Corporate social responsibility, media attention and firm value: empirical research on Chinese manufacturing firms

Quality and Quantity

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 2017, Pages 1563-1577

  Li, Dayuan ^a   Xin, Linna ^a   Chen, Xiaohong ^a,b   Ren, Shenggang ^a  

^a CENTRAL SOUTH UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b HUNAN UNIVERSITY OF COMMERCE   (China)

Author keywords

China; CSR performance; Firm value; Manufacturing listed firms; Media attention

Indexed keywords

EID: 84968571753     PISSN: 00335177     EISSN: 15737845     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11135-016-0352-z     Document Type: Article

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