The purpose of this study is to verify the unilateral relationship between corporate social contribution activities and management outcome of corporations by using cross-lagged autoregressive method based on fixed effect method, and to provide fundame...
The purpose of this study is to verify the unilateral relationship between corporate social contribution activities and management outcome of corporations by using cross-lagged autoregressive method based on fixed effect method, and to provide fundamental knowledge for future discussions on corporate social contribution and management outcome. For this purpose, social contribution and management outcome data of top 100 corporations in Korea have been gathered for 7 years between 1998 and 2004, and the data from 83 corporations have been used in the analysis. The main findings of this study are as follows.
First, as for the autoregressive coefficient of the corporate social contribution, the unstandardized coefficient showed statistically significant at the marginal level. Therefore, preceding social contribution can be said to have positively significant influence on the following social contribution.
Second, as for the autoregressive coefficient of the management outcome, the unstandardized coefficient showed statistically significant. Therefore, preceding management outcome can be said to have positively significant influence on the following management outcome.
Third, as for the cross-lagged coefficient which explains the preceding social contribution having effect on the following management outcome, unstandardized coefficient did not show statistically significant. Therefore, the preceding social contribution has the same effect on the following management outcome, but the effect does not occur at a statistically significant level.
Lastly, as for the cross-lagged coefficient which explains the preceding management outcome affecting the following social contribution, unstandardized coefficient showed statistically significant. Therefore, the preceding management outcome has the same influence on the following social contribution, and it occurs at a statistically significant level.
Based on the above findings, the following suggestions can be made for subsequent studies.
First, this study used a profit index, the ratio of net income in gross sales. Subsequent studies should once again verify the reciprocal relationship between the management outcome and the corporate social contribution by constituting the management outcome with stability index, growth, and activity index.
Second, this study estimated corporate social contribution and management outcome with a relative scale of the ratio between donations against sales and net income. Future studies need to verify not only these social contribution and management outcome of relative scales but also the bilateral relationship between social contribution and management outcome using the absolute scale of donations and net income.
Third, although previous year's effect may occur in various ways, this study adopted conventional methods and analyzed the data using the previous year's effect only. This requires further elaboration through various discussions and analysis.
Fourth, this study analyzed the 7 years' data of corporate social responsibility and management outcome between 1998 and 2004. The two variables' data has been accumulated until 2008. Subsequent changes of the two after 2004 should be additionally analyzed to once again verify the outcome of this study that there is no reciprocal relationship between the corporate social contribution and the management outcome.