Estudos sobre a influência dos investimentos sociais e ambientais no desempenho econômico das empresas

Abstract

Many organizations are seriously committed to and investing in social and environmental causes, and recent research shows that society is willing to pay more for products which don’t compromise nature. The present study aimed at evaluating whether those companies are somehow obtaining return; at determining the level of influence of those social and environmental investments over their net revenues and operational results. The method was a documental research for which social balance statement were collected – IBASE model – that were available at the site of this institute. With the help from software SPSS 13.0 for Windows, one fulfilled the factorial analysis with 23 independent variables. Having in view a data reduction, one got to seven factors and the second best set was formed by six factors. The following step was the multiple regression tests aiming at verifying whether or not the social and environmental indicators, which are the independent variables, have some influence on the dependent variables, t