Corporate social responsibility and financial performance: A non-linear and disaggregated approach

Economic Modelling

Volumn 52, Issue , 2016, Pages 400-407

  Nollet, Joscha ^a   Filis, George ^b   Mitrokostas, Evangelos ^c  

^a European Parliament   (Belgium)

^b BOURNEMOUTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PORTSMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Corporate financial performance; Corporate social performance; Environmental social governance disclosure score; Governance

Indexed keywords

EID: 84958665765     PISSN: 02649993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.econmod.2015.09.019     Document Type: Article

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