Fortune’s Best 100 Companies to Work for in America: Do They Work for Shareholders?

By G. Filbeck, Dianna C. Preece. 2003

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Subfields: Accounting, Finance

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• Labor-Friendly Corporate Practices: Is What is Good for Employees Good for Shareholders? (2011, background): “Filbeck and Preece (2003) study firms on the 1998 Fortune list and report positive abnormal returns associated with being named to the list and higher buy-and-hold returns before and shortly after publication of the 1998 list.”
• Examining the Link Between Diversity and Firm Performance (2007, background): “Some research suggests that receiving a “best company” distinction is associated with good relative market and financial performance (Filbeck & Preece, 2003; Fulmer, Gerhart & Scott, 2003; Lau & May, 1998).”
• Employee Rights and Acquisitions (2015, unknown): “Several papers relate employee-friendly management practices to better productivity and firm performance (Edmans, 2011; Ichniowski et al., 1997; Ichniowski and Shaw, 1999; Huselid, 1995; Filbeck and Preece, 2003).”
• ARE THE 100 BEST BETTER? AN EMPIRICAL INVESTIGATION OF THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN BEING A “GREAT PLACE TO WORK” AND FIRM PERFORMANCE (2003, unknown): “…publication of the list did offer new information to the market, it is difficult to ascertain precisely when this information would have become widely known; advance notice that this list was forthcoming could have filtered out to the market prior to the publication date (Filbeck & Preece, 2003).”
• The Link Between Job Satisfaction and Firm Value, With Implications for Corporate Social Responsibility (2012, unknown): “Filbeck and Preece (2003) examined the relationship between inclusion in the 1998 Fortune list and stock returns from 1987 to 1999, and thus in their study, satisfaction may be caused by strong past stock returns.”
• The effects of environmental, social and governance disclosures and performance on firm value: A review of the literature in accounting and finance (2017, unknown): “Filbeck and Preece (2003) find a statistically significant positive response to the announcement of the constituents of the list and higher long term risk-adjusted returns of these firms compared to a matched sample of companies. The dataset, methodological framework and empirical results of Fulmer,”
• Do Investors Really Value Corporate Governance? Evidence from the Hong Kong Market (2007, background): “Filbeck and Preece (2003) find companies’ share prices are associated with a statistically significant positive response to the announcement of ‘100 best companies to work for’ by Fortune.”
• Corporate Social Performance and Stock Returns: UK Evidence from Disaggregate Measures (2006, unknown): “For example, Filbeck and Preece (2003) examine the information content of Fortune’s annual “best 100 companies to work for in America” survey results, using data for the period 19871999.”