In an era of rising concern about financial performance and social ills, companies' economic achievements and negative externalities prompt a common question: Does it pay to be good? For thirty-five years, researchers have been investigating the empirical link between corporate social...

Investigar la relación entre el nivel de comportamiento social (RSE) de una organización y su correspondiente desempeño financiero (DF) y económico ha sido una labor de más de 30 años. En la actualidad, se han desarrollado más de 25 metaanálisis o estudios de resúmenes, donde se ha...

Sustainability in business and ESG (environmental, social, and governance) in finance has entered the mainstream and has generated thousands of research articles that analyze its correlation with financial performance. We surveyed 1,141 primary peer-reviewed papers and 27 meta-reviews (based on...

Boards of directors affect corporate strategy and decision-making through monitoring of management and resource provision. Recently, an increasing number of studies have examined the relationships between board characteristics and corporate social responsibility (CSR). These studies have yielded...

This paper investigates the differential effects of corporate social responsibility (CSR) dimensions on corporate financial performance (CFP) across sectors in China. This research uses a unique data set provided by China Stock Market and Accounting Research (CSMAR), showing expenditure on CSR...

Despite the fact that numerous studies have been conducted exploring possible relationship between corporate social responsibility and profitability, there is no research focusing on the relationship between code of conduct and financial performance. For this reason, the following research...

Number of studies conducted to investigate relationships between corporate sustainability, corporate social responsibility and corporate performance. This research has examined the impact of CSR activities and organizational performance in presence of organizational culture. This was an...

Shareholder activism on sustainability issues has become increasingly prevalent over the years, with the number of proposals filed doubling from 1999 to 2013. We use recent innovations in accounting standard setting to classify 2,665 shareholder proposals that address environmental and social...