OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management is 56. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Identifying the Impact of Stakeholder Empowerment During the Social Innovation Journey	239
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Driving Sustainable Consumption: Factors Influencing Consumer Acceptance of Cultured Meat	165
Political network embeddedness and ecological innovation: Do absorptive capacity and dynamic capability have any influence?	160
Board Cultural Diversity and ESG Disclosure: Unveiling the Mediating Power of CSR Committees in Family Firms	148
Influence of Proactive ESG Strategies, Slack Resources, and Collective Brain on ESG Disclosure and Firm Value in Japanese Companies	137
Does ESG implementation influence performance and risk in SMEs?	135
Guiding organizations toward sustainable success: The strategic role of leadership in environmental corporate governance in the wine industry	134
Corporate social responsibility and energy efficiency: Empirical evidence from the manufacturing sector of India	132
Staggered Board and Sexually Diverse Policies Adoption: Benevolence Motivation or Deeper Entrenchment?	128
Environmental Capital and Digital Financial Inclusion: Energy Empowerment of Cameroonian SMEs Through Solar Energy, a Lever for Sustainable Performance	127
Renewable energy, social disruption and formalising the social licence to operate in South Africa	126
Business–society interface: An exploration of a paradigmatic heuristic model of corporate social responsibility in Colombia	125
The impact of corporate environmental reporting on the financial performance of listed manufacturing firms in Ghana (Csr‐24‐2036)	118
The influence of state ownership on environmental proactivity: An institutional perspective of international firms	112
Enacting institutional drivers towards strategic corporate social responsibility: The sensemaking process in multinational companies	105
Unveiling sustainable practices in financial institutions: A bibliometric analysis cum meta‐analytical review on enhancing financial performance	96
Corporate social responsibility: Formal versus informal firms	95
Corporate social responsibility, green financial system guidelines, and cost of debt financing: Evidence from pollution‐intensive industries in China	91
Stakeholder management, CSR commitment, corporate social performance: The moderating role of uncertainty in CSR regulation	89
Do takeover threats influence corporate social responsibility? Evidence from hostile takeover vulnerability	86
Board Characteristics and Stakeholder Engagement and ESG Performance: The Relevance of European Gender Parity	85
CEO power, board features and ESG performance: An extensive novel moderation analysis	84
Who Is Acting Unethically? The Role of Board Diversity in Corporate Social Responsibility Decoupling	83
Corporate environmentalism and value creation: Investigating the role of shared independent directors in green technology adoption and financial performance	82

How do female CEOs affect corporate pay dispersion? The perspective of risk aversion and competition avoidance	78
Does internal control improve enterprise environmental, social, and governance information disclosure? Evidence from China	77
Board network and ESG performance: Evidence from China	76
ESG investing & firm performance: Retrospections of past & reflections of future	76
The impacts of artificial intelligence literacy, green absorptive capacity, and green information system on green innovation	76
Does It Pay for Family Firms to Go Green? The Moderating Role of Familiness	73
Sustainable human resource management and job satisfaction—Unlocking the power of organizational identification: A cross‐cultural perspective from 54 countries	72
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Local directors and corporate social responsibility activities of multinational companies in Africa	71
Exploring the link between corporate social responsibility and financial performance in social enterprises: The mediating role of productivity	68
Correction to “Sustainability in the pharmaceutics industry – An assessment of ESG maturity and effects of ESG measure implementation on supply chain security”	67
De‐politicization and corporate social responsibility: Empirical evidence from China	67
Fashion and sustainability: Evidence from the consumption of second‐hand clothes	66
Shaping tomorrow's managers: The influence of university education on economics students' attitudes toward corporate social responsibility and labor unions	66
A Nonessential Corporate Social Responsibility Reorientation: The Woke‐Washing Phenomenon in Victoria's Secret's Transformation	66
The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and global finance: Recent evidence	66
How to explain stock returns of utility companies from an environmental, social and corporate governance perspective	66
Correction to “The Social Innovation of Academic Spin‐Offs From a Multilevel Approach”	65
Toward Suppliers' Green Innovation: The Role of Buyers' Environmental Information Disclosure	65
Mentioning Sustainable Development Goals in Large Hotel Companies' Sustainability Reports: Signals of Substantive or Symbolic Commitment	64
Unveiling the value of institutional pressure in socially sustainable supply chain management: The role of top management support for social initiatives and organisational culture	63
Irresponsible to others but responsible to me: Testing employees' responses to external corporate social irresponsibility and internal corporate social responsibility	62
An Examination of Assurance Practices on Carbon Emission Disclosures: Evidence From Italy and Spain	62
Accounting for nature contributions to people in corporate sustainability: The case of a waste management company in Portugal	61
The spillover effects of positive and negative corporate social responsibility publicity: How and why the effect is lessened versus amplified	60
The Effect of Social CSR on Labor Investment Decisions: Theory and International Evidence	60
Green human resource practices and corporate sustainable performance—The role of corporate green culture and dynamic capabilities	59
A Panacea to Prevent Digital Distraction in Workplace: How and When Corporate Social Responsibility Prevent Employees From Cyberloafing	59
Archival research on sustainability‐related executive compensation. A literature review of the status quo and future improvements	58
An integrated decision‐making framework for corporate sustainability	57
The role of risk management committee on the relationship between corporate carbon emission disclosure and capital structure	57