Investigation The Effect of CEO Confidence on Corporate Social Responsibility; With Role of Moderating of Institutional Ownership in Firms Accepted in Tehran Stock Exchange

Corporate social responsibility is very important and has strategic consequences in companies. Large companies invest in corporate social responsibility activities in important capital markets such as the stock market. Nowadays, CSR has become increasingly significant for a wide range of organizations and for the managers that work within them. Thus, this research aims to describe the effect CEO Confidence on Corporate Social Responsibility; With Role of Moderating of Institutional Ownership in Firms Accepted in Tehran Stock Exchange.This study is of applied and quasi-experimental nature, and the method employed is an ex-post facto design in which the effects of CEO Confidence on Corporate Social Responsibility; With Role of Moderating of Institutional Ownership in Firms has been investigated.To this end, two hypotheses were defined in the study. In order to test the hypotheses of the study, the statistical measure of Multivariate Linear Regression Analysishas been employed. The type of data utilized to test the respective research hypotheses was panel data. Sample population of the study included 93 firms accepted in Tehran Stock Exchange whose data were investigated over years 2006 to 2015. According to the results of the study, CEO Confidence has an effect on Corporate Social Responsibility. also, Institutional Ownership as a Moderating has an effect on the intensity Relationship between CEO Confidence and Corporate Social Responsibility.