Strategic corporate social responsibility and economic performance

Applied Economics

Volumn 45, Issue 19, 2013, Pages 2751-2764

  Belu, Constantin ^a   Manescu, Cristiana ^b  

^a BUCHAREST UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMIC STUDIES   (Romania)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

corporate social responsibility; data envelopment analysis; difference GMM; strategic CSR

Indexed keywords

COMPETITIVENESS; CORPORATE STRATEGY; DATA ENVELOPMENT ANALYSIS; ECONOMIC CONDITIONS; INDUSTRIAL PERFORMANCE; NUMERICAL MODEL;

EID: 84862291644     PISSN: 00036846     EISSN: 14664283     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00036846.2012.676734     Document Type: Article

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