Measuring the immeasurable?: Constructing an index of CSR practices and CSR performance in 20 countries

By Maria Gjølberg. 2009

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Subfields: Marketing, Strategy and Management

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The Effect of Financial Crisis in Corporate Social Responsibility Performance (2011, background): “However, there is no single approach to assess CSR performance and it is not always possible to determine CSR indices (Wolfe and Aupperle, 1999; Gjølberg, 2009).”
Corporate responsibility: Reflections on context and consequences (2009, background): “We would like to thank Maria Joutsenvirta, Jukka Mäkinen, Mikko Jalas and Galina Kosonen for insightful comments during the preparation of this editorial article.”
Doing Well or Doing Good: The Relationship between Corporate Social Responsibility and Profit in Romanian Companies (2018, background): “Their measurement is sometimes difficult, so that users of information sometimes have to estimate or equate the information reported by companies, each in its own way, to be brought to a common denominator [14,15].”
The Drivers of Responsible Investment: The Case of European Pension Funds (2013, background): “The literature provides several insights into the determinants of CSR (Ioannou and Serafeim 2010; Wood 2010; Gjølberg 2009a; Waddock 2008; Campbell 2007).”
Corporate social responsibility, firm value and financial performance in Brazil (2011, background): “Specific characteristics of each country may have a role on the intensity of CSR as can be seen from the international evidence found by Baughn et al. (2007) and Gjølberg (2009).”
Corporate Social Responsibility and Financial Performance: An Empirical Analysis on Greek Companies (2010, methodology): “The use of GRI guidelines as an instrument in order to measure CSR practices is justified by the research of Gjølberg (2009).”
Mapping the business systems of 61 major economies: A taxonomy and implications for varieties of capitalism and business systems research (2018, unknown): “, 2009; Allen, 2013; Keller and Block, 2013; Boschma and Capone, 2015), CSR (Matten and Moon, 2008; Gjølberg, 2009; Jackson and Apostolakou, 2010; Brammer et al., 2012; Kang and Moon, 2012) and inequality (Rueda and Pontusson, 2000; Schneider and Makszin,”
Social Responsibility and Financial Performance: The Role of Good Corporate Governance (2016, methodology): “The reasons are twofold: (1) the absence of a general method that serves as yardstick for comparative studies, and (2) there exists no rigorous method of measuring return on CSR (Gjølberg, 2009).”