Corporate social responsibility and firm efficiency: A latent class stochastic frontier analysis

Journal of Productivity Analysis

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 231-246

  Becchetti, Leonardo ^a   Trovato, Giovanni ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Corporate social responsibility; Mixture models; Stochastic frontier

Indexed keywords

EID: 80855133493     PISSN: 0895562X     EISSN: 15730441     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11123-011-0207-5     Document Type: Article

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