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Ethical Behaviour and Corporate Financing. The Case of ‘Legality Rating’

open access: yesCorporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The financial crisis has heightened awareness of ethical and legal issues in the business context. Corporate ethical behaviour is increasingly measured through sustainability ratings. Since 2012, in Italy, the introduction of a sustainability rating, namely the legality rating (LR), has served as an innovative ‘label’ for socially responsible ...
Federica Doni   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Incentive Effects of Performance Measures and Target Setting.

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Lavish executive compensation packages, and bonuses awarded to executives by financial institutions that only just received government bailouts, have fueled the currently popular perception that compensation is primarily determined by powerful managers ...
Kroos, P.
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Do CEOs Exercise Their Stock Options Earlier than Other Executives? [PDF]

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This paper looks at the timing chosen by CEOs to exercise their stock options and to sell their shares of stock compared to the timing chosen by other top executives in the firm.
M. Martin Boyer   +2 more
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Breadth at the Helm: Generalist CEOs and Corporate ESG Performance‐Evidence From China

open access: yesCorporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Drawing on the Upper Echelons Theory and the Imprinting Theory, this study conjectures that generalist CEOs may have a stronger tendency to pursue environmental, social and governance (ESG) goals. We perform multiple regression analyses with observations of Shanghai and Shenzhen A‐share listed companies from 2010 to 2023 in order to explore ...
Shanmei Luo   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Seats at the Table, Shifts in the Actions: Board Gender Diversity and Climate Activism

open access: yesCorporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT As regulatory and stakeholder pressures intensify, firms are increasingly expected to move beyond symbolic sustainability commitments towards corporate climate activism. This concept refers to the active institutionalisation of climate‐focused mechanisms such as external assurance, board oversight and climate‐linked incentives.
Md Tanvir Hamim, Rasim Simsek
wiley   +1 more source

Designing Governance for ESG: Incentive and Oversight Complementarities in Corporate Sustainability Performance

open access: yesCorporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigates how internal governance design supports credible ESG performance by distinguishing between Incentive and Oversight Architectures. Using 13,993 firm‐year observations of US nonfinancial firms from 2018 to 2024, we estimate fixed effects and two‐step system GMM models.
Beyza Gürel   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Dataset on Spanish medium-sized family firms: Linking socioemotional wealth, HRM practices, and financial indicators. [PDF]

open access: yesData Brief
Baixauli-Soler JS   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

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