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Differences in audit quality between audit firms: The impact of audit-firm portfolio characteristics. [PDF]
Companies generate financial statements that are used for decision making by various stakeholders and the quality of those financial statements depends on the quality of the external auditor.
Gaeremynck, Ann +2 more
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study examines the impact of independent female directors (IFDs) on green innovation (GI) among Chinese‐listed firms from 2008 to 2023. Additionally, we investigate the moderating effects of ownership structure and market competition on the relationship between IFD and GI.
Muhammad Usman +4 more
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Green Talk, Costly Walk: The Financial Cost of Greenwashing
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study investigates the financial consequences of greenwashing, operationalized as the misalignment between ESG disclosure and actual ESG performance. While prior research has explored the reputational and ethical dimensions of greenwashing, its impact on firms' cost of debt remains underexamined.
S. Taddeo, A. Regoli, O. Weber, R. Carè
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Bank lending networks, experience, reputation, and borrowing costs. [PDF]
We investigate the network structure of syndicated lending markets and evaluate the impact of lenders’ network centrality, considered as measures of their experience and reputation, on borrowing costs.
Bulat Sanditov +2 more
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Organizational Resilience to Exogenous Shocks: The Role of Environmental Performance
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This research examines the influence of environmental performance on organizational resilience during an exogenous shock. Drawing on the natural resource–based view, a sample of 3920 firms from 11 sectors and 19 countries is analyzed. This study employs OLS regressions and Cox proportional hazard models to test the effect of environmental ...
Tim Schroll
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Do Global Credit Rating Agencies Think Globally? The Information Content of Firm Ratings around the World [PDF]
What is the information content of firm ratings? We disentangle the relative contribution to firms? ratings of sovereign risks and individual firms? performance indicators, reportedly employed by rating agencies. We reach three conclusions.
Ferri, Giovanni, Li-Gang Liu
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Syndicated loans, lending relationships and the business cycle [PDF]
, 2008 The syndicated loan market, as a hybrid between public and private debt markets, comprises financial institutions with access to valuable private information about borrowers as a result of close bank-borrower relationships.
Steffen, Sascha, Wahrenburg, Mark
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The Influence of ESG Controversies on Financing Costs for European Companies: Does Culture Matter?
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study examines the relationship between environmental, social, and governance (ESG) controversies and corporate financing costs, focusing on the moderating effect of national culture. It analyzes European companies listed on the STOXX 600 Index from 2016 to 2023.
Souad Brinette +2 more
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Powering Transparency: Global Drivers of Sustainability Reporting in the Electricity Sector
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We examine the drivers of sustainability reporting quality (QSR), conceptualised along two complementary dimensions, relevance and reliability, to assess how firm‐level attributes and institutional conditions jointly shape disclosure practices in the electricity sector.
Alva Marasigan +3 more
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Do the Generational Cohorts of CEOs Influence Corporate Travel Emissions?
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT According to Mannheim's generational theory, each generation exhibits unique attitudes that shape its behaviour. This paper suggests that a CEO's generational background can shape their environmental views, which, in turn, influence the company's business travel policies.
Gbenga Adamolekun +2 more
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