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How Reelection Pressure Shapes Directors' Commitment to Stakeholders: Evidence From Majority Voting Legislation

open access: yesCorporate Governance: An International Review, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Research Question/Issue Director reelection pressure strengthens directors' accountability to shareholders, yet its implications for stakeholder‐oriented engagement, such as corporate sustainability, remain theoretically ambiguous and empirically underexplored.
Zhe Li, Bo Wang
wiley   +1 more source

Economic Power of Political Leaders: Evidence From Central Leaders' Local Tours in China

open access: yesThe Developing Economies, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Do political leaders play a role in shaping economic outcomes? Can we quantify and compare the economic influence of contemporary political leaders? This paper examines the economic impact of autocratic leadership through the lens of firm visits in China, offering a unique empirical strategy to assess their influence.
Asei Ito, Jaehwan Lim, Hongyong Zhang
wiley   +1 more source

CFO overconfidence, environmental violations, and firm performance. The moderating role of constituency statutes

open access: yesEuropean Management Review, EarlyView.
Abstract This study examines the relationship between Chief Financial Officer (CFO) overconfidence and firm performance through the lens of environmental violations and constituency statutes. Drawing on stakeholder and upper echelons theories, we find that firms with overconfident CFOs are more likely to commit environmental violations, which ...
Panagiotis Andrikopoulos   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Start(up) with purpose: How goal‐ and duty‐based purpose drive work engagement and performance in startups

open access: yesEuropean Management Review, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Although organizational purpose (OP) has recently gained attention in entrepreneurship research, its motivational potential in startups remains underexplored, limiting the development of effective purpose‐driven strategies to enhance employee work engagement (WE) and startup performance.
Julien A. Nussbaum   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Rich Dad Poor Dad? CEO Private School Background and Firm Risk

open access: yesEuropean Financial Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We examine the effect of CEO childhood socioeconomic status (SES) on firm risk. Using hand‐collected data on US CEOs' private high‐school attendance as proxy for high‐SES, we find that firms led by high‐SES CEOs exhibit 5.35% lower firm risk. This effect diminishes with CEO tenure, analyst coverage, and institutional ownership, consistent with
Yifei Bi, Christos Mavrovitis, Chen Yang
wiley   +1 more source

Climate Regulation and ESG Disclosure in Maritime Transport

open access: yesEuropean Financial Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper investigates whether climate policy signals influence ESG disclosure quality in maritime transport, a capital‐intensive industry responsible for roughly 3% of global CO₂ emissions. Using panel data from 126 listed shipping firms between 2009 and 2023, we construct an author‐based disclosure quality index and treat the IMO's 2018 ...
Xakousti Afroditi Merika   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

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