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The Corporate Social-Financial Performance Relationship: A Typology and Analysis
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.
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- Authors
- Preston, L. E., & O'Bannon, D. P.
- Venue
- Business & Society
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 1997-12
- Volume
- 36
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 419-429
- ISSN
- 0007-6503 (ISSN-L)
- 1552-4205
- OpenAlex
- W2003498350
- Cited by
- 1,472
- References
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- FWCI
- 15.61
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- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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