OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management is 54. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
	391
Influence of Proactive ESG Strategies, Slack Resources, and Collective Brain on ESG Disclosure and Firm Value in Japanese Companies	224
Identifying the Impact of Stakeholder Empowerment During the Social Innovation Journey	158
How do female CEOs affect corporate pay dispersion? The perspective of risk aversion and competition avoidance	140
The influence of state ownership on environmental proactivity: An institutional perspective of international firms	136
Enacting institutional drivers towards strategic corporate social responsibility: The sensemaking process in multinational companies	134
Do takeover threats influence corporate social responsibility? Evidence from hostile takeover vulnerability	127
Does ESG implementation influence performance and risk in SMEs?	122
Corporate social responsibility: Formal versus informal firms	122
The impact of corporate environmental reporting on the financial performance of listed manufacturing firms in Ghana (Csr‐24‐2036)	118
Political network embeddedness and ecological innovation: Do absorptive capacity and dynamic capability have any influence?	116
Business–society interface: An exploration of a paradigmatic heuristic model of corporate social responsibility in Colombia	115
Corporate social responsibility and energy efficiency: Empirical evidence from the manufacturing sector of India	110
Environmental Capital and Digital Financial Inclusion: Energy Empowerment of Cameroonian SMEs Through Solar Energy, a Lever for Sustainable Performance	110
Unveiling sustainable practices in financial institutions: A bibliometric analysis cum meta‐analytical review on enhancing financial performance	106
Board Characteristics and Stakeholder Engagement and ESG Performance: The Relevance of European Gender Parity	102
Does It Pay for Family Firms to Go Green? The Moderating Role of Familiness	90
Renewable energy, social disruption and formalising the social licence to operate in South Africa	85
Local directors and corporate social responsibility activities of multinational companies in Africa	84
The impacts of artificial intelligence literacy, green absorptive capacity, and green information system on green innovation	83
Corporate environmentalism and value creation: Investigating the role of shared independent directors in green technology adoption and financial performance	83
Driving Sustainable Consumption: Factors Influencing Consumer Acceptance of Cultured Meat	83
Guiding organizations toward sustainable success: The strategic role of leadership in environmental corporate governance in the wine industry	82
CEO power, board features and ESG performance: An extensive novel moderation analysis	77
Does internal control improve enterprise environmental, social, and governance information disclosure? Evidence from China	76

Staggered Board and Sexually Diverse Policies Adoption: Benevolence Motivation or Deeper Entrenchment?	76
ESG investing & firm performance: Retrospections of past & reflections of future	74
Sustainable human resource management and job satisfaction—Unlocking the power of organizational identification: A cross‐cultural perspective from 54 countries	73
Stakeholder management, CSR commitment, corporate social performance: The moderating role of uncertainty in CSR regulation	72
Corporate social responsibility, green financial system guidelines, and cost of debt financing: Evidence from pollution‐intensive industries in China	72
Board network and ESG performance: Evidence from China	71
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Accounting for nature contributions to people in corporate sustainability: The case of a waste management company in Portugal	70
The Effect of Social CSR on Labor Investment Decisions: Theory and International Evidence	67
A Literature Analysis of Sustainability Reporting Quality	66
Exploring the link between corporate social responsibility and financial performance in social enterprises: The mediating role of productivity	65
Peer influence, market power, and enterprises' green innovation: Evidence from Chinese listed firms	65
Archival research on sustainability‐related executive compensation. A literature review of the status quo and future improvements	63
The power of culture: Does Confucian culture contribute to corporate environmental information disclosure?	62
Enhancing social responsibility and resilience through entrepreneurship and digital environment	61
An Examination of Assurance Practices on Carbon Emission Disclosures: Evidence From Italy and Spain	61
Irresponsible to others but responsible to me: Testing employees' responses to external corporate social irresponsibility and internal corporate social responsibility	61
Correction to “Sustainability in the pharmaceutics industry – An assessment of ESG maturity and effects of ESG measure implementation on supply chain security”	60
The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and global finance: Recent evidence	59
Correction to “The Social Innovation of Academic Spin‐Offs From a Multilevel Approach”	59
Shaping tomorrow's managers: The influence of university education on economics students' attitudes toward corporate social responsibility and labor unions	59
The spillover effects of positive and negative corporate social responsibility publicity: How and why the effect is lessened versus amplified	58
De‐politicization and corporate social responsibility: Empirical evidence from China	57
Green human resource practices and corporate sustainable performance—The role of corporate green culture and dynamic capabilities	57
How to explain stock returns of utility companies from an environmental, social and corporate governance perspective	56
Fashion and sustainability: Evidence from the consumption of second‐hand clothes	55
Confucianism and employee treatment: Evidence from China	54
How green transformational leadership drives environmental performance and firm performance? Empirical evidence from an emerging economy	54
Determinants of sustainability reporting: A systematic literature review	54