Corporate Social Responsibility and Financial Performance : Correlation or Mis - Specification ?  

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McWilliams, Abagail ; Siegel, Donald

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Strategic Management Journal vol. 21 no. 5 (2000), page 603-610.
Topik: corporate social responsibility; corporate social responsibility; firm performance; product differentiation; R & D; specification error

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Perpustakaan Pusat (Semanggi) Nomor Panggil: SS30.5 Non-tandon: 1 (dapat dipinjam: 0) Tandon: tidak ada

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Researchers have reported a positive, negative and neutral impact of corporate social responsibility (CSR) on financial performance. This inconsistency may be due to flawed empirical analysis. In this paper, we demonstrate a particular flaw in existing econometric studies of the relationship between social and financial performance. These studies estimate the effect of CSR by regressing firm performance on corporate social performance, and several control variables. This model is misspecified because it does not control for investment in R & D, which has been shown to be an important determinant of firm performance. This misspecification results in upwardly biased estimates of the financial impact of CSR. When the model is properly specified, we find that CSR has a neutral impact on financial performance.

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