Research Briefs

Volunteering can be its own reward. Researchers suggest that for women it can have long-term financial benefits as well.

Firms are significantly more likely to adopt energy savings initiatives that yield moderate economic benefits and easy to implement over ones that are more financially beneficial, but disruptive to the organization.

Longer breaks and more time off between shifts can lead to greater compliance with rules.

Companies with inclusive policies for LGBT employees have higher stock returns, market valuation, and employee productivity.

By explicitly describing and valuing team members’ unique contributions, inclusive leaders can improve the performance of diverse teams by creating greater team identity and reducing perceived status differences among team members.

When firms are determining their corporate giving efforts, they are influenced by their peers.

In countries where market-supporting institutions are weak, corporate citizenship or CSR initiatives improve a firm’s competitive advantages by reducing transaction costs and facilitating access to resources.

Investments in corporate citizenship and the improved reputation that can come with such investments can help companies inoculate against the most severe effects of boycotts.

Firms that take a long-term view and invest in corporate citizenship are rewarded with lower equity costs.

Corporate disaster relief efforts that are prompt, make use of in-kind donations, and partner with an NGO result in greater media attention, which has positive short-term financial benefits.

Companies earning high ratings on environmental, social, and governance (ESG) indicators deemed material to their business financially outperform those with poor ratings on the same issues.

Attributes of a company’s home country account for double those of firm-specific characteristics when predicting the firm’s social performance.