This paper examines the associations of Chief Executive Officers’ (CEOs’) prosocial behavior with their career paths and corporate policies. Using individuals’ involvement with charitable organizations as a proxy for prosocial behavior, we find that prosocial individuals are promoted to...

This paper examines the association between chief executive officers’ (CEOs’) prosocial tendency and their companies’ accounting information quality. We measure CEOs’ prosocial tendency using their involvement with charitable organizations. Our results suggest that prosocial CEOs are...

We analyze survey responses from nearly 600 corporate tax executives to investigate firms' incentives and disincentives for tax planning. While many researchers hypothesize that reputational concerns affect the degree to which managers engage in tax planning, this hypothesis is difficult to test...