Corporate social responsibilities practice by Islamic bank in Malaysia / Ismail Siddeq Ali

This paper analyze corporate social responsibilities (CSR) practice by banks and to identify what factors that affecting the practice of corporate social responsibility by Islamic banks in Malaysia. There are several factors that can be determine from Islamic banks in Malaysia such as the profitability whether the Islamic banks that are profitable affect their CSR practice, the liquidity of the Islamic Banks, size of the bank capital whether it can affect their CSR practice and Islamic Banks Leverage or gearing where gearing refers to the level of a company's debt related to its equity capital. All the factors are based on the financial performance of the banks. This research is conduct because CSR is one of the corporation's responsibilities to their stakeholder and also a voluntary contribution by corporation for their sustainable development. It is to ensure the credibility and to maintain the reputation of the Islamic bank. It is because in Malaysia, Islamic banks need to compete with the conventional bank since Malaysia applied dual banking system.