Choosing Corporate Responsibility Yields Greater Profits

By Andrew Norris Friday, December 30, 2011

Business - General

Academics have spent decades studying in great detail whether responsible companies are also more profitable companies, and three decades of evidence suggest that 'betterness' yields greater equity returns, asset returns, and profitability.

Researchers found that responsibility was significantly positively correlated with financial performance: “corporate virtue,” in their words, “is likely to pay off.”

(READ the story in Co.Exist)