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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
	380
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	219
How do female CEOs affect corporate pay dispersion? The perspective of risk aversion and competition avoidance	155
Corporate social responsibility: Formal versus informal firms	152
Board network and ESG performance: Evidence from China	140
Does ESG implementation influence performance and risk in SMEs?	130
CEO power, board features and ESG performance: An extensive novel moderation analysis	128
Do takeover threats influence corporate social responsibility? Evidence from hostile takeover vulnerability	127
The impact of corporate environmental reporting on the financial performance of listed manufacturing firms in Ghana (Csr‐24‐2036)	123
The influence of state ownership on environmental proactivity: An institutional perspective of international firms	120
Enacting institutional drivers towards strategic corporate social responsibility: The sensemaking process in multinational companies	119
Political network embeddedness and ecological innovation: Do absorptive capacity and dynamic capability have any influence?	112
Business–society interface: An exploration of a paradigmatic heuristic model of corporate social responsibility in Colombia	108
Sustainable human resource management and job satisfaction—Unlocking the power of organizational identification: A cross‐cultural perspective from 54 countries	104
Corporate social responsibility and energy efficiency: Empirical evidence from the manufacturing sector of India	103
Environmental Capital and Digital Financial Inclusion: Energy Empowerment of Cameroonian SMEs Through Solar Energy, a Lever for Sustainable Performance	102
Unveiling sustainable practices in financial institutions: A bibliometric analysis cum meta‐analytical review on enhancing financial performance	100
Board Characteristics and Stakeholder Engagement and ESG Performance: The Relevance of European Gender Parity	98
Does It Pay for Family Firms to Go Green? The Moderating Role of Familiness	84
ESG investing & firm performance: Retrospections of past & reflections of future	84
Staggered Board and Sexually Diverse Policies Adoption: Benevolence Motivation or Deeper Entrenchment?	84
The impacts of artificial intelligence literacy, green absorptive capacity, and green information system on green innovation	82
Corporate environmentalism and value creation: Investigating the role of shared independent directors in green technology adoption and financial performance	80
Renewable energy, social disruption and formalising the social licence to operate in South Africa	80

Stakeholder management, CSR commitment, corporate social performance: The moderating role of uncertainty in CSR regulation	79
Driving Sustainable Consumption: Factors Influencing Consumer Acceptance of Cultured Meat	76
Corporate social responsibility, green financial system guidelines, and cost of debt financing: Evidence from pollution‐intensive industries in China	74
Local directors and corporate social responsibility activities of multinational companies in Africa	74
Guiding organizations toward sustainable success: The strategic role of leadership in environmental corporate governance in the wine industry	73
Does internal control improve enterprise environmental, social, and governance information disclosure? Evidence from China	72
Accounting for nature contributions to people in corporate sustainability: The case of a waste management company in Portugal	71
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The Effect of Social CSR on Labor Investment Decisions: Theory and International Evidence	70
Encouraging corporate sustainability through effective strategic partnerships	69
A Literature Analysis of Sustainability Reporting Quality	67
The role of risk management committee on the relationship between corporate carbon emission disclosure and capital structure	67
Irresponsible to others but responsible to me: Testing employees' responses to external corporate social irresponsibility and internal corporate social responsibility	66
Correction to “Sustainability in the pharmaceutics industry – An assessment of ESG maturity and effects of ESG measure implementation on supply chain security”	66
Shaping tomorrow's managers: The influence of university education on economics students' attitudes toward corporate social responsibility and labor unions	62
The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and global finance: Recent evidence	62
An integrated decision‐making framework for corporate sustainability	61
Archival research on sustainability‐related executive compensation. A literature review of the status quo and future improvements	60
The spillover effects of positive and negative corporate social responsibility publicity: How and why the effect is lessened versus amplified	59
Exploring the link between corporate social responsibility and financial performance in social enterprises: The mediating role of productivity	58
Green human resource practices and corporate sustainable performance—The role of corporate green culture and dynamic capabilities	57
De‐politicization and corporate social responsibility: Empirical evidence from China	56
How to explain stock returns of utility companies from an environmental, social and corporate governance perspective	56
Determinants of sustainability reporting: A systematic literature review	55
Fashion and sustainability: Evidence from the consumption of second‐hand clothes	55
Enhancing social responsibility and resilience through entrepreneurship and digital environment	55
How green transformational leadership drives environmental performance and firm performance? Empirical evidence from an emerging economy	54
Corporate Social Responsibility's Role in Shaping Environmental Innovation and Reputation: Evidence From London's Non‐Financial Sector	54
Confucianism and employee treatment: Evidence from China	54
A Nonessential Corporate Social Responsibility Reorientation: The Woke‐Washing Phenomenon in Victoria's Secret's Transformation	54
Correction to “The Social Innovation of Academic Spin‐Offs From a Multilevel Approach”	54