This article draws on the Focus Theory of Normative Conduct to examine whether injunctive social norms relating to perceived environmental management practices shape employees' self-reported pro-environmental behaviour in their private sphere. To test our hypotheses, we employed a mixed methods...

Whether a firm's environmental performance influences its financial performance is an unsolved puzzle. In this paper, we investigate if the market rewards concern for environmental issues over the long term. We use KLD's environmental score to construct two matched portfolios that differ in...

In response to compelling environmental and societal imperatives, the real estate sector is increasingly compelled to adopt environmentally sustainable practices, prompting a significant "green" shift. Drawing upon an extensive literature review and insights garnered through expert interviews,...

The problem of designing, coordinating, and managing complex systems has been central to the management and organizations literature. Recent writings have tended to offer modularity as, at least, a partial solution to this design problem. Two unifying themes characterize the extant literature on...

The paper suggests that the Just War theory provides an excellent methodological device for determining the conditions of legitimacy of companies. Just War Theory has different sets of criteria. The first establishes the right to go to war ("jus as bellum"); the second establishes the right...

Despite the effects of the crisis, several studies show that there has been an increase in cultural production in all the most important western countries over the last twenty years. Nevertheless, the dimensions of the flows of demand are changing: the lowering of the threshold of perceived...

This paper empirically examines the relation between corporate risk-taking and the organizational level with which internal auditing is affiliated in Chinese listed firms. Using a sample of 1,806 firm-year data available from 2007 to 2009, we find that Chinese corporate risk-taking is only...