Retraction notice: The impact of corporate social responsibility on financial distress: empirical evidence

The publishers of Social Responsibility Journal wish to retract the article “The impact of corporate social responsibility on financial distress: empirical evidence” by M. Farooq, A. Noor and S.F. Qureshi which appeared ahead of print, 2021.It has come to our attention that a large proportion of this article is taken, without attribution, from an earlier article: Farooq, M. and Noor, A. (2021), “The impact of corporate social responsibility on financial distress: evidence from developing economy”, Pacific Accounting Review, Vol. 33 No. 3, pp. 376-396, Link to the cited article.The Social Responsibility Journal submission guidelines make it clear that articles must be original and must not infringe any existing copyright. The publishers of the journal sincerely apologize to the readers.