Social Responsibility and Efficiency of Banks

The main purpose of this research is to investigate the impact of the social performance index on the efficiency of banks. In order to reach this goal, a 10-year period was considered during the years 1390 to 1399, and finally 19 banks were selected as the study population. The independent variable of this research is the social performance index of banks. And in order to compile the social performance index checklist, meta-combination method was used. Then, to measure the value of the social performance index, the content analysis method with the index approach (the number of disclosed items over the total number of items that can be disclosed) has been used. Also, the dependent variable is the efficiency of banks. The statistical method used to test the hypothesis proposed in the research is "panel data". The results of the research show that there is a positive and significant relationship between the social performance index and bank efficiency. That is, the more attention is paid to the social performance index in banks and the more money is spent to make them operational, the efficiency of the bank will also increase, and on the other hand, the estimation coefficient shows 0.44 for social performance indicators.