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A literature review on corporate governance and ESG research: Emerging trends and future directions
Full text linkExtant research emphasizes that corporate governance (CG) significantly influences environmental, social, and governance (ESG) outcomes. This paper undertakes a content analysis and reviews 91 academic articles published in 41 journals over the past 14 years (2010-2023). We examine the role of CG in ESG outcomes by focusing on CG themes, ESG indicators, theories, countries, and empirical methodologies used to address endogeneity. The findings show that several factors collectively impact ESG outcomes positively. Such factors include female directors, institutional investors, independent directors, CEO characteristics, directors' compensation, and sustainability committees. Relatedly, the findings also suggest that family ownership may potentially exert a detrimental effect on ESG performance. Despite the burgeoning evidence on CG and ESG outcomes, we highlight several understudied areas, such as directors' ESG expertise in specific ESG-related sectors and CEO tenure. Furthermore, we ca..
The veil of secrecy: Family firms’ approach to ESG transparency and the role of institutional investors
Full text linkOur analysis explores the relationship between family ownership and ESG (Environmental, Social, Governance) transparency in Italian companies from 2016–2020, employing agency theory, stakeholder theory, and Socio Emotional Wealth (SEW). We find that family-owned firms typically exhibit lower ESG transparency, especially in social aspects, due to priorities like privacy and legacy. Institutional investors (IIs), however, play a crucial role in enhancing transparency, mitigating the usual opacity in these firms. This highlights the importance of IIs in advancing ESG disclosures, providing strategic insights for addressing the transparency challenges associated with family ownership and improving governance practices to narrow the corporate transparency gap
Exploring the determinants of corporate social performance: does firm size matter?
No full textPurpose – This paper aims to investigate the relationship between relevant company determinants and corporate social performance as measured by the social pillar of the environmental, social and governance (ESG) score, exploring whether firm size matters.
Design/methodology/approach – The authors use the system generalized method of moment estimator for dynamic panel data to analyze an unbalanced panel of firms listed in the STOXX Europe 600 index from 2015 to 2021.
Findings – The results indicate that several board characteristics (size, independence, percentage of nonexecutive members, gender diversity and the presence of a corporate social responsibility sustainability committee) and fewer ESG controversies are associated with higher corporate social performance. However, the results show no relationship between corporate financial performance and the social pillar. Furthermore, the authors demonstrate that large companies and those external to the financial industry show higher social performance.
Practical implications – The findings provide important implications for several stakeholders, including regulators and policymakers. Increasing attention should be directed toward specific firm determinants to enhance corporate social performance.
Originality/value – The authors advance understanding of the existing literature by examining how corporate social performance is influenced by its main corporate determinants
On the road to sustainability: The role of board characteristics in driving ESG performance in Africa
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Making profits with a sense of purpose: Institutional investors’ influence on ESG integration and sustainable investing
Full text linkLa diffusione dei modelli di leadership condivisa: un’analisi esplorativa sulle società quotate italiane
Full text linkIl presente lavoro si propone di analizzare il fenomeno della leadership condivisa nelle imprese quotate italiane. In particolare, analizza la diffusione della dual leadership, ovvero la presenza di due amministratori delegati (co-AD), in contrapposizione alla tradizionale leadership unitaria. Recenti studi indicano che il fenomeno della leadership condivisa è in crescita a livello internazionale. La letteratura sottolinea anche che la nomina di co-AD è una delle possibili risposte organizzative per gestire efficacemente la crescente complessità esterna. La nomina di co-AD consentirebbe, infatti, all’impresa di ampliare la gamma di competenze ed esperienze manageriali disponibili. In questo lavoro, analizziamo tale fenomeno con riferimento alle imprese quotate italiane nel periodo 2005-2014. I risultati dello studio confermano la diffusione crescente della leadership condivisa, soprattutto nelle imprese familiari. Essi forniscono, inoltre, alcune utili indicazioni in merito alla selezione dei top manager e alla configurazione della leadership ai vertici delle imprese. Copyright Franco Angel
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
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