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...

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...