| At present, as the China’s economic slowing down and the domestic market becoming increasingly saturated, the development of Chinese enterprises raised new challenges. To seek new growth point, Chinese companies continue to survey the domestic and foreign markets, with the national "along the way" strategy as an opportunity to try out the service and product delivery, in order to survive in the fierce competition to achieve long-term development. On the other hand, the world economic recovery twists and turns, new growth momentum has not yet formed, the enormous potential of the international market also increased the Chinese companies’enthusiasm of joining in the international trend.Nowadays, Chinese companies have growing influence in the global market and get remarkable achievements. According to WTO, China’s import and export trade volume was up to $ 4.303 trillion in 2014, China won the first in the world for two consecutive years. However, Under the background of people having higher requirements and more expectations of corporate social responsibility all over the world, the labels such as "sweatshops", "black factory" and other negative comments of Chinese companies will become a stumbling block when companies step into the global market. In this case, the understanding of the role of corporate social responsibility in international development and its impact on export performance, has important implications for the international development of Chinese companies.Based on the above background, this paper attempts to answer the following two questions to clarify the relationship between corporate social responsibility and export performance:(1)The impact of corporate social responsibility on export performance; (2) whether and how the ownership of corporate condition the link between csr and export performance.Around the questions, using Chinese manufacturing listed companies and 1175 firm-year-observations over 2009-2013 period, we get the following conclusion. First, there is a significant positive correlation between corporate social responsibility and corporate export performance, that is, csr can significantly improve the performance of the international business; second, ownership of corporate condition the link between csr and internationalization, degree of influence between in a non-state-owned enterprises more significant than state-owned enterprises.Compared with existing research, innovation point of this paper is mainly reflected in the following two aspects. First, theoretically clarify the relationship between the csr and export performance. From the existing research, although there are some related researches about the relationship between social responsibility and export performance, the combination of China’s actual situation,systems analysis and interpretation of the relationship between the two is rare. This study can supplement the shortage of the existing researches, provide a theoretical basis for the support and promotion of the competitiveness of Chinese corporate responsibility. Second, from the perspective of ownership conditioning, we find positive link is stronger in Non-state-owned companies. To further understanding the relation between csr and export performance this provides a different perspective.Compared with existing research, we has three innovations. First, the theoretical innovation..In this paper we provide a new perspective to studies of the economic consequences of csr. Reviewing the existing literature, whether csr has cost-effectiveness is an undone question in theory, most researchers studied from the financial performance of business value, cost of capital, etc, but few studies from international angle, studying whether csr has cost-effectiveness in the process of internationalization. We can this supplement this blank and improve the study of corporate social responsibility and economic consequences. Second, the data innovation. In this paper, we use Chinese enterprises test data testing the relationship between csr and export performance, while existing empirical research all based on the Western countries. Using the Chinese data for research can get results applying to our country. Third, from the view of the stakeholders response, we tested and verified the nature of ownership’s moderating effect, providing a new perspective on exploring the relationship between csr and export performance deeply. |
