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dc.contributor.authorAkhter, Fahmida
dc.contributor.authorMohammad Rokibul, Kabir
dc.date.accessioned2018-07-24T03:10:05Z
dc.date.available2018-07-24T03:10:05Z
dc.date.issued2018-06
dc.identifier.citationInternational Journal of Business and Technopreneurship, vol.8(2), 2018, pages 125-136en_US
dc.identifier.issn2231-7090
dc.identifier.issn2232-1543 (online)
dc.identifier.urihttp://dspace.unimap.edu.my:80/xmlui/handle/123456789/54457
dc.descriptionLink to publisher's homepage at http://ijbt.unimap.edu.myen_US
dc.description.abstractThis paper is intended to examine the ways good governance accelerates company attitudes towards social responsibility. Social Responsibility Expenditure is considered as the proxy of the level of social responsibilities of the companies. Data of eighteen listed banks are selected randomly for five years span ranging from 2012 to 2016 to conduct the study. Descriptive Statistics and Multiple Regression are used as the methods of analysis. The study revealed that the Government shareholding is a variable that positively influences firms’ social behavior. Increased government involvement generates pressures for firms to invest more for the benefit of the society as government is the body trusted by general public. Independent or non‐executive directors act as a monitor and balanced mechanism to control behavior of authority. Research reveals that the firms containing board with more number of independent directors seem more socially responsible. The analysis also reveals that the ownership concentration is negatively associated with CSR practices of firm. It implies that firms where shares are not concentrated in the hand of only a few shareholders rather companies have a large number of shareholders each holding a small fraction of company’s shares, are more accountable to public. Therefore, these firms require additional involvement in community or social development. The study may be useful to the regulatory bodies and organizations to take corporate governance factors into consideration that might influence companies focus on accomplishing their duties for the society.en_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherSchool of Business Innovation and Technopreneurship, Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP)en_US
dc.subjectCorporate Social Responsibilityen_US
dc.subjectCorporate governanceen_US
dc.subjectBoard independenceen_US
dc.subjectOwnership concentrationen_US
dc.subjectGovernment ownershipen_US
dc.titleDoes Good Governance make the Companies More Socially Responsible?en_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
dc.contributor.urlfahmida.a@eastdelta.edu.bden_US


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