Firm Attributes, Board Characteristics And Corporate Social Responsibility Of Listed Deposit Money Banks In Nigeria

📄 Project Abstract

Corporate social responsibility by business organizations is a key business success factor and a weapon to survive in the global competitive business environment. Prior CSR researches have forwarded inconclusive/ mixed results regarding the theoretical relationship between firm attributes, board characteristics and CSR, in addition to their weakness of neglecting the influence of governance mechanisms in ascertaining the level of firm's CSR investment. Therefore; this study examined the relationship between firm attributes, board characteristics and corporate social responsibility. In trying to achieve this, panel data were extracted and used from the Annual Reports and Accounts of thirteen (13) sampled banks out of sixteen (16) listed deposit money banks in the Nigerian Stock Exchange for a period of eight (8) years (2006-2013) which was arrived using convenience sampling technique. Both historical and descriptive methods were adopted in collecting data, while the Generalized Least Sq...