The geography of CSR

• Main Authors: DING, David K., FERREIRA, Christo, WONGCHOTI, Udomsak
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2019
• Subjects: CSR; Geography; Corporate governance; Firm location; Tobin's Q; Business Law, Public Responsibility, and Ethics; Finance and Financial Management
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/lkcsb_research/5996; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/lkcsb_research/article/6995/viewcontent/1_s20_S1059056018307950_main.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

We regress socio-economic indicators against firm level CSR scores using a sample of over 26,000 firm year observations from 1991 through 2009. We find that a firm's CSR profile is linked to the socio-economic conditions of the firm's geographic headquarters (HQ) location. The study docume...