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This study tests the bidirectional connections between corporate social responsibility performance and the financial performance of firms within the tourism sector and related industries based on the instrumental stakeholder and slack resources theories. Disaggregated measures of firms' corporate social responsibility practices and corporate financial performance were considered to avoid compensation effects. This choice also allows for testing of whether separated dimensions of corporate social responsibility have different linkages with corporate financial performance measures. Static and dynamic panel data regression models were implemented for robustness. With a few exceptions, the study found a neutral impact of corporate environmental, social, and governance performance on firms' financial success. This study therefore recommends that managers of tourism firms should engage in corporate social responsibility practices, which can contribute to different sustainable development goals without sacrificing financial performance. Contradictory to the slack resources theory, with a few exceptions, the higher the financial performance of tourism firms, the lower their commitment to corporate social responsibility issues. Furthermore, tourism firms must communicate their corporate social responsibility initiatives to develop public awareness of their environmental, social, and governance efforts. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Hace poco más de veinticinco años de la publicación del primer número especial de la Revista Española de Financiación y Contabilidad sobre investigación en contabilidad social y medioambiental. Debido al apreciable auge y relevancia de la investigación científica en esta área, el presente número especial pretende destacar los hitos más relevantes de la investigación sobre este tema en España durante el último cuarto de siglo. Para ello, en primer lugar, se contextualiza la contabilidad social y medioambiental en el panorama social y político español durante las tres últimas décadas con el objetivo de identificar los antecedentes de la investigación en esta área. Asimismo, el presente editorial destaca y discute las principales perspectivas con las que se ha desarrollado la investigación en contabilidad social y medioambiental en España a través de una revisión sistemática de la literatura. Todo ello nos conduce a una reflexión sobre los principales retos a los que la investigación en contabilidad social y medioambiental se enfrentará en el futuro. El editorial concluye introduciendo las principales aportaciones de los artículos incluidos en el número especial. A little more than twenty-five years have elapsed since the publication of the Spanish Journal of Finance and Accounting first special issue on social and environmental accounting research. Due to the remarkable rise and relevance of scientific research in this area, this special issue aims to highlight the most relevant research milestones on the topic in Spain during the last quarter of a century. To this end, this editorial contextualizes social and environmental accounting in the Spanish social and political landscape of the last three decades in order to identify the research background in this area. Likewise, through a systematic review of the literature, the present editorial highlights and discusses the main perspectives with which social and environmental accounting research has developed in Spain. All this leads us to reflect on the main challenges that social and environmental accounting research will face in the future. The editorial concludes by introducing the main contributions of the articles included in this special issue. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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