Multinational companies have been a force for good but, unfortunately, some misbehave.
Our comprehensive literature review on multinationals' misbehavior reveals three ideas …

In this article, we review recent archival research articles (98 studies) on the impact of
corporate governance on restatements, enforcement activities and fraud as corporate …

The promotion of green and sustainable development is an important global issue. We
investigate the relationship between firm political connections (PCF) and carbon emissions …

We examine the influence of political connections on firms' environmental performance
within the setting of China's Regulation 18, which prohibits government officials from taking …

We examine the impact of a government-initiated CSR project on corporate misconduct
using the unique setting of China's Targeted Poverty Alleviation (TPA) program. The …

Increasing attention has been focused on the extent to which corporate political connections
influence the growing pollution due to the rapid growth in the popularity of firm pollution in …

Agency theory suggests that outside shareholders prefer higher dividend payouts in order to
reduce the free cash flows of firms that are under the insiders' control. Our study investigates …

This paper examines whether ties to politicians by corporate boards of directors weaken the
effectiveness of tax authorities in constraining tax avoidance in China. We use a unique data …

This paper explores how forced resignations of politically connected independent directors
(political IDs for short) affect the performance of corporate social responsibility (CSR). Using …

Exploiting staggered enactment of employee stock ownership plans (ESOPs) as a quasi-
natural shock, we use a difference-in-differences (DiD) approach to investigate whether and …