Does responsible leadership matter when assembling an inclusive supply chain at the Base-of-the-Pyramid (BOP)? Current literature implicitly assumes that it does not. BOP scholars initially focused on the importance of shaping innovative and disruptive offerings, with radically improved...

Using a panel data of 806 U.S. firms from 2006 to 2015, we find that in their ratings of corporate social responsibility (CSR) performance, firms with top managers who attended religiously affiliated schools outperform their peers with no such managers. The positive relationship between...