Financial and Governance Antecedents of Corporate Social Responsibility across Various Investment Landscapes: An Empirical Analysis of the Pakistan Stock Exchange

Taymoor Ali and Muhammad Ramzan

Journal of Accounting and Finance in Emerging Economies, 2025, vol. 11, issue 4, 655-668

Abstract: Purpose: Corporate Social Responsibility helps companies to balance stakeholder expectations, governance quality, and financial constraints. A dynamic and comparative analysis of CSR determinants is to be conducted here under conditions of high low investment opportunities.Design/Methodology/Approach: A two-step system Generalized Method of Moments (GMM) estimator is used to control for endogeneity, simultaneity, and unobserved heterogeneity, using panel data of 103 manufacturing firms listed on the PSX from 2014 to 2024.Findings: Overall, institutional ownership, managerial ownership, and independent directors significantly enhance CSR. Export turnover, firm’s size, directors’ ownership, and investment opportunities have adverse effects. CSR is reinforced by institutional ownership, managerial ownership, independent directors, and board meetings in high investment opportunities. Conversely, free cash flow leverage in a high investment landscape reduce CSR. Conversely, over low investment landscape, CSR is primarily driven by institutional, managerial, family ownership, and leverage, while export turnovers and the firm’s size subdue CSR engagement.Implications/Originality/Value: CSR is not evenly endorsed by financial slacks but is vastly reliant on the governance quality investment context, while financial controls and investment pressures reduce it. An efficient ownership governance model supports CSR in developing markets.

Keywords: Free Cash Flows; Export Turnover; Institutional Ownership; Managerial Ownership; Directors Ownership (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
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DOI: 10.26710/jafee.v11i4.3632

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