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Effect Of Corporate Social Responsibility On Profitability Of Listed Deposit Money Banks In Nigeria
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Table 9 indicates that NPM, CSR, SIZE and INTR have p value of less than 0.05, which means that the null hypotheses are rejected at 5% level of significance because the residuals are not normally distributed. To overcome this problem that may distort the significance tests, robust standard errors were used instead of the normal standard errors (Gujarati, 2003). Robust standard errors generally improve the efficiency of the estimators (Green, 2008).4.3.7 Granger Causality
Granger causality tests for the direction of causality between the explanatory variable and dependent variable; in this study, between corporate social responsibility and profitability. An important question is whether it is corporate sociality responsibility that causes profitability or vice versa or both causes each another. Table 10 shows the results of Granger causality test.As shown in Table 10, the p-values for CSR against NPM, ROTA and ROE are less than 5% level of significance implying that the null hypotheses that CSR does not Granger cause profitability are not accepted.
4.4 Regression Results
Three regression models were run in line with the specific objectives of the study having properly accounted for all diagnostic tests.
4.4.1 Effect of CSR on NPM
The effect of corporate social responsibility on profitability measured by net profit margin can be seen in Table 11 as follows:
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ABSRACT - [ Total Page(s): 1 ]ABSTRACTAlthough an enormous body of literature has emerged concerning the nexus between corporate social responsibility and profitability, actual empirical research designed to test the multitude of definitions, propositions, concepts and theories that have been advanced has produced mix results. In addition, much of the research done in the area has been incomplete and simplistic in methodology and epistemology. Many of the methodological quagmires in studying the nexus between corporate socia ... Continue reading---
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ABSRACT - [ Total Page(s): 1 ]ABSTRACTAlthough an enormous body of literature has emerged concerning the nexus between corporate social responsibility and profitability, actual empirical research designed to test the multitude of definitions, propositions, concepts and theories that have been advanced has produced mix results. In addition, much of the research done in the area has been incomplete and simplistic in methodology and epistemology. Many of the methodological quagmires in studying the nexus between corporate socia ... Continue reading---