Analyzing data from approximately 1.5 million employees across 1,108 established public and private US companies, we find that employee beliefs about their firm's purpose is weaker in public companies. This difference is most pronounced within the salaried middle and hourly ranks, rather than...

A poor ethical culture has been considered one of the reasons for the emergence of many corporate governance scandals. In this paper, I investigate the link between two corporate governance mechanisms – the composition of the board of directors and ownership structure – and ethical culture...

Win-win and eco-efficiency approaches to environmental management that focus on cost benefits from environmental improvement in business have been widely promoted in recent years. However they have been criticized because they are of limited appeal to small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs)...

Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) offer organisations expanding opportunities for greater control and efficiency and more timely and accurate results, but at the same time bring escalating emergent risks. Two significant and complementary approaches to the organisational...

Tourism is considered a highly relevant sector as a source of economic growth and job creation. This sector creates 330 million jobs worldwide, both direct and indirect (WTTC, 2020). However, many of the studies highlight the precarious working conditions in this industry, such as low wages,...

In response to corporate governance concerns, SEC disclosure rules, and encouragement by Institutional Shareholder Services, most large U.S. public firms have adopted executive stock ownership requirements in recent years. Compared to CEOs already in compliance, CEOs who have not yet fulfilled...

This study documents that firms with active corporate owners compensate their employees less than their peers. We analyze over 20 million employee records from 897 US firms and calculate pay differentials for employees in comparable positions across firms. The analysis yields three main...

We argue that the corporate governance of emerging economy IPO firms is influenced by firm-specific institutionally embedded block ownership groups. Applying an extended institutional logic perspective and using a mixed-effects ordered probit model, our findings from 190 IPO-firms from 22...

Consistent with views that see leadership emerging from social practices rather than from the external mind, this paper contributes to an emerging movement in leadership studies known as “leadership-as-practice” (L-A-P). This movement looks for leadership in its music and activity rather...