, executive holding (ownership), and deputy CEO, and state ownership are explanatory variables, and CSR disclosure is a dependent … correlation with CSR publication. In contrast, the proportion of independent directors, CEO duality, and CEO ownership was found … to be insignificant. Our research adds to the research on firm governance and CSR in several approaches. First, the paper …

This study principally entails an examination of the relationship between ownership structure and CSR practices. First …, our results demonstrate that family firms tend to be passive in their CSR activities, which is the first to address this … topic. Second, our findings imply that a national pension as a blockholder exerts pressure on management to exercise CSR in …

This study explores whether firms with powerful CEOs tend to invest (more) in corporate social responsibility (CSR … alternative hypothesis that if CSR investment is indeed an agency cost like the over-investment hypothesis suggests, then those … measure CEO power, we show that CEO power is negatively correlated with firm's choice to engage in CSR and with the level of …