Purpose this study focuses on the policy of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) launched in the chemical industry in the 1980s and known as “Responsible Care”. The debate surrounding this issue prompts us to question the ever-changing nature of this policy and the way to measure the...

Corporate social performance (CSP) is an elusive concept for managers and a difficult one to measure. Part of the challenge lies, as with the CSP–corporate financial performance literature, in the operationalization of the relationship between CSP and overall organizational performance that...

We construct a measure of corporate purpose within a sample of US companies based on approximately 500,000 survey responses of worker perceptions about their employers. We find that this measure of purpose is not related to financial performance. However, high purpose firms come in two forms:...

Purpose - The paper examined concept of corporate performance. The paper seeks to examine the impact of corporate social performance on the relationship among business environment, strategy, organization, and control system and corporate performance.Design/methodology/approach - The paper is...

Recently, there has been increasing pressure to change current performance measurement and management systems from control systems to those that support learning and continuous improvement. This change requires a specific corporate culture that supports the effective operation of performance...

This paper presents a critical review of the relevant literature on managerialism and performance management in higher education. Afterwards, it features an inductive research that involved semi structured interview sessions with academic members of staff. The interpretative study relied on the...

More and more investors apply socially responsible screens when building their stock portfolios. This raises the question whether these investors can increase their performance by incorporating such screens into their investment process. To answer this question we implement a simple trading...

Empirical studies, which analyse the performance of Socially Responsible Investment (SRI) funds relative to conventional funds, find contradictory results. The aim of this paper is to investigate, with the help of a meta-analysis, how selected primary study characteristics influence the...

Although it is an accepted methodology to exclude financial companies from any comparative financial analysis of a sample of companies when performance is being analyzed, and this exclusion is due to the different financial structure of such organization, it seems to have also become standard...