Corporate Social and Financial Performance Re-Examined: Industry Effects in a Linear Mixed Model Analysis

Journal of Business Ethics

Volumn 109, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 367-388

  Baird, Philip L ^a   Geylani, Pinar Celikkol ^a   Roberts, Jeffrey A ^a  

^a DUQUESNE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Corporate financial performance; Corporate social performance; Linear mixed model; Panel data analysis; Residual income model

Indexed keywords

EID: 84865826870     PISSN: 01674544     EISSN: 15730697     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10551-011-1135-z     Document Type: Article

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