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Audit Committee and ESG Disclosure Quality: The Moderating Role of Female CEO Leadership

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT ESG reporting is widespread among large public firms, yet the extent and completeness of these disclosures vary widely, raising concerns about transparency and comparability. Drawing on Stakeholder Theory and Resource Dependency theory, this study examines how audit committee (AC) effectiveness influences ESG disclosure quality (ESGDQ) and ...
Mutalib Anifowose   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Beyond Linear ESG Effects: Configurational Pathways to Superior Profitability Among Environmental Proactive Firms

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study re‐examines the relationship between environmental, social, and governance (ESG) engagement and firm financial performance by moving beyond linear, net‐effect models toward a configurational perspective. Focusing on a global sample of 1380 non‐financial firms with high environmental maturity (CDP Climate Change score ≥ B), we ...
Daniel Yeung   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Eyes on the Ground: Can Institutional Investor Site Visits Discipline Corporate ESG Hypocrisy?

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper investigates whether institutional investor site visits serve as an effective external governance mechanism for curbing environmental, social and governance (ESG) hypocrisy. Using panel data on Chinese A‐share listed firms from 2012 to 2021, we find that site visits significantly reduce ESG hypocrisy by improving internal control ...
Lichun Zheng   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Essays on debt maturity

open access: yes, 2009
This dissertation consists of three major empirical studies about debt maturity following two introductory chapters describing the data used and also the most relevant theoretical and empirical work in the existent literature. In the first empirical study we examine the debt maturity trend from 1980 to 2004 for US firms and identify if the changes in ...
openaire   +1 more source

Greenwashing Across Industries: A Scoping Review of Explanatory Factors, Reporting Tactics, and Disclosure‐Action Decoupling

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This scoping review provides an industry‐comparative synthesis of greenwashing and disclosure‐action decoupling in sustainability‐related reporting. Guided by PRISMA, it reviews 73 peer‐reviewed articles published between 2016 and 2025 and organizes them into three streams: variable‐based explanatory, report analysis, and disclosure‐action ...
Zhang Yiping   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

BANK DEBT AND MARKET DEBT: AN EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS FOR SPANISH FRIMS [PDF]

open access: yes
This paper examines the effect on the firm’s banking cost of the issue of debt securities. We argue over the existence of a positive relationship between the issue of market debt and the reduction of firm’s banking cost.
María J. Casasola, Josep A. Tribó
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Drivers of Scope 3 Emissions Disclosure Quality—CDP Analysis

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Scope 3 emissions account for a significant portion of a supply chain's carbon footprint, yet very little research explores the key drivers of high‐quality Scope 3 disclosures. Additionally, while climate governance is a vital part of both improving carbon performance and ensuring corporate accountability, its broader impact on disclosure ...
Xintao Li, Binh Bui, Thanh Phan
wiley   +1 more source

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