What corporate social responsibility activities are valued by the market?

Journal of Business Ethics

Volumn 76, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 189-206

  Bird, Ron ^a   Hall, Anthony D ^a   Momentè, Francesco ^b   Reggiani, Francesco ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b BOCCONI UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

Author keywords

Corporate performance; Corporate social responsibility; Shareholder value; Value based management

Indexed keywords

EID: 35448972139     PISSN: 01674544     EISSN: 15730697     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10551-006-9268-1     Document Type: Article

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