a r t i c l e i n f o Over the last decade, educators, administrators, and policy makers increasingly focus on corporate social responsibility. However, no studies examine the relationships among corporate social responsibility, brand equity, and firm performance. This study uses quantile regression and structural equation modeling to explore the causal linkages among these factors in Taiwanese...

Today’s corporations are increasingly implementing responsible behaviours as they pursue profit-making activities. A thorosugh literature review suggests that there is a link between corporate social responsibility (CSR) or corporate social performance (CSP) and financial performance. In addition, there are relevant theoretical underpinnings and empirical studies that have often used other conc...

Background: The main nature of corporate citizen behaviors includes the idea that corporate citizen behaviors are beneficial behaviors that are critical to improving organizational performance. The purpose of this study is to identify the relationship between ethical leadership and individual and organizational corporate citizenship behaviors, with the moderating role of self-efficacy, respect ...

This paper examines the problems in the definition of the General Non-Parametric Corporate Performance (GNCP) and introduces a multiplicative linear programming as an alternative model for corporate performance. We verified and tested a statistically significant difference between the two models based on the application of 27 UK industries using six performance ratios. Our new model is found to...

The purpose of this paper is twofold. Firstly, it assesses the extent to which corporate reporting on ethical, social and environmental issues reflects corporate performance in ICI. This ‘reporting-performance’ gap is a key measure of the extent to which an organisation is accountable to its stakeholders. ICI’s disclosures concerning its ethical, social and environmental performance for the yea...

Business groups organized by pyramids enable the ultimate shareholders to control a portfolio of firms with less cash requirement. Further, corporate pyramid induces an internal capital market and makes capital transfer more convenient within the pyramid. In China, the state and business groups control a large number of listed firms through pyramidal ownership structure. What role does the corp...

Economists have directed attention to the role of corporate governance in determining the performance of business enterprises well before the issue was thrust into prominence by the troubles of Enron, WorldCom, and others. Much of this literature examines the consequences of different mechanisms for corporate control. An important part of this literature stresses the role of banks in corporate ...