Firms' efforts to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions and curb climate change has recently become a significant area of concern to investors. We examine how management's focus on mitigating its direct versus indirect emissions influences a firm's ability to attract capital from investors, and how...

Managers prepare corporate social responsibility (CSR) reports by recalling and describing their past socially responsible actions. Using an experiment, we test whether the manner in which managers prepare CSR reports influences their subsequent ethical decisions. CSR reporting guidelines and...

Research suggests that employees work harder under penalty contracts than under economically equivalent bonus contracts. We build on this literature by examining how the motivational advantage of penalty contracts depends on a common aspect of real-world contracts: payoff ambiguity. With payoff...