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Corporate Social Responsibility and corporate performance: evidence from a panel of US listed companies
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Abstract We investigate whether inclusion and permanence in the Domini social index affects corporate performance on a sample of around 1,000 firms in a 13-year interval by controlling for size, industry, business cycle and time invariant firm idiosyncratic characteristics. Our results find partial support t... mehr
We investigate whether inclusion and permanence in the Domini social index affects corporate performance on a sample of around 1,000 firms in a 13-year interval by controlling for size, industry, business cycle and time invariant firm idiosyncratic characteristics. Our results find partial support to the hypothesis that corporate social responsibility is a move from the shareholders wealth to a multi-stakeholders welfare target. On the one side, permanence into the Domini index is shown to increase (reduce) significantly total sales per employee (returns on equity but not when large and R&D investing firms are excluded from the sample). On the other side, lower returns on equity for Domini firms seem nonetheless to be accompanied by relatively lower conditional volatility and lower reaction to extreme shocks with respect to the control sample.
An explanation for these findings, suggested by the inspection of Domini criteria, is that social responsibility implies, on the one side, decisions leading to higher cost of labour and of intermediate output, but may, on the other side, enhance involvement, motivation and identification of the workforce with company goals with positive effects on productivity.... weniger
Sprache Dokument
Englisch
Publikationsjahr
2008
Seitenangabe
S. 541-567
Zeitschriftentitel
Applied Economics, 40 (2008) 5
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1080/00036840500428112
Status
Postprint; begutachtet (peer reviewed)
Lizenz
PEER Licence Agreement (applicable only to documents from PEER project)