Margolis and Walsh have undertaken a monumental, thorough, and careful study of the literature on the link between financial and social performance and done it well. In my opinion, they have come to the right conclusion. While generally speaking, the long-sought link is a positive one, they rightly believe that it is time to turn our scholarly attention to the important questions of how companies can, do, and should service society.



Contents:

Section 1 : Introduction

Section 2 : A Brief orientation to the question

2.1 Constructing the business case for corporate social performance

2.2 Academic debate

2.3 Purpose of this compendium

Section 3 : An Integrated portrait of the empirical literature

3.1 method

3.2 Corporate samples

3.3 Measuring financial performance

3.4 Measuring social performance

3.5 Summary of results

3.6 Mechanisms and control variables

3.7 Conclusions

End Notes

Tables and figures