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Machine Learning for Predicting Corporate Violations: How Do CEO Characteristics Matter?
Based on upper echelon theory, we employ machine learning to explore how CEO characteristics influence corporate violations using a large-scale...
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CEO Narcissism and Credit Ratings
Prior research has investigated how narcissistic executives affect firm policies and outcomes and how these executives influence colleagues and...
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When CEO Pay Becomes a Brand Problem
For over four decades, the topic of Chief Executive Officer (CEO) compensation has attracted considerable attention from the fields of economics,...
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CEO Religion and Corporate Social Responsibility: A Socio-behavioral Model
Studies linking religion to CSR have produced conflicting findings due to a failure to draw distinctions among religious influences and different CSR...
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Untangling the Paradoxical Relationship Between Religion and Business: A Systematic Literature Review of Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Religiosity Research
Despite numerous chief executive officers (CEOs) citing their religious convictions as the primary guiding framework for their decision-making,...
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Frequent CEO Turnover and Firm Performance: The Resilience Effect of Workforce Diversity
CEO turnover (or succession) is a critical event in an organization that influences organizational processes and performance. The objective of this...
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Are All Directors Treated Equally? Evidence from Director Turnover Following Opportunistic Insider Selling
This study investigates the likelihood of director turnover following opportunistic insider selling. Given that opportunistic insider selling may be...
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CEO Foreign Experience and Green Innovation: Evidence from China
We examine whether and how CEO foreign experience affects firm’s green innovation. Using a sample of Chinese public companies and hand-collected CEO...
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Does CEO Risk-Aversion Affect Carbon Emission?
Does CEO tolerance to risk affect a firm’s long-run sustainability? Using CEO insider debt holding, we show that CEO’s risk-aversion encourages...
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CEO Inside Debt and Employee Workplace Safety
Theoretical studies suggest that, when determining the workplace safety level, CEOs face a trade-off between ex ante safety-improving expenditures...
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The Impact of Corporate Tax Avoidance on Board of Directors and CEO Reputation
This study examines the impact of corporate tax avoidance on board of directors and chief executive officer (CEO) reputation. Our regression results...
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Does CEO–Auditor Dialect Connectedness Trigger Audit Opinion Shop**? Evidence from China
Using the original information from the identification cards of CEOs and signing auditors to hand-collect the data on CEO–auditor dialect...
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Do Boards Take Environmental, Social, and Governance Issues Seriously? Evidence from Media Coverage and CEO Dismissals
This study empirically investigates the dismissal of U.S. CEOs following negative media coverage of environmental, social, and governance (ESG)...
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Hometown Ties and Favoritism in Chinese Corporations: Evidence from CEO Dismissals and Corporate Social Responsibility
This paper provides a systematic analysis of how hometown ties, the most common and distinct bases for interpersonal ties to build upon in China,...
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Echoes of CEO Entrepreneurial Orientation: How and When CEO Entrepreneurial Orientation Influences Dual CSR Activities
We explore the potential impact of CEO entrepreneurial orientation on firm choice of CSR activities (corporate philanthropy vs. CSR innovation)....
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Locality Stereotype, CEO Trustworthiness and Stock Price Crash Risk: Evidence from China
Exploring the locality stereotype with respect to CEO’s trustworthiness, we find that firms whose CEOs are from more reputable hometowns have a...
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The Dismissal of New Female CEOs: A Role Congruity Perspective
Gender role congruity theory emphasizes the ubiquity of male-typed leadership schemas as barriers to female leaders’ career development (i.e.,...
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Local Tournament Incentives and Corporate Social Responsibility
The objective of this research is to examine whether and how enterprises adjust their corporate social responsibility (CSR) activities in response to...
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Top Managers’ Rice Culture and Corporate Social Responsibility Performance
Ecological psychology regards culture as a response to the demands of the environment. As rice farming in history has significantly influenced the...
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Shine a Light: How Firm Responses to Announcing Earnings Restatements Changed After Sarbanes–Oxley
We explore how the Sarbanes–Oxley Act of 2002 created pressure for firms to take more visible and costly corrective action following the announcement...