Society and Business Review: Volume 18 Issue 1

The value of expertise: how chief executive officer and board corporate social responsibility expertise enhance the financial effects of firms’ corporate social responsibility initiatives

Marwan Ahmad Al-Shammari, Soumendra Banerjee, Tushar R. Shah, Harold Doty, Hussam Al-Shammari

In light of the conflict between scholarly findings supporting corporate social responsibility’s positive impact on corporate financial performance (CFP) versus findings showing…

Eco-innovation and sustainable business performance: perspectives of SMEs in Portugal and the UK

Fernando Almeida, Jahangir Wasim

Eco-innovation has been identified as a source of gaining a competitive advantage on a global scale. To build upon that, this study aims to deepen the understanding of…

Does board gender diversity impact financial performance? Evidence from the Indian IT sector

Jagvinder Singh, Shubham Singhania, Deepti Aggrawal

This study aims to evaluate the impact of gender diversity on corporate boards on firms’ financial performance in the context of the Indian information and technology (IT) sector…

The impact of digital trust on firm value and governance: an empirical investigation of US firms

Leon Kluiters, Mohit Srivastava, Ladislav Tyll

This study aims to investigate the effects of firm- and governance-specific characteristics on digital trust (DT) and firm value. Firm-specific factors include return on assets…

Corporate philanthropy and firm performance: the role of corporate strategies

Wonsuk Cha, Dongjun Rew, Joo Jung

The purpose of this study is to empirically explore the interaction between corporate philanthropy and firm performance through the mechanism of corporate strategies, such as…

Liquidity and CSR: a chicken and egg story

Ali Uyar, Muath Abdelqader, Cemil Kuzey

Drawing on financial slack resources theory, stakeholder theory and signaling theory, the purpose of this study is to explore the two-way causality between liquidity and corporate…

Does GRI compliance moderate the impact of sustainability disclosure on firm value?

Sreepriya J., Suprabha K.R., Krishna Prasad

This paper aims to examine the moderating role of global reporting initiative (GRI) compliance in the association between sustainability reporting and firm value.

Environmental, social and governance (ESG) performance and firm performance in India

Santi Gopal Maji, Prachi Lohia

This paper aims to investigate the impact of environmental, social and governance (ESG) performance on the firm performance of select Indian companies.