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CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY PERFORMANCE STATE OWNERSHIP AND EXECUTIVE COMPENSATION EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE FROM CHINA

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http://dx.doi.org/10.31703/gssr.2019(IV-I).06      10.31703/gssr.2019(IV-I).06      Published : Mar 1

Corporate Social Responsibility Performance, State Ownership and Executive Compensation: Empirical Evidence from China

Abstract

    This analysis focus corporate social responsibility and executive compensation in China and also tests the relationship between state possession and executive compensation in presence of CSR. The estimated results confirm our hypotheses true in the selected sample of 2011 to 2014 of China. The firms with high CSR performances positively moderate the previously negative or no relationship between state-ownership and executive compensation. Application of 2SLS and GMM guaranteed the robustness of the results to potential endogeneities.

    CSR Performance; Executive Compensation; StateOwnership; Agency Theory; China

    (1) Abdur Rauf
    Assistant Professor,Department of Economics,Abbottabad University of Science and Technology, Abbottabad, KP, Pakistan.
    (2) Kashif Amin
    Assistant Professor,Department of Management Sciences,Qurtuba University, Peshawar, KP, Pakistan.
    (3) Zafar Saleem
    Assistant Professor, Mohi-ud-Din Islamic University, AJK, Pakistan.
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    TURABIAN : Rauf, Abdur, Kashif Amin, and Zafar Saleem. "Corporate Social Responsibility Performance, State Ownership and Executive Compensation: Empirical Evidence from China." Global Social Sciences Review IV, no. I (2019): 42-52. https://doi.org/10.31703/gssr.2019(IV-I).06