While many different types of organizations in the United States (U.S.) are better managing their environmental activities, a relatively small proportion of them are also choosing to participate in voluntary environmental initiatives. This study addresses why organizations participate in these...

While the use of internal, external, and both types of environmental audits are becoming more pervasive in society, little is known about the stakeholder influences associated with their use, in large part because previous research has viewed them as a uniform type of management practice. This...

The purpose of this study is three-fold. First, it offers preliminary advice regarding different U.S. environmental policies and programs that encourage environmental innovation. Second, this report will help the U.S. manufacturing facilities that participated in our study to benchmark their...

Some researchers question the legitimacy of EMSs since organizations can claim to have one when in fact they make no attempt to reduce their environmental harms. In instances where EMSs enhance an organization's environmental performance, critics argue that improvements are likely to incur...

Analysing the nexus between board diversity, CEO power, state holding, and corporate social responsibility disclosure in an emerging country: Vietnam, where some listed firms are held significantly by the State, is the fundamental objective of this study. In order to achieve this goal, we...

Objective - The purpose of this study is to examine the effect of environmental performance, foreign ownership and leverage to disclosure of corporate social responsibility (CSR). Methodology/Technique - CSR of disclosure in this study using performance indicators based GRI (Global Reporting...

This paper examines the effect of ownership concentration on engagement in corporate environmental responsibility (CER) in time and spatial dimensions. The time dimension focuses on the macroeconomic environment, in particular, periods of rapid and moderate-speed economic growth. The spatial...

The study aims to provide empirical evidence for a one-way relationship between corporate environmental responsibility (CER) and financial performance (FP) in the banking industry, with special consideration into the moderating role of legal regulations and ownership structures. Net interest...

We examine whether ESG funds’ investment decisions are sensitive to firms’ environmental disclosures, beyond summary ESG ratings. We create our measures of environmental disclosure using bigrams extracted from the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) standards trained against authoritative...