The importance of considering the corporate social responsibility in today's global conditions and new business environments makes it necessary for the leaders and managers of large organizations and companies in the global market to establish a balance among social, economic, and environmental sectors of their business. The aim of this research is to evaluate the commitment of the top companies listed on TSE to corporate governance and social responsibility. In this regard, the performance of 92 companies listed on TSE during the years of 2002 through 2011 were measured, categorized by 10 industries, in three steps of optimization by meta-heuristic algorithms (AMH), social responsibility pattern by DEA method, and ranking corporate governance via G-Score approach. Then, top companies in each criterion were evaluated with their reassigned codes by mean comparison test in SPSS. The results indicate the significant relationship among the companies with the top rank in each index.
The social responsibility tends to something beyond the primary tasks of enterprise and in fact upgrading the corporate behavior level to a situation that is consistent and coordinated with benefits of environment and community where in light of this factor on the one hand it causes coordination in economic interests with environment and on the other hand it leads to growth and stability of businesses of enterprises. The present investigation is intended to examine making effort for social responsibility in political and non- political companies. The period of researching studies is related to career (2002-2011) with statistical sample including 92 enterprises. This research has been carried out at three phases: (1- Measurement of social responsibility with DEA model; 2- Measurement of political and non- political companies by means of TOPSIS technique; and 3- Implementation of statistical tests). The given results have signified the difference among political and non- political enterprises in playing role of social responsibility.
In addition to being responsible for their owners, economic enterprises are required to fulfill their social responsibilities for public health as well. Social responsibility, on the one hand, leads to the consistency of economic benefits with environment and on the other hand, leads to the growth and sustainability of the company's business. The purpose of this study is to investigate the impact of social responsibility on corporate performance. The sample of the study consists of (92) companies that are active in the Stock Exchange during the period of (2002-2011). Designing a new pattern of social responsibility is done using DEA method and corporate performance measures include (return on assets, return on equity, real stock returns, Q-Tobin ratio, the market value of equity, economic value added, and cost of common stock). Models were tested using linear regression method in Eviews software. Results showed a significant relationship between social responsibility and corporate performance.
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