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Compared to the rapid development of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) practices in developing countries, especially in China, the research about the effect of CSR on firm value has evolved more slowly. This paper examines the relationship between CSR and firm value used by listed Chinese companies from 2010 to 2017. The results for the whole sample show CSR significantly reduces firm value. Additionally, there are no significant differences for the effect of CSR on firm value between state owned enterprises (SOEs) and non-SOEs or sensitive industry and non-sensitive industry. To explore whether the relationship changes over time, we divided the period into two sub-periods. During 2010–2014, the results are similar with those obtained by the whole sample. However, the results significantly change during 2015–2017. Specifically, the negative and significant relationship between CSR and firm value becomes non-significant in the second sub-period. Compared to the weakening effect of CSR for non-SOEs on firm value, CSR for SOEs alleviates the effect, and CSR of SOEs increases firm value significantly. Similar results are obtained for non-sensitive industry and sensitive industry. The changes are the result of increasing awareness by government, companies, and investors on sustainable development after 2015. This finding enriches the research on the dynamic effect of CSR on firm value in developing countries.
Tao Bing; Meng Li. Does CSR Signal the Firm Value? Evidence from China. Sustainability 2019, 11, 4255 .
AMA StyleTao Bing, Meng Li. Does CSR Signal the Firm Value? Evidence from China. Sustainability. 2019; 11 (15):4255.
Chicago/Turabian StyleTao Bing; Meng Li. 2019. "Does CSR Signal the Firm Value? Evidence from China." Sustainability 11, no. 15: 4255.
With the extensive use of smart-phone applications and online payment systems, more travelers choose to participate in ridesharing activities. In this paper, a multi-modal route choice model is proposed by incorporating ridesharing and public transit in a single-origin-destination (OD)-pair network. Due to the presence of ridesharing, travelers not only choose routes (including main road and side road), but also decide travel modes (including solo driver, ridesharing driver, ridesharing passenger, and transit passenger) to minimize travelers’ generalized travel cost (not their actual travel cost due to the existence of car capacity constraints). The proposed model is expressed as an equivalent complementarity problem. Finally, the impacts of key factors on ridesharing behavior in numerical examples are discussed. The equilibrium results show that passengers’ rewards and toll charge of solo drivers on main road significantly affect the travelers’ route and mode choice behavior, and an increase of passengers’ rewards (toll) motivates (forces) more travelers to take environmentally friendly travel modes.
Meng Li; Guowei Hua; Haijun Huang. A Multi-Modal Route Choice Model with Ridesharing and Public Transit. Sustainability 2018, 10, 4275 .
AMA StyleMeng Li, Guowei Hua, Haijun Huang. A Multi-Modal Route Choice Model with Ridesharing and Public Transit. Sustainability. 2018; 10 (11):4275.
Chicago/Turabian StyleMeng Li; Guowei Hua; Haijun Huang. 2018. "A Multi-Modal Route Choice Model with Ridesharing and Public Transit." Sustainability 10, no. 11: 4275.