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corporate financial performance has attracted theattention of scholars in the accounting literature,especially in the last decade. Many empirical studieshave examined this issue in developed economies andprovided conflicting findings. However, the studieswhich examined this issue in developing economieswere limited. Only few studies have addressed the socialresponsibility disclosure practices by Jordaniancorporation. This study attempt to investigate the socialresponsibility disclosure by companies operating in theJordan economic environment and examine the relationbetween social responsibility discloser and corporatefinancial performance using market based performancemeasure ( stock returns) and accounting based financialmeasures (ROA& ROE). In addition, the studyexamined whether the level of social responsibilitydisclosures by Jordanian corporations varies acrossindustries. An issue which has not been examined byprior studies for Jordanian corporations. To the best ofour knowledge, this study is the first which examines therelation between social responsibility disclosure byJordanian companies and corporate performance byusing market based performance measure (StockReturns) along with accounting based performancemeasures (ROA & ROE). The Jordanian economicsenvironment is different from well developed economicenvironments, in which most prior related studies werecarried out, in term of the level and depth of socialresponsibility disclosures, the experience in socialresponsibility practices, the legal frame-work related tosocial responsibility, the social responsibility disclosurerequirements and the level of sophistication of thebusiness environment. These differences provide anothermotivation for carrying out this study.The rest of the paper is organized as follow: Thesecond section presents the objective of the study. Thethird section provides review of the most related priorliteratures. The fourth section presents and discusses theempirical results. The last section concludes the study.
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