Using CEOs’ early-life experience during China’s Cultural Revolution (1966–1976) to distinguish the trust level of CEOs, we employ a difference-in-differences identification strategy to show that the CEO’s trust level exhibits significantly positive impacts on corporate innovation. We...

Using a manually collected dataset on the overseas experiences of directors of Chinese listed firms, we examine the effects of returnee directors on firms' corporate social responsibility (CSR) engagement. Our results show that returnee directors significantly improve their firms' CSR...