Linking corporate social responsibility to firm default risk

European Management Journal

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 275-287

  Sun, Wenbin ^a   Cui, Kexiu ^b  

^a ROCKHURST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b First Tennessee Bank   (United States)

Author keywords

Corporate social responsibility; Default risk; Environmental complexity; Environmental dynamism; Firm capability

Indexed keywords

EID: 84897607585     PISSN: 02632373     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.emj.2013.04.003     Document Type: Article

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