The corporate social performance-financial performance link

Strategic Management Journal

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 303-319

  Waddock, Sandra A ^a   Graves, Samuel B ^a  

^a BOSTON COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Corporate social performance; Financial performance; Management quality; Social responsibility

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001640778     PISSN: 01432095     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0266(199704)18:4<303::AID-SMJ869>3.0.CO;2-G     Document Type: Article

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