How Does the Market Value Corporate Sustainability Performance?

Journal of Business Ethics

Volumn 108, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 417-428

  Lourenço, Isabel Costa ^a   Branco, Manuel Castelo ^b,c   Curto, José Dias ^a   Eugénio, Teresa ^d  

^a INSTITUTO UNIVERSITÁRIO DE LISBOA ISCTE IUL   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

^c OBEGEF (Observatory in Economics and Management of Fraud)   (Portugal)

^d POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE OF LEIRIA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Canada; Corporate sustainability; USA; Value relevance

Indexed keywords

EID: 84862616367     PISSN: 01674544     EISSN: 15730697     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10551-011-1102-8     Document Type: Article

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