International diversification, legitimacy, and corporate social performance of extractive industry multinationals

Corporate Social Responsibility and Financial Performance in the Airport Industry

In the last two decades corporate social responsibility (CSR), particularly when related to environmental issues, has been discussed extensively in the business literature. However, defining and measuring CSR remains a complicated process. One of the main reasons for the problematic measurement of CSR is the absence of a common framework in which business-society relations will be included. Wit...

Corporate Social Performance and Internal Control

This study examines the relationship between corporate social performance and the Company's internal control. For the study, the definition of corporate social performance is used Wood (Wood, 1991) and social performance into the process (internal processes, management) and outcome (social impact) is divided. To assess the social performance of corporate social performance version of the questi...

International Diversification, Knowledge Capabilities, Corporate Performance, and the Paradox of Resource Mobility

This study examines the link between international diversification, organizational knowledge capabilities and corporate performance. The success or failure of international corporate diversification depends to a large extent on the capability of parent firms to transfer knowledge to subsidiaries, and for those local subsidiaries to effectively utilize that knowledge. However, according to the r...

Corporate Social Responsibility: International Perspectives

Industry Effects in Firm and Segment Profitability Forecasting: Corporate Diversification, Industry Classification, and Estimation Reliability1

Academics and practitioners have long recognized the importance of a firm’s industry membership in explaining its financial performance. Yet, contrary to conventional wisdom, recent research shows that industry-specific profitability forecasting models are not better than economy-wide models. This paper re-examines the incremental advantage of industry-specific models. We find considerable indu...