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Socially responsible sourcing and shareholder wealth – evidence from conflict minerals disclosures
Han, Jong Won
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https://hdl.handle.net/2142/124614
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- Title
- Socially responsible sourcing and shareholder wealth – evidence from conflict minerals disclosures
- Author(s)
- Han, Jong Won
- Issue Date
- 2023-12-06
- Director of Research (if dissertation) or Advisor (if thesis)
- Brown, Nerissa
- Doctoral Committee Chair(s)
- Godsell, David
- Committee Member(s)
- Urcan, Oktay
- Almeida, Heitor
- Department of Study
- Accountancy
- Discipline
- Accountancy
- Degree Granting Institution
- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Degree Name
- Ph.D.
- Degree Level
- Dissertation
- Keyword(s)
- Dodd-frank Act
- Conflict Minerals Disclosures
- Nonfinancial Disclosure
- Corporate Social Responsibility
- Responsible Sourcing
- Language
- eng
- Abstract
- Section 1502 of the Dodd-Frank Act mandates that issuers registered with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission conduct due diligence on their supply chains and submit Conflict Minerals Disclosures (CMDs), indicating if their products include tin, tantalum, tungsten, or gold originating from the Democratic Republic of the Congo or its neighboring “covered countries” afflicted by the resource curse. Utilizing data from CMDs between 2014 and 2018, I find that firms with socially responsible major corporate customers are more likely to embrace socially responsible sourcing (SRS) and to issue more readable CMDs. Moreover, I investigate whether SRS practices shield firms from supply chain risk increasing events. Exploiting as-if-random sources of variation in supply chain risk increasing events—news of conflicts that occur specifically in the mining regions of covered countries—I show that firms practicing SRS are insulated from the adverse impacts (e.g., imposition of reputation costs) of such news, while non-SRS firms are negatively affected by them. Overall, my evidence demonstrates how and why disclosure rules aimed at encouraging socially desirable outcomes benefit socially responsible firms.
- Graduation Semester
- 2024-05
- Type of Resource
- Text
- Handle URL
- https://hdl.handle.net/2142/124614
- Copyright and License Information
- Copyright 2024 Jong Won Han
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