We contribute to the literature on firms' response to institutional pressures and environmental information disclosure. We hypothesize that CEO characteristics will influence firms' likelihood of acquiescing to pressures to disclose environmental information, and that acquiescence, in turn, will...

We examine whether corporate governance matters for firms facing financial distress by investigating the failure rate of Internet firms after the Internet shakeout. We theorize that financial crisis changes the relative costs and benefits of governance mechanisms. As a result, we suggest that...