Corporate social responsibility and financial performance: Correlation or misspecification?

被引：15
|
作者：
McWilliams, A
Siegel, D
机构：
[1] Arizona State Univ W, Sch Management, Phoenix, AZ 85069 USA
[2] Univ Nottingham, Sch Business, Nottingham NG7 2RD, England
来源：
STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT JOURNAL | 2000年 / 21卷 / 05期
关键词：
corporate social responsibility; firm performance; product differentiation; R&D; specification error;
D O I：
10.1002/(SICI)1097-0266(200005)21:5<603::AID-SMJ101>3.0.CO;2-3
中图分类号：
F [经济];
学科分类号：
02 ;
摘要：
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. Copyright (C) 2000 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
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页码：603 / 609
页数：7
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