Corporate social performance, analyst stock recommendations, and firm future returns

Strategic Management Journal

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 123-136

  Luo, Xueming ^a   Wang, Heli ^b   Raithel, Sascha ^c   Zheng, Qinqin ^d  

^a TEMPLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SINGAPORE MANAGEMENT UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^d FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

corporate social performance; financial analysts; stock recommendations; stock returns

Indexed keywords

CORPORATE SOCIAL PERFORMANCE; FINANCIAL ANALYSTS; FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE; LITERATURE SEARCH; QUALITATIVE STUDY; QUANTITATIVE STUDY; STOCK RECOMMENDATIONS; STOCK RETURNS;

INVESTMENTS;

EID: 84918834638     PISSN: 01432095     EISSN: 10970266     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/smj.2219     Document Type: Review

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