Author/s, year, and paper title | Journal name | Research question | Data and Methodology | Findings/Results | Conclusion |
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Lins et al. (2017). Social capital, trust, and firm performance: The value of corporate social responsibility during the financial crisis. | The Journal of Finance | How corporate social responsibility intensity impact stock returns in global financial crisis | Largest U.S. companies (3,00 firms) Regression models |
Firms with high social capital have higher stock returns that than firms with low social capital. | Firm- Stakeholder trust, developed in investments via social capital, benefit when corporations and markets suffers a negative shock |
Bouslah et al. (2018). Social performance and firm risk: impact of the financial crisis. | Journal of Business Ethics | Does social performance impact firm's risk during the financial crisis |
U.S. firms covering the period 1991–2012. CAPM and the four-factor Carhart |
Social performance reduces volatility during the financial crisis. | Social performance act as a risk reduction tool during an adverse economic environment. |
Lins et al. (2019). Social capital, trust, and corporate performance: how CSR helped companies during the financial crisis (and why it can keep helping them). | Journal of Applied Corporate Finance | How does CSR help companies during the financial crisis | Largest U.S. companies (3,00 firms) Regression models |
high-CSR companies have high stock returns during the 2008–2009 financial crisis and higher excess returns during the Enron crisis of 2001–2003 | Social capital increases shareholder wealth by reducing companies' downside risk. |
Marsat et al. (2020). Is there a trade-off between environmental performance and financial resilience? International evidence from the subprime crisis | Accounting & Finance | Is there a trade-off between environmental performance and financial resilience? | One thousand six hundred twenty-two firms from 20 countries | High pre-crisis environmental performance significantly increased the time of firms' market price recovery after the subprime crisis. | This result suggests that environmental performance seems like an organisational limitation that may restrict the capacity of firms to be financially resistant. |
Farza et al. (2021). Does it pay to go green? The environmental innovation effect on corporate financial performance |
Journal of Environmental Management |
How does green innovation impact corporate financial performance | German HDAX companies from 2008 to 2019 A two-step GMM system and penalised-spline estimation |
Positive relationship between green innovation and financial performance. | Green innovation drives resource efficiency and enhances corporate reputation, which, in turn, boosts financial performance. |
Guérin and Suntheim (2021) Firms' environmental performance and the COVID-19 crisis |
Economics Letters | How does COVID −19 impact the environmental performance of the firm | 7000 listed firms from 2002 to 2019 | Financial constraints and adverse economic conditions are negatively affected in firms' environmental efficiency and green investments. |
This study emphasis the significance of climate policies and green recovery |