Positive and Negative Corporate Social Responsibility, Financial Leverage, and Idiosyncratic Risk

Journal of Business Ethics

Volumn 117, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 431-448

  Mishra, Saurabh ^a   Modi, Sachin B ^b  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO   (United States)

Author keywords

3SLS models; Corporate social responsibility; Idiosyncratic risk; Secondary data

Indexed keywords

EID: 84885617648     PISSN: 01674544     EISSN: 15730697     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10551-012-1526-9     Document Type: Article

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