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  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,857 Views
18 Pages

28 July 2025

In the context of pursuing the goal of strategic imperatives of sustainable development, the ESG performance of enterprises has become a key yardstick for measuring their comprehensive environmental contribution and economic efficiency. Enhancing ESG...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
6,116 Views
18 Pages

21 May 2021

Waste management has become a pressing environmental, social, and economic issue. In Ghana, the government has decentralized the waste management system to include private sector actors as key players to improve the collection, disposal, and recyclin...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
3,362 Views
15 Pages

12 February 2021

Board diversity has become a major topic in a developed context, yet its impact has not been examined by scholars in emerging economies where the liberalization of women is not equally popular. Based on upper echelons theory, this study explores the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
7,531 Views
20 Pages

Managerial Myopia and Long-Term Investment: Evidence from China

  • Qilong Cao,
  • Meng Ju,
  • Jinglei Li and
  • Changbao Zhong

30 December 2022

A corporation’s ability to uphold valuable long-term investments is a critical component of the business’s sustainability. Combining the views of the upper echelons theory and agency theory, this study argues that myopic managerial behavi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,344 Views
21 Pages

22 November 2025

While the link between Environmental, Social, and Governance principles and corporate outcomes is widely examined, a significant gap exists in understanding how the intensity of national ESG policies translates into firm-level green innovation, parti...

  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
9,356 Views
20 Pages

This paper empirically examines the impact of female directors on corporate ESG disclosure scores based on upper echelons theory and women’s ethics of care theory by conducting a multiple regression analysis on 8193 observations of Chinese list...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
2,832 Views
20 Pages

How Do Women on Board Reduce a Firm’s Risks to Ensure Sustainable Performance during a Crisis?

  • Rubeena Tashfeen,
  • Irfan Saleem,
  • Muhammad Ashfaq,
  • Umara Noreen and
  • Muhammad Shafiq

17 July 2023

The research applies the Upper Echelons Theory and the Lehman Sisters Hypothesis to explain how women board members use investment, financial, and liquidity techniques to reduce risk and increase a firm’s value. An original dataset of listed US...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,678 Views
16 Pages

A Study on the Effect of TMT Characteristics and Vertical Dyad Similarity on Enterprise Achievements

  • Jianzhong Xu,
  • Kumchol Yun,
  • Fu Yan,
  • Paeksan Jang,
  • Jonggun Kim and
  • Cholho Pang

22 May 2019

The top management team (TMT) is a key resource for an enterprise’s sustainability, and the study of TMT characteristics is very important to explain the factors involved in an enterprise’s development. In order to comprehensively evaluat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,990 Views
27 Pages

The increasing complexity of the hotel industry necessitates the implementation of sophisticated cost systems capable of delivering accurate and relevant cost information to support managerial decision-making. Investigating the determinants of cost s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
5,592 Views
11 Pages

18 November 2024

The recent technological innovations and the consequences of the pandemic are rapidly changing the management paradigm. Organizations that seek to survive and remain competitive must adapt to these changes. One strategy to cope with these environment...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
6,140 Views
16 Pages

Does Diversity in Top Management Teams Contribute to Organizational Performance? The Response of the IBEX 35 Companies

  • Mercedes Rodríguez-Fernández,
  • Ana I. Gaspar-González and
  • Eva M. Sánchez-Teba

30 March 2020

This study contributes to the dissemination of the theoretical and empirical knowledge on the Upper Echelons Theory, considering training and demographic diversity in Top Management Teams (TMTs) as a unique feature of companies, in our case, the IBEX...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,812 Views
13 Pages

Do Narcissistic Managers Prefer Incentive Systems Based on Financial Instruments? An Analysis Based on Choice Experiments

  • Eva Crespo-Cebada,
  • Carlos Díaz-Caro,
  • Aurora E. Rabazo-Martín and
  • Edilberto J. Rodríguez-Rivero

26 January 2021

The purpose of this work is to analyse the preferences of Chief Executive Officers (CEOs) in relation to the different components of incentive systems: financial vs. non-financial. The incentive systems could be an instrument for the sustainable deve...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
4,399 Views
16 Pages

5 August 2024

This qualitative study explored and compared the perceptions, attitudes, and motivations towards restaurant food waste mitigation among front-of-house (FOH) and back-of-house (BOH) restaurant managers. Semi-structured, one-on-one interviews were cond...

  • Review
  • Open Access
30 Citations
8,408 Views
19 Pages

21 April 2021

This systematic literature review investigates whether corporate sustainability (CS), according to the triple bottom line concept (TBL), is implemented in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and further identifies associated drivers. Building o...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,982 Views
18 Pages

14 August 2024

Improving corporate ESG performance is regarded as a useful means to promote low-carbon transformation. Based on executive echelon theory, this study uses textual analysis to identify the executives’ environmental background characteristics and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,580 Views
18 Pages

Examining CEO Characteristics and Carbon Emissions: A Quantile Approach to UK-Listed Firms

  • Nariman Kandil,
  • Mohamed A. K. Basuony,
  • Mohammed Bouaddi,
  • Hanan Elmoursy and
  • Ahmed F. Elbayuomi

22 June 2025

This study aims to empirically examine the effects of CEO characteristics (gender, nationality, multiple directorships) on the carbon emissions of UK-listed firms. We focus on understanding how these factors influence carbon emissions across the over...

  • Article
  • Open Access
815 Views
33 Pages

21 October 2025

This research investigates the factors influencing organizational participation in Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), specifically examining the role of Chief Executive Officer (CEO) attributes and the moderating influence of stakeholder pressure....

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,642 Views
16 Pages

14 September 2022

To address the question of why corporate executives adopt diverse corporate social responsibility (CSR) strategies, this conceptual paper proposes a decision-frame model to explain how differences in executives’ information-processing templates...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3,408 Views
13 Pages

With the background of public sector management reform in the world of education, the characteristics of the leaders have become the main thing in improving an institution’s performance theory; this study explores the influence of aspects of th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,408 Views
15 Pages

The Impact of CEOs’ Gender on Organisational Efficiency in the Public Sector: Evidence from the English NHS

  • Gema Gutierrez-Romero,
  • Antonio Blanco-Oliver,
  • Mª Teresa Montero-Romero and
  • Mariano Carbonero-Ruz

18 February 2021

Increasing operational efficiency is an objective relevant for all institutions, but it is essential in public entities and even more in public health systems because of the number of resources they consume and their impact on general welfare. This r...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
6,053 Views
29 Pages

In this study, we examined the association between CEO greed and corporate social responsibility (CSR) performance with a particular emphasis on the curtailing role of corporate governance. We found that CEO greed has a negative effect on CSR, since...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
4,143 Views
22 Pages

12 June 2023

Digitalization has emerged as an indispensable pathway for enterprises aiming to achieve low-carbon development, demanding strategic implementation by managers who play a crucial role in shaping organizational outcomes. This study utilizes text minin...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,050 Views
17 Pages

Compared with traditional offline recycling channel, recycling through the “Internet+ recycling” platform has increasingly attracted the academic and practical intention in the past decade because of its accessibility and convenience. To...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,783 Views
18 Pages

16 November 2018

Will the top managers’ attention to financial goals such as profit targets, operating expenses or debt payback schedule affect the firm’s innovation investment? The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between the attenti...

  • Article
  • Open Access
70 Citations
9,053 Views
19 Pages

25 September 2017

We examine the relationships between entrepreneurs’ values, beliefs and orientations with their firms’ engagement in sustainability-oriented entrepreneurial actions, using a sample of 352 newly established businesses from two Asian countries (Banglad...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,221 Views
20 Pages

This study examines whether CEO risk tolerance influences a firm’s sustainable practices, as measured by Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) scores. The analysis uses facial width–height ratio (fWHR) as a proxy for CEO testosteron...

  • Article
  • Open Access
45 Citations
5,860 Views
21 Pages

Is It Necessary to Centralize Power in the CEO to Ensure Environmental Innovation?

  • Beatriz Aibar-Guzmán and
  • José-Valeriano Frías-Aceituno

Using data from a sample of 4863 international firms corresponding to the period 2002–2017, this paper examines the role that chief executive officer (CEO) power plays in environmental innovation and the impact that these strategies have on financial...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,483 Views
31 Pages

21 January 2023

Based on the upper echelon theory and the contingency theory, taking China’s A-share listed companies from 1993 to 2019 as a sample, this paper applies the binary logit model and multiple linear regression model to empirically study the relatio...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,059 Views
20 Pages

14 July 2023

With the signing and implementation of the Paris Agreement, low-carbon models have become the general trend for future development. In this context, many countries have successively introduced relevant low-carbon systems within their companies. These...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,914 Views
27 Pages

25 May 2024

In recent years, there has been growing recognition that the stability of the top management team (TMT) significantly impacts the operation and management of companies. However, few studies have focused on the impact of TMT stability on innovation su...

  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
4,822 Views
20 Pages

24 February 2023

Green innovation is crucial to the sustainable development of corporates. The executive’s environmental protection background has an impact on their comprehensive skills, value orientation, management style, and behavioral patterns, thus playin...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,058 Views
25 Pages

With the rapid development of new energy vehicles, the echelon utilization of power batteries has become a key pathway to promoting efficient resource recycling and environmental sustainability. To address the limitation of the existing studies that...

  • Article
  • Open Access
66 Citations
4,993 Views
18 Pages

2 November 2018

This study attempted to investigate the influence of managerial humanistic attention on corporate social responsibility. Drawing upon humanistic value, upper echelons theory and behavior decision theory, we developed and tested hypotheses using secon...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
5,874 Views
15 Pages

To explore the impact of knowledge-based dynamic capabilities on enterprise performance mechanisms, on the basis of dynamic capabilities theory and upper echelons theory and according to the collected sample data using a structural equation model in...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
7,103 Views
20 Pages

Systemic Approach to Management Control through Determining Factors

  • Ionel Bostan,
  • Aliona Bîrcă,
  • Viorel Țurcanu and
  • Christiana Brigitte Sandu

This article aimed to analyse the influence of the main factors on management control used in optimization activities, in order to reach the strategic goals of a company. Agency, transactional costs and contingency theories have been analysed from th...

  • Review
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,370 Views
15 Pages

27 September 2023

As a plethora of sustainability challenges are rooted in human behaviour, the aim of this paper is to develop a conceptual framework that brings behavioural insights to the forefront in corporate sustainability research. The ABCD (attention, belief f...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,987 Views
19 Pages

Although it is well established that the military experience of top executives has a profound influence on firms’ decisions, empirical evidence on how military experience matters to corporate environmental investment has been scarce. Drawn on i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,032 Views
16 Pages

20 July 2023

In this paper, the utility function model is applied to study the pricing strategy and order/production strategy of a two-echelon supply chain. Through local point-to-point communication between multi-agents and considering the random communication d...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,223 Views
30 Pages

9 December 2025

This study analyzes the political speeches of Brazilian federal representatives from the Liberal Party (PL), the primary platform for Bolsonarism, to identify patterns and features of conspiracy theories. Two core concepts are used: conspiracy theori...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,726 Views
12 Pages

3 April 2024

Sustainability has redefined corporate performance-oriented strategies, but research linking organizational leadership to sustainability strategies remains limited. Indeed, most past studies have employed the perspective of institutional pressure to...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,735 Views
13 Pages

4 September 2024

Environmental behaviors are critical for the sustainability of business organizations. However, the role of organizational leadership and corporate social responsibility in predicting employees’ environmental behaviors has been underexplored. T...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,542 Views
25 Pages

17 May 2023

In this paper, a novel hyper-rectangle cover theory is developed. Two important concepts, the cover order and the cover length, are introduced. We construct a specific échelon form of the matrix in the same manner as that employed to determine...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,984 Views
10 Pages

With the increasing complexity of supply chain structures, effective coordination among stakeholders remains essential to maximize performance. This paper presents a systematic literature review of coordination contracts. Fourteen types were explored...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
5,290 Views
18 Pages

6 February 2019

This study investigated the nature and level of market-oriented sustainability of Sjenica sheep cheese, a Serbian Protected Designation of Origin (PDO)-registered product. In the analysis of the supply chain market sustainability, three theories were...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,085 Views
20 Pages

The Green Blueprint: Founder Clan Culture Imprints and Green Innovation in Chinese Family Firms

  • Feifei Lu,
  • Zixuan Zang,
  • Khalid Mehmood,
  • Usman Ghani and
  • Shuya Rao

25 February 2025

Drawing on upper-echelon, imprinting, and agency theories, this paper investigates the influence of founder CEOs’ clan cultural values on family firms’ green innovation performance and examines the moderating roles of family involvement a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,384 Views
21 Pages

19 December 2024

In the context of global climate change and resource scarcity, corporate environmental, social, and governance (ESG) performance, as well as corporate green innovation, have emerged as pivotal drivers for fostering sustainable development. The hetero...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,831 Views
21 Pages

Sustainability of Taiwanese SME Family Businesses in the Succession Decision-Making Agenda

  • Cheng-Wen Lee,
  • Hsiao Chuan Chen,
  • Choong Leng Peng and
  • Shu Hui Chen

9 January 2023

SME family businesses play a vital role in the world economy as a recognized sustainable contributor to economic growth. Aged owners of Taiwan’s family businesses have become the biggest problem; because of the dramatically changing technology...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,462 Views
23 Pages

4 February 2025

How do CEOs’ unique early-life experiences—particularly those shaped by formative influences such as military training—impact their subsequent strategic decision-making in green innovation? By integrating upper-echelon theory, impri...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,201 Views
19 Pages

26 August 2025

As sustainable development gains importance, corporate ESG performance has become a key factor in investment decisions and long-term business growth. Drawing on upper echelon theory and stakeholder theory, this study examines the impact of executives...

  • Article
  • Open Access
71 Citations
7,023 Views
16 Pages

Commitment to Human Resource Management of the Top Management Team for Green Creativity

  • Weiwei Huo,
  • Xianmiao Li,
  • Manyi Zheng,
  • Yan Liu and
  • Jinyi Yan

31 January 2020

Drawing on the upper echelons theory and targeted at Chinese coal enterprises, this research examines the interactions of commitment to human resource management on green creativity, and discusses the mediating mechanism of green human resource manag...

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