not correlated
with the random error term in the Tobins q
equation). Angrist (2000) asserts that the IV method
works even when the second-stage model is nonlinear, if the researcher focuses on the causal effects.
Moffitt (1999) further suggests that each IV, that is
indeed uncorrelated with the random error term
in the Tobins q equation, will yield unbiased
estimates.5 Our choice of an instrumental variable
is FIRMAGE, which is highly correlated with
CSRDUMMY, but is uncorrelated with industryadjusted Tobins q (see Table II). We interpret the
results to suggest that older firms can afford CSR
engagement, but not necessarily lead to higher firm
value.6
centage of director ownership and a larger board

size.
Table II presents the bivariate correlation matrix
for the variables of our main interest discussed in the
previous section. Consistent with the positive association between CSR engagement status (CSR) and
board independence (PCTINDEP) or analyst coverage, or institutional share ownership reported
earlier, CSR is positively related to analyst following, PCTINDEP, GINDEX, or PCTINSTI. The
correlation coefficients between CSR and the other
variables of interest are relatively high in absolute
numbers, ranging from 0.17 to 0.35. All of the
above correlations are statistically significant (p values < 0.01). All governance variables (variable
numbers 16 through 25) are significantly correlated
with the CSR variable as well. Tobins q is positively
related to the CSR variable (0.03, with p values < 0.01).
Empirical results
Univariate tests and bivariate correlations
The determinants of CSR engagement
We compare and contrast firm and governance

characteristics in order to test the univariate difference between CSR firms and no-CSR firms.
Table I presents the means and medians of the
control and governance variables. In Panel A, we
first examine the differences of the firm characteristics. In particular, CSR involvement is, on average,
adopted by firms with a lower R&D expenditure
ratio. CSR also is more common among diversified
firms, older firms, larger firms, highly leveraged
firms, more profitable firms, firms belong to the S&P
500, firms using a higher advertising expense ratio,
and firms with a higher Tobins q.
The differences of governance characteristics between CSR firms and no-CSR firms are presented
in Panel B. CSR firms are, on average, associated
with more active board leadership measured by a
higher proportion of CEOs who are also chairs of
the boards (DUALITY) or chairs or members of
nomination committees (CEONOM), and more
anti-takeover provisions (ATPs), respectively. In
addition, CSR engagement is adopted by firms with
higher total block ownership, higher board independence, and a higher percentage of institutional
share ownership. They are also covered by more
security analysts. However, they have a lower per-
To understand the differences between firms with

and without CSR involvement, we adopt a probit
analysis of the choice decision, with the following
model:
PrCSRit jZit UB0 Zit
where CSRit is a dummy variable equal to one if
firm i has CSR engagement in year t, and 0 otherwise. Zit is a vector of firm, governance, or monitoring characteristics at the time of firm is choice
of CSR engagement. B is a vector of coefficients.
To understand firm and governance characteristics that lead some firms to choose CSR engagement, we choose several variables to model the
probability of that choice. Based on the previous
literature and our chosen governance metrics, we
include the variables as components of Z and explain
in detail in the following sections.
Governance and monitoring variables
We hypothesize that internal and external monitoring and governance mechanisms should be related
to the choice of CSR engagement. Thus, we include
various internal and external governance variables,
including the number of anti-takeover provisions
using the GIM (2003) g index (GINDEX), or
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TABLE I
Descriptive statistics and univariate tests
Firms not engaging in CSR
N
Mean
Panel A: firm characteristics

FAMFIRM
7750
0.0991
STATELAW
7742
2.0939
ROA
6587
1.2559
CHGROA
6516 -0.9232
SEGDIV
6659
0.4621
LOGTA
6588
6.8911
DEBTR
6563
0.2399
RNDR
6516
0.0358
CAPXR
6525
0.0739
ADVR
6589
0.0076
FIRMAGE
7743
19.0012
SP500
7750
0.0912
SGROWTH
6546
0.1411
DIVR
6562
0.0242
TOBINQ
6501
1.6229
ADJTOBINQ
6501 -0.2556
Panel B: governance characteristics
GINDEX
7750
8.7931
ENTINDEX
7750
2.1285
DUALITY (1, 0) 7750
0.7503
CEONOM (1, 0) 7750
0.2766
PCTDIRSHR
7750
0.0950
BSIZE
7750
9.0988
PCTINDEP
7750
0.6011
LOGBLKS
7750
13.6855
PCTINSTI
7750
57.5194
LOGANAL
7750
2.0178
Firms engaging in CSR
Difference tests
Median
(or Count)
Mean
Median
(or Count)
T-stat
z-stat
768
2804
3158
3159
3076
2057
3158
2512
3152
1416
3111
707
3370
2676
3099
2984
5639
5601
5575
5561
5577
5575
5557
5568
5567
5576
5599
5639
5575
5550
5557
5557
0.0890
2.2895
4.0758
-0.1020
0.6464
8.4108
0.2453
0.0346
0.0711
0.0106
29.8155
0.6215
0.1086
0.0512
1.7391
-0.1422
502
2301
2923
2878
3603
4024
2902
2417
2894
1699
3531
3505
2690
3380
2930
3045
1.964**
-6.795**
-7.697***
-4.870***
-20.750***
-55.566***
-1.527
0.776
1.489
-6.122**
-34.271***
-79.005***
4.777***
-4.179***
-3.490***
-10.144***
1.964**
-5.687***
4.913***
-3.567***
-1.550
-44.994***
-4.484***
5.397***
4.014***
-11.285***
-26.075***
-65.232***
3.527***
-22.048***
-5.517***
-9.719***
3087
3109
5815
2144
4545
2852
2874
3105
3455
2834
5639
5639
5639
5639
5639
5639
5639
5639
5639
5639
9.7318
2.3111
0.8471
0.4325
0.0541
10.3984
0.6736
14.1394
64.8823
2.5096
3034
2635
4777
2439
2149
3291
2984
3589
3239
3851
-20.269***
-7.615***
-13.699***
-19.019***
11.281***
-24.961***
-22.793***
-4.791***
-21.986***
-42.821***
-16.006***
-8.011***
-13.605***
-18.751***
23.447***
-24.703***
-18.217***
-26.928***
-14.675***
-36.232***
This table displays descriptive statistics for the 7750 firm-year (1777 firms) observations of no-CSR firms and 5639 firmyear (1175 firms) observations of CSR firms from 1993 to 2004. The number of firm-year observations (N), Mean,
Median, Count (i.e., total number of observations for dummy variable) are reported by types of firms. Difference in mean
(t-statistics) and median (non-parametric Wilcoxon) tests are reported. The definitions of variables are provided in
Appendix B. ***, **, *Statistically significant at the 1%, 5%, and 10% levels, respectively.
Bebchuk et al.s (2000) entrenchment index

(ENTINDEX), a dummy variable of 1 if the CEO is
a chairperson of the board (DUALITY), a dummy
variable of 1 if the CEO is a member of the nomination committee (CEONUM), the percentage of
director shares (PCTDIRSHR), the natural log of
the sum of blockholdings (LOGBLKS), the percentage of outside independent directors (PCTINDEP), the percentage of institutional ownership
(PCTINSTI), and the natural logarithm of one

plus the number of analysts following the firm
(LOGANAL).
Firm characteristics
Firm characteristics are used as control variables
including firm size measured by the natural log of
total assets (LOGTA), R&D expenditures divided by
sales revenue (RNDR), total debt divided by total
13
14
15
16
17
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
SGROWTH
DIVR
SEGDIV
GINDEX
ENTINDEX
CSRDUMMY
FAMFIRM
STATELAW
ROA
CHGROA
TOBINQ
ADJTOBINQ
FIRMAGE
SP500
RNDR
CAPX
ADVR
SGROWTH
DIVR
SEGDIV
GINDEX
ENTINDEX
DUALITY
CEONOM
BSIZE
PCTINDEP
PCTDIRSHR
LOGBLKS
LOGANAL
PCTINSTI
13
1
0.04a
0.03a
-0.003
-0.04a
-0.001
-0.02b
-0.03a
-0.09a
-0.01
0.02a
-0.01
-0.01
-0.01
-0.07a
-0.10a
-0.04a
-0.04a
0.06a
-0.27a
0.14a
-0.05a
-0.08a
-0.10a
1
-0.01
-0.02a
-0.07a
-0.06a
1
-0.02b
0.06a
0.07a
0.04a
0.03a
0.09a
0.28a
0.56a
-0.01
-0.01
0.06a
-0.04a
0.04a
0.18a
0.17a
0.07a
0.12a
0.16a
0.21a
0.19a
-0.10a
0.04a
0.35a
0.19a
1
0.003
0.03a
0.01
14
1
0.05a
0.01
-0.08a
-0.02c
0.23a
0.04a
-0.12a
-0.10a
-0.06a
-0.05a
0.01
0.03a
0.28a
0.06a
0.06a
0.08a
0.16a
0.06a
-0.03a
-0.09a
-0.06a
-0.10a
1
0.07a
0.09a
15
1
0.48a
0.10a
0.19a
0.09a
0.07a
-0.24a
-0.07a
-0.03a
0.03b
0.03a
-0.03a
0.04a
0.01
-0.001
0.03a
0.07a
0.01
-0.02b
0.02b
0.03a
0.13a
1
0.72a
16
1
0.05a
0.11b
0.03a
0.03a
-0.08a
-0.04a
-0.02b
0.12a
0.02b
-0.002
0.03a
0.01
-0.02c
0.02b
0.04a
0.02b
-0.01
0.004
0.003
0.06a
17
1
0.61a
-0.11a
0.11a
0.29a
0.04a
0.12a
0.18a
0.02b
-0.07a
-0.13a
-0.14a
-0.04a
-0.05a
-0.18a
-0.07a
0.03a
-0.002
0.16a
0.08a
18
1
0.01
0.13a
0.02a
0.08a
0.05a
0.15a
0.04a
-0.04a
-0.04a
-0.07a
-0.03a
-0.03a
0.03a
-0.04a
0.01
-0.06a
0.23a
0.06a
Bivariate correlation matrix
TABLE II
19
1
0.36a
-0.16a
-0.01
0.03a
-0.09a
0.09a
0.03a
0.28a
0.07a
0.13a
0.20a
0.31a
0.26a
-0.13a
-0.09a
0.13a
-0.06a
20
1
0.002
-0.02a
0.07a
-0.03a
0.05a
0.04a
0.17a
0.03a
0.15a
0.16a
0.33a
0.18a
-0.11a
0.04a
0.56a
0.12a
21
1
0.03a
0.03a
0.07a
-0.03a
0.02b
-0.12a
-0.08a
-0.06a
-0.05a
-0.24a
0.03a
-0.03a
0.05a
0.05a
0.03a
10
22
23
1
-0.04a
0.08a
-0.01
-0.09a
-0.05a
-0.02b
-0.001
-0.04a
-0.08a
-0.04a
-0.005
-0.003
0.12a
-0.01
11
24
1
0.01
0.04a
-0.04a
-0.05a
-0.07a
0.02c
0.01
-0.004
-0.05a
0.07a
-0.02c
0.03a
-0.03a
12
25
1
-0.01
-0.02a
-0.07a
-0.06a
-0.01
-0.05a
-0.03a
-0.07a
0.02b
0.01
0.08a
0.03a
13
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This table reports Spearman correlation coefficients among variables for the 7750 firm-year observations of no-CSR firms and 5639 firm-year observations of
CSR firms from 1993 to 2004. See Appendix B for variable definitions. a, b, c indicate the 1%, 5%, and 10% level of significance, respectively.
1
1
0.17a
1
-0.01
0.51a
1
-0.03a
-0.14a
-0.15a
1
-0.24a
0.03a
0.12a
0.18a
1
0.11a
-0.06a
-0.16a
0.31a
-0.14a
1
0.15a
0.21a
-0.03a
0.01
0.09a
0.06a
1
0.20a
0.12a
0.14a
-0.004
-0.001
0.12a
0.048a
0.12a
0.17a
0.22a
0.27a
-0.17a
-0.003
0.09a
0.06a
0.01
0.02c
0.05a
0.03a
-0.01
-0.02b
0.01
-0.02c
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
DUALITY
CEONOM
BSIZE
PCTINDEP
PCTDIRSHR
LOGBLKS
LOGANAL
PCTINSTI
-0.01
-0.05a
-0.03a
-0.07a
0.02b
0.01
0.08a
0.03a
0.06a
0.14a
0.06a
0.16a
0.01
0.03a
-0.03a
0.15a
0.08a
0.13a
0.10a
0.26a
-0.16a
0.05a
0.01
0.11a
18
17
16
15
14
13
continued
TABLE II
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
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assets (DEBTR), and the FamaFrench 48-industry

classification. GIM (2010) suggest using the State
Law as anti-takeover index. Similar to GIM, we
also use the State Law anti-takeover index
(STATELAW), family firms (FAMFIRM), ROA,
the natural log of the change in ROA (CHGROA)
to measure profitability, and the diversification
dummy (SEGDIV). We choose family firms instead
of GIMs name variable because the private benefits
of control should be more relevant to family
firms, following Anderson and Reeb (2003) and
Villalonga and Amit (2006).
In Table III, we estimate the choice of CSR
engagement using a probit function. We estimate five
models with different sets of explanatory variables
to compare and contrast the various impacts of control variables and corporate governance variables.
Throughout Model (1) to Model (5), we replace or add
some of the explanatory variables to investigate the role
of governance and monitoring in the analysis.7
Consistent with prior literature, we can see that
many of our chosen variables are highly significant in
explaining the likelihood of choosing CSR engagement for all Models (1) to (5). Model (1) shows that
larger firms, highly leveraged firms, profitable firms,
firms with higher R&D, and diversified firms are
more likely to choose CSR engagement while the
coefficient on FAMFIRM is insignificant. Model (2)
shows the same results with the industry adjustment.
Basically, the results are similar, except the significance of CHGROA disappears. In model (3), we
report the results for the governance variables only.
Model (3) suggests that the coefficients on GINDEX,
DUALITY, CEONOM, PCTINDEP, PCTINSTI,
and LOGANAL are significantly positive at the 1%
significance level, implying that firms with a higher
board leadership (DUALITY and CEONOM), a
higher proportion of outside independent directors
(PCTINDEP), a higher proportion of institutional
investors (PCTINSTI), more analysts following the
firm (LOGANAL), or more anti-takeover provisions
(GINDEX) are more likely to choose CSR engagement.8 We find that the estimated slope coefficients
on PCTINDEP and LOGANAL have the highest
economic significance on the firms choice of CSR
engagement. These findings suggest that internal and
external governance measured by board leadership, independent boards, institutional investors, and
security analysts are positively related to the choice of
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TABLE III
Propensity to engage in CSR activities
INTERCEPT
Model (1)
Model (2)
Model (3)
Model (4)
Model (5)
-3.710
(44.07)***
-4.912
(14.21)***
-3.258
(10.05)***
-5.607
(16.25)***
-5.491
(16.11)***
0.071
(12.29)***
0.049
(7.71)***
Governance variables
GINDEX
ENTINDEX
DUALITY
CEONOM
PCTDIRSHR
PCTINDEP
LOGBLKS
PCTINSTI
LOGANAL
Control variables
LOGTA
DEBTR
RNDR
FAMFIRM
STATELAW
ROA
CHGROA
SEGDIV
FF 48 industry
Pseudo R2
Observations
Number of firms
0.429
(43.09)***
-0.296
(3.86)***
2.184
(11.48)***
-0.054
(1.25)
0.025
(3.27)***
0.022
(9.69)***
-0.004
(2.06)**
0.369
(14.58)***
No
0.1937
11,901
2493
0.583
(47.39)***
-0.724
(7.88)***
1.485
(6.33)***
-0.062
(1.37)
0.022
(2.74)***
0.013
(5.45)***
0.004
(0.18)
0.450
(16.59)***
Yes
0.2571
11,901
2493
0.121
(3.69)***
0.254
(9.35)***
-0.002
(0.03)
0.708
(8.90)***
-0.002
(0.65)
0.010
(11.42)***
0.692
(32.14)***
0.019
(0.53)
0.102
(3.50)***
-0.037
(0.54)
0.470
(5.47)***
0.002
(0.70)
0.008
(8.79)***
0.150
(5.31)***
0.031
(2.87)***
0.030
(0.87)
0.113
(3.85)***
-0.065
(0.91)
0.529
(6.16)***
0.002
(0.58)
0.008
(8.83)***
0.149
(5.26)***
Yes
0.1777
11,901
2493
0.495
(32.25)***
-0.793
(8.57)***
1.264
(5.31)***
0.135
(2.81)***
0.011
(1.26)
0.009
(3.78)***
0.001
(0.67)
0.387
(13.43)***
Yes
0.2778
11,901
2493
0.506
(32.89)***
-0.776
(8.41)***
1.211
(5.13)***
0.134
(2.79)***
0.029
(3.47)***
0.009
(3.80)***
0.001
(0.63)
0.383
(13.31)***
Yes
0.2746
11,901
2493
This table reports the coefficient of estimates from the probit model explaining the determinants of CSR engagement.
The dependent variable is the CSR, which is a dichotomous variable that equals to one if a firm has involved into CSR
activities. Otherwise equals to zero. Model (1) and (2) report only control variables. Model (3), (4), and (5) include
internal and external corporate governance variables. FamaFrench (FF) 48 industry is included all Models except Model
(1). T-statistics are adjusted for robust and clustered (by firm) standard errors and reported in parentheses. Appendix B
provides variable definitions. ***, **, *Statistically significant at the 1%, 5%, and 10% levels, respectively.

CSR engagement, supporting the conflict-resolution
hypothesis, as stated in hypothesis 1.
Other variables are insignificant at the conventional
level. In models (4) and (5), we report the results when
we include both control variables and governance
variables. The results for the governance variables are
qualitatively similar to those of model (3), except the
insignificance of the DUALITY variable. It is
important to note that the internal and external governance variables are highly significant, suggesting
that they are major determinants of CSR engagement.
Table IV reports the coefficient of estimates from
the Tobit model explaining the determinants of
CSR engagement based on the CSR-combined
scores instead of the CSR choice (dummy) variable.
We use the Tobit model because the dependent
variables are left censored at zero rather than
dichotomous variables. The Tobit model is an
econometric model proposed by Tobin (1958)
to describe the relation between a non-negative
dependent variable and an independent variable (or
vector). We compute the arithmetic average of the
combined scores of KLD inclusive strengths and
concerns of community, environment, diversity,
employee relations, and product criteria to get
combined CSR scores. KLD scores report both
strengths and concerns for the above-mentioned
dimensions. The dependent variable is the CSRcombined scores, including both strengths and
concerns (CSRCOMPOSITE) for models (1) and
(2), combined strength scores (CSRSTR) for models
(3) and (4), and combined concern scores (CSRCON) for models (5) and (6), respectively [see the
calculation procedures of the combined strengths
and concerns, combined strength, and combined
concern scores (unreported, but similar to the calculation of strength scores in Appendix C)]. The
results closely mirror those of Table III, in that
the governance and monitoring variables positively
affect the firms decisions about CSR engagement,
supporting the conflict-resolution hypothesis. As
expected, the signs of the coefficients on all the
variables based on CSRCON are exactly opposite of
those of the coefficients based on CSRSTR.
Table V shows the results of the 2SLS with the two
dependent variables of CSR and LOGANAL. We
employ the 2SLS estimation method described in
Maddala (1983) for simultaneous equations models in
which one of the endogenous variables is continuous
363
(LOGANAL) and the other endogenous variable is

dichotomous (CSR). Our results suggest that after
correcting for a potential simultaneity bias, the possibility that firms with a greater analyst following tend to
engage in CSR engagement (with t-values of 23.90
29.13) is much higher than the possibility that firms
choosing CSR tend to have a higher analyst following
(with t-values of 6.036.23). It seems that firms with
greater analyst coverage (i.e., firms with a transparent
information environment) opt for CSR engagement
after incorporating the reverse causality. In addition,
although the top management of CSR firms can
control the number of outside independent directors,
they cannot control the number of analysts following
the firm. Accordingly, security analysts, as third-party
information intermediaries, can provide an external
monitoring mechanism in the top managements
decision-making about CSR engagement.
So far, we use board independence as one of the
measures for the quality of the firms internal governance. But for two reasons there may not be a
one-to-one relation between governance quality and
board independence. First, Coles et al. (2008) indicate that board independence reflects such things as
firm diversification, firm size, firm age, and insider
ownership. These researchers claim that board
independence reflects, and is driven by, other
characteristics of the firm and its line of business.
There is no single board structure that fits all
firms. Rather, board independence is endogenously
determined by firm and managerial characteristics.
This indicates that board independence may or may
not be an indicator of governance quality. Suppose,
for example, that ceteris paribus, board independence
does improve governance. Then, firms with few
independent directors might have more blockholders, or fewer takeover defenses, or more bond covenants, to offset the effects of having few
independent directors. The result could be that such
firms have better governance, not worse. Thus, we
include such variables, including firm diversification,
firm size, firm age, insider ownership, blockholder
ownership, and GIM index, etc. in the independent
director equation to address the endogeneity issue.
Our unreported results based on two-stage leastsquare (2SLS) regressions, in which both CSR
engagement and the percentage of outside independent directors are dependent variables, again support
the monitoring role of outside independent directors.
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TABLE IV
Propensity to engage in CSR activities based on the CSR-combined scores
Dependent
variable
Model (1)
CSRCOMPOSITE
Model (2)
CSRCOMPOSITE
Model (3)
CSRSTR
Model (4)
CSRSTR
Model (5)
CSRCON
Model (6)
CSRCON
INTERCEPT
-1.144
(13.56)***
0.013
(8.86)***
-1.120
(13.30)***
-0.526
(14.02)***
0.003
(5.99)***
-0.517
(13.91)***
4.377
(15.05)***
-0.041
(8.16)***
4.305
(14.84)***
GINDEX
ENTINDEX
DUALITY
CEONOM
PCTDIRSHR
PCTINDEP
LOGBLKS
PCTINSTI
LOGANAL
LOGTA
DEBTR
RNDR
FAMFIRM
STATELAW
ROA
SEGDIV
Log likelihood
Pseudo R2
Observations
0.002
(0.29)
0.018
(2.75)***
0.012
(0.77)
0.118
(6.00)***
-0.001
(1.91)*
0.004
(17.46)***
0.049
(7.69)***
0.097
(31.31)***
-0.230
(11.16)***
0.207
(4.06)***
0.044
(4.09)***
0.004
(2.30)**
0.003
(5.86)***
0.144
(22.16)***
-4740.19
0.347
11,901
0.012
(4.72)***
0.005
(0.66)
0.020
(3.04)***
0.007
(0.46)
0.129
(6.51)***
-0.001
(1.94)*
0.004
(17.42)***
0.049
(7.71)***
0.100
(32.25)***
-0.228
(11.05)***
0.194
(3.79)***
0.044
(4.12)***
0.009
(4.72)***
0.003
(6.03)***
0.142
(21.90)***
-4770.822
0.3428
11,901
-0.001
(0.23)
0.005
(1.96)**
0.006
(1.16)
0.056
(7.39)***
0.00023
(1.04)
0.000017
(0.23)
0.021
(8.27)***
0.045
(37.54)***
-0.060
(7.46)***
0.119
(6.16)***
0.003
(0.85)
0.001
(0.87)
0.001
(8.14)***
0.011
(4.51)***
-911.58
0.5539
11,901
0.002
(2.10)*
0.00027
(0.09)
0.005
(2.18)**
0.005
(0.92)
0.059
(7.85)***
0.00023
(1.02)
0.000026
(0.33)
0.021
(8.28)***
0.045
(37.98)***
-0.059
(7.31)***
0.115
(5.98)***
0.003
(0.84)
0.002
(2.41)**
0.001
(8.26)***
0.01
1(4.43)***
-895.31
0.5440
11,901
0.008
(0.28)
-0.053
(2.36)**
-0.077
(1.29)
-0.359
(5.24)***
0.004
(1.84)
-0.013
(17.84)***
-0.169
(7.66)***
-0.230
(21.66)***
0.700
(9.79)***
-0.559
(3.16)***
-0.138
(3.71)***
-0.012
(1.79)*
-0.010
(6.68)***
-0.492
(21.60)***
-11,136.14
0.1464
11,901
-0.043
(5.00)***
-0.002
(0.06)
-0.058
(2.60)***
-0.059
(1.01)
-0.389
(5.65)***
0.004
(1.88)
-0.013
(17.77)***
-0.169
(7.68)***
-0.240
(22.52)***
0.697
(9.71)***
-0.518
(2.92)***
-0.140
(3.76)***
-0.026
(4.00)***
-0.011
(6.86)***
-0.488
(21.36)***
-11,160.01
0.1446
11,901
This table reports the coefficient of estimates from the Tobit model explaining the determinants of CSR engagement
based on the CSR-combined scores from the Kinder, Lydenberg, and Dominis (KLD) Socrates database. The dependent
variable is the CSR-combined scores (CSRCOMPOSITE) for models (1) and (2), combined strength scores (CSRSTR)
for models (3) and (4), and combined concern scores (CSRCON) for models (5) and (6). FamaFrench 48 industry is
included all Models. T-statistics are adjusted for robust and clustered (by firm) standard errors and reported in parentheses.
Appendix B provides variable definitions. ***, **, *Statistically significant at the 1%, 5%, and 10% levels, respectively.
365
TABLE V
Simultaneous regressions between the CSR choice and analyst following
Simultaneous method
Dependent variable
Intercept
Model (1)
CSR
-4.879
(43.29)***
CSR
LOGANAL
GINDEX
DUALITY
CEONOM
PCTDIRSH
PCTINDEP
LOGBLKS
PCTINSTI
Control variables
LOGTA
DEBTR
RNDR
CAPXR
ADVR
FAMFIRM
STATELAW
ROA
SEGDIV
SP500
FIRMAGE
Model (2)
LOGANAL
1.805
(7.96)***
0.422
(6.23)***
2.502
(29.13)***
CSR
-4.442
(11.35)***
LOGANAL
0.741
(11.23)***
0.097
(6.03)***
2.415
(23.90)***
0.058
(9.17)***
-0.012
(0.35)
0.171
(5.85)***
0.270
(4.06)***
0.779
(9.16)***
0.016
(5.35)***
-0.005
(4.97)***
-0.010
(3.68)***
-0.295
(11.36)***
0.535
(6.03)***
-1.995
(8.78)***
-1.849
(11.99)***
1.979
(3.74)***
0.436
(8.98)***
0.063
(7.20)***
-0.007
(3.42)***
0.852
(24.99)***
0.148
(12.15)***
-0.235
(6.29)***
0.680
(10.01)***
0.800
(14.86)***
-0.467
(1.56)
-0.164
(8.57)***
-0.047
(4.23)***
-0.132
(5.89)***
-0.196
(5.53)***
-0.006
(6.03)***
0.001
(1.70)*
-0.377
(11.78)***
-0.101
(1.15)
-0.008
(14.09)**
0.053
(8.13)***
-0.015
(0.43)
0.189
(6.25)***
0.212
(2.90)***
0.689
(7.61)***
0.015
(4.70)***
-0.004
(3.29)***
-0.0004
(0.22)
-0.218
(6.50)***
-0.019
(0.19)
-1.822
(6.93)***
-0.914
(5.21)***
-0.403
(0.68)
0.364
(7.23)***
0.042
(4.69)***
-0.013
(5.69)***
0.867
(24.04)***
0.202
(43.30)***
-0.362
(13.61)***
0.848
(14.51)***
0.951
21.57
0.685
(3.75)***
-0.112
(7.03)***
-0.022
(2.25)**
-0.124
(5.52)***
-0.093
(3.27)***
-0.009
(8.99)***
0.005
(14.84)***
-0.231
(19.31)***
0.312
(12.67)***
-0.005
(18.13)***
366
TABLE V
continued
Simultaneous method
FF 48 Industry
Pseudo R2
Adjusted R2
Observations
Model (1)
No
0.2862
11,808
Model (2)
No
0.5305
11,808
Yes
0.3130
11,808
Yes
0.5304
11,808
This table shows the results from two-stage estimation method described in Maddala (1983) for simultaneous equations
models in which one of the endogenous variables is continuous (LOGANAL) and the other endogenous variable is
dichotomous (CSR). T-statistics are adjusted for robust and clustered (by firm) standard errors and reported in parentheses.
See Appendix B for variable definitions. ***, **, *Statistically significant at the 1%, 5%, and 10% levels, respectively.
We find that the coefficients on PCTINDEP and

CSR are positive and statistically significant (p value < 0.01). We also find that the coefficients on
PCTDIRSHR, LOGBLKS, and LOGANAL are
significantly positive. These results suggest that having
a certain governance structure is important in determining CSR involvement. However, we also find
that the causality runs from some governance and
control variables to board independence. Since neither CSR engagement nor board independence
changes frequently, simple 2SLS results may not
capture causality precisely.9 Nevertheless, this reverse
causality suggests that after correcting for a potential
simultaneity bias, the possibility that firms choosing
CSR engagement tend to have outside independent
directors (with t-values of 9.1710.35) is slightly
smaller than the possibility that firms with a higher
proportion of independent directors engage in CSR
engagement (with t-values of 17.5819.12). It seems
that the potential simultaneity bias does not significantly change our inferences concerning the association between the governance and monitoring
variables and CSR engagement.
The value of firms with CSR engagement
Next, this study examines the impact of CSR
involvement on firm value, measured by industryadjusted Tobins q (ADJTOBINQ) because Campbell (1996) suggests that ADJTOBINQ neutralizes
the industry effect on Tobins q. Using Heckmans
(1979) two-stage model, we report several models in
Table VI. In model (1), following GIM (2010), Shin
and Stulz (2000), and Morck and Yang (2001), we
include capital expenditures divided by total sales

(CAPXR), the ratio of advertising to sales (ADVR),
growth options measured by R&D expenditure
divided by sales (RNDR), and sales growth
(SGROWTH). The evidence suggests that CSR
engagement positively affects firm value measured
by industry-adjusted Tobins q after correcting for
the endogenous treatment effect, supporting the
conflict-resolution hypothesis as opposed to the
overinvestment hypothesis.
Next, we add governance and monitoring variables to examine whether any governance or monitoring variables influence firm value after the
endogeneity correction, and report the results of the
positive association between CSR and ADJTOBINQ in model (2). In particular, a one unit increase
of CSR engagement is followed by an increase of
0.085 times of ADJTOBINQ. In addition, the
coefficient on LOGANAL is significantly positive
with a t-value of 24.86, suggesting that security
analysts provide an additional monitoring role, which
is supportive for hypothesis 2(b). This evidence is
consistent with Chung and Jo (1996), who find that
analyst coverage makes a firms information environment transparent and positively affects firm value.
The coefficient on PCTINSTI is also positive, but its
magnitude is only marginal. In contrast, however, the
coefficients on DUALITY and GINDEX are significantly negative, indicating that the dual role of the
CEO and the chairperson and many take-over defenses through anti-takeover provisions (GINDEX)
adversely affect firm value. In particular, an inverse
association between GINDEX and industry-adjusted
Tobins q implies that too much take-over defense
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TABLE VI
Industry-adjusted Tobins q regressions based on the Heckman two-stage treatment effect model
Heckman two-stage model
Dependent variable
INTERCEPT
CSR
Model (1)
Model (2)
Model (3)
ADJTOBINQ
3.115
(15.63)***
0.091
(7.46)***
ADJTOBINQ
2.963
(13.89)***
0.087
(7.57)***
ADJTOBINQ
2.682
(13.37)***
0.085
(7.41)***
GINDEX
-0.033
(12.09)***
-0.054
(4.54)***
-0.020
(1.95)*
-0.359
(10.70)***
0.114
(2.62)***
-0.014
(13.13)***
0.001
(3.24)***
0.318
(24.86)***
-0.075
(15.33)***
-0.057
(4.80)***
-0.018
(1.68)*
-0.331
(9.79)***
0.108
(2.63)***
-0.014
(13.09)***
0.002
(4.79)***
0.319
(25.31)***
-0.389
(28.13)***
0.306
(6.80)***
0.145
(1.46)
0.211
(4.17)***
0.847
(3.20)***
0.265
(9.00)***
-0.499
(11.70)***
Yes
5876.81
11,741
-0.382
(28.87)***
0.294
(6.76)***
0.214
(2.16)**
0.235
(4.61)***
0.855
(3.23)***
0.261
(8.94)***
-0.457
(11.36)***
Yes
6005.28
11,741
ENTINDEX
DUALITY
CEONOM
PCTINDEP
PCTDIRSHR
LOGBLKS
PCTINSTI
LOGANAL
Control variables
LOGTA
DEBTR
RNDR
CAPXR
ADVR
SGROWTH
LAMBDA (inverse Mills ratio)
FF 48 industry
Wald Chi-square
Observations
-0.367
(21.61)***
0.216
(4.50)***
0.290
(2.62)***
0.479
(8.87)***
1.373
(4.72)***
0.321
(8.86)***
-0.657
(14.75)***
Yes
4594.23
11,741
368

TABLE VI
continued
Heckman two-stage model
Model (1)
Model (2)
Model (3)
Number of firms
2463
2463
2463
This table reports the coefficients of estimates from Heckman two-stage treatment effect models. In the first stage, we run
the probit model with same specification in Table III. We include Lambda (inverse Mills ratio) in the second stage with
control variables. The dependent variable in the second stage is industry-adjusted Tobins q (ADJTOBINQ). Model (1)
reports the results of control variables. Models (2) and (3) include internal and external corporate governance variables.
FamaFrench 48 industry is included all Models. T-statistics are reported in parentheses. See Appendix B for variable
definitions. ***, **, *Statistically significant at the 1%, 5%, and 10% levels, respectively.
adversely affects firm value, which is consistent with

Cremers and Nair (2005) and GIM (2003).
Model (3) shows that the results based on Bebchuk
et al.s (2009) entrenchment index are even more
significantly and inversely associated with industryadjusted Tobins q, confirming the adverse effects of
managerial entrenchment on firm value. More
importantly, the positive associations between CSR
and ADJTOBINQ and LOGANAL and ADJTOBINQ remain unchanged. Although unreported, the
above results do not change when we run the
regressions with each governance variable separately
to reduce potential problems due to multicollinearity. Consistent with Agrawal and Knoeber (1996),
we also find a negative association between ADJTOBINQ and the proportion of outside independent
directors. The coefficients on lambda (inverse Mills
ratio), however, are significantly negative in all three
models, implying a possibility that the above results
contain some sample selection bias.
Thus, to address the selection bias problem, we
report the results based on the instrumental variables
approach in Table VII. The results, in general, closely mirror the Heckman two-stage results based on
endogeneity control. Most notably, both the coefficients on the CSR dummy and the CSRCOMPOSITE (CSR combined score) suggest that CSR
engagement is positively associated with firm value
with or without governance variables as independent
variables, supporting our hypothesis 2 (a) of CSR as
a conflict-resolution. The positive impact of analyst
following on firm value is also strongly significant in
all models. The results remain robust under various
specifications using the Heckman two-stage, OLS
(unreported), and instrumental variables approach,
strongly supporting hypothesis 2(b) for the external

monitoring role of security analysts. Notably, however, the coefficients on PCTINSTI become insignificant, possibly because of their dual roles of
monitors and investors.
The visual effects of these relations are depicted in
Figure 1 for industry-adjusted Tobins q. In general, these figures indicate that firms with higher
engagement in CSR activities are more likely to be
followed by security analysts and tend to have a
higher industry-adjusted Tobins q, while firms with
a higher analyst following tend to have a higher
industry-adjusted Tobins q.
To examine the effects of individual CSRinclusive criteria on firm value, we report the
coefficients of the estimates from the instrumental
variable method in Table VIII. Our choice of an
instrumental variable is FIRMAGE, which is highly
correlated with CSR, but is uncorrelated with
industry-adjusted Tobins q. The dependent variable
in the second stage is industry-adjusted Tobins q
(ADJTOBINQ). In these regressions, we include
only the sample that has positive scores for each
category of CSR engagement to focus on the pure
impact of CSR engagement on firm value. Model
(1) includes each CSR combined score for five
inclusive criteria. Models (2) and (3) include the
internal and external governance variables. The
results indicate that while the coefficients on DIVERSITY, EMPLOYEE RELATIONS, and
PRODUCT are positive and significant at least at
the five-percent level, the coefficients on COMMUNITY and ENVIRONMENT are, in general,
insignificant, suggesting that firms CSR engagement directly related to their firms internal social
369
TABLE VII
Industry-adjusted Tobins q regressions based on the instrument variables approach
Dependent variable
INTERCEPT
CSR
Model (1)
Model (2)
Model (3)
Model (4)
ADJTOBINQ
0.119
(3.26)***
0.007
(10.10)***
ADJTOBINQ
0.151
(4.22)***
ADJTOBINQ
0.089
(1.94)
0.0023
(7.28)***
ADJTOBINQ
0.316
(6.15)***
CSRCOMPOSITE
0.493
(3.32)***
GINDEX
DUALITY
CEONOM
PCTDIRSHR
PCTINDEP
PCTINSTI
LOGANAL
Control variables
LOGTA
DEBTR
RDNR
CAPXR
ADVR
SGROWTH
Adjusted R2
Observations
-0.084
(15.88)***
-0.052
(1.46)
0.079
(0.94)
0.444
(9.96)***
0.631
(2.37)**
0.373
(9.35)***
0.0440
11,741
-0.078
(14.19)***
0.028
(0.78)
0.238
(2.91)***
0.436
(9.77)***
0.525
(1.85)
0.341
(9.09)***
0.0802
11,741
0.564
(3.75)***
-0.010
(3.98)***
-0.056
(4.14)***
-0.017
(1.45)
0.075
(2.45)**
-0.099
(2.98)***
-0.000
(0.24)
0.332
(28.29)***
-0.013
(5.09)***
-0.056
(4.16)***
-0.020
(1.74)
0.076
(2.34)**
-0.130
(3.86)***
0.001
(1.83)
0.318
(27.18)***
-0.138
(23.40)***
0.134
(4.07)***
0.515
(6.40)***
0.111
(2.57)**
0.352
(1.42)
0.278
(8.61)***
0.1502
11,741
-0.152
(24.08)***
0.200
(5.80)***
0.500
(6.09)***
0.092
(2.11)**
0.010
(0.04)
0.282
(8.76)***
0.1597
11,741
This table reports the coefficients on the estimates from two-stage instrumental variable method. Our choice of instrumental variable is FIRMAGE that is highly correlated with CSR, but is uncorrelated with industry-adjusted Tobins q.
The dependent variable in the second stage is industry-adjusted Tobins q (ADJTOBINQ). Model (1) and (2) include
CSR dummy and CSRCOMPOSITE (CSR combined score) with control variables, respectively. Models (3) and (4)
include internal and external governance variables. The CSR scores are from the Kinder, Lydenberg, and Dominis (KLD)
Socrates database. T-statistics are reported in parentheses. See Appendix B for variable definitions. ***, **, *Statistically
significant at the 1%, 5%, and 10% levels, respectively.
370
0.2
0.1
ADJTOBINQ
0
-0.1
-0.2
-0.3
Loganal5
Loganal4
Loganal3 LOGANAL
Loganal2
Quintiles
Loganal1
-0.4
-0.5
Q1
Q2
Q3
CSR Quin
tiles
Q4
Q5
Figure 1. The relation among industry-adjusted Tobins

q, CSR, and analyst coverage. This figure shows the
relation among industry-adjusted Tobins q, analyst following, and the CSR engagement. We divide the sample by five quintiles of CSR and analysts following.
CSR is the CSR combined score. CSR Q1 is the lowest CSR group while CSR Q5 is the highest CSR
group of firms. Similarly, Loganal1 is the lowest analyst
following and Loganal5 is the highest analyst following.
enhancement improves firm value more than their

CSR involvement in broader external enhancement,
such as community and environmental concerns.
Indeed, our interviews with a few top managers of
the firms which are considered as socially responsible
(i.e. Patagonia and Vapur) reveal that top managers
original intention for their CSR activities was to
enhance their product quality and improve relationship with their employees. Thus, our interview
results are consistent with our empirical finding.
The above findings also might be affected by
multicollinearity. Thus, to check the individual
impact of the various governance variables, we run
the regressions for each governance variable with
control variables separately and find that the main
results do not change. Since the coefficients on the
control variables are similar to those reported in
Table VII, we do not report those coefficients for
brevity.10 The calculation procedures of the composite strength scores and the combined strength and
composite scores are reported in Appendix B.
There could also be a potential simultaneity bias
between CSRCOMPOSITE and ADJTOBINQ.
To adjust for a potential simultaneity bias, we estimate the regressions in a simultaneous equation
framework, where CSRCOMPOSITE is specified

as a function of governance and monitoring variables, firm size, ADJTOBINQ, advertising expenditure divided by sales, the R&D expenditure ratio,
and leverage, following Table III. The results are
reported in Table IX, and we find qualitatively
similar results to those reported in Tables VI through
VIII. Specifically, models (1) and (2) suggest that
after controlling for the simultaneity bias, industryadjusted Tobins q is significantly and positively
associated with CSRCOMPOSITE. Model (2)
adds the FamaFrench industry adjustment and
shows that the impact of CSRCOMPOSITE on
ADJTOBINQ is more significant (with t-values of
12.2315.52) than the impact of ADJTOBINQ on
CSRCOMPOSITE (with t-values of 4.2711.42).
Additionally, LOGANAL suggests that the influence
of analyst following on firm value (with t-values of
16.7520.96) is greater than that of analyst coverage
on CSR engagement (with t-values of 3.433.69),
supporting our hypothesis 2(b). Overall, a potential
simultaneity bias does not appear to change our
inferences concerning the positive association between corporate social responsibility and firm value.
Additional tests
Next, we run various simultaneous regressions of
analyst following and industry-adjusted Tobins q
and report the independent impact of analyst following and CSR, respectively, in Table X. The
coefficients on other variables are qualitatively similar to those reported in Table IX. To conserve
space, we report only the results of the coefficients
on the interaction variables. First, we compare CSR
versus no-CSR firms with high and low analyst
following, so that we can examine the effect of CSR
engagement and analyst following on firm value.
Panel A reports the results of the Chow test in each
comparison. The difference is significant in all
comparisons except the comparison between high
and low analyst coverage for no-CSR firms. Similarly, we compare firms with high and low CSR
scores with high and low analyst following, so that
we can examine the effect of CSR scores and analyst
following on firm value. Panel B summarizes the
results of the differences between groups in separate
simultaneous regressions. The difference between
high and low CSR, when analyst following is high,
371
TABLE VIII
Industry-adjusted Tobins q regressions of each CSR subcategory
Dependent variable
INTERCEPT
CSR criteria
COMMUNITY
ENVIRONMENT
DIVERSITY
EMPLOYEE RELATIONS
PRODUCT
(1)
(2)
(3)
ADJTOBINQ
0.356
(2.36)**
ADJTOBINQ
0.646
(4.61)***
ADJTOBINQ
0.609
(4.46)***
0.181
(2.00)**
0.035
(0.39)
0.304
(4.24)***
0.584
(8.43)***
0.364
(4.33)***
0.137
(1.60)
0.070
(0.83)
0.271
(4.01)***
0.523
(7.92)***
0.162
(2.06)**
0.102
(1.22)
0.095
(1.13)
0.278
(4.15)***
0.522
(7.96)***
0.159
(2.03)**
Governance variable
GINDEX
-0.019
(6.50)***
ENTINDEX
DUALITY
CEONOM
PCTINDEP
PCTDIRSH
LOGBLKS
PCTINSTI
LOGANAL
Control variables
FF 48 Industry
Adjusted R2
Observations
Number of firms
Yes
Yes
0.2583
6479
1677
-0.027
(1.57)
0.019
(1.53)
-0.206
(4.72)***
0.065
(1.30)
-0.012
(9.32)***
0.003
(6.99)***
0.395
(26.00)***
Yes
Yes
0.3602
6479
1677
-0.074
(12.14)***
-0.025
(1.50)
0.022
(1.72)
-0.158
(3.64)***
0.051
(1.13)
-0.012
(9.42)***
0.004
(7.97)***
0.393
(26.10)***
Yes
Yes
0.3695
6479
1677
This table reports the coefficients of estimates from two-stage instrumental variable method. Our choice of instrumental
variable is FIRMAGE that is highly correlated with CSR, but is uncorrelated with industry-adjusted Tobins q. The
dependent variable in the second stage is industry-adjusted Tobins q (ADJTOBINQ). In these regressions, we only
include the sample that has positive scores of each category of the CSR engagement. Model (1) includes each CSR
combined score of five categories. Models (2) and (3) include internal and external governance variables. FamaFrench 48
industry is included all Models. T-statistics are reported in parentheses. See Appendix A for variable definitions and
Appendix C for the calculation of CSR criteria including COMMUNITY, ENVIRONMENT, DIVERSITY, EMPLOYEE RELATIONS, and PRODUCT. The CSR scores are from the Kinder, Lydenberg, and Dominis (KLD)
Socrates database. ***, **, *Statistically significant at the 1%, 5%, and 10% levels, respectively.
372
TABLE IX
Simultaneous regressions of industry-adjusted Tobins q and the CSR composite score
Simultaneous method
Dependent variable
INTERCEPT
CSRCOMPOSITE
Model (1)
ADJTOBINQ
-0.387
(4.28)***
2.356
(15.52)***
ADJTOBINQ
GINDEX
DUALITY
CEONOMI
PCTDIRSHR
PCTINDEP
LOGBLKS
PCTINSTI
LOGANAL
Control variables
LOGTA
DEBTR
RNDR
CAPXR
ADVR
SGROWTH
FF 48 INDUSTRY
Adjusted R2
Observations
CSRCOMPOSITE
0.411
(83.48)***
Model (2)
ADJTOBINQ
-1.927
(8.87)***
5.920
(12.23)***
0.013
(11.42)***
CSRCOMPOSITE
0.386
(26.95)***
0.026
(4.27)***
-0.017
(5.32)***
-0.045
(2.43)**
0.006
(0.44)
0.032
(0.98)
-0.130
(2.89)***
-0.011
(8.01)***
0.0002
(0.46)
0.317
(20.96)***
0.001
(3.10)***
0.002
(1.25)
0.0003
(0.34)
0.009
(3.44)***
0.010
(2.54)**
-0.00008
(0.69)
-0.0003
(7.75)***
0.004
(3.69)***
-0.019
(5.53)***
-0.051
(2.53)**
0.004
(0.27)
-0.0002
(0.01)
-0.161
(3.32)***
-0.010
(6.68)***
0.001
(2.44)**
0.276
(16.75)***
0.001
(3.73)***
0.003
(1.94)*
0.0001
(0.09)
0.007
(2.57)**
0.011
(2.75)***
0.0002
(1.43)
-0.0003
(7.43)***
0.004
(3.42)***
-0.169
(26.37)***
0.204
(4.62)***
0.764
(8.02)***
-0.070
(0.97)
0.762
(2.89)***
0.248
(10.33)***
No
0.1690
6479
0.003
(6.67)***
-0.016
(4.45)***
0.063
(7.68)***
-0.167
(24.58)***
0.243
(5.08)***
0.879
(8.52)***
0.172
(2.49)**
0.548
(2.02)**
0.200
(8.60)***
Yes
0.2290
6479
0.004
(3.65)***
-0.003
(0.58)
0.092
(6.08)***
No
0.0845
6479
Yes
0.1716
6479
This table shows the results from the two-stage estimation method in which one of the dependent variables is industryadjusted Tobins q and the other dependent variable is the CSR composite scores. In these regressions, we only include
the sample that has positive CSR scores. The CSR scores are from the Kinder, Lydenberg, and Dominis (KLD) Socrates
database. T-statistics are adjusted for robust and clustered (by firm) standard errors and reported in parentheses. See
Appendix B for variable definitions. ***, **, *Statistically significant at the 1%, 5%, and 10% levels, respectively.
High
CSR &
Low
analyst
Low
CSR &
High
analyst
High
CSR &
High
analyst
Low
High
Low
High
Low
CSR & CSR & CSR & CSR & CSR &
Low
Low
High
low
Low
analyst analyst analyst analyst analyst
Low
CSR &
High
analyst
Low
CSR &
Low
analyst
0.1208
[96.03]***
0.139
[40.96]***
0.1142
[28.40]***
0.0481
[7.40]***
0.0392
[3.76]*
0.0854
-0.0354 0.1053
-0.0337 0.0245 -0.0897 0.0082 -0.0399 -0.067 -0.1062
(3.87)*** (1.68)* (6.30)*** (2.11)** (1.46) (5.62)*** (0.37) (1.86)* (4.11)*** (6.54)***
High
CSR &
High
analyst
This table reports the coefficients on the estimates from the 2SLS simultaneous regression for CSR sample. We include the interaction dummy variables, CSR
(No-CSR) * High (Low) Analysts in Panel A and High (Low) CSR * High (Low) Analysts in Panel B. We report only the interaction variables for brevity. The
dependent variables are log (number of analysts +1) (LOGANAL) and industry-adjusted Tobins q (ADJTOBINQ). FamaFrench 48 industry is included all
Models. T-statistics is reported in parentheses. Chow Test chi-square is reported in bracket. ***, **, *Statistically significant at the 1%, 5%, and 10% levels,
respectively.
Panel B: Subsample of firms only with positive CSR scores

ADJTOBINQ
0.1214
0.0598
(7.22)*** (3.61)***
Chow test
Slope Difference (Chi-square) 0.0616
[8.18]***
High
CSR &
High
analyst
0.1122
[59.61]***
0.0013
[0.01]
0.1636
[73.06]***
0.0878
[20.88]***
No-CSR CSR & No-CSR No-CSR No-CSR

& High
Low
& Low & High & Low
analyst
analyst
analyst
analyst
analyst
-0.0956 -0.0969
(6.22)*** (7.05)***
CSR &
Low
analyst
0.0244 -0.0634 0.1115

-0.0521 0.1211
0.0089
(1.62) (4.82)*** (8.230)*** (3.57)*** (6.60)*** (0.51)
CSR & CSR & No-CSR CSR & No-CSR

Low
High
& High High & Low
analyst analyst analyst analyst analyst
Panel A: Full sample of firms with CSR engagement and no-CSR engagement
ADJTOBINQ
0.1291
0.0626
-0.0154 -0.0676
(9.27)*** (4.02)*** (0.83)
(3.76)***
Chow test
Slope Difference (Chi-square) 0.0665
0.0522
[13.57]***
[9.81]***
CSR &
High
analyst
Simultaneous equation model of analyst following and industry-adjusted Tobins q with the interaction dummy variables in CSR Sample
TABLE X

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is the most significant with a chi-square of 96.03,

while the differences between groups in all possible
comparisons are significant. Overall, this evidence
suggests further that the individual impact of CSR
engagement on industry-adjusted Tobins q is significant (supporting the conflict-resolution hypothesis 2(a)) and so is the individual impact of analyst
following on industry-adjusted Tobins q. The value
addition of CSR engagement is greatest when CSR
engagement is high with high analyst following,
supporting the important monitoring role of securities analysts in CSR activities, stated in hypothesis
2(b).11 In addition, the above results suggest that the
value addition of CSR engagement and the monitoring impact of analyst following on firm value
remain robust in the full sample, as well as in the
sub-sample containing only the positive CSR scores.
We also conduct the Heckman two-stage regressions, the instrumental variable approach, and the
OLS regressions based only on the Riskmetrics
available year observations of 1993, 1995, 1998,
2000, 2002, and 2004 to check the robustness of our
results. Our unreported results suggest that overall
results are essentially identical and that the main results of the positive associations between CSR
(CSRCOMPOSITE) and ADJTOBINQ and between analyst following and ADJTOBINQ remain
unchanged. In addition, to check the individual
impact of the various governance variables due to
potential multicollinearity, we run the regressions for
each governance variable with the control variables
separately and find that the main results remain intact.
To further examine the robustness of our results,
we also run regressions on the change of ADJTOBINQ as a function of the change in CSRCOMPOSITE. Our untabulated results suggest that the
change in CSRCOMPOSITE has a positive impact
on the change in ADJTOBINQ, with a t-value
range of 2.574.37 (all significant, at least at the fivepercent level) in various samples with and without
the governance and control variables, again supporting CSR engagement as a conflict resolution.
Discussion
The goal of this paper was to investigate the empirical
association between corporate governance (CG) and
firm value through corporate social responsibility
(CSR). As a main core of the paper, we test two

competing hypotheses, the over-investment hypothesis based on agency theory and the conflict-resolution hypothesis based on stakeholder theory. The
over-investment explanation posits that top management uses the CSR engagement to enhance her private benefits of social-citizen reputation that could
hurt the market value of firm, whereas the conflictresolution explanation postulates that using CSR
activities to reduce potential conflicts between top
management and various stakeholders could eventually improve firm value by mitigating agency conflicts.
To examine the relative importance between the
two competing hypotheses, we employ two-stage
regression analyses consisting of the first-step CSR
CG choice issue and the second-step CGCSR-firm
value association. Before we summarize our empirical results from two-stage regressions, as a preliminary step, we first report the results from various
univariate tests, which suggest that on average, the
characteristics of firms that engage in CSR are different from those of firms that do not engage in
CSR activities. Specifically, CSR firms are more
diversified, older, larger, more levered, more profitable, higher in advertising expense ratio, and higher
in Tobins q. CSR firms are also associated with
more active board leadership measured by a higher
proportion of CEOs who are also chairs of the
boards or chairs or members of nomination committees, and more anti-takeover provisions, respectively. In addition, CSR engagement is adopted by
firms with higher total block ownership, higher
board independence, and a higher percentage of
institutional share ownership. They are also covered
by more security analysts.
Next, we discuss our major findings from twostage regressions, and their implications in detail
below. First, the first-stage probit regression results
indicate that CSR engagement is influenced by firm
characteristics such as its size, profitability, financial
leverage, research and development, and product
diversification. CSR engagement is also driven by
both internal and external corporate governance and
monitoring systems, such as board leadership, board
independence, institutional ownership, analyst following, and anti-takeover provisions. Among all
governance system, we find analyst following and
the percentage of independent board have the most
significant and positive effect on firm decision to

engage in CSR. We also find that CSR intensity
(after the firm decided to engage in CSR) is also
influenced by internal and external corporate
governance and monitoring systems and firm characteristics. Analysts following and percentage of
independent board have the most significant and
positive effect on firms CSR intensity. This positive
empirical relationship between CSR and internal
and external corporate governance system is consistent with the conflict-resolution hypothesis.
Second, to correct for both simultaneity bias and
endogeneity issue, we use the second-stage Heckman
regressions and instrumental variables approach using
simultaneous regression framework after considering
the first-stage CSR choice issue, and find that that
CSR engagement is positively associated with firm
value measured by industry-adjusted Tobins q. The
second-stage results are also supportive of the conflict-resolution hypothesis as opposed to the CSR
over-investment argument. The impact of CSR
intensity on firm value is both statistically and economically significant indicating that CSR intensity
plays an important role to increase the firms value.
We consider this finding important because previous
studies were unclear about the CGCSR-value
relationships after controlling for both simultaneity
and endogeneity. We also find evidence that corporate governance system influences the firm value,
which is consistent with prior literature (Coles et al.,
2008; GIM, 2003, 2010; Jo and Kim, 2007, 2008).
Third, firms CSR subcategory that is directly
related to their firms internal social enhancement,
such as diversity, employee relations, and product
quality, enhances the value of firm more than their
CSR subcategory in broader external enhancement,
such as community and environmental concerns.
Fourth, we find that while the impact of analyst
coverage on firm value is significant and strongly
positive, other governance and monitoring mechanisms including board leadership, board independence, blockholders ownership, and institutional
ownership play a relatively weaker role in enhancing
firm value. In general, corporate governance is a
system of checks and balances that trade-off benefits
and costs of firm decisions such as CSR engagement,
and is a system of controls, regulations, and incentives to minimize conflicts of interest and to prevent
fraud. Unfortunately, however, this trade-off is
usually very complicated, and no one governance or
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monitoring channel works for all firms. Although

security analysts are neither formal evaluator nor
direct monitor of potentially overconfident CEOs
who are over-investing CSR activities for their own
reputation building purpose, it turns out that
financial analysts do provide an effective external
monitoring services by frequently contacting top
management for the purpose of collecting and producing information regarding firms future prospects
as an important mechanism of information intermediary. To produce independent valuations of the
firm, analysts collect and analyze as much information as they can so that they can make buy and sell
recommendation to their clients. Through this
information collecting, analyzing, and dissemination
process, they become an expert on the firm and its
competitors by pouring over a firms financial
statements, filings, and earnings forecasts. Thus, we
interpret our empirical results as evidence that analyst coverage provides an important check-andbalance function to ensure that firms engagement in
CSR activities enhances value.
Conclusion
The impact of corporate social responsibility and corporate governance on firm value has become a great
interest for shareholders, practitioners, and government regulators. There are, however, only a few limited empirical studies that examine this issue. This
paper attempts to fill the void by examining what the
determinants of CSR engagement are, and whether
CSR engagement along with corporate governance
and monitoring mechanisms enhance firm value.
We contribute to the existing literature on corporate social responsibility and corporate governance
in three ways. First, we extend the existing literature
by examining the determinants of CSR engagement
from a full spectrum of corporate governance system. Consistent with the prior literature and economic intuition, we find that several governance
characteristics positively affect the choice of CSR
engagement. Second, by controlling for the endogenous treatment effects and simultaneity bias, we
find that CSR engagement enhances firm value.
Third, we show evidence that the impact of external
monitoring by security analysts over firms CSR
activities on firm value is more significant than other
internal and external governance and monitoring
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mechanisms. Furthermore, managers can direct their

attention to CSR activities within internal firm (i.e.
diversity, employee relations, and product quality)
which are proven to increase firm value.
Since our data of KLD are based on snapshot over a
number of companies social ratings by KLD analysts
in binary responses (yes or no), the data are subject to a
sample selection bias and it is qualitative in nature.
Future study of the CSRCG-firm value relations
using large-scale survey data incorporating various
stakeholders input should be worthwhile. Despite
this limitation, our findings contribute to managerial
practice by providing some empirical evidence of the
CSRCG association along with CSRCG-value
relationship after controlling for both endogeneity
and simultaneity. While we find that CSR is one
important factor in the cross-sectional differences in
CG-firm value relationship, we do not attempt to
determine the optimal level of CSR engagement nor
the causality among CSR, CG, and firm value, which
is beyond the scope of this paper. We leave these
important questions to future research.
Notes
1
One notable exception is Harjoto and Jo (2011)

who control for the endogeneity problem. They, however, do not formally correct for potential simultaneity
bias that invalidates the single-equation procedures
when there exists a simultaneous nature of economic
relations. In this paper, in contrast to Harjoto and Jo
(2011), we not only control for the simultaneity bias
using simultaneous equation system, but also address the
impact of CSR subcategories on firm value along with
deeper analysis regarding the impact of various internal
and external governance mechanisms on the choice of
CSR engagement and the market value of firm.
2
Social capital is described as a resource of individuals that emerges from social ties (Coleman, 1990). Guiso
et al. (2004) assert that the source of social capital lies
with the people to whom a person is related.
3
Some researchers interpret CSR engagement as a
signaling device. For instance, Fisman, et al. (2006) and
Goyal (2006) interpret CSR investment as a signal in
competitive industries and in foreign direct investments,
respectively. Other studies focus on corporate contributions. Schwart (1968) asserts profit maximization along
with the CEOs psychological motivation as the
underlying rationale behind corporate philanthropic
contributions. He claims that both CSR and corporate
contributions can be viewed as an indirect investment

in society, yielding reputation building, potential revenue increases and cost reductions, and therefore a firm
value increase. Navarro (1988) maintains that profitmaximization factors and managerial discretionary factors can explain corporate contributions. Brown et al.
(2006) examine the relation between corporate philanthropic contributions and agency costs.
4
Notice that the improvement of accounting profitability does not necessarily lead to higher firm value.
5
Some IVs will yield more precise estimates. The
more highly correlated the IV is with the choice of
CSR engagement, the more precise the estimates of performance impact will be. Thus, the challenge in an IV
estimation is to find an appropriate instrumental variable
that is highly correlated with the first-pass choice, but
uncorrelated with the second-pass performance. Unfortunately, it is often hard to find variables that meet both
of these requirements, and therefore, it is difficult to find
good IVs among the many potential IVs.
6
Similar methodology is also used by Harjoto and Jo
(2011) and Jo and Harjoto (2011).
7
When we perform logistic regression models to examine the likelihood of a choice decision, the results are qualitatively the same as those of the probit models shown in
Table III. We also control risk with the standard deviation
of stock returns, and the unreported results remain intact.
8
We further analyze the impact of LOGANAL on CSR
separately using two-stage least-square (2SLS) in Table V.
9
Recent study by Jo and Harjoto (2011) focuses on the
causality issue between CSR and corporate governance.
10
We also examine the association between the KLD
exclusionary scores and ADJTOBINQ. Our unreported
results suggest that the KLD exclusionary scores from
alcohol, tobacco, military, and nuclear-related revenues
are inversely associated with firm value when we do
not include the governance and control variables. However, when we include the governance and control
variables, only alcohol scores remain significantly negative. The coefficients on gambling scores are insignificant in all models examined.
11
The results are qualitatively the same when we use
Tobins q instead of industry-adjusted Tobins q. The
results are also essentially identical when we exclude
financial and utility firms from the sample.
Acknowledgments
We thank an anonymous referee, Sanjiv Das, Carrie
Pan, and Mark Seasholes for valuable comments. Donna
Maurer provided editorial assistance. Jo acknowledges
the Leavey Research Grant for financial support.
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APPENDIX A
List of the strength and concern items in the KLD social ratings database
Category
Strength items
Concern items
Community
Generous giving
Investment controversies
Innovative giving
Negative economic impact
Support for housing
Indigenous peoples relations (0001)
Support for education (added 94)
Other concern
Indigenous peoples relations (added 00, moved 02)
Non-U.S. charitable giving
Other strength
Environment
Beneficial products & services
Hazardous waste
Pollution prevention
Regulatory problems
Recycling
Ozone depleting chemicals
Alternative fuels
Substantial emissions
Communications (added 96)
Agricultural chemicals
Property, plant, and equipment (ended 95)
Climate change (added 99)
Other strength
Other concern
Diversity
CEO
Controversies
Promotion
Non-representation
Board of directors
Other concern
Family benefits
Women/minority contracting
Employment of the disabled
Progressive gay & lesbian policies
Other strength
Employee relations
Strong union relations
Poor union relations
No layoff policy (ended 94)
Health safety concern
Cash profit sharing
Workforce reductions
Employee involvement
Pension/benefits (added 92)
Strong retirement benefits
Other concern
Health and safety strength (added 03)
Other strength
Product quality and safety Quality
Product safety
R&D/Innovation
Marketing/contracting controversy
Benefits to economically disadvantaged
Antitrust
Other strength
Other concern
KLD exclusionary items
Alcohol
Gambling
Tobacco
Firearms
Military
Nuclear
Notes: All items are listed in their corresponding category. Unless otherwise indicated, the item has been included in the
data from 19942004. Items that were add to the data or discontinued (i.e., ended) in intermediate years are indicated, as
are the cases in which an item was moved from one category to another. Further details on the definition of each indicator
are available from KLD Research & Analytics, Inc at http://www.kld.com/research/ratings_indicators.html.
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APPENDIX B
Variable definitions and measures
Variable
[Name]
CSR (1, 0)
[CSR]
CSR combined score
[CSRCOMPOSITE]
Family firm (1, 0)
[FAMFIRM]
State law
[STATELAW]
ROA
Change ROA
[ROA]
[CHGROA]
Diversification
[SEGDIV]
GINDEX
[GINDEX]
Entrenchment index
[ENTINDEX]
Duality (1, 0)
[DUALITY]
CEO nomination committee
[CEONOM]
% of director share
[PCTDIRSHR]
Board size
[BSIZE]
% of independent directors
[PCTINDEP]
Log of Blockholdings
[LOGBLKS]
% of institutional ownership
[PCTINSTI]
Log (Number of Analysts + 1)
[LOGANAL]
Log total asset
[LOGTA]
Debt/total asset
[DEBTR]
Variable definitions
Dummy variable equals to 1 if a firm has
engaged in corporate social responsibility
(CSR)
Arithmetic average of the combined scores of
KLD strengths and concerns of community,
environment, diversity, employee, and
product dimensions. (source: KLD Socrates
database)
Dummy variable equals to 1 if a firm is family
owned firm and otherwise equals to zero
A firm incorporated in states with anti-takeover laws (source: GIM index, RiskMetrics
data)
Return on asset (source: COMPUSTAT)
Change in ROA from t - 1 to t.
(source: COMPUSTAT)
Dummy variable equals to 1 if a firm has
more than one business segment
(COMPUSTAT)
Gompers, Ishii and Metrick index
(source: RiskMetrics data)
Bebchuk et al. (2009) Entrenchment Index
(source: RiskMetrics data)
Dummy variable equals to 1 if a CEO is also
chair of the board. (source: RiskMetrics data)
Dummy variable equals to 1 if a CEO is a
chair or a member of nomination committee
Percentage of director shares (source: RiskMetrics data)
Total number of board members (source:
RiskMetrics data)
Number of independent outside directors/
Number of total directors (source: RiskMetrics data)
Log of sum of total blockholdings (5% or
more)
Percentage of institutional share ownerships
(CDA/Spectrum 13(f) filing)
Log of (number of analysts + 1) (source: I/B/
E/S database)
Log of total asset (data 6) (source:
COMPUSTAT)
Long-term debt divided by total asset
(source: COMPUSTAT)
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APPENDIX B
continued
Variable
[Name]
R&D expenditure ratio
[RNDR]
Capital expenditure ratio
[CAPXR]
Advertising exp. ratio
[ADVR]
Tobins q
[TOBINQ]
Industry-adjusted Tobins q
[ADJTOBINQ]
Firm age
[FIRMAGE]
S&P 500 (1, 0)
[SP500]
Sales growth
[SGROWTH]
Dividend/book equity
[DIVR]
Variable definitions
Research and development expense divided
by total sales (source: COMPUSTAT)
Capital expenditure expense divided by total
sales (source: COMPUSTAT)
Advertising expense divided by total sales
(source: COMPUSTAT)
Tobin q = Total debt (data 9 + data
34) + preferred stock (data56) + market value of equity (data24*data25)/Total asset
(data 6) [Chung and Pruitt (1994)]
The natural log of firms q divided by the
median q in the firms industry [Campbell
(1996)]
Firm age is calculated from the beginning of
the year from the CRSP database
Dummy variable equals to 1 if a firm is in
S&P 500 index.
Sales growth rate from t - 1 to t. (source:
COMPUSTAT)
Dividend divided by book value of equity
(data21/data60) (source: COMPUSTAT)
APPENDIX C
Calculation of the combined strength and composite scores and the combined strength scores
Combined strength and concern scores
COMMUNITY(i,t) = (sum of all community strength score for firm i at year t minus the sum of all community concern
score for firm i at year t plus total maximum possible number of community concern score at year t) divided by (total
maximum possible number of community strength score during year plus total maximum possible number of community
concern score at year t)
ENVIRONMENT(i,t) = (sum of all environment strength score for firm i at year t minus the sum of all environment
concern score for firm i at year t plus total maximum possible number of environment concern score at year t) divided by
(total maximum possible number of environment strength score during year plus total maximum possible number of
environment concern score at year t)
DIVERSITY(i,t) = (sum of all diversity strength score for firm i at year t minus the sum of all diversity concern score for
firm i at year t plus total maximum possible number of diversity concern score at year t) divided by (total maximum
possible number of diversity strength score during year plus total maximum possible number of diversity concern score at
year t)
EMPLOYEE RELATIONS(i,t) = (sum of all employee strength score for firm i at year t minus the sum of all employee
concern score for firm i at year t plus total maximum possible number of employee concern score at year t) divided by
(total maximum possible number of employee strength score during year plus total maximum possible number of
employee concern score at year t)
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APPENDIX C
continued
EMPLOYEE RELATIONS(i,t) = (sum of all employee strength score for firm i at year t minus the sum of all employee
concern score for firm i at year t plus total maximum possible number of employee concern score at year t) divided by
(total maximum possible number of employee strength score during year plus total maximum possible number of
employee concern score at year t)
PRODUCT(i,t) = (sum of all product strength score for firm i at year t minus the sum of all product concern score for
firm i at year t plus total maximum possible number of product concern score at year t) divided by (total maximum
possible number of product strength score during year plus total maximum possible number of product concern score at
year t)
Strength scores
COMSTR(i,t) = (sum of all community strength score for firm i at year t) divided by (total maximum possible number of
community strength score during year t)
ENVSTR(i,t) = (sum of all environment strength score for firm i at year t) divided by (total maximum possible number of
environment strength score during year t)
DIVSTR(i,t) = (sum of all diversity strength score for firm i at year t) divided by (total maximum possible number of
diversity strength score during year t)
EMPSTR(i,t) = (sum of all employee strength score for firm i at year t) divided by (total maximum possible number of
employee strength score during year t)
PROSTR(i,t) = (sum of all product strength score for firm i at year t) divided by (total maximum possible number of
product strength score during year t)
Corporate social combined score
CSRCOMPOSITE = (COMMUNITY + ENVIRONMENT + DIVERSITY + EMPLOYEE + PRODUCT)/5
Social strength score
CSRSTRENGTH = (COMSTR + ENVSTR + DIVSTR + EMPSTR + PROSTR)/5
Source: The Kinder, Lydenberg, and Dominis (KLD) Stats database
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ABSTRACT. This study investigates the effects of

corporate America is more heterogeneous than ever

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influence the quality of life of relevant stakeholders.

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tion Services (I/B/E/S) database during the 1993

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takeovers, active empire building may not be the

CSR, corporate governance, and firm value

CSR and financial performance, and the results are

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corporate transparency through frequent voluntary

If analysts are affiliated with investment banks,

Data, measurement, and methodology

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database includes over 3000 companies containing

(CRSP) data are available for our tests. This sample

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value of preferred stock + Book value of long-term

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method, which focuses on finding a variable (or

centage of director ownership and a larger board

The determinants of CSR engagement

We compare and contrast firm and governance

To understand the differences between firms with

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Panel A: firm characteristics

Firms engaging in CSR

Bebchuk et al.s (2000) entrenchment index

(PCTINSTI), and the natural logarithm of one

Bivariate correlation matrix

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assets (DEBTR), and the FamaFrench 48-industry

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(LOGANAL) and the other endogenous variable is

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We find that the coefficients on PCTINDEP and

include capital expenditures divided by total sales

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Heckman two-stage model

adversely affects firm value, which is consistent with

strongly supporting hypothesis 2(b) for the external

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Figure 1. The relation among industry-adjusted Tobins

enhancement improves firm value more than their

framework, where CSRCOMPOSITE is specified

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Panel B: Subsample of firms only with positive CSR scores

No-CSR CSR & No-CSR No-CSR No-CSR

0.0244 -0.0634 0.1115

CSR & CSR & No-CSR CSR & No-CSR

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is the most significant with a chi-square of 96.03,

(CSR). As a main core of the paper, we test two