In recent years, the growing attention to environmental, social, and governance (ESG) practices has driven companies to adopt Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) strategies. The commitment to CSR is influenced by the need to satisfy stakeholder demands to improve firm performance. However, such growing pressure has also produced unintended distortions, notably the phenomenon of greenwashing, as […]
Using a sample of 76 Italian publicly listed firms for the year 2019, this paper investigates the association between the presence of a critical mass of women directors on the board and the firm’s CSR performance. It also examines whether the family firm status moderates this association. The OLS regression analysis shows that the presence […]
In the wave of upper echelons theory, scholars have devoted an increasing interest towards the implications of top managerial characteristics on company outcomes, especially in terms of professional expertise and experience. However, less attention has been paid to the contribution that the female managers’ background can offer to the board decision-making. With this in mind, […]