“…They found that there is a significant negative short-term impact of CSR adoption and business performance. The CSR-CFP Corporate Financial Performance (CFP) relationship was visited again by several authors (Škare & Golja, 2012;Pätäri, Arminen, Tuppura, & Jantunen, 2014;Vergini, Jacomossi, Turra, & Hein, 2015;Rodriguez-Fernandez, 2016;Carini, Comincioli, Poddi, & Vergalli, 2017;Choongo, 2017;Oh, Hong, & Hwang, 2017;Ang & Weber, 2018;Beck, Frost, & Jones, 2018;Hategan, Sirghi, Curea-Pitorac, & Hategan, 2018;Cherian et al, 2019;Lin, Hung, et al, 2019;Lin, Law, et al, 2019), some of which considered environmental leadership (DiSegni, Huly, & Akron, 2015), its impact on innovation, and firm performance as possible moderating variables (Martinez-Conesa, Soto-Acosta, & Palacios-Manzano, 2017). Ekatah, Samy, Bampton, and Halabi (2011) sought to explore whether CSR is linked to profitability employing simple statistic methods and linear regression.…”