Purpose:This paper aims to propose and test a modified interpretation of long-standing issues on the corporate responsibility (CR)–corporate financial performance (CFP) relationship: companies involved in CR are in general no better and no worse in their level of financial performance than...

This paper examines the effects of a firm's intangible resources in mediating the relationship between corporate responsibility and financial performance. We hypothesize that previous empirical findings of a positive relationship between social and financial performance may be spurious because...

Cover -- Half Title -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Prologue -- Jane Jacobs -- Sergio's Story -- Broken Human Chain -- Reconnecting the Human Chain -- About This Book -- Section I Tensions in Values Have Created Today's Problematic World -- 1 The Sustainability Paradox --...