In Corporate Social Responsibility literature, the empirical evidence indicates that adopting a social responsibility program increases firm's financial performance. However, in Mexico few firms are involved in responsible programs and there is little knowledge about their impact in financial...

International Organization for Standardization's Guidance published in 2010 defines Social responsibility as the responsibility of an organisation for the impacts of its decisions and activities on society and the environment, through transparent and ethical behaviour that Contributes to...

This paper joins the debate on business' role in the implementation of sustainable development and argues that firms are beginning to run more sustainable practices as these are becoming increasingly profitable. It is also argued that such evolution of the economics of social environmental...

Objective - The main concern of this article is to see if the implementation of the Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) can lead to enterprise performance.Methodology/Technique - A case study, this paper aims to compare the economic, social and environmental performance of one of the biggest...

Objective - The objective of this research is to examine the effect of leverage, board of commissioner, foreign ownership, company age and company size towards the disclosure of CSR implementation. Leverage was measured by debt to asset ratio (DAR), board of commissioner was measured by the...

This paper analyses corporate social responsibility (CSR) for chemical sector in Pakistan and its impact on financial performance of this corporate sector. All the firms consistently have higher CSR strengths and CSR concerns during the sample period. However, this sector shows a steep increase...

We examine the effect of corporate social responsibility (CSR) quality ratings on the financial distress levels of Chinese enterprises by using the previously unexplored new China-specific Altman “Z_China Score” in the context of CSR and data from 749 firms over the 2009-2014 period. First,...

This study assesses how top-tier suppliers market their capabilities to ensure a responsible upstream supply chain to their downstream buyers, and how the marketing of corporate social responsibility (CSR)-related supply management practices affects the reputation of top-tier suppliers in...

Marketers and investors face a heated, provocative debate over whether excelling in social responsibility initiatives hurts or benefits firms financially. This study develops a theoretical framework that predicts (1) the impact of corporate social performance (CSP) on firm-idiosyncratic risk and...