... Licensed re-use rights only Corporate social responsibility Corporate financial performance Generalized method of moments (GMM) Instrumental stakeholder approach Levels of CSR Over the past three decades, corporate social responsibility (CSR) has garnered significant attention...

... with the relationship between CSR and corporate financial performance (CFP) (Christensen et al., 2014). Much of the CSR early CSR literature revolved around philanthropy and employee welfare (Marens, 2013). This top-down approach allows organizations to demonstrate their commitment to community...

... do pay employees more, engage in more CSR acts and are more profitable than peer companies. In a mediated regression model, the authors also find that the median employee pay fully mediates the relationship between firm innovation and corporate financial performance. Research limitations...

...Ismail Ben Douissa; Tawfik Azrak Purpose Causality between corporate financial performance (CFP) and corporate social performance (CSP) has been extensively debated in previous research works; however, little research has been done to investigate the long-run dynamics between these two constructs...

... in the study. Third, the research findings are presented and discussed. Finally, we summarize the most relevant conclusions, managerial implications, limitations and future lines of research derived from the study. Stakeholders Media Corporate financial performance Corporate social responsibility...

...Woon Leong Lin; Jo Ann Ho; Siew Imm Ng; Chin Lee Purpose The purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship between corporate social responsibility (CSR) and corporate financial performance (CFP), as the findings on the relationship have been inconsistent and have led to calls to further...

... on the correlation of corporate social responsibility (CSR), corporate financial performance (CFP) and risk. Likewise, corporate risk’s role as a mediating variable in the indirect effect of CSR on CFP is also examined. Design/methodology/approach Kinder, Lydenberg and Domini’s (KLD) measurement approach is used...

...Simona Fiandrino; Alain Devalle; Valter Cantino Purpose This paper aims to reconcile the conflicting understanding on the nexus between corporate governance (CG), corporate financial performance (CFP) and corporate social responsibility (CSR) by investigating how companies engage with CSR...

... Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Corporate financial performance Socially responsible investments Impact investing Corporate social performance Environmental social and governance (ESG) Jensen’s alpha In the past several decades, the interest from academia in social...

...Mario Testa; Antonio D’Amato Purpose Over the past two decades, scholarly attention has focused mainly on a direct and inverse relationship between corporate environmental responsibility (CER) and corporate financial performance (CFP). This study aims to explore the bidirectional causality...

...Anni Tuppura; Heli Arminen; Satu Pätäri; Ari Jantunen Purpose The purpose of the paper is to examine empirically Granger causality relationships between corporate social performance (CSP) and corporate financial performance (CFP) in four different industries. Design/methodology/approach...

... Corporate social performance Selection bias Corporate financial performance Corporate social responsibilities Stock ownership structure Voluntary disclosure can introduce two types of biases in the sample. One is a bias toward excessive CSR activities or the exaggeration of the CSP of firms...

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