The Corporate Social-Financial Performance Relationship
- 1 December 1997
- journal article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Business & Society
- Vol. 36 (4), 419-429
- https://doi.org/10.1177/000765039703600406
Abstract
This research note analyzes the relationship between indicators of corporate social and financial performance within a comprehensive theoretical framework. The results, based on data for 67 large U.S. corporations for 1982-1992, reveal no significant negative social-financial performance relationships and strong positive correlations in both contemporaneous and lead-lag formulations.Keywords
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