Political Connection、Religion And Charitable Donations

The majority of surveys for charitable donations focused on donor factors and economic consequences, Lacking of empirical research of moral motivation.On economic consequences, literature research studied about reputation capital and advertisement, positive action of regulatory agencies, the advantage of the company in competition, enterprise performance, disaster response, etc. They are significantly more than the literature of influence factors. Religious cultural has a deep influence on the United States,so many scholars study the relationship between donors and religion. It gave me an idea that we could introduce religious tradition as a factor affecting the corporate philanthropy.Thus joined the ethical motivation, empirical researches on charitable giving are more comprehensive.There is no specific disclosure documents to regulate GEM in China, so it is difficult to obtain GEM perfect social responsibility report. On the consequence, the charity’s articles prefer listed A shares and private enterprises to GEM. Therefore, this paper with GEM data fills the void in the study of charitable giving sample and helps build the policy of GEM social responsibility.Meanwhile it standards business philanthropy and plays a role to relase social contradictions.The Chinese nation has a long history of charity, In the early times,the government play the main role to call for charitable giving such as the "hope project".Nowadays more enterprises undertake their social responsibilities, even experiencing a transformation process, charitable giving is also of great significance to social security, the people’s livelihood.Enterprises which is the main body of charitable giving undertook social responsibilities and expressed great enthusiasm to public welfares,especially in the face of "SARS", Wenchuan earthquake Yoann earthquake and other disasters.However, Chinese society is undergoing transformation, market competition and institutional constraints is not completed. What prompted the enterprises to participate in charitable giving under the background of the system? Based on the GEM sample data of2009and2012, This article try to find the motivation of GEM listed companies’ charity donation behavior from political and moral aspects: What level of impact did political connection and religious traditions have to charitable giving on earth? Studies have shown us that acting as the major resource allocation and policy leader, government is still the major force to drive the charity, so political connection is an important factor of charitable donation. In addition, the power of religious tradition can not be underestimated, either.This article is divided into five chapters:The first chapter is introduction. Introduce the research background and significance, methods,content framework and innovation points.The second chapter, literature review. Review of the related literature at home and abroad, and discusses the influence factors of charitable giving, build the theoretical basis for empirical study.Chapter Ⅲ, Background and theoretical analysis. Recall the course of economic reform and development of China’s charitable donations to clarify the context of Chinese religious development, providing background and theoretical basis for the empirical study and presented underlying assumptions.The fourth chapter, the empirical analysis including descriptive statistics, correlation analysis and regression analysis.Chapter Ⅴ, Conclusions and Implications. Based on the empirical results of this analysis, put forward conclusions and revelations and enlightenmentThe main conclusions of the article are as follows:First, the enterprises which have political connection have a stronger desire to participate in charitable acticities than the those which dose not.in other words, political connection and charitable acticities is positive correlation. This is same as previous research conclusions (Du Xingjiang,2012; Li Sihai,2010).Second, the political connection does not only affects the "donation desire" but also have an impact on the number of donation. Executives with political backgrounds are more inclined to donate more money.In summary, on the purpose of the establishment of good relations with the government, access to resources, or under the force of contribution tasks, enterprises show us political motives of charity.Third, the greater influence of local religious traditions, the stronger desire do companies have to charitable donations. This also proves that "charity from religion".Fourth, under the conditions of same religious influence, companies have political coonection donationed more than companies with no political coonection. It indicates that China’s current political motives to charitable donations is greater than moral motivation.Contribution and innovation of the article is mainly in the following aspects:A, Select China’s GEM companies. Enrich the charitable research literatureB,This study enriches the existing research literature related to religious traditions and corporate charitable donations, and also complete the study of executives characteristics.C,Religious and political connections can work together in charitable donations. Religious charitable idea is the same as the traditional Chinese ethics, in the field of charity, they are almost the same.