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This study was conducted to examine corporate governance variables that influence companies to practice and disclose their child-friendly corporate social responsibility (CSR) activities in the workplace, marketplace, community, and environment. Therefore, the firm’s board characteristics were used as corporate governance variables, and child-friendly corporate social responsibility (CSR) practices were classified under three categories that include childcare, education, and donations. Hypotheses were developed to observe whether the number of directors on the board and the number of women directors have an impact on the decision to invest in child-friendly CSR activities. Content analysis was conducted on a random sample of 97 public listed companies based on their published annual reports for the year 2018. Surprisingly, the results from binary logistic regression analyses revealed partial significant relationships between specific board characteristics and certain child-friendly CSR activities, but also highlighted the crucial role of having women on board to instigate those activities. Possible reasons for this phenomenon are explained, as are the implications of these findings, while future directions of research in this domain are proposed.
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To Cite this Article: Tajudin, M. M., Shazali, K. H. I., Abidin, Z. Z., Abu, N. Z., & Ibrahim, S. (2023). Does Maternal Instinct Matter in Child-Friendly Corporate Social Responsibility Practices Amongst Malaysian Public Listed Companies? International Journal of Academic Research in Business and Social Sciences, 13(8), 345– 360.
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