Promotion of Corporate Environmental Performance Evaluation

Corporate governance and environmental performance and disclosures

CEO power, audit quality and corporate financial performance evaluation criteria

The main purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship between CEO power, audit quality and financial performance evaluation criteria in listed companies in Tehran Stock Exchange. To measure the CEOchr('39')s power, a combination of the CEOchr('39')s duality criteria, CEO tenure and CEO ownership percentile was used and to measure the quality of audit, the audit fee criterion was use...

Regulatory Externalities as a Driver of Corporate Environmental Performance

We hypothesize that regulatory externalities (i.e., regulations in jurisdictions beyond where a firm operates) can influence a firm’s environmental behavior. Specifically, we predict that firms will be sensitive to regulations both in neighboring jurisdictions and in jurisdictions where peer firms operate. By examining the use of renewable-generating technologies in the U.S. electrical utility ...

Measuring Corporate Environmental Performance: the Trade-Offs of Sustainability Ratings

Socially responsible investing (SRI) represents an investment process that refl ects environmental and social preferences. The fi nancial industry is in a unique position to move corporations towards corporate sustainability. However, there is often little transparency regarding the metrics used to evaluate corporate social and environmental performance and the trade-offs involved in the evalua...

Sustainability: Environmental, Social and Corporate Governance Performance in Czech SMEs

The paper focuses on environmental, social and corporate governance performance in relation to business sustainability in small and medium enterprises in the Czech Republic. Corporate Governance is understood as a key element when achieving economic performance as well as growth enhancing the investors’ trust. It also makes it possible to create structures supporting the determination, checking...