Using environmental, social and governance (ESG) scores compiled by Reuters Datastream for each company's corporate social performance (CSP), we examine the relationship between CSP and corporate financial performance (CFP) of 314 UK listed companies over the period 2002 to 2015. We further...

Africapitalism suggests a refined capitalist system aimed at achieving collective good unlike the shareholder value maximisation model of Anglo-American capitalism. It emphasises the obligations of the private sector in Africa to pursue socio-economic development. Despite these proposed...

Purpose: This paper examines two important issues in CSR scholarship. First, the study problematizes corporate social responsibility (CSR) as a form of self-regulation. Second, the research explores how CSR strategies can enable firms to recognise and internalise their externalities while...

In this chapter, we review the important CSR initiatives in Nigeria, Africa's biggest economy and largest market for goods and services, to articulate the understanding and dynamics of CSR in sub-Saharan Africa. This is important to global CSR research which often neglects cross-national...

Corporate governance in developing countries is becoming noticeable in the extant literature. In this chapter, we review the development of the corporate governance discourse in Nigeria, paying attention to the challenges of promoting good governance standards through reforms. Relying on...

Corporate governance is contextual (Adegbite and Nakajima, 2011), and context matters to Africapitalism (Amaeshi and Idemudia, 2015). The existence of different national institutions means that increased global competition, as well as the integration of financial markets, will not express...

Purpose- The purpose of this paper is to investigate institutional shareholder activism in Nigeria. It addresses the paucity of empirical research on institutional shareholder activism in sub-Saharan Africa.Design/Methodology- This study employs agency theory to understand the institutional...

Research has identified institutional shareholders and shareholders' associations as separate groups that are able to interact and promote accountability through shareholder activism. This study employs a qualitative methodology to critically evaluate how institutional shareholders perceive the...

The extant literature on comparative Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) often assumes functioning and enabling institutional arrangements, such as strong government, market, and civil society, as a necessary condition for responsible business practices. Setting aside this dominant assumption,...