O impacto do desempenho social corporativo sobre o desempenho financeiro nas empresas brasileiras de capital aberto

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2007

RESUMO

The area of corporate social responsibility is surrounded by controversies. Its defenders claim that it is necessary due to current social and environmental problems. Its opponents argue that it breaks the classic economic model of wealth generation. The research problem proposed seeks to evaluate the existence of evidences by which the corporate social performance impacts the financial results of the organizations, being them risk, financial performance or shareholders value distribution. To reach this objective, the arguments against the corporate social responsibility used by the classic economic model are analyzed, as far as new visions are sought under the New Institutional Economics, even though in a embryonic manner. The corporations motivations for the corporate social responsibility are also discussed, once they are also permeated by controversies and can unleash arguable results. The empirical part of the research involved the use of multiple regression method, applied between financial dependent variables referring to risk, performance and value distribution to shareholders, and social performance independent variables. The main sample comprises of 328 listed companies, extracted from Economatica, while a second sample includes 371 companies belonging to the largest Brazilian companies, extracted from Revista Exame Melhores e Maiores 2007. For the composition of the social performance variable, various sources of data were used, representing the companies participation in public socially-related indexes, certifications regarding social issues, participation in representative social responsibility associations and awards or other forms of reward received. The initial results do not point evidences that capital market exposition could cause better social performance. In general, the regression results did not favor the relation between social performance and a) risk, b) financial performance, and c) shareholders value distribution. The exception was the model using EBITDA/Total Assets as dependent variable in the main sample. Even though, in eight out of ten main models, the coefficient of the social performance variable showed signals expected by the proposed hypotheses. In the other fifteen auxiliary regression models, using the social performance components unassembled, some of the coefficients of the components were significant, although none of them has been significant in more than two models. Among the potential reasons for the non-significant statistical results it may be found the social performance variable composition. Future research can also investigate aspects related to the effects of time in the social and financial performance relation and also the possibilities of social responsibility as an idiosyncrasy factor. For the analysis relating to the distribution of shareholders value, the use of alternative metrics should be considered.

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desempenho financeiro administracao desempenho social corporativo financial performance corporate social responsibility corporate social performance responsabilidade social corporativa

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