Can firms do well while doing good?

Applied Financial Economics

Volumn 20, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 845-860

  Ahmed, Parvez ^a   Nanda, Sudhir ^b   Schnusenberg, Oliver ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^b T Rowe Price Associates Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECONOMICS; INDUSTRIAL ENTERPRISE; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; PROFITABILITY; RANKING; STOCK MARKET;

EID: 77953644362     PISSN: 09603107     EISSN: 14664305     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09603101003652409     Document Type: Article

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