1st Edition
People and Profits? The Search for A Link Between A Company's Social and Financial Performance
166 Pages
by
Psychology Press
166 Pages
by
Psychology Press
166 Pages
by
Psychology Press
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What is the relationship between the social performance of companies and their financial performance? More colloquially, can a firm effectively attend to both people and profits as it conducts its business? This question has been investigated in no fewer than 95 empirical studies published since 1972. The authors have assembled a compendium of this research to give researchers and practitioners... Read more
Contents: A.P. Brief, J.P. Walsh, Series Editors' Foreword. Part I:Introduction. Part II:A Brief Orientation to the Question. Constructing the Business Case for Corporate Social Performance. Academic Debate. Purpose of This Compendium. Part III:An Integrated Portrait of the Empirical Literature. Method. Corporate Samples. Measuring Financial Performance. Measuring Social Performance. Summary of Results. Mechanisms and Control Variables. Conclusions.
Biography
Joshua Daniel Margolis, James Patrick Walsh
