Research Briefs

RESEARCH BRIEF - Strategic alignment between a company’s core business and the type of corporate citizenship it engages in—community or environment—is more likely to benefit the financial bottom line, particularly during economic crises.

RESEARCH BRIEF - Firms that remove executive compensation at risk—such as equity-based incentives—are less likely to perform poorly on corporate citizenship. Firms that behave less responsibly also have a higher risk of stock price volatility.

RESEARCH BRIEF - Research suggests that private firms significantly reduce their number of negative environmental, social, or governance (ESG) incidents after signing onto the United Nations Global Compact (UNGC).

RESEARCH BRIEF - Board-level gender diversity contributes to a virtuous cycle of firm performance.

RESEARCH BRIEF - Researchers found that corporate citizenship impacts financial performance positively only after a threshold amount of investment has been made.

RESEARCH BRIEF - Evidence from the banking industry suggests that smaller firms that are locally owned and managed react differently to fluctuations in financial performance than large firms with a more extensive geographic reach.

RESEARCH BRIEF - CSR-based incentives for executives improve corporate citizenship performance for all companies. However, a firm whose governance emphasizes stakeholders over shareholders is more likely to benefit financially from such executive compensation structures.

RESEARCH BRIEF - Firms with top CSR programs receive higher relative market valuations than their industry peers.

RESEARCH BRIEF - Evidence from the banking industry suggests that firms with women at top executive levels are associated with better lending performance and lower default risk.

RESEARCH BRIEF - Consumers who learn about a brand’s environmental or social initiatives at point-of-sale are more likely to purchase its products. This effect is even more pronounced when the messaging focuses on responsible business practices and operations.

RESEARCH BRIEF - Multinational corporations with more independent directors on their boards are more likely to make environmental disclosures, but this relationship is impacted by the national cultural context.

RESEARCH BRIEF - Firms with more cross-sector partners tend to have better environmental performance.