OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management is 53. 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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
	353
Identifying the Impact of Stakeholder Empowerment During the Social Innovation Journey	209
How do female CEOs affect corporate pay dispersion? The perspective of risk aversion and competition avoidance	200
Unveiling sustainable practices in financial institutions: A bibliometric analysis cum meta‐analytical review on enhancing financial performance	143
Does internal control improve enterprise environmental, social, and governance information disclosure? Evidence from China	138
ESG investing & firm performance: Retrospections of past & reflections of future	135
The impact of corporate environmental reporting on the financial performance of listed manufacturing firms in Ghana (Csr‐24‐2036)	122
Renewable energy, social disruption and formalising the social licence to operate in South Africa	112
Corporate environmentalism and value creation: Investigating the role of shared independent directors in green technology adoption and financial performance	112
Corporate social responsibility: Formal versus informal firms	109
The influence of state ownership on environmental proactivity: An institutional perspective of international firms	108
Local directors and corporate social responsibility activities of multinational companies in Africa	107
Corporate social responsibility and energy efficiency: Empirical evidence from the manufacturing sector of India	100
Stakeholder management, CSR commitment, corporate social performance: The moderating role of uncertainty in CSR regulation	98
Do takeover threats influence corporate social responsibility? Evidence from hostile takeover vulnerability	95
Enacting institutional drivers towards strategic corporate social responsibility: The sensemaking process in multinational companies	93
The impacts of artificial intelligence literacy, green absorptive capacity, and green information system on green innovation	92
Guiding organizations toward sustainable success: The strategic role of leadership in environmental corporate governance in the wine industry	90
Does ESG implementation influence performance and risk in SMEs?	90
Corporate social responsibility, green financial system guidelines, and cost of debt financing: Evidence from pollution‐intensive industries in China	88
Does It Pay for Family Firms to Go Green? The Moderating Role of Familiness	83
Board Characteristics and Stakeholder Engagement and ESG Performance: The Relevance of European Gender Parity	79
Political network embeddedness and ecological innovation: Do absorptive capacity and dynamic capability have any influence?	79
Influence of Proactive ESG Strategies, Slack Resources, and Collective Brain on ESG Disclosure and Firm Value in Japanese Companies	75
Business–society interface: An exploration of a paradigmatic heuristic model of corporate social responsibility in Colombia	74

Board network and ESG performance: Evidence from China	74
CEO power, board features and ESG performance: An extensive novel moderation analysis	73
De‐politicization and corporate social responsibility: Empirical evidence from China	70
	70
Sustainable human resource management and job satisfaction—Unlocking the power of organizational identification: A cross‐cultural perspective from 54 countries	70
Irresponsible to others but responsible to me: Testing employees' responses to external corporate social irresponsibility and internal corporate social responsibility	69
How green transformational leadership drives environmental performance and firm performance? Empirical evidence from an emerging economy	69
Unveiling the value of institutional pressure in socially sustainable supply chain management: The role of top management support for social initiatives and organisational culture	69
Correction to “Sustainability in the pharmaceutics industry – An assessment of ESG maturity and effects of ESG measure implementation on supply chain security”	68
The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and global finance: Recent evidence	67
Shaping tomorrow's managers: The influence of university education on economics students' attitudes toward corporate social responsibility and labor unions	64
The role of risk management committee on the relationship between corporate carbon emission disclosure and capital structure	64
The spillover effects of positive and negative corporate social responsibility publicity: How and why the effect is lessened versus amplified	63
Investor behavior and the demand for conventional and socially responsible mutual funds	63
Accounting for nature contributions to people in corporate sustainability: The case of a waste management company in Portugal	62
How to explain stock returns of utility companies from an environmental, social and corporate governance perspective	62
Fashion and sustainability: Evidence from the consumption of second‐hand clothes	62
Enhancing social responsibility and resilience through entrepreneurship and digital environment	62
Determinants of sustainability reporting: A systematic literature review	61
A Literature Analysis of Sustainability Reporting Quality	59
An integrated decision‐making framework for corporate sustainability	59
The Effect of Social CSR on Labor Investment Decisions: Theory and International Evidence	56
Exploring the link between corporate social responsibility and financial performance in social enterprises: The mediating role of productivity	55
Peer influence, market power, and enterprises' green innovation: Evidence from Chinese listed firms	55
Archival research on sustainability‐related executive compensation. A literature review of the status quo and future improvements	54
Corporate Social Responsibility's Role in Shaping Environmental Innovation and Reputation: Evidence From London's Non‐Financial Sector	53
The power of culture: Does Confucian culture contribute to corporate environmental information disclosure?	53
Green human resource practices and corporate sustainable performance—The role of corporate green culture and dynamic capabilities	53
Confucianism and employee treatment: Evidence from China	53