Corporate social and financial performance: An extended stakeholder theory, and empirical test with accounting measures

Journal of Business Ethics

Volumn 79, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 299-310

  Van Der Laan, Gerwin ^a   Van Ees, Hans ^a   Van Witteloostuijn, Arjen ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Panel data analysis; Prospect decision theory; Resource dependence theory; Social responsibility; Stakeholder theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 42149166661     PISSN: 01674544     EISSN: 15730697     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10551-007-9398-0     Document Type: Article

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