Assessment of investment attractiveness in shares of socially responsible companies based on the RESPECT index in 2009–2017

• Authors: Urszula Gołaszewska-Kaczan , Jacek Marcinkiewicz , Jarosław Kilon
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Both in theory and practice, it is emphasised that engaging in CSR actions brings many benefits to companies. One of the commonly listed advantages is more trust from investors, which enables the achievement of superior returns from securities issued by socially responsible firms. The paper endeavours to investigate whether this benefit can be also noticed among businesses in the Polish index of socially responsible companies RESPECT. The study involves firms included in the RESPECT index from its inception (November 2011) to the end of 2017. The authors compared the RESPECT index with selected Polish market indices between 2009 and 2017. Empirical studies, based on an analysis of returns, risk, dividend yields, and shareholder structure, facilitated the assessment of the attractiveness of investments in the shares of socially responsible businesses against the background of other firms quoted on the Warsaw Stock Exchange.

Keywords

EN

Corporate Social Responsibility; RESPECT index; Warsaw Stock Exchange

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Łódzki. Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
• Journal: Annales. Etyka w Życiu Gospodarczym
• Year: 2018
• Volume: 21
• Issue: 7
• Pages: 141-152

Dates

published

2019-04-02

Contributors

author

Urszula Gołaszewska-Kaczan

• University of Bialystok, Faculty of Economics and Management, Department of Management

author

Jacek Marcinkiewicz

• University of Bialystok, Faculty of Economics and Management, Department of Econometrics and Statistics

author

Jarosław Kilon

• Grupa Partnerska BUCHALTER

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Identifiers

DOI

10.18778/1899-2226.21.7.10