Does it pay to be really good? addressing the shape of the relationship between social and financial performance

Strategic Management Journal

Volumn 33, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 1304-1320

  Barnett, Michael L ^a   Salomon, Robert M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

business case; corporate financial performance; corporate social performance; stakeholder influence capacity; stakeholder theory

Indexed keywords

BUSINESS CASE; FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE; SOCIAL PERFORMANCE; STAKEHOLDER INFLUENCE CAPACITY; STAKEHOLDER THEORY;

INDUSTRY; PROFITABILITY;

ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS;

EID: 84866238516     PISSN: 01432095     EISSN: 10970266     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/smj.1980     Document Type: Article

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