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Social Performance and Financial Performance: A Controversial Relationship

In: Socially Responsible Investment

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  • Hajer Tebini

    (ESG-UQAM, Canada)

  • Bouchra M’Zali

    (affiliated researcher at CRG-ESCA)

  • Pascal Lang

    (Universitè Laval)

  • Paz Méndez-Rodrı́guez

    (Universidad de Oviedo)

Abstract

Different factors explaining divergent results on the relationship between corporate Social Performance (SP) and Financial Performance (FP) can be found in the academic literature. The main objective of this chapter is to test the impact of these factors on these divergent results. It also aims to assess the intensity of the sensitivity of this relationship to these factors considered individually or in combination. The results of our experimental research show that the estimated relationship depends on the methodological choice. More specifically, the relationship varies according to the measurement of the SP, the measurement of FP and the chosen sample. This relationship is neither stable nor necessarily linear, as many relevant academic works in the literature assume. This work concentrates on the knowledge gained from this literature and suggests lines of reflection to better understand the studied relationship in a field which is still evolving.

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  • Hajer Tebini & Bouchra M’Zali & Pascal Lang & Paz Méndez-Rodrı́guez, 2015. "Social Performance and Financial Performance: A Controversial Relationship," International Series in Operations Research & Management Science, in: Enrique Ballestero & Blanca Pérez-Gladish & Ana Garcia-Bernabeu (ed.), Socially Responsible Investment, edition 127, chapter 0, pages 53-73, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:isochp:978-3-319-11836-9_3
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-11836-9_3
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