Does it Pay to Be Good...And Does it Matter? A Meta-Analysis of the Relationship between Corporate Social and Financial Performance

2009/01/01 by Joshua D. Margolis, Hillary Anger Elfenbein, James P. Walsh · 6 citations
Business, Management and Accounting · Engineering · #Corporate Social Responsibility Reporting #Environmental Sustainability in Business #Sustainable Building Design and Assessment

paper · doi:10.2139/ssrn.1866371

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• James P. Walsh [wikipedia]