In a panel of more than 6,900 firms in 28 countries over 10 years we provide evidence that family control and labor market regulation are substitute governance mechanisms. First, family firms have performance advantages over non-family firms in countries with less regulated labor markets. This...

We test the impact of firms' corporate governance structures (G) on firms' environmental performance (E) using a sample of 3,293 firms from 41 countries. We find that better governance, measured using a variety of metrics, improves firms' environmental performance. Contemporary governance...