The purpose of this study is to examine the relationship between environmental performance, carbon performance and earnings management. This analysis includes panel regressions as empirical-quantitative (archival) research methods and looks at the 2014-2018 financial years of companies listed on...

Purpose - This study focuses on environmental, social and governance (ESG) performance in total and separated in its three pillars and their influence on earnings management. Design/methodology/approach - Companies listed on the German Prime Standard (DAX30, TecDAX, MDAX) for the business years...

This paper provides insight whether Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and earnings management are connected. Based on agency- and stewardship theory the author conducts a literature review and evaluates the empirical results with regard to the CSR-earnings management and the earnings...

Based on legitimacy theory and upper echelons theory, this empirical study addresses whether sustainability expertise in Corporate Sustainability Committees (CSCs) has an impact on firms’ environmental performance. Moreover, a moderator analysis of the implementation of Chief Sustainability...

Purpose – This paper analyses whether Chief Executive Officer (CEO) incentives and characteristics (e.g. CEO power, CEO tenure) are linked with Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and vice versa.Design/methodology/approach – Based on upper echelons theory the authors conduct a structured...

In line with the increasing relevance of integrated reporting (IR) in recent years, a growing body of research has emerged that investigated various determinants of IR implementation and quality. Corporate governance potentially affects IR practices as prior studies have documented their...

Purpose – Based on stakeholder and upper echelons theory, this study analyses whether the link between environmental, social and governance (ESG) performance and financial performance is moderated by Chief executive officer (CEO) power. Design/methodology/approach - Listed corporations with...

On average, firms’ going public severely underperform compared to the market, a phenomenon which is widely known in the literature as IPO underperformance. Though there is no generally accepted theory on the reasons, information asymmetries and the scarcity of information on the issuers is...

A variety of empirical studies analyzed the impact of board attributes on Corporate social responsibility (CSR) reporting with mixed results during the last decade. In view of this heterogeneity and increased relevance, we conduct a meta-analysis on 51 empirical-quantitative studies and include...

This study examines determinants of materiality disclosure quality (MDQ) in integrated reporting (IR) in an international setting. To this purpose, we constructed a novel, hand-collected MDQ score in line with the IR guiding principles introduced by the International Integrated Reporting Council...