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Cultural Diversity in the Boardroom and Corporate Social Performance

Dodd, Olga - 2019

We examine the impact of cultural diversity in corporate boards on a firm's corporate social performance. Using a novel approach to identify a director's cultural roots based on ancestry, we estimate the degree of cultural diversity at the board level. We find that board cultural diversity is...

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Corporate reporting provides insight into companies' commitment to gender equality

Kirsch, Anja; Sondergeld, Virginia; Thompson, Philipp … - In: DIW weekly report : economy, politics, science : a … 13 (2023) 3/4, pp. 32-39

Many companies in Germany must provide information beyond financial figures in their annual reports. For some years now, legislators have increasingly required information on non-financial aspects, such as the shares of women in leadership positions. Using a quantitative text analysis of annual...

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The influence of board characteristics and state holding on corporate social responsibility disclosure, evidence from Vietnamese listed firms

Nguyen Thi Lien Huong; Nhat Minh Tran; Manh Chien Vu - In: Verslas : teorija ir praktika : Vilniaus Gedimino … 22 (2021) 1, pp. 190-201

Analysing the nexus between board diversity, CEO power, state holding, and corporate social responsibility disclosure in an emerging country: Vietnam, where some listed firms are held significantly by the State, is the fundamental objective of this study. In order to achieve this goal, we...

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Corporate Social Performance and the Managerial Labor Market

Dai, Xin; Gao, Feng; Lisic, Ling Lei; Zhang, Ivy - 2021

This paper examines the impact of a firm’s social performance on the CEO’s employment prospects. We find that CEOs are more (less) likely to leave office when there is a significant recent decline (improvement) in social performance. We then track departing CEOs’ subsequent employment...

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Do Companies with Media Background Executives Engage More Corporate Social Responsibility? – Evidence from China

Wu, Di - 2019

This paper investigates whether executives with media background influence the engagement of corporate social responsibility (CSR) in China. By examining Chinese listed companies from 2010 to 2017, this paper finds that companies with media background executives own higher CSR scores and better...

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CSR Contracting and Performance-Induced CEO Turnover

Qin, Bo; Yang, Lu - 2022

Motivated by the rise of linking CEO compensation to corporate social responsibility (hereafter, CSR contracting), we examine the impact of CSR contracting on CEO performance-induced turnover. Using a sample of S&P 500 firms with hand collected information on the use and substantiveness of CSR...

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Financial Experts of Top Management Teams and Corporate Social Responsibility : Evidence from China

Li, Zhe; Wang, Bo; Zhou, Dan - 2022

This study examines how the financial experience of senior executives influences corporate social responsibility (CSR) performance and reporting activities. With a sample of Chinese listed companies over the period 2009–2018, we find that companies with senior executives with financial...

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The Relationship between Corporate Social Responsibility and Types of CEO Turnover : Evidence from US Firms

Chulkov, Dmitriy; Wang, Xiaoqiong - 2023

This study examines the relationship between corporate social responsibility (CSR) and different types of CEO turnover. Our findings based on a sample of over 2,500 publicly-traded US firms clarify how firms’ CSR engagement relates to CEO turnover by reason and source of new CEO. Firms with...

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CEO Superstitions and CSR Performance

Chang, Yuyuan; Ge, Chunmian; Zhang, Xiyue - 2023

Superstitions are typically seen as beliefs without scientific grounding. However, it can also be associated with people’s perception of risk and subsequent behavior. In this study, we provide evidence that CEO superstitious beliefs of bad luck – triggered by the CEO’s “zodiac year,”...

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Determinants of Managerial Values on Corporate Social Responsibility : Evidence from China

Zu, Liangrong; Song, Lina - 2021

This paper empirically investigates how Chinese executives and managers perceive and interpret corporate social … responsibility (CSR), to what extent firms' productive characteristics influence managers' attitudes towards their CSR rating, and … poorer regions that are more likely to have managers who opt for a higher CSR rating. Managers' personal characteristics per …

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