dc.contributor.author | Qiu, Yan | |
dc.contributor.author | Shaukat, Amama | |
dc.contributor.author | Tharyan, Rajesh | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2015-05-11T14:55:08Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2014-11-14 | |
dc.description.abstract | Environmental and social disclosures entail costs, yet increasingly, large listed firms are making higher and better quality disclosures. In this paper we examine the link between a firm’s environmental and social disclosures and its profitability and market value. We find that past profitability drives current social disclosures. However, consistent with the existing evidence, we do not find any relation between environmental disclosures and profitability. Further, while prior literature has largely focussed on environmental disclosure, we find that it is the social disclosures that matter to investors. We find that firms that make higher social disclosures have higher market values. Further analysis reveals that this link is driven by higher expected growth rates in the cash flows of such companies. Overall our findings are consistent with the resource based view of the firm and the voluntary disclosure theory, suggesting that firms with greater economic resources make more extensive disclosures which yield net positive economic benefits. | en_GB |
dc.identifier.citation | Vol. 48 (1), pp. 102-116 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1016/j.bar.2014.10.007 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10871/17190 | |
dc.language.iso | en | en_GB |
dc.publisher | Elsevier | en_GB |
dc.rights.embargoreason | Publisher's embargo period unclear | en_GB |
dc.subject | Environmental disclosures | en_GB |
dc.subject | Social disclosures | en_GB |
dc.subject | Corporate social responsibility | en_GB |
dc.subject | Corporate financial performance | en_GB |
dc.title | Environmental and social disclosures: link with corporate financial performance | en_GB |
dc.type | Article | en_GB |
dc.identifier.issn | 1095-8347 | |
dc.description | NOTICE: this is the author’s version of a work that was accepted for publication in The British Accounting Review. Changes resulting from the publishing process, such as peer review, editing, corrections, structural formatting, and other quality control mechanisms may not be reflected in this document. Changes may have been made to this work since it was submitted for publication. A definitive version was subsequently published in The British Accounting Review. doi:10.1016/j.bar.2014.10.007 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.journal | British Accounting Review | en_GB |