This study aims to synthesize the literature on the top management team (TMT) characteristics influence on environmental disclosures of public organizations and identify recent trends, key themes, influential journals, and authors. Our study recruited 88 research articles on the relationship of...

This paper studies the effect of disclosing conflicts of interests on strategic communication when the sender has lying costs. I present a simple economic channel under which such disclosure often leads to more biased messages. This hurts receivers who are naive or delegate their choice while...

Should principals explain and justify their evaluations? Suppose the principal's evaluation is private information, but she can provide justification by sending a costly cheap-talk message. If she does not provide justification, her message space is restricted, but the message is costless. I...

This paper studies the effect of disclosing conflicts of interests on strategic communication when the sender has lying costs. I present a simple economic mechanism under which such disclosure often leads to more informative, but at the same time also to more biased messages. This benefits...

We study how leaks affect a firm's communication decisions and real efficiency. A privately informed manager strategically chooses both public disclosure and internal communication to employees. Public disclosure is noisy, but in the absence of leaks, internal communication is perfectly...