Does Firm Size Comfound the Relationship Between Corporate Social Performance and Firm Financial Performance?

By Marc Orlitzky. 2001

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The relationship between corporate social performance and corporate financial performance and the role of innovation: evidence from German listed firms (2013, neutral): “Firm size is considered because prior studies have revealed that there is a relationship between firm size and CSP as well as some measures of CFP (Orlitzky 2001; Wu 2006).”
Strategic Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Sustainability (2011, background): “In addition, because CSP was found to be inversely related to business risk (Orlitzky & Benjamin, 2001)3 companies both large and small may be able to benefit from CSR (Orlitzky, 2001).”
Institutional Logics in the Study of Organizations: The Social Construction of the Relationship between Corporate Social and Financial Performance (2011, result): “…& Cording, 2006), despite the more optimistic conclusions reached in several different meta-analyses (Allouche & Laroche, 2005; Frooman, 1997; Orlitzky, 2001; Orlitzky & Benjamin, 2001; Orlitzky et al., 2003) as well as practitioner publications (e.g., Anderson, 1998; Epstein, 2008;…”
CSR and Firm Value: Evidence from China (2018, background): “Managerially, there has been debate as to whether firms should engage in CSR activities [3,4].”
ESG Disclosure and Idiosyncratic Risk in Initial Public Offerings (2021, background): “Regarding companies’ social performance, Orlitzky and Benjamin’s (2016) meta-analytical review reports a reciprocally causal relationship between social performance and financial risk and emphasises the importance of reputation in social responsibility, regardless of company size (Orlitzky, 2001).”
Corporate Philanthropic Disaster Response and Ownership Type: Evidence from Chinese Firms’ Response to the Sichuan Earthquake (2009, background): “Economic interpretations of a positive size–CPDR relationship might include the presence of scale economies in improving social performance, greater absolute levels of resource availability in larger enterprises, and the correlation of size with the maturity state of the business life cycle, where f”
Capabilities, Proactive CSR and Financial Performance in SMEs: Empirical Evidence from an Australian Manufacturing Industry Sector (2011, background): “…earlier, the debate over whether a lack of resources constrains the implementation of proactive CSR in SMEs, thus limiting any positive impact on financial performance, remains ongoing (e.g. Gadenne et al., 2008; Miles et al., 1999; Orlitzky, 2001; Rutherfoord et al., 2000; Simpson et al., 2004).”
Is philanthropy being used by corporate wrongdoers to buy good will? (2010, background): “Some studies suggest that socially responsible companies are at lower financial risk (Orlitzky and Benjamin 2001) or are more profitable than their peers (Zahra and Covin 1990; Pava and Krausz 1996; Hart et al. 1996; Ruf et al. 2001; Orlitzky 2001; Moore and Robson 2002; Simpson and Kohers 2002).”
“It Pays to be Green” – A Premature Conclusion? (2006, background): “Several previous studies have attempted to investigate the relationship between environmental and economic performance by calculating simple correlations coefficients (Bragdon and Marlin 1972; Jaggi and Freedman 1992; Orlitzky 2001).”
Sustainable Development and Financial Markets (2016, background): “Such changing conditions in business environments can affect business risk, profitability, and ultimately firms’ competitive advantage, according to some evidence (Orlitzky, 2001, 2008; Orlitzky & Benjamin, 2001; Orlitzky & Swanson, 2008).”
The Impact of Corporate Social Responsibility Disclosure on Financial Performance: Evidence from the GCC Islamic Banking Sector (2018, background): “…certain other variables, such as institutional size, industry speciﬁcation, how closely they interact with each other and the socially responsible practices performed by institutions (Brammer and Millington 2008, p. 1326; see also Orlitzky 2001; Rowley and Berman 2000; Margolis and Walsh 2003).”
Organizational responsibility: Doing good and doing well. (2011, positive): “In addition, a separate meta-analysis (using part of the same database) found that this relationship does not depend on firm size (Orlitzky, 2001).”