It is clearly accepted that good corporate governance is fundamental to the successfully continuing operating of any … corporation; hence much attention has been paid to the procedures of such governance. Often however what is actually meant by the … corporate governance of a firm is merely assumed without being made explicit; moreover it is assumed that the concept is simply …

, tactical, and operational levels. These critical activities include the management of governance, risk, compliance …

examines the relationship between board network centrality and firms' environmental, social and governance (ESG) performance …, betweenness, and information centrality, have positive influence on firms' environmental, social and governance (ESG) performance …), which leads to better environmental, social, and governance (ESG) performance …

Using enforcements of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, we test the hypothesis that socially responsible (ESG) firms … specifications derived from a Nash Bargaining model. To account for ESG firm bribes potentially being unobservably less egregious, we … instrument ESG with regulation pages in the state of the firm's headquarters. Our instrumented estimates point to ESG firms …