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BUSINESS STRATEGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT
Volume 25, Issue 1, Pages 40-53Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/bse.1855
Keywords
environmental responsibility; ESG; ROE; ROA; financial performance; sustainable development; Korean firms
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This paper investigates the way in which environmental responsibility impacts on corporate financial performance, measured by return on equity (ROE) and return on assets (ROA). Using a sample of Korean firms covering the period 2011-2012, and employing two different test methods, namely the OLS and 2SLS methods, we show that the relationships between environmental responsibility performance and firms' ROE and ROA are positive and statistically significant. However, we show that research and development (R&D) intensity (expenditure) does not affect either environmental responsibility or corporate financial performance. The results of this analysis encourage further empirical analysis of the industries, as well as the use of more than one estimation method to determine environmental responsibility and corporate financial performance within firms. Copyright (c) 2014 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd and ERP Environment
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