This scholarly study supported by the Aspen Institute Initiative for Social Innovation through Business is authored by our series editor, Jim Walsh. It will take a look at 95 empirical studies published since 1972. The goal is to see the relationship

Contents: A.P. Brief, J.P. Walsh, Series Editors' Foreword. Part I:Introduction.Part II:A Brief Orientation to the Question. Constructing the Business Case for Corporate Social Performance. Academic Debate. Purpose of This Compendium. Part III:An Integrated Portrait of the Empirical Literature. Method. Corporate Samples. Measuring Financial Performance. Measuring Social Performance. Summary of Results. Mechanisms and Control Variables. Conclusions.

Joshua Daniel Margolis, James Patrick Walsh