الفهرس 
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Abstract
The current study has aimed at assessing the business case of Corporate Social
Responsibility (CSR) in the Egyptian context. The period covered years 2007 through 20 la
using financial information and CSR data set of 48 companies listed in the S&P EGX ESG index
during the period. The independent variables are CSR quantitative index scores for Governance,
Environment, Employee, Community, and Customer CSR dimensions whereas the dependent
variables are ROA, ROE, EPS, and Stock Return SR. Panel data analysis in Multiple Regression
using GMM and Granger Causality are employed through Eviews statistical package.
Results have brought evidence of the measurable payoff of CSR to corporations in the
Egyptian Context. Both short and long-term tangible benefits could be demonstrated and the
firm’s ultimate objective could be achieved when CSR is intertwined with the firm’s strategy.
Generally firms are considering multiple stakeholders where the main stakeholder group
ultimately gams when expectations of all stakeholders are jointly maintained. Whereas the
environmental impact tends to agree more to the neoclassical economic theory (ROA, ROE,
EPS), a change in each of the employee relations, Community, and Customer/Product would
causally determine a change in the firm’s financial performance on the long term which is in line
with both the stakeholder and the good management theories. Although Governance shows a
foothold in determining stock prices, the panel causality results suggest that it is more derived
from the firm slack resources than determining them. The study also reveals that larger firms
perform better financially and socially and the predictive power of CSR over CFP is generally
greater in leveraged and larger companies based on (ROE, EPS) and in newer companies as per
(ROA) accounting measures while it is externally demonstrated in smaller companies as per
(SR).