Over the past decades, companies have faced increasing pressures to provide information about CSR. However, firms differ in the extent to which they communicate their CSR-related efforts to their stakeholders (henceforth, “CSR disclosures”) and incorporate CSR-based performance measures in...

We analyze 228 executive compensation contracts voluntarily disclosed by Chinese listed firms and find that central-government-controlled companies disclose more information in executive compensation contracts than local-government-controlled and non-government-controlled companies. Cash-based...