There is limited understanding of the precise circumstances under which environmental actions—such as environmental innovation—contribute to firm performance. Building on the resource-based view and on stakeholder theory, this study argue...
The hospitality sector has been one of the worst-hit industries due to the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, followed by nationwide lockdowns and curfews. Further, other factors, including the Russia–Ukraine war, commodity price rise, and recessi...
This study examines how environmental, social, and governance (ESG) influences firm performance and assesses whether firm-level financial stability moderates this relationship. A sample of 272 companies from six countries in ASEAN over the period of...
Although the importance of green external integration has been widely recognized, our understanding of how firm size influences its link with firm performance is still limited. This study develops a conceptual framework in which firm size is proposed...
This study explores the relationship between firm-level carbon productivity (CRP), home country environmental performance (HCEP), and firm performance—both financial and international—in the global meat exporting industry. While prior res...
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This study aims to examine the impacts of firm constraints and proactive innovation on firm performance, using a sample of 3504 small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in Vietnam from 2011–2015. Our findings suggest that technological innovations i...
This study investigates the impact of sustainability reporting on firm performance. This paper also examines the moderating effect of family ownership on the relationship between sustainability disclosure and firm performance. The research sample con...
Organizational ambidexterity is an essential topic in management research. A growing number of studies argue that organizational ambidexterity is increasingly critical to the sustained competitive advantage of firms. However, there is less research o...
Digital marketing innovation plays an important role in a company’s performance. Since this concept is quite new, there are not many empirical studies on the impact of marketing innovations. The purpose of this study is to examine the impact of...
Based on the empirical analysis of panel data on new energy listed companies in China, the relationships among government subsidies, enterprise research and development input (R&D input), and firm performance are explored to measure the impact of...
The effects of firm-specific resources on firm performance has been a quest of many and widely studied worldwide. In today’s business environment, arguments suggesting the relative importance of firm-specific resources in explaining firm perfor...
This study aims to analyze the impact of the environmental, social, and governance (ESG) disclosure on the firm performance, given the stakeholders’ increasing attention to the firm’s ESG practices. Looking at the European context, the Di...
The main objective of this paper is to bring a model for firm sustainability performance index by applying both classical and Bayesian structural equation modeling (parametric and semi-parametric modeling). Both techniques are considered to the resea...
This study examines the moderating effect of firm size on the relationship between innovation and firm performance of small and medium enterprises in 29 countries in Eastern European and Central Asia. The study also investigates whether the impact of...
This study investigates the relationship between firms’ competition, wage, CEOs’ characteristics, and firm performance (measured by net income per employee, return on assets (ROA) and return on equity (ROE)) of Vietnam’s 693 listed...
The purpose of this study is to examine the influence of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) on firm performance. The study examines the SDG coverage of international firms in six industries listed in the Corporate Knights’ Index, includin...
The mining industry remains one of the most hazardous industries globally, with occupational injuries and fatalities imposing significant operational and financial costs on companies. Although prior research has explored the impact of workplace safet...
Carbon emissions and agency costs can have an impact on firms’ financial performance. However, limited attention has been paid to the combined and gradual effects of these two factors on firms’ performance. We explore the separate and com...
This study aims to explore the relationship between corporate governance and financial performance of publicly listed family and non-family firms in the Japanese manufacturing industry. The study obtains data from Bloomberg over the period 2014&ndash...
This study examines the relationships among ESG performance, employee turnover, and firm value and investigates whether employee turnover conditions the valuation relevance of ESG performance firms of different sizes across Taiwanese firms using data...
To what extent a firm’s resources (firm effect) and the structure of the sector (industry effect) are sources of a firm’s competitiveness has been debated for years in strategic management. Most of the empirical studies carried out have f...
This study investigates the influence of corporate sustainability performance (CSP) on firm value through investment efficiency. By applying a panel regression analysis using a large sample of 26,838 firm-year observations that represent 9218 Asian l...
The purpose of this study is to empirically examine the influence of firm characteristics (size, age, industry type, and ownership) on a firm’s strategic orientation. The business environment, namely market uncertainty and competition intensity...
Privatization has played an important role in national economic reform in Vietnam. However, unlike other transitional countries in Central and Eastern Europe, Vietnam has chosen a partial and gradual privatization where the government still holds sig...
This study examines the moderation effects of corporate governance provisions on the link between family involvement (i.e., family ownership and family management) in publicly-traded firms and firm performance by drawing upon agency theory, with a fo...
This study develops multi-dimensional partner reconfiguration strategies and addresses how they affect firm performance in a series of alliance portfolios by applying the dynamic sustainable perspective. Using data collected from 565 fund product all...
Even though several studies have been done on intellectual capital, ownership structure, and firm performance, their status has remained uncertain in developing countries like Malaysia. Prior studies have generally focused on a single industry and ov...
This research aims to explore the impact of corporate governance on firm performance while considering financial leverage as a mediating variable. This study was conducted in the non-financial sector of Pakistan, and data was collected from financial...
This study investigated the complementary effect of three orientations of knowledge management (KM) strategy on firm performance: external and internal, explicit and tacit, and exploratory and exploitive. We propose a theoretical framework for examin...
This study investigated the effect of ownership structure on environmental, social, and governance (ESG) disclosure, firm value, firm performance, and audit committees as moderating variables in the Indonesian context. The ownership structures in thi...
This study aims to investigate the relationship of firm performance and corporate social responsibility reporting and the moderating role of a firm’s life cycle stages in Chinese listed companies. We used the sample of all A-share listed firms on the...
Previous studies have overlooked hidden ownership in their analysis, which could result in biased findings. This research utilizes unique data sources to uncover hidden ownership patterns and employs ordinary least square regression to investigate th...
One perspective suggests that firms heavily involved in innovation may face increased risks. It is essential to know the suitable proxies in measuring innovation related to risk taking. Many studies use research-and-development intensity (RDI) and re...
The literature on big data analytics and firm performance is still fragmented and lacking in attempts to integrate the current studies’ results. This study aims to provide a systematic review of contributions related to big data analytics and f...
This research adopted a distinctive approach to explore the link between corporate environmental performance, customer satisfaction, and firm performance. It also examines the moderating role of digital transformation on these relationships. We colle...
In the past few decades, a firm’s innovative climate has received much attention in the context of innovative behavior, competitiveness, and business performance. The existing literature has relied to a great extent on innovative climate as an...
This study explores the significance of two determinants: Supply Chain Capabilities and Supply Chain Visibility, in the intricate interplay among Supply Chain Resilience, Supply Chain Performance, and Firm Performance. A dataset comprising 221 partic...
This study investigates the relationship between capital structure and financial performance in South African firms, focusing on the potential non-linear, inverse U-shaped effect of leverage on profitability. Drawing on data from 1548 firm-year obser...
This study examines how environmental, social, and governance (ESG) occurrences relate to firm performance and how these relationships depend on firms’ investments in brand capital. Using firm-level data spanning more than two decades, we analy...
The current study explores how corporate governance affects firm performance. It also examines the link between corporate governance and firm performance within capital structure, focusing on how financing decisions may moderate this relationship.&md...
This study aims to explore whether capital structure (CS) has a contingent role in the relationship between corporate governance (CG) quality and firm performance. The empirical findings indicate that CG quality had a positive and significant effect...
This paper examines the effects of adopting types of green innovation strategies on a firm’s innovation success and performance. The empirical analysis applies propensity score and kernel matching to a Spanish firm panel during 2008–2016....
Disclosing information on environmental, social, and governance (ESG) parameters is voluntary for most firms across the world. Companies disclose their performance on ESG datapoints due to two main reasons—(i) to gain the trust of stakeholders...
Financial derivatives have been increasingly used by firms to hedge against financial risks. However, it is still not clear what factors at the firm level lead to firms’ derivative use and whether derivative use can generate performance improvement,...
Gender diversity is increasingly recognized as a critical element in corporate management. However, existing research on its impact on firm performance demonstrates inconsistency in a global context. This study employs 1990 publicly listed Japanese c...
This study explored how corporate social responsibility (CSR) risk, social networks, and firm performance interacted in light of resource dependence theory and information asymmetry theory to bridge the literature gap between CSR risk and firm perfor...
This study examines the effects of capital lease arrangements on the operating performance of shipping firms as proxied by Return on Assets (ROA). The maritime industry is highly capital-intensive, often requiring substantial investments in fleet acq...
Disabled persons are the largest minority group in the world and an important part of the labor market. However, few studies use empirical methods to investigate the economic consequences of including disabled employees from the perspective of the de...
The relationship between intellectual capital and firm performance represents a critical facet of corporate governance, warranting comprehensive investigation. By analyzing data from 1151 non-financial firms listed on the Indonesia Stock Exchange ove...
Innovation is a complex process and has been shown to be influential towards different types of stakeholders. From the viewpoint of stakeholder theory, shareholders and creditors are more likely to be concerned about corporate financial performance....
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