Ownership structure associated with company performance on corporate social responsibility evidence from the Nordic stock listed companies

A higher presence in topic literature and the practical field indicates the connection between the company's financial performance and subsequent corporate social responsibility performance. Supporting this, the shareholders’ demands on these matters have increased, with investors requiring mor...

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Päätekijä: Larkomaa, Julia
Muut tekijät: Kauppakorkeakoulu, School of Business and Economics, Taloustieteet, Business and Economics, Jyväskylän yliopisto, University of Jyväskylä
Aineistotyyppi: Pro gradu
Kieli:eng
Julkaistu: 2021
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description A higher presence in topic literature and the practical field indicates the connection between the company's financial performance and subsequent corporate social responsibility performance. Supporting this, the shareholders’ demands on these matters have increased, with investors requiring more sustainability initiatives taken by the firms. This thesis focuses on different company ownership structures and their potential connection to the company performance on corporate social responsibility. More specifically, this thesis aims to study the Nordic companies’ ownership structures by focusing primarily on institutional and state owners and identify whether these owners could be associated with firm performance on different corporate sustainability metrics. The previous literature about the topic has emerged mixed results. The empirical research has focused on studying the topic by focusing on a specific industry or has been conducted on a global scale. Only a few previous studies have included Northern European companies within their samples. Therefore, a study composing a sample from Danish, Finnish, Norwegian, and Swedish publicly listed companies allow further examination, especially on this market area. The empirical part was implemented by carrying out firm and year fixed effects regression models using the sample of 286 companies listed in the Northern European (Finland, Sweden, Norway, and Denmark) stock exchanges. Both institutional and state ownership was assigned as independent variables to represent the specific ownership structure. Further on, the different variations of environmental, social and governance (ESG) scores were applied to represent the firm performance on corporate social responsibility as a dependent variable on the regression model. The findings implied no significant results between the institutional ownership and firm performance on various corporate social responsibility metrics. Companies with a higher presence of state ownership were found to perform better on corporate sustainability in general. Moreover, the higher state ownership was also identified to associate with higher performance, especially on the environmental matter. Another aim for this thesis was also to identify potential differences between the sample countries. These results implied somewhat mixed results, especially when incorporating the industry-specific characteristics into the equation.
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spellingShingle Larkomaa, Julia Ownership structure associated with company performance on corporate social responsibility : evidence from the Nordic stock listed companies corporate social responsibility ownership structures institutional investors ESG score corporate social performance Yritysten ympäristöjohtaminen Corporate Environmental Management 20425 yritysvastuu julkinen omistus omistus pörssiyhtiöt corporate responsibility public ownership ownership (activity) listed companies
title Ownership structure associated with company performance on corporate social responsibility : evidence from the Nordic stock listed companies
title_full Ownership structure associated with company performance on corporate social responsibility : evidence from the Nordic stock listed companies
title_fullStr Ownership structure associated with company performance on corporate social responsibility : evidence from the Nordic stock listed companies Ownership structure associated with company performance on corporate social responsibility : evidence from the Nordic stock listed companies
title_full_unstemmed Ownership structure associated with company performance on corporate social responsibility : evidence from the Nordic stock listed companies Ownership structure associated with company performance on corporate social responsibility : evidence from the Nordic stock listed companies
title_short Ownership structure associated with company performance on corporate social responsibility
title_sort ownership structure associated with company performance on corporate social responsibility evidence from the nordic stock listed companies
title_sub evidence from the Nordic stock listed companies
title_txtP Ownership structure associated with company performance on corporate social responsibility : evidence from the Nordic stock listed companies
topic corporate social responsibility ownership structures institutional investors ESG score corporate social performance Yritysten ympäristöjohtaminen Corporate Environmental Management 20425 yritysvastuu julkinen omistus omistus pörssiyhtiöt corporate responsibility public ownership ownership (activity) listed companies
topic_facet 20425 Corporate Environmental Management ESG score Yritysten ympäristöjohtaminen corporate responsibility corporate social performance corporate social responsibility institutional investors julkinen omistus listed companies omistus ownership (activity) ownership structures public ownership pörssiyhtiöt yritysvastuu
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