A New Look at the Corporate Social-Financial Performance Relationship: The Moderating Roles of Temporal and Interdomain Consistency in Corporate Social Performance

Journal of Management

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 416-441

  Wang, Heli ^a   Choi, Jaepil ^b,c  

^a HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

^b Sungkyunkwan University   (South Korea)

^c SINGAPORE MANAGEMENT UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

corporate financial performance; corporate social performance; interdomain consistency; knowledge intensity; temporal consistency

Indexed keywords

EID: 84872800523     PISSN: 01492063     EISSN: 15571211     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0149206310375850     Document Type: Article

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