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The relationship between corporate governance and corporate social behavior: a structural equation model analysis
Author(s) -
Sánchez José Luis Fernández,
Sotorrío Ladislao Luna,
Díez Elisa Baraibar
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
corporate social responsibility and environmental management
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.519
H-Index - 73
eISSN - 1535-3966
pISSN - 1535-3958
DOI - 10.1002/csr.244
Subject(s) - corporate governance , unobservable , corporate social responsibility , structural equation modeling , sensibility , business , stakeholder , accounting , independence (probability theory) , econometrics , economics , public relations , political science , management , finance , statistics , mathematics , law
Abstract This paper extends previous research in corporate social responsibility from a corporate governance perspective. Through a two‐step procedure, this research develops a measurement model to measure the unobservable variable of social sensibility of corporate governance (SSCG) and tests empirically the effect of this variable on corporate social behavior using a structural model. Both models are estimated applying Full Information Maximum Likelihood (FIML) and Bayesian methods for the 125 listed companies of the Spanish Continuous Stock Market. Two important conclusions are obtained of this research: first, a firm's SSCG can be measured through two different factors (the independence and pluralism of Boards and the ownership power), and second, there is a direct relationship between the firm's social sensibility of corporate governance and its social behavior. Copyright © 2010 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd and ERP Environment.