Corporate Social Responsibility: A Theory of the Firm Perspective

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Corporate Social and Financial Performance: A Meta-Analysis

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How corporate social responsibility is defined: an analysis of 37 definitions

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Corporate Social Responsibility: Strategic Implications*

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Corporate responsibility and financial performance: The role of intangible resources

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The New Political Role of Business in a Globalized World: A Review of a New Perspective on CSR and its Implications for the Firm, Governance, and Democracy

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Stakeholder influence capacity and the variability of financial returns to corporate social responsibility

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Mandatory CSR and sustainability reporting: economic analysis and literature review

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Corporate Social Responsibility and Marketing: An Integrative Framework

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Reaping relational rewards from corporate social responsibility: The role of competitive positioning

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Economic Perspectives on Corporate Social Responsibility

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The Debate over Doing Good: Corporate Social Performance, Strategic Marketing Levers, and Firm-Idiosyncratic Risk

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Determinants of voluntary CSR disclosure: empirical evidence from Germany

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Corporate social responsibility in the multinational enterprise: strategic and institutional approaches

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Stakeholder relations and the persistence of corporate financial performance

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Firm self-regulation through international certifiable standards: determinants of symbolic versus substantive implementation

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The impact of corporate social responsibility on consumer trust: The case of organic food

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Configuring management control systems: Theorizing the integration of strategy and sustainability

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How CSR leads to corporate brand equity: Mediating mechanisms of corporate brand credibility and reputation

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Corporate social responsibility research in accounting

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Corporate reputation: A combination of social responsibility and industry

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Supply Chain Specific? Understanding the Patchy Success of Ethical Sourcing Initiatives

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The Advertising Effects of Corporate Social Responsibility on Corporate Reputation and Brand Equity: Evidence from the Life Insurance Industry in Taiwan

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Corporate Social Responsibility in Business-to-Business Markets: How Organizational Customers Account for Supplier Corporate Social Responsibility Engagement

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Market-oriented sustainability: A conceptual framework and propositions

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The Robustness of the Corporate Social and Financial Performance Relation: A Second‐Order Meta‐Analysis

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Reputation and corporate social responsibility aberrations, trends, and hypocrisy: Reactions to firm choices in the stock option backdating scandal

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CSR ‘sustainability’ practices and firm performance in an emerging economy

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Corporate Social Responsibility and Gender Diversity: Insights from Asia Pacific

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Impact of corporate social responsibility on reputation—Insights from tweets on sustainable development goals by CEOs

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Image differentiation with corporate environmental responsibility

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Theory Assessment and Agenda Setting in Political CSR: A Critical Theory Perspective

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Constructing a Corporate Social Responsibility Reputation Using Corporate Image Advertising

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Smart Maintenance Decision Support Systems (SMDSS) based on corporate big data analytics

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Corporate social responsibility and sustainability performance measurement systems: implications for organizational performance

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The effects of external stakeholder pressure and ethical leadership on corporate social responsibility in China

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Corporate social responsibility influences employee engagement

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R&D investment and Chinese manufacturing SMEs’ corporate social responsibility: The moderating role of regional innovative milieu

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Stakeholder theory and practice in Europe and North America: The key to success lies in a marketing approach

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Corporate social responsibility and financial inclusion: Evaluating the moderating effect of income

Singh, K., Misra, M., & Yadav, J. (2021) · Managerial and Decision Economics · doi:10.1002/mde.3306 · Cited by 37

Impact of CSR disclosure on profitability and firm performance of Malaysian halal food companies

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Asymmetric effects of corporate sustainability strategy on value creation among global automotive firms: a dynamic panel quantile regression approach

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The measurement of social impact and opportunities for research in business administration

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Explainable artificial intelligence modeling for corporate social responsibility and financial performance

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Unlocking ESG Premium from Options

Cao, J., Goyal, A., Zhan, X., & Zhang, W. E. (2023) · doi:10.2139/ssrn.3878123 · Cited by 16

Does servant leadership decrease bad behaviors? The mediating role of psychological safety and the moderating effect of corporate social responsibility

Roh, T., Kim, M.-J., & Hong, Y. (2023) · Sustainability · doi:10.3390/su152215901 · Cited by 9