Institutional and market changes seem to force hospitals across the Western world to revitalize their corporate strategies towards more cost efficiency on the one hand, and more flexibility towards customer demands on the other hand. Hospitals, however, apparently differ in the extent to which they are able to implement such strategies effectively. This paper explores whether these different le...

This study investigates how powerful chief executive officers (CEOs) affect their firm’s environmental performance. Based on a sample of 5222 U.S. firm–year observations, we find that such CEOs positively influence performance and this effect is more prevalent in profitable firms. result suggests are influential creating sufficient resources to enhance firms’ They also typically well establishe...

Increasing concern for environmental issues makes it important to investigate the relationship between green intellectual capital (GIC) and organisational sustainability (Yussof et al., 2019). GIC is considered a viable solution (Jermsittiparsert, 2021). This study aims examine GIC, human (GHC), relational (GRC), structural (GSC), with each dimension of corporate sustainable development (CSD) —...

Although several prior studies have examined associations between firm social capital and environmental sustainability, the links relational resources (i.e., ties strength), knowledge integration, performance yet to be well established at micro-level. This study, therefore, aims determine (1) how integration serves as a mediating mechanism for relationship (2) this impact differs different leve...

Is executive compensation influenced by the composition of the board of directors? About 8% of chief executive officers (CEOs) are reciprocally interlocked with another CEO—the current CEO of firm A serves as a director of firm B and the current CEO of firm B serves as a director of firm A. Roughly 20% of firms have at least one current or retired employee sitting on the board of another firm a...

Research question/issue This paper examines how enhanced monitoring by corporate boards following the passage of Sarbanes–Oxley Act 2002 and concurrent reforms to stock exchange rules (SOX) mitigated risk-related agency conflicts prevalent in entrenched firms. findings/insights Post-SOX, firms increased risky value-enhancing investments. These investments were financed reductions financial slac...

While it is widely known that founder Chief Executive Officers (CEOs) can influence firm innovation, few studies have comprehensively examined how the CEO affects firm’s innovation input, output, and input-to-output conversion rate, these effects depend on CEO’s demographic, cognitive, corporate positional characteristics. We analyze nine-year panel data of China’s Growth Enterprise Market (GEM...

the purpose of this study was to investigate the attitudes of managers in private companies towards sport sponsorship as an advertising tool. the method of this study was descriptive and survey and it was practical. the statistical population of research included all chief managers (executive officers, financial officers or sales officers) of private large productive companies in esfahan that w...