A new look at the corporate social-financial performance relationship: The moderating roles of temporal and inter-domain consistency in corporate social performance

The authors develop the argument that the establishment of good stakeholder relations is influenced not only by a firm’s having a high level of corporate social performance but also by its ability to deliver consistent social performance. Therefore, both level and consistency in corporate social per...

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Main Authors: WANG, Heli, CHOI, Jaepil
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spelling sg-smu-ink.lkcsb_research-44392019-11-14T01:17:59Z A new look at the corporate social-financial performance relationship: The moderating roles of temporal and inter-domain consistency in corporate social performance WANG, Heli CHOI, Jaepil The authors develop the argument that the establishment of good stakeholder relations is influenced not only by a firm’s having a high level of corporate social performance but also by its ability to deliver consistent social performance. Therefore, both level and consistency in corporate social performance should have significant financial implications. More specifically, the authors suggest that level and two types of consistency in corporate social performance—temporal consistency and interdomain consistency—interact positively to influence a firm’s financial performance. Using a sample of 622 firms and 2,365 firm-year observations based on the Kinder, Lydenberg, Domini, & Co. data, the authors found empirical results supporting this argument. In addition, they found that maintaining consistently good social performance is more important for firms with high levels of knowledge intensity. 2013-02-01T08:00:00Z text application/pdf https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/lkcsb_research/3440 info:doi/10.1177/0149206310375850 https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/lkcsb_research/article/4439/viewcontent/New_Look_Cor_Soc_Fin_Perf_Rel.pdf http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ Research Collection Lee Kong Chian School Of Business eng Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University Corporate social performance Corporate financial performance Temporal consistency Interdomain consistency Knowledge intensity Business Law, Public Responsibility, and Ethics Finance and Financial Management Strategic Management Policy
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topic Corporate social performance
Corporate financial performance
Temporal consistency
Interdomain consistency
Knowledge intensity
Business Law, Public Responsibility, and Ethics
Finance and Financial Management
Strategic Management Policy
spellingShingle Corporate social performance
Corporate financial performance
Temporal consistency
Interdomain consistency
Knowledge intensity
Business Law, Public Responsibility, and Ethics
Finance and Financial Management
Strategic Management Policy
WANG, Heli
CHOI, Jaepil
A new look at the corporate social-financial performance relationship: The moderating roles of temporal and inter-domain consistency in corporate social performance
description The authors develop the argument that the establishment of good stakeholder relations is influenced not only by a firm’s having a high level of corporate social performance but also by its ability to deliver consistent social performance. Therefore, both level and consistency in corporate social performance should have significant financial implications. More specifically, the authors suggest that level and two types of consistency in corporate social performance—temporal consistency and interdomain consistency—interact positively to influence a firm’s financial performance. Using a sample of 622 firms and 2,365 firm-year observations based on the Kinder, Lydenberg, Domini, & Co. data, the authors found empirical results supporting this argument. In addition, they found that maintaining consistently good social performance is more important for firms with high levels of knowledge intensity.
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author WANG, Heli
CHOI, Jaepil
author_facet WANG, Heli
CHOI, Jaepil
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title A new look at the corporate social-financial performance relationship: The moderating roles of temporal and inter-domain consistency in corporate social performance
title_short A new look at the corporate social-financial performance relationship: The moderating roles of temporal and inter-domain consistency in corporate social performance
title_full A new look at the corporate social-financial performance relationship: The moderating roles of temporal and inter-domain consistency in corporate social performance
title_fullStr A new look at the corporate social-financial performance relationship: The moderating roles of temporal and inter-domain consistency in corporate social performance
title_full_unstemmed A new look at the corporate social-financial performance relationship: The moderating roles of temporal and inter-domain consistency in corporate social performance
title_sort new look at the corporate social-financial performance relationship: the moderating roles of temporal and inter-domain consistency in corporate social performance
publisher Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University
publishDate 2013
url https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/lkcsb_research/3440
https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/lkcsb_research/article/4439/viewcontent/New_Look_Cor_Soc_Fin_Perf_Rel.pdf
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