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Gartenberg, Claudine; Serafeim, George - 2019

Analyzing data from approximately 1.5 million employees across 1,108 established public and private US companies, we find that employee beliefs about their firm's purpose is weaker in public companies. This difference is most pronounced within the salaried middle and hourly ranks, rather than...

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Do institutional investors vote responsibly?

Lafarre, Anne - 2022

Existing research and practical evidence highly question whether institutional investor truly walk the talk when it comes to fostering corporate sustainability (CS) in their investee companies, or merely engage in greenwashing. This study investigates how responsible institutional investors...

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The double-edged sword of CEO activism

Larcker, David F.; Miles, Stephen A.; Tayan, Brian; … - 2018

CEO activism — the practice of CEOs taking public positions on environmental, social, and political issues not directly related to their business — has become a hotly debated topic in corporate governance. To better understand the implications of CEO activism, we examine its prevalence, the...

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Can CEO activism spark sustainability transitions? : evidence from a field experiment

Chatterji, Aaron K.; Toffel, Michael W. - 2017

CEO activism refers to corporate leaders speaking out on social and environmental policy issues not directly related to their company's core business. Distinct from nonmarket strategy and traditional corporate social responsibility, the recent wave of CEO activism focuses on social issues...

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Why do corporate actors engage in pro-social behavior? : a Bourdieusian perspective on corporate social responsibility

Aaken, Dominik van; Splitter, Violetta; Seidl, David - 2012

managers in their personal struggles for social power. Whether such practices are enacted or not depends on the (1) particular … features of the social field in which the managers are embedded, (2) the individual managers' socially shaped dispositions and …. macro-level explanations and voluntaristic vs. deterministic views of managers' behaviors …

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Determinants of managerial values on corporate social responsibility : evidence from China

Zu, Liangrong (contributor); Song, Lina (contributor) - 2008

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 … in poorer regions that are more likely to have managers who opt for a higher CSR rating. Managers' personal …

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Shareholders and stakeholders around the world: the role of values, culture, and law in directors' decisions

Licht, Amir N.; Adams, Renée - 2020 - This version: 5 November 2020

We present evidence on the way personal and institutional factors could together guide public company directors in decision-making concerning shareholders and stakeholders. In a sample comprising more than nine hundred directors originating from over fifty countries and serving in firms from...

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Corporate power is corporate purpose I: evidence from my hometown

Strine, Leo E. - 2017

This paper is the first in a series considering a rather tired argument in corporate governance circles, that corporate laws that give only rights to stockholders somehow implicitly empower directors to regard other constituencies as equal ends in governance. By continuing to suggest that...

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Is ESG a Managerial Style?

Cai, Tianyu; Liu, Leo; Zein, Jason; Zhang, Hao - 2022

Can better firm ESG policies be attributed to a CEO’s style? We find that firms led by CEOs with not-for-profit sector work experience (socially engaged CEOs) possess better ESG ratings and superior real ESG outcomes. They receive higher satisfaction ratings from their employees, develop more...

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Executive Compensation : Investor Preferences During Say-on-Pay Votes and the Role of Proxy Voting Advisors

Gomtsian, Suren - 2023

Shareholder say-on-pay votes allow institutional investors to influence the incentives of managers and, consequently …

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