Environmental Performance and Firm Value: Testing the Role of Firm Reputation

The impact of interwoven integration practices on supply chain value addition and firm performance

Drawing on the supply chain (SC) management literature, this article conceptualizes and empirically tests a framework that shows how both external and internal integration practices are significant and positively associated with SC value addition and firm performance. The framework also tests the impact of value addition as a reinforcing factor on firm performance. The outcome of this investiga...

Firm Reputation and Horizontal Integration∗

We study effects of horizontal integration on firm reputation. In an environment where customers observe only imperfect signals about firms’ effort/quality choices, firms cannot maintain reputations of high quality and earn quality premia forever. Even when firms are choosing high quality/effort, there is always a possibility that a bad signal is observed. In this case, firms must give up their...

Corporate Environmental Strategy: Impact upon Firm Value

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the relationship between corporate environmental strategy and firm value. The major finding of this study is that corporate performance with regard to environmental responsibility is related to overall firm value. Adopting an environmentally responsible strategy appears to significantly enhance corporate financial performance for all firms except thos...

Stakeholder Theory, Value, and Firm Performance

This paper argues that the notion of value has been overly simplified and narrowed to focus on economic retums. Stakeholder theory provides an appropriate lens for considering a more complex perspective of the value that stakeholders seek as well as new ways to measure it. We develop a four-factor perspective for defining value that includes, but extends beyond, the economic value stakeholders ...

Firm celebrity, Reputation and Performance: a Social Media Perspective