The role of social responsibility on performance, stability and financial inclusion in the banking sector

The purpose of this study is to investigate the impact of social responsibility on financial performance, financial stability and financial inclusion in the banking sector. This research is of library type and factor analysis and is based on panel data analysis. In this research, the financial information of 13 banks listed on the Tehran Stock Exchange during the period 2015-2019 has been analyzed. In this study, to evaluate financial performance, four criteria of return on assets, return on equity, earnings per share and net profit, as well as measuring the financial inclusion of two criteria, the number of bank branches and the number of ATMs and also to measure financial stability from Z used. The results of testing the hypotheses show that social responsibility has a positive and significant effect on financial performance (Hypothesis 1), social responsibility has a positive and significant effect on financial stability (Hypothesis 2) and social responsibility has a significant effect on financial inclusion (Hypothesis 3).  Also, the variables of leverage and tangibility have a negative and significant effect with alternative variables of financial performance, and the variables of age and size of banks have a positive and significant effect on financial performance. The variables of financial leverage, age and size of the bank have a significant effect on the variable of financial stability. But the tangibility of the variable has no significant effect. The variables of tangibility, age and size of the bank also have a significant, positive and significant effect on financial inclusion.