최고경영자의 특성이 기업의 사회적 책임활동에 미치는 영향

This paper attempts to examine managerial attributes affecting corporate social responsibilities(CSR). This study explores the relationship between CEO demographic characteristics and CSR. I also investigated whether TMT demographic characteristics and CEO ownership ratio moderate the relationship between CEO demographic characteristics and CSR. The key decision-maker's predominant attributes and personal qualities that tend to have the most pronounced effect upon a firm's CSR as a strategic choice(Waldman et al., 2006a). I perform the multiple regression analysis using korean listing companies after mean-centering to control multicollinearity in the model including interaction variable. The results indicate that CEO education level is shown to affect corporate social responsibilities. In addition, young CEOs perform socially responsible activities when they work with old top management team members. And CEOs who major in natural science or engineering increase investment in corporate social responsibility when they work with top management team members who major in social science. However, there's no evidence about interaction effect of CEO ownership and CEO characteristics. The results are expected to understand the role of leadership in CSR and encouraging for supporting the diversity of CEO and top management team members can be lead better and balanced decision making in CSR as a strategic choice.