Community Social Responsibility and Its Consequences for Family Business Performance*Footnote¹

1 The natural log (ln) is used when responses are highly skewed creating a linear transformation of the distribution. This process allows for meaningful interpretation of data values that are commonly skewed, such as income levels (George and Mallery Citation2003).

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