期刊
MANAGEMENT SCIENCE
卷 65, 期 12, 页码 5487-5503出版社
INFORMS
DOI: 10.1287/mnsc.2018.3100
关键词
corporate social responsibility; peer effects; shareholder proposal; regression discontinuity
资金
- Research Grant Council of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China [CUHK 14501115]
We investigate how firms react to their product-market peers' commitment to and adoption of corporate social responsibility (CSR) using a regression discontinuity design approach. Relying on the passage or failure of CSR proposals by a narrow margin of votes during shareholder meetings, we find the passage of a close-call CSR proposal and its implementation are followed by the adoption of similar CSR practices by peer firms. In addition, peers that have greater difficulty in catching up with the voting firm in CSR experience significantly lower stock returns around the passage, consistent with the notion that the spillover effect of the adoption of CSR is a strategic response to competitive threat. Using alternative definitions of peers and examining underlying mechanisms, we further rule out alternative explanations, such as that based on propagation by financial intermediaries.
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