RT Article
T1 Reviewing the Business Case for Corporate Social Responsibility: New Evidence and Analysis
JF Journal of business ethics
VO 103
IS 2
SP 167
OP 167
A1 Schreck, Philipp 1978-
LA English
YR 2011
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1785643150
AB This study complements previous empirical research on the business case for corporate social responsibility (CSR) by employing hitherto unused data on corporate social performance (CSP) and proposing statistical analyses to account for bi-directional causality between social and financial performance. By allowing for differences in the importance of single components of CSP between industries, the data in this study overcome certain limitations of the databases used in earlier studies. The econometrics employed offer a rigorous way of addressing the problem of endogeneity due to simultaneous causality. Although the study’s results provide no evidence that there is a generic or universal business case for CSR, they indicate that there is a strong link between single stakeholder-related issues of CSR and financial performance. However, the analysis does not establish causality within these relationships.
K1 Causality
K1 Empirical
K1 CSP/CFP link
K1 Corporate Social Performance
K1 Corporate Social Responsibility
K1 Business Case
DO 10.1007/s10551-011-0867-0