How Well Do Social Ratings Actually Measure Corporate Social Responsibility?

By Den Patten. 2008

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Sustainable Development and Financial Markets (2016, background): “Chatterji, Levine, and Toffel (2009) provide an overview of the various investor motives driving sustainable investments.”
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The Value Relevance of Reputation for Sustainability Leadership (2014, background): “…that firms with good corporate sustainability performance (CSP) will perform better financially than their counterparts (Branco and Rodrigues 2006; Chatterji et al. 2009; Dhaliwal et al. 2011; Fairchild 2008; Lyon and Maxwell 2008): CS can benefit companies by attracting socially consumers who…”
Determinants and consequences of employee attributions of corporate social responsibility as substantive or symbolic (2016, result): “This reflects the fact that most complex organizations will have a portfolio of CSR, some “good” and some “bad”, consistent with empirical findings of Delmas and Blass (2010) and Chatterji, Levine, and Toffel (2009) in their examinations of CSR environmental performance.”