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  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,981 Views
13 Pages

12 January 2022

The main goal of this study is to analyze whether the existence of remuneration committees tend to disclose more corporate social responsibility (CSR) information. In addition, we test the moderating role played by the proportion of independent direc...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,177 Views
16 Pages

23 August 2022

Corporate social responsibility (CSR) activities are affected by the national system, and the social and cultural environment to which a firm belongs. This study investigates whether the characteristics of an audit committee (AC) such as independence...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
3,465 Views
14 Pages

22 September 2021

Corporate social responsibility (CSR) involves multiple activities and is influenced by the cultural and legal environment of the country in which a firm is located. This study examines the role of audit committees’ (AC) financial expertise in the re...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
6,215 Views
17 Pages

7 December 2019

The sustainable development of business requires adjustments in corporate governance to assure the economic, social and environmental aspects of a firm’s responsibility are managed according to the triple bottom line approach. For this purpose,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
71 Citations
12,180 Views
20 Pages

Corporate Governance Mechanisms and ESG Reporting: Evidence from the Saudi Stock Market

  • Hasan Mohamad Bamahros,
  • Abdulsalam Alquhaif,
  • Ameen Qasem,
  • Wan Nordin Wan-Hussin,
  • Murad Thomran,
  • Shaker Dahan Al-Duais,
  • Siti Norwahida Shukeri and
  • Hytham M. A. Khojally

19 May 2022

The code of corporate governance in Saudi Arabia places a greater focus on social responsibility initiatives by Saudi companies and the reporting of such activities to the community. The current study examines the relationship between corporate gover...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,777 Views
19 Pages

27 September 2024

This study examines how committees’ characteristics affect business performance (BuPE) in Saudi Arabia. Moreover, this study investigates the connection between BuPE and Environmental Sustainability (ESG), as determined by Corporate Social Resp...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,673 Views
22 Pages

31 August 2024

The impact of corporate governance mechanisms has been examined directly and independently, considering that such characteristics compete to explain environmental, social, and governance (ESG) performance. However, the nexus may be more complex than...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
7,105 Views
22 Pages

The Dimension of Sustainability: A Comparative Analysis of Broadness of Information in Italian Companies

  • Sabrina Spallini,
  • Virginia Milone,
  • Antonio Nisio and
  • Patrizia Romanazzi

30 January 2021

In recent years, sustainability has become one of the key dimensions of business performance. The results obtained in terms of sustainability must be adequately communicated in suitable reports, the quality of which is determined by several factors....

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,912 Views
28 Pages

This research examines how corporate governance (CG) affects corporate social responsibility (CSR) disclosure with government ownership as a moderation factor by analyzing panel data from 30 industrial firms listed on the Amman Stock Exchange during...

  • Article
  • Open Access
163 Citations
18,099 Views
20 Pages

17 September 2019

The multidisciplinary nature of a corporate social responsibility (CSR) committee reflects the commitment as well as the expectations and demands of diverse stakeholders. So far, CSR committees have been mainly considered as variables of control in l...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
4,759 Views
19 Pages

25 May 2020

The aim of this study was to improve the understanding of the factors determining a firm’s affiliation with the United Nations Global Compact (UN GC) as the largest voluntary corporate responsibility initiative worldwide. Drawing on the board p...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,163 Views
18 Pages

This study examines the effects of internal governance mechanisms on the issuance of green bonds and investigates whether firms issuing green bonds exhibit distinct corporate governance characteristics, especially regarding board gender diversity and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,684 Views
16 Pages

27 February 2025

This paper explores the relationship between a board’s corporate social responsibility (CSR) orientation and its company’s labor policies. Using data from 1950 non-financial firms in 21 emerging economies from 2010 to 2023, we found evide...

  • Article
  • Open Access
766 Views
30 Pages

The corporate finance field is inherently engaging, with a strong focus on factors influencing various performance indicators. This study analyzes 66 companies from the Information and Technology sector, all part of the Standard and Poor’s 500...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
5,785 Views
22 Pages

In this paper, the authors examine the impact of corporate governance mechanisms on corporate social responsibility (CSR) disclosure in European and Anglo-Saxon contexts. The study is based on 324 Anglo-Saxon listed corporations and 310 European list...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,326 Views
21 Pages

5 September 2024

While there has been a steady stream of research on chief technology officers (CTOs), studies specifically examining the expanding role of CTOs, particularly in the areas of environmental, social, and governance (ESG), remain scarce. Despite extensiv...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
7,645 Views
14 Pages

The Impact of Corporate Social Responsibility on the Financial Performance of Listed Companies in Thailand

  • Muttanachai Suttipun,
  • Pankaewta Lakkanawanit,
  • Trairong Swatdikun and
  • Wilawan Dungtripop

9 August 2021

This study aims to: (1) investigate the amount of corporate social and environmental responsibility (CSR) spending, awards, and activities of listed companies in the Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET) and in the Market for Alternative Investment (MAI);...

  • Article
  • Open Access
292 Citations
32,656 Views
20 Pages

Composition and Activity of the Board of Directors: Impact on ESG Performance in the Banking System

  • Giuliana Birindelli,
  • Stefano Dell’Atti,
  • Antonia Patrizia Iannuzzi and
  • Marco Savioli

10 December 2018

A growing body of research suggests that the composition of a firm’s board of directors can influence its environmental, social and governance (ESG) performance. In the banking industry, ESG performance has not yet been explored to discover how...

  • Article
  • Open Access
83 Citations
14,561 Views
19 Pages

18 October 2022

This study examines the influence of the diversity of the board of directors (BoD) and the environmental, social and governance (ESG) performance of 105 Italian banks during the period 2017–2021. Our analysis investigates board diversity in ter...

  • Article
  • Open Access
39 Citations
6,248 Views
16 Pages

11 July 2018

In the last decade, companies have started to disclose information on carbon emissions. To our knowledge, this is the first paper to look into this phenomenon in South America, which is a very important geographical area regarding climate change beca...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,474 Views
18 Pages

This study explores the key factors driving corporate social responsibility disclosure (CSR_DISC) by Takaful insurance companies (TKIs) in Saudi Arabia during and after the COVID-19 pandemic. We use content analysis and follow an unweighted scoring m...

  • Article
  • Open Access
853 Views
19 Pages

CSR-Mediating CO2 Policy Effects on Environmental Kuznets Curve in Brazil: Case Study of an Airline Company

  • Juliana Lovatte,
  • Sarah da Silva Everton,
  • Joshua Onome Imoniana and
  • Funmi Alakija

This study employs a critical perspective: aiming to provide a subjective and socially constructed view on the impact of corporate governance and the corporate social responsibility (CSR) choices on the environmental Kuznets curve (EKC) in terms of C...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,523 Views
17 Pages

4 September 2023

This study examines the complex joint effect of firm and board characteristics on environmental, social, and governance (ESG) disclosure by Chinese listed banks, viewed from a configurational perspective. By utilizing fuzzy-set qualitative comparativ...

  • Article
  • Open Access
57 Citations
7,178 Views
17 Pages

17 July 2021

This study aimed to analyze the board of directors’ commitment to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by looking at the influence of the characteristics and activities of the board of directors and the existence of Corporate Social Responsibilit...

  • Article
  • Open Access
43 Citations
5,523 Views
22 Pages

Corporate Governance and Disclosure of Information on Corporate Social Responsibility: An Analysis of the Top 200 Universities in the Shanghai Ranking

  • Raquel Garde Sánchez,
  • Jesús Mauricio Flórez-Parra,
  • María Victoria López-Pérez and
  • Antonio Manuel López-Hernández

19 February 2020

Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and its disclosure in the university environment is a topic of current relevance, as it makes the entities’ commitments visible and provides indicators that enable them to improve the institution management...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,730 Views
26 Pages

Community Perceptions on the Critical Success Factors of Hotels’ Community-Based Corporate Social Responsibility

  • Azilah Kasim,
  • Siti Noormala Jailani,
  • Muhammad Fauzi Mokhtar,
  • Jasmine Zea Raziah Radha Rashid Radha,
  • Bussalin Khuadthong and
  • Maebel Leong Sai Fong

20 June 2023

This paper examines community as the consumer of community-related corporate social responsibility (CSR). It empirically investigates the critical success factors of CSR within the context of tourism from the community perspective because, for CSR ac...

  • Concept Paper
  • Open Access
36 Citations
16,700 Views
17 Pages

A Community-Based Agro-Food Hub Model for Sustainable Farming

  • Ioannis Manikas,
  • George Malindretos and
  • Socrates Moschuris

15 February 2019

This conceptual paper focuses on the Agro-Food Hub paradigm as the main enabler for the sustainable development of agro-food Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in the context of the currently established agro-food systems. This paper is based on a s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
7,998 Views
23 Pages

The current study examines the relationship between corporate social responsibility (CSR) disclosures, media announcements of CSR awards and a firm’s cost of debt in Malaysia. The sample consists of 104 Malaysian publicly listed companies belon...

  • Article
  • Open Access
76 Citations
6,318 Views
19 Pages

12 December 2018

Based on the upper echelon theory and theory of feminist care ethics, this paper uses the data of 359 Chinese listed companies between 2008–2016 to investigate the influence of female executives on corporate environmental investment. The results of t...

  • Review
  • Open Access
31 Citations
8,476 Views
21 Pages

The Effect of Corporate Social Responsibility on Earnings Management: Bibliometric Review

  • José Manuel Santos-Jaén,
  • Ana León-Gómez and
  • José Serrano-Madrid

This review aims to study the knowledge development and research dissemination on the influence of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) on earnings management through a social network approach using a bibliometric review. A systematic bibliometric r...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
8,111 Views
13 Pages

Measuring and Monitoring Sustainability in Listed European Football Clubs: A Value-Added Reporting Perspective

  • Alessio Faccia,
  • Leonardo José Mataruna-Dos-Santos,
  • Hussein Munoz Helù and
  • Daniel Range

25 November 2020

All sports have their roots and connection in some way to the Olympic spirit, and therefore fall within the vision and mission of the Olympic Committee, which has a central aim of “building a better world”. This is a fundamental value of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
193 Views
17 Pages

27 November 2025

This study examines sustainability reporting practices (2010–2023) of emerging markets’ companies cross-listed in London as Global Depositary Receipts (GDRs). Despite the voluntary nature of sustainability reporting, all examined companie...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,967 Views
9 Pages

Aerial Spraying and Its Impacts on Human Health in Banana-Growing Areas of Ecuador

  • Mauricio Guillen,
  • Juan Calderon,
  • Freddy Espinoza and
  • Lizan Ayol

16 October 2024

The present work examines the relationship between aerial spraying and its health impacts on the population living in the banana production areas of Ecuador (the rural sectors of the cantons Milagro and Naranjito, Guayas Province). Objectives: the ob...