Strange bedfellows? Voluntary corporate social responsibility disclosure and politics

Accounting and Finance

Volumn 53, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 867-903

  Griffin, Paul A ^a   Sun, Yuan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Corporate individual political contributions; Corporate social responsibility; Political action committees; Presidential voting; Stock market response; Voluntary disclosure

Indexed keywords

EID: 84888380779     PISSN: 08105391     EISSN: 1467629X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/acfi.12033     Document Type: Article

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