132 research outputs found
Does ownership type matter for corporate social responsibility disclosure: Evidence from China
The evidence of the effect of ownership structure on corporate social responsibility (CSR) is relatively sparse especially in the emerging economies. This paper seeks to address this situation to comprehensively examine the link between different types of shareholders and CSR disclosure in the context of China. Our findings reveal that different owners have differential impact on the CSR. The firms controlled by the state are more likely to disclose CSR information and their CSR reports’ quality is better compared with non-SOEs. Interestingly, firms with more shares held by mutual funds, foreign investors or other corporations are significantly better at CSR disclosure. The study also discloses that firm size, profitability, and leverage affect CSR in China. Overall the study contributes to the literature on CSR practices in emerging countries and point to some policy suggestions
Ownership influence and CSR disclosure in China
© 2018, Emerald Publishing Limited. Purpose: This paper aims to examine the relationship between ownership type and the likelihood of publication of a corporate social responsibility (CSR) report. Design/methodology/approach: Drawing on stakeholder salience theory, the probit model is used for a sample of 1,839 Chinese listed firms to study how different types of owners influence firm CSR engagement. Findings: The analysis reveals that the Chinese stock exchanges exert a positive influence on the likelihood of a firm producing a CSR report, an effect which is more significant in state-owned enterprises (SOEs). Foreign investors lead to a greater likelihood of publication of a CSR report, though this effect is weaker in SOEs. In contrast, the holdings of state and domestic institutional investors are broadly neutral. Practical implications: The study helps corporate managers to recognise how particular types of shareholders will value their efforts regarding CSR activities and disclosure and also assists policymakers in improving the level of CSR disclosure through the development of new policy. Social implications: Apposite CSR disclosure enhances trust and facilitates the shared values on which to build a more cohesive society. Originality/value: The novelty of this study is that it addresses the effect of institutional investors on Chinese firm CSR engagement and thus provides an important insight for firms, investors and other stakeholders into the interplay of portfolio investment and CSR
Mining the Relationship between Emoji Usage Patterns and Personality
Emojis have been widely used in textual communications as a new way to convey
nonverbal cues. An interesting observation is the various emoji usage patterns
among different users. In this paper, we investigate the correlation between
user personality traits and their emoji usage patterns, particularly on overall
amounts and specific preferences. To achieve this goal, we build a large
Twitter dataset which includes 352,245 users and over 1.13 billion tweets
associated with calculated personality traits and emoji usage patterns. Our
correlation and emoji prediction results provide insights into the power of
diverse personalities that lead to varies emoji usage patterns as well as its
potential in emoji recommendation tasks.Comment: To appear at The International AAAI Conference on Web and Social
Media (ICWSM) 201
Discrete Point-wise Attack Is Not Enough: Generalized Manifold Adversarial Attack for Face Recognition
Classical adversarial attacks for Face Recognition (FR) models typically
generate discrete examples for target identity with a single state image.
However, such paradigm of point-wise attack exhibits poor generalization
against numerous unknown states of identity and can be easily defended. In this
paper, by rethinking the inherent relationship between the face of target
identity and its variants, we introduce a new pipeline of Generalized Manifold
Adversarial Attack (GMAA) to achieve a better attack performance by expanding
the attack range. Specifically, this expansion lies on two aspects - GMAA not
only expands the target to be attacked from one to many to encourage a good
generalization ability for the generated adversarial examples, but it also
expands the latter from discrete points to manifold by leveraging the domain
knowledge that face expression change can be continuous, which enhances the
attack effect as a data augmentation mechanism did. Moreover, we further design
a dual supervision with local and global constraints as a minor contribution to
improve the visual quality of the generated adversarial examples. We
demonstrate the effectiveness of our method based on extensive experiments, and
reveal that GMAA promises a semantic continuous adversarial space with a higher
generalization ability and visual qualityComment: Accepted by CVPR202
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