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This paper examines the hypothesis that religious firms are more socially responsible. By utilizing a novel measure of religiosity that reflects firm-level adherence to Christian values, we find that religiousness is positively associated with the CSR engagement of large U.S. firms after...
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their investor base changes as well. Finally, I find that a trading strategy based on fraud allegations yields a significant …
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decrease their positions. Stock market activity surges for firms suspected of fraud, and a conservative trading strategy yields …
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This study examines whether and how online investor-firm interactions reduce the incidence of corporate fraud. We find … that more interactions and investors’ negative sentiment reduce the likelihood of committing fraud. This finding remains …-firm interactions are an important monitor for corporate fraud, which enhance firm value …
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In this paper, we investigate the consequences of fraud for CEOs and whether these consequences depend on CEO power. We … find that CEO power can reduce the likelihood of director turnover as well as CEO turnover after fraud detection. Further …, we find that CEO power is negatively related to long-term stock performance after fraud detection and this negative …
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The financial crisis of 2008 and the resulting economic recession have cruelly exposed weaknesses in corporate oversight at all levels – organizational, sector, national, and international. Consequently stakeholders are now demanding higher standards of corporate oversight to provide them with...
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We hypothesize that CSR serves as a control mechanism to curb excessive risk taking and to reduce excessive risk avoidance. Firms with CSR focus must balance the interests of multiple stakeholders, and therefore, must allocate resources to satisfy both investing and noninvesting stakeholders'...
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Three problems pose severe challenges to identify the impact of corporate social responsibility (CSR) on firm value and performance. These are construct validity, limited data, and endogeneity. To deal with them we use a broad composite measure of CSR and panel data with firm fixed and random...
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Although a growing number of investors are engaging with sovereign entities on environmental, social, and governance (ESG) issues, little academic research investigates this new form of investor activism. Applying universal ownership theory and drawing on eleven case studies of policy...
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