Relationship between sustainable development and financial performance: International empirical research

Business Strategy and the Environment

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 20-39

  Martínez Ferrero, Jennifer ^a   Frías Aceituno, José Valeriano ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALAMANCA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Corporate social responsibility (CSR); Financial performance (FP); Market value (MV); Sustainable development

Indexed keywords

EID: 84921550381     PISSN: 09644733     EISSN: 10990836     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bse.1803     Document Type: Article

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