Responsabilidade socioambiental empresarialuma análise do retorno financeiro dos investimentos socioambientais no Brasil

Resumo

The main purpose of this dissertation is to expand the debate over the topic of Corporate Social and Environmental Responsibility (CSR), in both theoretical and empirical perspectives. From the theoretical perspective, this study aimed to do a review of previous researches, for those in favor or against of the involvements of firms to address the social and environmental issues. This study analyzed the theme of CSR under the perspective of the corporate management evolution model, which started from a philanthropic model to what we see today as an important strategic decision tool. The climate change, caused by the global warming has been driven the evolution of the CSR model. From the empirical perspective, the main goal was to investigate the correlation between firm’s financial performance and social/environmental performance for Brazilian companies from 2001 to 2007, using available information provided by the Braziian Institute of Social and Economic Analysis (IBASE). Two types of panel data econometric models were used. The fixed effects model was used to investigate the existence of correlations between the financial indicators and the social/environmental indicators. Additionally, a panel data IV model was used to investigate causality and try to answer the question whether the social/environmental performance has a positive or negative impact on the firm’s financial performance. Results show a positive relationship between corporate social/environmental performance and financial performance. The internal social investment is the most relevant social/environmental variable in this result, since it is positively correlated with the financial performance indicator represented by the variable return on assets (ROA). The causality analysis showed also that the internal social investment has a positive effect on the corporate financial performance.

Ficha do documento

Tipo

Dissertação

Ano

2009

Instituição

Fundação Getulio Vargas

Fonte

Repositório da FGV

Idioma

Português

Acesso

Não informado

Identificador

oai:repositorio.fgv.br:10438/4319

Temas

EconomiaDadosMeio Ambiente

Palavras-chave

Responsabilidade socioambiental empresarialDesempenho financeiroDesempenho socioambientalCorporate social environmental responsibilityFinancial performanceSocial environmental performanceEconomiaResponsabilidade social da empresaDesempenhoPolítica ambientalEmpresas - Aspectos ambientais