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...) are used. Findings According to the study, outreach performance enables MFIs to achieve sustainability/financial performance. On the other side, MFI that are financially sound improve social performance. There was therefore no trade-off between the two objectives. Originality/value As Ethiopia’s...

...Muhammad Junaid Ahsan Purpose This study aims to investigate how organizational culture (OC) and transformational leadership (TL) affect corporate social responsibility (CSR) performance (environmental performance and social performance) and financial performance (FP) in the context of the Italian...

... the data into three regimes; low, medium and high debt ratios for examining how banks’ participation in social responsibility affects their financial performance, costs and depositors' confidence. Findings The implementation of CSR can enable the low debt banks to reduce costs and generate positive...

... the content-analysis approach with aid of the CSR disclosure index, and it deploys the partial least squares regression to examine the CSR-financial performance relationship. Regarding CSR disclosure and financial measures, this study takes the data from the annual reports of Islamic banking of Pakistan, from...

...Amoako Kwarteng; Samuel Nana Yaw Simpson; Cletus Agyenim-Boateng Purpose The study aims to examine the micro-level implications of implementing a circular economy (CE) business model on firms’ financial performance and the effect of organizational culture in this context. Design...

...) and listed firms’ financial performance. Design/methodology/approach Using the Indian stock market as a testing ground, the study used interactive regression and panel regression to analyse 80 sustainability-reporting firms with 800 firm-year observations between 2010 and 2019. Findings The first...

...Dawit Bahta; Jiang Yun; Md Rashidul Islam; Muhammad Ashfaq Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine corporate social responsibility (CSR) and its effect on small and medium enterprises’ (SMEs) innovation capability and financial performance from the perspective of a developing country...

...Kofi Mintah Oware; T. Mallikarjunappa Purpose Studies on employee volunteerism have inconsistency in results. This study aims to examine whether employee volunteerism contributes to financial performance, and if employee volunteerism creates community benefit for firm legitimacy. Design...

..., the purpose of this paper is to investigate TI, employee disability (EDI) and financial performance. Design/methodology/approach Using the Indian stock market as a testing ground, the authors used panel regression to analyse 80 sustainability-reporting firms (640 firm-year observations) between 2010...

... these different types of CSR news. In the end, the lack of comparison of the impact of media coverage of different CSR news on financial performance highlights that little is still known about whether and how the relationship between CSR news and market value really is articulated (Halme and Laurila, 2009). Thus...

...Mahmoud Arayssi; Mohammad Issam Jizi Purpose The aim of the paper is to examine the association of corporate governance (CG), the firms’ characteristics and the financial performance of firms operating in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region after Arab Spring. The study focuses on CG...

...Refandi Budi Deswanto; Sylvia Veronica Siregar Purpose This study aims to investigate both the direct and indirect associations of environmental disclosures with financial performance, environmental performance and firm value. Design/methodology/approach The samples are companies listed...

...Haifa Chtourou; Mohamed Triki Purpose The purpose of this study is to measure the impact of commitment in corporate social responsibility (CSR) in its various forms (CSR philanthropy/ altruism, CSR integration and CSR innovation) on the financial performance as measured by certain ratios...

...Priyanka Jain; Vishal Vyas; Ankur Roy Purpose The relationship between corporate social responsibility (CSR) and financial performance (FP) is a much-researched topic in academic arena. Recent studies disclosed that intellectual capital (IC) significantly impacts the success and survival...

..., in particular CAPM to value CSR-related securities. An extant literature on CSR and its relation with financial performance is not decisive yet. There is no clear-cut answer proving the relation between CSR and financial performance of firms (Griffin and Mahon, 1997 ; Margolis and Walsh, 2001 ; Orlitzky...

...Dafna M. DiSegni; Moshe Huly; Sagi Akron Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to statistically assess the relationship between corporate characteristics, environmental contribution and financial performance. To this end, the authors compare the financial performance of all US corporations...

...Denise Luethge; Helen Guohong Han Purpose This study aims to examine corporate social responsibility disclosure (CSD) in China. Design/methodology/approach The paper examines the extent to which firm size and financial performance impacts social disclosure by examining published financial...

...Ali Quazi; Alice Richardson Purpose This purpose of this paper is to identify the possible sources of variation of results in prior studies linking corporate social responsibility (CSR) with corporate financial performance (CFP). Design/methodology/approach A meta‐analysis was performed on 51...

... on the contradictions between the instrumental stakeholder theory and the slack‐resources hypothesis to argue that both concepts are not fully compatible. Findings The results indicate that prior financial performance, measured as market value added, positively affects CSP. The results further confirm that slack...