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Shareholder activism on sustainability issues
Grewal, Jody; Serafeim, George; Yoon, Aaron - 2017
Shareholder activism on sustainability issues has become increasingly prevalent over the years, with the number of proposals filed doubling from 1999 to 2013. We use recent innovations in accounting standard setting to classify 2,665 shareholder proposals that address environmental and social...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011873309
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Corporate Governance and Corporate Social Performance : The Influence of Boards, Ownership and Institutions
Desender, Kurt A. - 2015
We analyze how ownership concentration and type, and board independence are related to corporate social performance (CSP). Drawing from agency, team production and stakeholder perspectives, we argue that the distribution of costs and benefits to shareholders and other stakeholders is crucial to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013027401
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Impact of Corporate Governance Characteristics on Corporate Social Responsibility Disclosure Index – A Case Study of Islamic Banks in Pakistan
Parveen, Mariam - 2019
analyzed empirically in this study. For this purpose, data were collected from Islamic banks in Pakistan for the time period … influence on the reporting of CSR of Islamic banks in Pakistan. The outcomes of this research are valuable for policymakers and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012864005
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Pathways to materiality : how sustainability issues become financially material to corporations and their investors
Rogers, Jean; Serafeim, George - 2019
Management and disclosure of environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues have received substantial interest over the last decade. In this paper, we outline a framework of how ESG issues become financially material, affecting corporate profitability and valuation. We argue that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012174631
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The Impact of Corporate Social Responsibility on Employee Layoffs, Severance Payments, and Layoff Disclosure
Collins, Denton - 2018
We examine the impact of corporate social responsibility (CSR) performance on the likelihood and magnitude of firms' decisions to lay off employees (henceforth referred to as “layoffs”), the magnitude of severance payments made to terminated employees, and the likelihood of voluntary...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012909579
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Corporate governance looking back to look forward in Pakistan : a review, synthesis and future research agenda
Khan, Sattar; Kamal, Yasir; Hussain, Shahid; Abbas, Muhammad - In: Future Business Journal 8 (2022), pp. 1-32
The basic aim of this paper is to systematically review the corporate governance research trends in Pakistan and to … corporate governance literature by adopting the systematic literature review methodology in Pakistan an emerging economy. It is … contributions to the corporate governance literature in Pakistan on the potentially identified areas of corporate governance. …
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Why CEOs invest in Corporate Social Responsibility initiatives : evidence on Shariah compliant firms
Anwer, Zaheer; Wajahat Azmi; Mohamad, Shamsher; … - In: Applied economics letters 28 (2021) 8, pp. 655-662
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The impact of corporate governance on CSR disclosure in Islamic banks : empirical evidence from GCC countries
Muhamad Anduh; Hanan Abdulaziz M. AlAgeely - In: Middle East journal of management : MEJM 2 (2015) 4, pp. 283-295
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Voluntary Assurance of Voluntary CSR Disclosure
Bagnoli, Mark - 2016
We study a firm's decisions to engage in socially responsible activities, voluntarily report on them and purchase external assurance of the report. In our signaling model, neither firm type nor the level of activity is observed. We show that if voluntary assurance is not too expensive, the firm...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012996841
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Voluntary Assurance of Voluntary CSR Disclosure
Bagnoli, Mark - 2014
We study a firm's decisions to engage in socially responsible activities, voluntarily report on them and purchase external assurance of the report. In our signaling model, neither firm type nor the level of activity is observed. We show that if voluntary assurance is not too expensive, the firm...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013051004