Content analysis

  • 详情 More Corporate Governance Information Disclosure More Management Expenses? - Evidence from Chinese Site Visit Disclosures
    In this paper, we construct a content analysis structure to explore whether corporate governance information in voluntary disclosures can predict management expenses in the next term. Employing the site visit information disclosure of firms listed on the Chinese A-share market from 2012 to 2021, we find that corporate governance information disclosure is motivated by ownership concentration,and that corporate governance information can predict management expenses and comprises incremental information, indicating that the content analysis we construct is valuable and the disclosure of corporate governance information can mitigate the agency problems.There is a difference between state-owned listed firms and nonstate-owned listed firms.
  • 详情 Do consumers really care about companies to be social responsible? Evidence from China
    According to “whether the product of a company contacts with the consumers directly or not”, we divide all listed companies of Chinese transportation equipment manufacturing industry into two kinds. Then we calculate corporate social responsibility(CSR) score by using content analysis method to evaluate corporate annual report. We find out companies, whose products have a direct contact with consumers, tend to perform more social responsibility. When we use ROA to evaluate corporate financial performance and regress ROA on CSR score and other control variables, we find that the companies mentioned above have relatively remarkable better financial performance. After decomposing ROA by sales revenue, further test proved that CSR influences CFP positively by increasing sales revenue of a company. It ultimately prove that consumers do care about companies to be social responsible.