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The Effect of Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Cost on Financial Performance

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This study aimed to examine the effect of corporate social responsibility and environmental cost on financial performance. The companies studied included 117 manufacturing companies listed on the Indonesia Stock Exchange in the period of 2016–2018. Researchers determined these samples using purposive sampling with some criteria. The data analysis comprised of regression analysis. The results showed that corporate social responsibility positively impacts financial performance, while environmental cost negatively impacts financial performance.

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    Naila Najihah, Maya Indriastuti & Chrisna Suhendi

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    Leonard Barolli

  2. Institute of Information Technology, Lodz University of Technology, Łódź, Poland

    Aneta Poniszewska-Maranda

  3. Faculty of Business Administration, Rissho University, Tokyo, Japan

    Tomoya Enokido

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Najihah, N., Indriastuti, M., Suhendi, C. (2021). The Effect of Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Cost on Financial Performance. In: Barolli, L., Poniszewska-Maranda, A., Enokido, T. (eds) Complex, Intelligent and Software Intensive Systems. CISIS 2020. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 1194. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-50454-0_42

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