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Measuring corporate environmental justice performance
Ash, Michael; Boyce, James K. - 2008
Measures of corporate environmental justice performance can be a valuable tool in efforts to promote corporate social responsibility and to document systematic patterns of environmental injustice. This paper develops such a measure based on the extent to which toxic air emissions from industrial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010287876
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Is it beneficial to be included in a sustainability stock index? : a panel data study for European firms
Ziegler, Andreas - 2009
This paper empirically examines the effect of the inclusion in one of the most prominent sustainability stock indexes …, namely the Dow Jones Sustainability World Index (DJSI World), on corporate financial performance. On the basis of panel data … to biased parameter estimates and thus to premature conclusions with respect to the impact of corporate sustainability …
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Is corporate social responsibility associated with lower wages?
Nyborg, Karine; Zhang, Tao - 2011 - Publisert 28. jan. 2011 13:54
Firms with a reputation as socially responsible may have an important cost advantage: If workers prefer their employer to be socially responsible, equilibrium wages may be lower in such firms. We explore this hypothesis, combining Norwegian register data with data on firm reputation collected by...
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Is socially responsible investing really beneficial? : new empirical evidence for the US and European stock markets
Mollet, Janick Christian; Ziegler, Andreas - 2012
as well as by using consistent world-wide corporate sustainability performance data. Our portfolio analysis from 1998 to … either penalized or rewarded by the stock markets. -- Socially responsible investing ; Corporate sustainability performance …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009533995
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Good enough! : are socially responsible companies the more successful environmental innovators?
Reif, Christiane; Rexhäuser, Sascha - 2015
The link between Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) activities and financial performance of firms has been intensively examined and debated in academics and politics, but the connection to innovation has so far lacked research attention. This paper investigates whether CSR is complementary to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010493883
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Measuring corporate environmental justice performance
Ash, Michael (contributor); Boyce, James K. (contributor) - 2008
Measures of corporate environmental justice performance can be a valuable tool in efforts to promote corporate social responsibility and to document systematic patterns of environmental injustice. This paper develops such a measure based on the extent to which toxic air emissions from industrial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003815000
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The effect of CSR on stock performance : new evidence for the USA and Europe
Arx, Urs von; Ziegler, Andreas - 2008
This paper provides new empirical evidence for the effect of corporate social responsibility (CSR) on corporate financial performance. In contrast to former studies, we examine two different regions, namely the USA and Europe. Our econometric analysis shows that environmental and social...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003761387
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The Independent Effects of Environmental, Social and Governance Initiatives on the Performance of UK Firms
Humphrey, Jacquelyn - 2010
We investigate the effect of environmental, social and governance factors on the financial performance of a sample UK firms. We examine the three factors separately in order to disentangle the relation of each with financial performance. We find that, overall, there is no difference in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013138875
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The Performance of Socially Responsible Funds : Does the Screening Process Matter?
Capelle-Blancard, Gunther - 2012
In this study we examine whether the financial performances of socially responsible investment (SRI) mutual funds are related to the features of the screening process. Based on a sample of French SRI funds, we find evidence that a greater screening intensity slightly reduces financial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013115362
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Corporate Social Responsibility Disclosure and Market Reaction : An Indonesian Study
Darmadi, Salim - 2013
, and the environment). Based on information disclosed in the 2008 and 2009 annual reports, this study employs a data set of …
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