Grounded in the institutional theory and impressive management theory, this study establishes a link between star CEOs and environmental, social, and governance (ESG) performance. We first find that star CEOs are positively related to ESG performance and star CEOs related to the central...

Purpose R&D indicates absorptive capacity, which may affect IT payoff. The purpose of this paper is to examine how R&D investment affects the relation between IT investment and firm performance and under what circumstances R&D intensity is more beneficial to IT returns. Such study has been...

The purpose of this study is to deepen our understanding of government directors' impact on firm performance. This study strives to answer whether government directors have different effects on accounting- and market-based performance. To correct for the endogeneity of government directors...