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1.

Aggregate Confusion: The Divergence of ESG Ratings

Forthcoming Review of Finance
Number of pages: 48 Posted: 20 Aug 2019 Last Revised: 26 Apr 2022
Accepted Paper Series
Florian Berg, Julian F Kölbel and Roberto Rigobon
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management, University of St. Gallen - School of Finance and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management
Downloads 68,481
2.

How Fox News Changed American Media and Political Dynamics

Number of pages: 21 Posted: 11 May 2015 Last Revised: 04 Jun 2015
Working Paper Series
Bruce Bartlett
Independent
Downloads 43,199
3.

The Consequences of Mandatory Corporate Sustainability Reporting

Harvard Business School Research Working Paper No. 11-100
Number of pages: 49 Posted: 03 Apr 2011 Last Revised: 01 May 2017
Working Paper Series
Ioannis Ioannou and George Serafeim
London Business School - Department of Strategic & International Management and Harvard Business School
Downloads 34,998
4.

From the Stockholder to the Stakeholder: How Sustainability Can Drive Financial Outperformance

Number of pages: 66 Posted: 22 Oct 2014 Last Revised: 06 Mar 2015
Working Paper Series
Gordon L. Clark, Andreas Feiner and Michael Viehs
Oxford University - Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, Arabesque Asset Management and European Centre for Corporate Engagement (ECCE)
Downloads 25,450
5.

Corporate Social Responsibility in a Global Context

Chapter in: Crane, A., Matten, D., and Spence, L.J., 'Corporate Social Responsibility: Readings and Cases in a Global Context', 2/e. Abingdon: Routledge, pp. 3-26
Number of pages: 24 Posted: 10 Sep 2013 Last Revised: 13 Sep 2013
Accepted Paper Series
Andrew Crane, Dirk Matten and Laura J. Spence
University of Bath - School of Management, York University - Schulich School of Business and University of London - Royal Holloway College
Downloads 22,556
6.

What is Corporate Law?

Yale Law & Economics Research Paper No. 300
Number of pages: 21 Posted: 27 Jul 2004 Last Revised: 26 Jan 2017
Accepted Paper Series
Henry Hansmann and Reinier Kraakman
Yale University - Law School and Harvard Law School
Downloads 20,708
7.

Managing for Stakeholders

Number of pages: 22 Posted: 30 Jul 2008 Last Revised: 05 Feb 2014
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R. Edward Freeman
University of Virginia - Darden School of Business

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Downloads 18,865
8.

ESG and Financial Performance: Aggregated Evidence from More than 2000 Empirical Studies

Journal of Sustainable Finance & Investment, Volume 5, Issue 4, p. 210-233, 2015, DOI: 10.1080/20430795.2015.1118917
Number of pages: 25 Posted: 19 Dec 2015
Accepted Paper Series
Gunnar Friede, Timo Busch and Alexander Bassen
Deutsche Asset & Wealth Management, School of Business, Economics and Social Sciences, University of Hamburg and University of Hamburg
Downloads 16,874
9.

The Impact of Corporate Sustainability on Organizational Processes and Performance

Management Science, Volume 60, Issue 11, pp. 2835-2857, February 2014
Number of pages: 46 Posted: 25 Nov 2011 Last Revised: 01 Feb 2017
Accepted Paper Series
Robert G. Eccles, Ioannis Ioannou and George Serafeim
University of Oxford - Said Business School, London Business School - Department of Strategic & International Management and Harvard Business School

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Downloads 16,471
10.

The Essential Elements of Corporate Law

Oxford Legal Studies Research Paper No. 20/2009, Yale Law, Economics & Public Policy Research Paper No. 387, Harvard Law and Economics Research Paper No. 643, Harvard Public Law Working Paper No. 09-39, European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI) - Law Working Paper No. 134/2009
Number of pages: 37 Posted: 21 Jul 2009 Last Revised: 10 Dec 2018
Accepted Paper Series
John Armour, Henry Hansmann and Reinier Kraakman
University of Oxford - Faculty of Law, Yale University - Law School and Harvard Law School
Downloads 16,196
11.

Responsible Investing: The ESG-Efficient Frontier

Number of pages: 51 Posted: 18 Oct 2019 Last Revised: 06 Dec 2024
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Lasse Heje Pedersen, Shaun Fitzgibbons and Lukasz Pomorski
AQR Capital Management, LLC, AQR Capital Management, LLC and AQR Capital Management, LLC
Downloads 14,392
12.

Backdating

Business Lawyer, 2008
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 26 Jul 2021
Accepted Paper Series
Jeffrey L. Kwall and Stuart Duhl
Loyola University Chicago School of Law and Harrison & Held, LLP (deceased)
Downloads 13,211
13.

Does the Stock Market Fully Value Intangibles? Employee Satisfaction and Equity Prices

Journal of Financial Economics 101(3), 621-640, September 2011
Number of pages: 43 Posted: 19 Mar 2008 Last Revised: 19 Dec 2013
Accepted Paper Series
Alex Edmans
London Business School - Institute of Finance and Accounting
Downloads 12,574
14.

Pay Without Performance: Overview of the Issues

Journal of Corporation Law, Vol. 30, No. 4, pp. 647-673, 2005, Journal of Applied Corporate Finance, Vol. 17, No. 4, pp. 8-22, 2005, Academy of Management Perspectives, pp. 5-24, February 2006, Harvard Law and Economics Discussion Paper No. 528
Number of pages: 16 Posted: 19 Jul 2005 Last Revised: 28 Apr 2009
Accepted Paper Series
Lucian A. Bebchuk and Jesse M. Fried
Harvard Law School and Harvard Law School
Downloads 12,241
15.

Corporate Social Responsibility - an Economic and Financial Framework

Number of pages: 33 Posted: 05 Jan 2005
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Geoffrey M. Heal
Columbia University - Columbia Business School, Finance
Downloads 12,010
16.

ESG Shareholder Engagement and Downside Risk

Review of Finance, Forthcoming, AFA 2018 paper, European Corporate Governance Institute – Finance Working Paper No. 671/2020, Swiss Finance Institute Research Paper No. 23-77
Number of pages: 55 Posted: 25 Nov 2016 Last Revised: 25 Oct 2023
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Andreas G. F. Hoepner, Ioannis Oikonomou, Zacharias Sautner, Laura T. Starks and Xiaoyan Zhou
Smurfit Graduate Business School, University College Dublin, University of Reading - ICMA Centre, University of Zurich - Department of Finance, University of Texas at Austin - Department of Finance and University of Oxford
Downloads 11,871
17.

Corporate Green Bonds

Journal of Financial Economics (JFE), Forthcoming
Number of pages: 54 Posted: 27 Feb 2018 Last Revised: 16 Apr 2020
Accepted Paper Series
Caroline Flammer
Columbia University
Downloads 11,741
18.

Why is Corporate Virtue in the Eye of the Beholder? The Case of ESG Ratings

The Accounting Review, https://doi.org/10.2308/TAR-2019-0506
Number of pages: 64 Posted: 12 Apr 2021 Last Revised: 19 Aug 2021
Accepted Paper Series
Dane M. Christensen, George Serafeim and Anywhere (Siko) Sikochi
University of Oregon, Harvard Business School and Harvard University - Business School (HBS)
Downloads 10,815
19.

Corporate Culture: Evidence from the Field

Journal of Financial Economics (JFE), Forthcoming, 27th Annual Conference on Financial Economics and Accounting Paper, Columbia Business School Research Paper No. 16-49, Duke I&E Research Paper No. 2016-33
Number of pages: 133 Posted: 09 Jul 2016 Last Revised: 28 Jul 2022
Accepted Paper Series
John R. Graham, Jillian Grennan, Campbell R. Harvey and Shivaram Rajgopal
Duke University, Emory University, Duke University - Fuqua School of Business and Columbia University - Columbia Business School, Accounting, Business Law & Taxation

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Downloads 10,712
20.

Agency Costs of Overvalued Equity

ECGI - Finance Working Paper No. 39/2004, Harvard Business School NOM Working Paper No. 04-26, Financial Management, Vol. 34, No. 1, Spring 2005
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 29 Mar 2004 Last Revised: 06 May 2009
Accepted Paper Series
Michael C. Jensen (Deceased)
Harvard University - Business School (HBS)

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Downloads 10,407
21.

Corporate Social Responsibility and Access to Finance

Strategic Management Journal, 35 (1): 1-23.
Number of pages: 43 Posted: 25 May 2011 Last Revised: 28 Nov 2014
Accepted Paper Series
Beiting Cheng, Ioannis Ioannou and George Serafeim
Harvard University - Harvard Business School, London Business School - Department of Strategic & International Management and Harvard Business School
Downloads 10,125
22.

Does Sustainability Generate Better Financial Performance? Review, Meta-analysis, and Propositions

Journal of Sustainable Finance and Investment
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 26 Oct 2020 Last Revised: 29 Jul 2022
Accepted Paper Series
Ulrich Atz, Tracy Van Holt, Zongyuan Zoe Liu and Christopher Bruno
New York University (NYU) - Center for Sustainable Business, Insight Network LLC, John Hopkins University, School of Advanced International Studies and The Wharton School, Management Department
Downloads 9,875
23.

Agency Problems, Legal Strategies, and Enforcement

Oxford Legal Studies Research Paper No. 21/2009, Yale Law, Economics & Public Policy Research Paper No. 388, Harvard Law and Economics Research Paper Series No. 644 , European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI) - Law Working Paper No. 135/2009
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 21 Jul 2009 Last Revised: 10 Dec 2018
Accepted Paper Series
John Armour, Henry Hansmann and Reinier Kraakman
University of Oxford - Faculty of Law, Yale University - Law School and Harvard Law School
Downloads 9,535
24.

Corporate Social Responsibility and Economic Performance

Number of pages: 12 Posted: 16 May 2006
Working Paper Series
Catherine J. Morrison Paul and Donald S. Siegel
University of California, Davis - Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Arizona State University-School of Public Affairs
Downloads 9,233
25.

Pay Without Performance: The Unfulfilled Promise of Executive Compensation

Harvard University Press, 2004
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 30 Apr 2004 Last Revised: 18 Jul 2019
Accepted Paper Series
Lucian A. Bebchuk and Jesse M. Fried
Harvard Law School and Harvard Law School
Downloads 9,020
26.

The Relationship between McClelland’s Theory of Needs, Feeling Individually Accountable, and Informal Accountability for Others

International Journal of Management and Marketing Research, Vol. 5, No. 1, pp. 21-42
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 05 Jan 2012
Accepted Paper Series
M. Todd Royle and Angela T. Hall
Valdosta State University and Florida State University
Downloads 8,980
27.

Sustainability Leadership: Linking Theory and Practice

Number of pages: 14 Posted: 21 Oct 2011
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Wayne Visser and Polly Courtice
Antwerp Management School and University of Cambridge - Cambridge Programme for Sustainability Leadership
Downloads 8,976
28.

Executive Compensation as an Agency Problem

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Vol. 17, pp. 71-92, 2003, Harvard Law and Economics Discussion Paper No. 421
Number of pages: 29 Posted: 06 Jan 2003 Last Revised: 28 Apr 2009
Accepted Paper Series
Lucian A. Bebchuk and Jesse M. Fried
Harvard Law School and Harvard Law School

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Downloads 8,484
29.

ESG Lending

Journal of Financial Economics, forthcoming, European Corporate Governance Institute – Finance Working Paper No. 817/2022, Proceedings of Paris December 2021 Finance Meeting EUROFIDAI - ESSEC
Number of pages: 84 Posted: 11 Jun 2021 Last Revised: 11 Apr 2025
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Sehoon Kim, Nitish Kumar, Jongsub Lee and Junho Oh
University of Florida - Department of Finance, Insurance and Real Estate, University of Florida, Seoul National University and Hankuk University of Foreign Studies
Downloads 8,186
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Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) as a Model of 'Extended' Corporate Governance: An Explanation Based on the Economic Theories of Social Contract, Reputation and Reciprocal Conformism

LIUC, Ethics, Law and Economics Paper No. 142
Number of pages: 49 Posted: 07 Mar 2004
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Lorenzo Sacconi
Department of public and sovra-national law, University of Milan
Downloads 8,154
31.

Chief Sustainability Officers: Who Are They and What Do They Do?

Chapter 8 in Leading Sustainable Change, Oxford University Press, 2014
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 21 Mar 2014 Last Revised: 05 Sep 2014
Accepted Paper Series
Kathleen Miller and George Serafeim
Miller Consultants and Harvard Business School
Downloads 8,001
32.

Corporate Purpose and Financial Performance

Organization Science, 30(1), pp.1-18
Number of pages: 164 Posted: 18 Sep 2016 Last Revised: 30 Jan 2020
Accepted Paper Series
Claudine Madras Gartenberg, Andrea Prat and George Serafeim
Wharton School, University of Penn, Columbia University in the City of New York and Harvard Business School
Downloads 7,992
33.

Corporate Governance, Board Diversity, and Firm Performance

Oklahoma State University Working Paper
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 26 Mar 2002
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David Carter, Betty J. Simkins and W. Gary Simpson
Oklahoma State University - Stillwater - Department of Finance, Oklahoma State University - Stillwater - Department of Finance and Oklahoma State University - Stillwater - Department of Finance
Downloads 7,962
34.

Was the 2008 Financial Crisis Caused by a Lack of Corporate Ethics?

Global Journal of Business Research, Vol. 4, No. 2, pp. 77-84, 2010
Number of pages: 8 Posted: 05 Jul 2010
Accepted Paper Series
Victor Lewis, Kenneth D. Kay, Chandrika Kelso and James Larson
National University, National University, National University and National University
Downloads 7,948
35.

Corporate Governance in India - Evolution and Challenges

Number of pages: 31 Posted: 18 Jan 2005
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Rajesh Chakrabarti
O. P. Jindal Global University
Downloads 7,604
36.

Board Structure in the UK and Germany: Convergence or Continuing Divergence?

Number of pages: 24 Posted: 25 Mar 2001
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Paul L. Davies
University of Oxford - Faculty of Law
Downloads 7,540
37.

How ESG Issues Become Financially Material to Corporations and Their Investors

Harvard Business School Accounting & Management Unit Working Paper No. 20-056
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 08 Nov 2019 Last Revised: 23 Nov 2020
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David Freiberg, Jean Rogers and George Serafeim
Harvard University - Business School (HBS), Accounting Standards Board and Harvard Business School
Downloads 7,404
38.

Diversity Washing

Forthcoming in the Journal of Accounting Research, Chicago Booth Research Paper No. 22-18, European Corporate Governance Institute – Finance Working Paper No. 868/2023
Number of pages: 70 Posted: 12 Dec 2022 Last Revised: 23 Apr 2024
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Andrew Baker, David F. Larcker, Charles McClure, Durgesh Saraph and Edward M. Watts
Berkeley Law School, Stanford Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago Booth School of Business, Jump Trading and Yale School of Management
Downloads 7,299
39.

The Other CSR: Consumer Social Responsibility

Stanford Social Innovation Review, Fall 2006, Leeds University Business School Working Paper No. 15-04
Number of pages: 14 Posted: 17 May 2006 Last Revised: 28 Nov 2015
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Timothy M. Devinney, Pat Auger, Giana Eckhardt and Thomas Birtchnell
The University of Manchester - Alliance Manchester Business School, University of Melbourne Business School, Suffolk University - Sawyer School of Management and University of Sydney - Centre for the Mind
Downloads 7,257
40.

Does Corporate Social Responsibility Lead to Superior Financial Performance? A Regression Discontinuity Approach

Number of pages: 46 Posted: 14 Sep 2012 Last Revised: 27 Oct 2013
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Caroline Flammer
Columbia University
Downloads 7,022
41.

Mandatory CSR and Sustainability Reporting: Economic Analysis and Literature Review

European Corporate Governance Institute - Finance Working Paper No. 623/2019
Number of pages: 121 Posted: 31 Jul 2019 Last Revised: 20 May 2021
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Hans Bonde Christensen, Luzi Hail and Christian Leuz
University of Chicago - Booth School of Business, University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School and University of Chicago - Booth School of Business

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Downloads 6,954
42.

Corporate Social Responsibility Audit: From Theory to Practice

University of Cambridge, Judge Institute of Management Working Paper No. 14/2004
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 21 Feb 2005
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Risako Morimoto, John Ash and Christopher Hope
Independent, University of Cambridge - Judge Business School and University of Cambridge - Judge Business School
Downloads 6,797
43.

The Rise of Independent Directors in the United States, 1950-2005: Of Shareholder Value and Stock Market Prices

ECGI - Law Working Paper No. 74/2006, Columbia Law and Economics Working Paper No. 301, Stanford Law Review, Vol. 59, p. 1465, 2007
Number of pages: 111 Posted: 04 Sep 2006 Last Revised: 04 Mar 2008
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Jeffrey N. Gordon
Columbia Law School

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Downloads 6,615
44.

Do Responsible Investors Invest Responsibly?

Review of Finance, Volume 26, Issue 6, November 2022, Pages 1389–1432, Swiss Finance Institute Research Paper No. 20-13, European Corporate Governance Institute – Finance Research Paper No. 712/2020
Number of pages: 82 Posted: 23 Feb 2020 Last Revised: 13 Jan 2024
Working Paper Series
Rajna Gibson, Simon Glossner, Philipp Krueger, Pedro Matos and Tom Steffen
University of Geneva - Geneva Finance Research Institute (GFRI), Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, University of Geneva - Geneva Finance Research Institute (GFRI), University of Virginia - Darden School of Business and Osmosis Investment Management
Downloads 6,448
45.

Corporate Social Responsibility: A Review on Definitions, Core Characteristics and Theoretical Perspectives

Mediterranean Journal of Social Sciences, Vol. 6, No. 4, pp. 83-95, July 2015
Number of pages: 13 Posted: 05 Nov 2016 Last Revised: 17 Nov 2016
Accepted Paper Series
Ahmad Hamidu, Md. Haron and Azlan Amran
Modibbo Adama University of Technology, School of Management & Information Technology, Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM) and Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM)
Downloads 6,398
46.

Does Corporate Social Responsibility Affect the Cost of Capital?

Journal of Banking & Finance, Vol. 35, Issue 9, pp. 2388-2406, September 2011
Number of pages: 63 Posted: 03 Feb 2010 Last Revised: 29 Nov 2014
Accepted Paper Series
Sadok El Ghoul, Omrane Guedhami, Chuck C.Y. Kwok and Dev Mishra
University of Alberta - Campus Saint-Jean, University of South Carolina - Moore School of Business, University of South Carolina - Darla Moore School of Business and University of Saskatchewan - Edwards School of Business
Downloads 6,182
47.

The Role of Social Media in Crisis Communication and Crisis Management

International Journal of Research in Business & Social Science, 5(3), 2016: 111-120
Number of pages: 10 Posted: 21 Feb 2019
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Mustafa Emre Civelek, Murat Çemberci and Necati Erdem Eralp
Antalya Bilim University, Istanbul Commerce University and Independent
Downloads 6,053
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'Implicit' and 'Explicit' CSR: A Conceptual Framework for a Comparative Understanding of Corporate Social Responsibility

Academy of Management Review Vol. 33, No. 2
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 21 Jan 2010
Accepted Paper Series
Dirk Matten and Jeremy Moon
York University - Schulich School of Business and Nottingham University Business School (NUBS)
Downloads 6,018
49.

Why Do Companies Go Woke?

Number of pages: 45 Posted: 06 Dec 2022
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Nicolai J. Foss and Peter G. Klein
Copenhagen Business School - Department of Strategy and Innovation and Baylor University - Hankamer School of Business
Downloads 5,981
50.

Corporate Social Responsibility: An Issues Paper

International Labour Office Working Paper No. 27
Number of pages: 41 Posted: 25 Jul 2006
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Michael Hopkins
International Labour Organization (ILO) - Policy Integration Department
Downloads 5,971