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Influence of chairpersons' birthplace and work city hierarchy on CSR performance in Chinese listed companies

open access: yesHeliyon
This study explores how administrative class disparities between an individual's birthplace and workplace influence corporate social responsibility (CSR) investment decisions.
Weiyu Zhang   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Essays on Upper Echelons & Strategic Renewal: A Multilevel Contingency Approach [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
To survive and prosper firms have to renew their strategies to maintain a dynamic strategic fit with their changing environments. Strategic renewal can be understood as the adaptive choices and actions a firm undertakes to alter its path dependence and ...
Heyden, M.L.M (Mariano), Heyden, Mariano
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ESG Controversies in Global Firms: A Black Mark?

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Despite increasing attention paid by companies to sustainability, there is still evidence of environmental, social and governance (commonly referred to as ESG) scandals. As research on this topic is scant, this paper aims to analyse the impact of ESG controversies on firms' sustainability practices, that is, ESG policies, as well as ...
Beatrice Bais, Guido Orzes, Marco Sartor
wiley   +1 more source

CEO Risk Orientation and Environmental Sustainability Disclosure: Managerial Discretion, Institutional Constraints, and Strategic Transparency

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines whether CEO risk orientation shapes environmental sustainability disclosure (ESD) and how institutional constraints condition this relationship. We argue that environmental disclosure constitutes a strategic exposure decision because greater transparency can increase regulatory scrutiny and stakeholder pressure.
Muhammad Jameel Hussain   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Top Management Environmental Concern, Eco‐Product Development Effectiveness and Firms' Environmental Performance: The Paradoxical Moderating Role of Environmental Information Sharing

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigates the combined effect of top management environmental concern and eco‐product development effectiveness on firms' environmental performance. The study also considers the moderating impact of environmental information sharing on this process.
Ayodele C. Oniku   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Leadership, Sustainability, and Performance: A Cluster‐Based Systematic Review Anchored in the Triple Bottom Line Framework

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study maps and synthesizes the intellectual structure of sustainability‐oriented leadership research by examining how economic, environmental, and social performance dimensions are addressed across the literature. A cluster‐based systematic literature review was conducted using data from the Scopus and Web of Science databases.
Yaprak Demirsoy   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

How does top management team composition matter for continual growth? Reinvestigating Penrose’s growth theory through the lens of upper echelons theory

open access: yes, 2018
Purpose: Penrose’s argument regarding the managerial constraint on continual expansion over two consecutive periods is termed the “Penrose effect,” a relatively less investigated premise in Penrose’s growth theory.
Wein-Hong Chen   +5 more
core   +1 more source

The Joint Effect of Buyer Quantitative and Qualitative Information Disclosure on Suppliers' Green Innovation

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Firms' strategic decision‐making relies not only on their own information but also on that disclosed by supply chain partners. While research recognizes buyers' importance in green innovation, the impact of their information disclosure remains underdeveloped. Drawing on the extended resource‐based view, this study investigates the joint effect
Yang Yang, Yan Jiang
wiley   +1 more source

The Promoting Effect or Inhibition Effect? Executives’ Educational Level on Corporate Social Responsibility in Chemical Industry

open access: yesChemical Engineering Transactions, 2018
Chemical industry is the industrial foundation in China. The corporate social responsibility and executives’ educational level are the hot topics in the field of chemical industry and accounting. Based on the upper echelons theory and stakeholder theory,
Bin Wang
doaj   +1 more source

Upper Echelons Theory and Research: A review of theory and empirical literature 28 years later

open access: yes, 2012
Since the seminal work of Hambrick and Mason (1984) researchers have devoted significant attention to exploring how the human side of managers, such as their backgrounds and psychological characteristics, influence the decisions they make (Nielsen 2010).
Kinuu, David   +4 more
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