The stock performance of America's 100 Best Corporate Citizens

Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 1065-1080

  Brammer, Stephen ^a   Brooks, Chris ^b   Pavelin, Stephen ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BATH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Business Ethics "100 Best Corporate Citizens"; Corporate citizenship; Corporate social responsibility; Stock returns; Trading rule performance

Indexed keywords

EID: 67649814704     PISSN: 10629769     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.qref.2009.04.001     Document Type: Article

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