We investigate the effect of the community values surrounding a firm’s headquarters on the percentage of women on a firm’s board of directors. We use social capital, religiosity, and political affiliation measures to capture the values associated with the community norms. We find that firms...

In this paper, we document a strong comovement between a firm’s corporate social responsibility (CSR) score and the CSR scores of their social network. This result is strongest for the CEO’s social network and when firms that have a high number of connections or more central positions within...

We investigate the effect of the community values surrounding a firm’s headquarters on the percentage of women on a firm’s board of directors. We use religiosity and political affiliation measures to capture the values associated with the community norms. We find that firms headquartered in...