A note on the interaction between corporate social responsibility and financial performance

By Bert Scholtens. 2008

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Subfields: Marketing, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Strategy and Management

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A decade's debate on the nexus between corporate social and corporate financial performance: a critical review of empirical studies 2002–2011 (2014, background): “Not significant nil Negative nil Perceptual CFP Positive Wagner, 2009 2905 - - - measures -> Social audits, CSP processes, and observable outcomes Not significant nil Negative nil Perceptual CFP measures -> Authors selfdefined CSP Positive Fauzi and Idris, 2009 2173 0.036 0.035 Not significantNot si”
Is Institutional Ownership Related to Corporate Social Responsibility? The Nonlinear Relation and Its Implication for Stock Return Volatility (2015, neutral): “In contrast, Scholtens (2008) finds that the direction of causality is more likely to run from financial performance to social performance than the other way around.”
The relationship between corporate social performance and corporate financial performance and the role of innovation: evidence from German listed firms (2013, methodology): “However, time lags between CSP and CFP are either neglected or inadequately considered (Scholtens 2008; Callan and Thomas 2009).”
Does Ownership Type Matter for Corporate Social Responsibility (2012, background): “Thus, it appears for this type of shareholder that CSR helps to reduce conflicts and does not impact on financial returns and may even mitigate firm-specific risk (Harjoto & Jo, 2011; Lydenberg, 2007; Margolis et al., 2007; Scholtens, 2008).”
Environmental and Financial Performance of Fossil Fuel Firms: A Closer Inspection of their Interaction (2017, background): “Scholtens (2008) and Lioui and Sharma (2012) investigate the potential reasons why there would be a link between environmental and financial performance.”
Corporate Governance and Performance in Socially Responsible Corporations: New Empirical Insights from a Neo‐Institutional Framework (2013, neutral): “Whilst this has been attributed primarily to potential methodological weaknesses and endogeneities (McWilliams & Siegel, 2000; Jo & Harjoto, 2011), recent studies that adequately control for such problems still generally report similar mixed results (Scholtens, 2007, 2008; Cai et al., 2012).”
Is Corporate Social Responsibility Performance Associated with Tax Avoidance? (2014, neutral): “2008, 2011), and to a smaller degree the association between CSR and financial performance (e.g., Margolis and Walsh 2001; Scholtens 2008; Callan and Thomas 2009), CSR and earnings management (e.”
Corporate sustainability and financial performance of Chinese banks (2017, methodology): “On the other hand, good financial performance may influence corporate sustainability because it provides the financial resources - often called slack resources - that are needed to invest in corporate sustainability (Scholtens, 2008b).”