There is little consensus on the corporate diversification-efficiency relationship in the diversification literature. The study aims to contribute to the literature by looking jointly at two dimensions of corporate diversification as product diversification and international diversification and the relationship between them. The results show negative relationship between product diversification...

Grounded in stakeholder theory and a resource-based view of the firm, this conceptual paper explores the impact on corporate reputation of the evolution of corporate social actions over time. Information asymmetries between stakeholders, the stickiness of reputation and other temporal considerations provide the foundation for the proposed conceptual model of the relationship between corporate s...

This study investigates the effect of corporate brand dominance—that is, the visibility of a company’s corporate brand in product communications—on the relationship between corporate associations and product evaluations. The results show that corporate brand dominance determines the degree to which associations with the company’s corporate ability and corporate social responsibility influence p...

Background: The main nature of corporate citizen behaviors includes the idea that corporate citizen behaviors are beneficial behaviors that are critical to improving organizational performance. The purpose of this study is to identify the relationship between ethical leadership and individual and organizational corporate citizenship behaviors, with the moderating role of self-efficacy, respect ...

This study attempts to re-examine several hypotheses suggested by the literature concerning the relationship between corporate governance and corporate performance using the data from China. The findings of the paper suggest that corporate performance in China is mostly influenced by other economic variables, not by corporate governance and the hypotheses that corporate governance will have pos...

The marketing literature reflects that there is no systematic study of the effect of a logo on consumer evaluations of logos. This research addresses two questions: (1) what are the factors that influence the favorability of the corporate logo? (2) What are the main influences of this favorability on the corporate image and corporate reputation? The favorability of a corporate logo is reflected...

This study investigates the relationship between corporate environmental responsibility and corporate philanthropy. Using a sample of Chinese listed firms from 2008 to 2013, this paper examines the role of corporate environmental responsibility in corporate philanthropy and the moderating influence of the institutional environment using multilevel analysis. The results show that corporate eco-f...

The purpose of this article is to transcend the assumption that stakeholder engagement is necessarily a responsible practice. Stakeholder engagement is traditionally seen as corporate responsibility in action. Indeed, in some literatures there exists an assumption that the more an organisation engages with its stakeholders, the more it is responsible. This simple ‘more is better’ view of stakeh...

This paper provides an empirical analysis of corporate governance (CG) efficiencies among Chinese listed companies (CLCs) under different types of ownership. Employing the data of over 700 CLCs in 2006, this study looks specifically into the effects of separation of controlling and residual claim rights upon CG (specifically management turnover) and firm performance under different shareholding...