Corporate social responsibility, firm value and financial performance in Brazil

Social Responsibility Journal

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 295-309

  Crisóstomo, Vicente Lima ^a   De Souza Freire, Fátima ^b   De Vasconcellos, Felipe Cortes ^b  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF CEARÁ   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRASILIA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Brazil; Corporate social responsibility; Emerging markets; Financial accounting performance; Firm value

Indexed keywords

EID: 79959583283     PISSN: 17471117     EISSN: 1758857X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/17471111111141549     Document Type: Article

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