| Title | Doing Well or Doing Good: The Relationship between Corporate Social Responsibility and Profit in Romanian Companies |
|---|---|
| ID_Doc | 74965 |
| Authors | Hategan, CD; Sirghi, N; Curea-Pitorac, RI; Hategan, VP |
| Title | Doing Well or Doing Good: The Relationship between Corporate Social Responsibility and Profit in Romanian Companies |
| Year | 2018 |
| Published | Sustainability, 10, 4 |
| Abstract | The traditional goal of a company is to earn profit to pay its shareholders, but, nowadays, for the business to be sustainable in the long term, a strategy of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) activities is needed to meet stakeholder demands, respect ethical principles and give an appropriate answer to organizational stakeholders. The objective of the paper is to identify how strong the correlation between CSR and profit is, and how companies behave in the periods they have losses, whether they continue to do CSR activities, they reduce the activities, or they give them up. Thus, CSR is attributed to the concept of "doing good" and profit to the expression of "doing well", from which a "positive business" can be built. Our empirical research consists of a panel data econometric model using logistics regressions to highlight the correlation between profit and the decision to do CSR activities and feasible generalized least squares (FGLS) regressions to identify the correlations between the level of CSR activities and the dimension of profit, an expression of financial performance. The main results emphasize that the companies which implement CSR activities in a greater extent are more profitable in economic terms. |
| https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/10/4/1041/pdf?version=1525346621 |
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