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Corporate social responsibility and stakeholder value maximization: Evidence from mergers☆

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In this article, a large sample of mergers in the US was used to examine whether corporate social responsibility (CSR) creates value for acquiring firms' shareholders, and they found that high CSR acquirers realize higher merger announcement returns, higher announcement returns on the value-weighted portfolio of the acquirer and the target, and larger increases in postmerger long-term operating performance.
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This article is published in Journal of Financial Economics.The article was published on 2013-10-01. It has received 787 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Corporate social responsibility & Stakeholder.

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Social Capital, Trust, and Firm Performance: The Value of Corporate Social Responsibility during the Financial Crisis

TL;DR: This paper found that firms with high social capital, measured as corporate social responsibility (CSR) intensity, had stock returns that were four to seven percentage points higher than firms with low social capital during the 2008-2009 financial crisis.
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Socially responsible firms

TL;DR: The authors found that well-governed firms that suffer less from agency concerns (less cash abundance, positive pay-for-performance, small control wedge, strong minority protection) engage more in CSR.
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Corporate goodness and shareholder wealth

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors study how stock markets react to positive and negative events concerned with a firm's corporate social responsibility (CSR), and they show that investors respond strongly negatively to negative events and weakly negatively to positive events.
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Corporate Social Responsibility and Firm Risk: Theory and Empirical Evidence

TL;DR: In this article, an industry equilibrium model where firms have a choice to engage in corporate social responsibility (CSR) activities is presented, where CSR as an investment to increase product differen...
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Corporate governance in China: A modern perspective

TL;DR: The authors provides a modern overview of corporate governance in China and highlights many corporate governance features and issues that are, for the most part, unique to China, and describes how papers in this special issue advance our understanding of Corporate Governance in China.
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The Cross‐Section of Expected Stock Returns

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