This paper explores price integration between wholesale and retail prices of live reef food fish, a highvalue export fishery supplied by nearly 20 countries in the Asia-Pacific region with demand centred in Hong Kong. Cointegration analysis is used to test for relationships between wholesale and...

Corporate sustainability is an alternative management strategy which goes beyond focusing on growth and profit maximisation of a company. Specifically, it places additional expectations on companies to perform in the areas of social justice, equity, environmental matters and governance issues....

The aim of this research is to analyse the quality and the determinants of the social reports related to the Italian mutual banks (BCC) during 2010-2011. The qualitative aspects are captured by the compliance extent in accord with the standard measures GRI and ABI, while, the determinants...

This study investigates the effects on organization’s financial performances of, first, the extent to which the organizations are involved in controversial business activities, and second, their level of social performance. These companies can be considered non-socially responsible given the...

This paper argues the case that tests of how investors value corporate social performance (CSP) based upon realised stock market returns are liable to be weak tests if markets are efficient and firms change CSP policies infrequently. We provide a theoretical explanation of why this will be the...

It is not uncommon for advertisers to present required product disclaimers quickly at the end of advertisements. We show that fast disclaimers greatly reduce consumer comprehension of product risks and benefits, creating implications for social responsibility. In addition, across two studies, we...

The core goal of this study is to empirically investigate whether there is a “world price” of corporate sustainability. This is assessed in the context of standard asset pricing models—in particular, by asking whether a risk premium attaches to a sustainability factor after controlling for...

The Corporate Social Performance (CSP) model (Wood, Acad Manag Rev 164:691–718, <CitationRef CitationID="CR150">1991</CitationRef>) assesses a firm’s social responsibility at three levels of analysis—institutional, organizational and individual—and measures the resulting social outcomes. In this paper, we focus on the individual...</citationref>

In this paper, we seek to answer two questions: (1) what does boardroom diversity stand for in the strategic management literature? And, (2) is there a significant relationship between boardroom diversity and corporate social performance. We first clarify the boardroom diversity concept,...

The main purpose of this study is to evaluate education supported corporate social responsibility campaigns from customers’ point of view. Within this scope, corporate social responsibility notion has been explained and especially education based social responsibility campaigns have been...