Although an increasing amount of empirical research has been linked to the impact of management control and governance on Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) issues since the financial crisis of 2008/09, heterogeneous results have characterised this research field. Regarding the group level of...

Purpose – This paper analyses whether and how different types of institutional investors influence shareholder proposal initiations, say on pay (SOP) votes and management compensation from a sustainability perspective.Design/methodology/approach – Based on principal agent theory, the authors...

Based on legitimacy theory and upper echelons theory, this empirical study addresses whether sustainability expertise in Corporate Sustainability Committees (CSCs) has an impact on firms’ environmental performance. Moreover, a moderator analysis of the implementation of Chief Sustainability...