Ambition versus conscience, does corporate social responsibility pay off? the application of matching methods

Journal of Business Ethics

Volumn 88, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2009, Pages 133-153

  Shen, Chung Hua ^a   Chang, Yuan ^b  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL CHENGCHI UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Corporate social responsibility; Matching method; Selection bias

Indexed keywords

EID: 67349264709     PISSN: 01674544     EISSN: 15730697     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10551-008-9826-9     Document Type: Article

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