st: Estimating the Likelihood of influencing one aspect of CSR over another

["Pavlos C. Symeou" <p.symeou@gmail.com>]

Dear Statalisters,

I am asking for some advice regarding a question I would like to examine 
econometrically. I have data for 500 companies over a period of 14 years 
and I am interested in focusing on a specific concept, Corporate Social 
Responsibility (CSR). CSR is measured with two variables: "strengths" 
and "weaknesses", both of which take values from 0-5. The higher the 
score of strengths the stronger the CSR is considered, the higher the 
score of weaknesses, the weaker the CSR is considered. I want to examine 
whether company characteristics, such as size, sector, age among others, 
have an effect on the likelihood that a company will choose to improve 
its strengths rather than minimise its weaknesses. The rationale behind 
this question is that some companies may find it substantially more 
difficult to minimise the negative externalities from their operations 
and rather invest in improving the positive ones.

I am open to your suggestions.

Thank you in advance,

Regards,

Pavlos
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