This study investigates the relevance of sustainability committees’ presence and composition to waste management practices which is still unknown in the literature. Based on a panel of firms listed in 42 countries from 2002 to 2019, we document positively significant (insignificant)...

This paper examines the effect of state-level culture in the US on the adoption of firms’ workplace diversity policies. Using firm-level panel data (1592 firm-year observations) over the period 2011-2014, we document that firms in highly individualistic states are less likely to adopt...

Purpose: This paper aims to examine whether CEO succession with gender change (male to female) affects audit fees in the Chinese setting. In addition, this study examines whether the relationship exists in both types of ownership, i.e. non-state-owned enterprises (SOEs) and SOEs....

Extant literature on board gender diversity focuses on the main pillars of sustainability while ignoring the important subdimension – waste management. Using a sample of 8,365 firm-year observations for the period 2002–2017 from 37 countries, we provide novel empirical evidence that board...