Organizational slack and corporate social performance: Empirical evidence from China’s public firms

Erming Xu (), Hui Yang (), J. Quan () and Yuan Lu ()

Asia Pacific Journal of Management, 2015, vol. 32, issue 1, 198 pages

Abstract: This study investigates how organizational slack affects corporate social performance (CSP). Based on a sample of 1,299 Chinese listed firms, our results show that only unabsorbed slack contributes to CSP and the positive relationship between unabsorbed slack and CSP is consistent with the relationship between unabsorbed slack and corporate financial performance (CFP). Our results also show that absorbed slack generates a negative impact on CSP. Furthermore, our findings indicate that state ownership has a negative impact on the relationship between unabsorbed slack and CSP. This finding illustrates that state ownership weakens unabsorbed slack’s contribution to CSP. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media New York 2015

Keywords: Organizational slack; Corporate social performance; Absorbed slack; Unabsorbed slack; Public firms; China (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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