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A selection of interesting research and articles we found recently on gender and ethical leadership. CEO gender, ethical leadership, and accounting conservatism Simon Ho and his colleagues note that since male CEOs dominate corporate leadership, the literature on top management decision making suffers from an implicit masculine bias. Although research indicates that males and females are biologically and psychologically different, the leadership characteristics of female CEOs are largely unexplored. Two of these characteristics, risk aversion [...]

A selection of interesting research and articles we found recently on the morality of corporations. A framework for analysing tensions in the economic, environmental and social dimensions of corporate sustainability In this paper, Tobias Hahn, Jonatan Pinkse, Lutz Preuss and Frank Figge propose a systematic framework for the analysis of tensions in corporate sustainability. The framework is based on the emerging integrative view on corporate sustainability, which stresses the need for a simultaneous integration of [...]

A selection of interesting research and articles we found recently on HRM and ethical behaviour. Ethical leadership influences workplace engagement as well as misbehaviour Ozgur Demirtas notes that while a number of studies are being done on ethical leadership, little is known about the role of ethical ideology and organisational justice in the relationship between ethical leadership behaviour and individual behaviours such as work engagement and organisational misbehaviour, which has tended to be neglected in [...]

A selection of interesting research and articles we found recently on entrepreneurial decision making. What do we know about entrepreneurial decision making? Dean Shepherd and his colleagues point out that judgment and decision-making research has a long tradition in management and represents a substantial stream of research in entrepreneurship. Despite numerous reviews of this topic in the organisational behaviour, psychology, and marketing fields, reviews in the field of entrepreneurship are lacking. This absence is surprising [...]

A selection of interesting research and articles we found recently on SMEs and Sustainable Leadership practices. Social and environmental performance in SMEs Richard Arend analysed survey data of US small- and medium-sized enterprises, asking how these entrepreneurial ventures can build a competitive advantage with their social and environmental practices. He focused on several firm characteristics and choices involving motivations and capabilities. Arend found that an orientation to, commitments to, and dynamic flexibility in, the firm’s CSR [...]

A selection of interesting research and articles we found recently on executive compensation issues. Do CEO incentives drive corporate social responsibility (CSR)? Yes, according to Michele Fabrizi, Christine Mallin and Giovanna Michelon. These researchers explored the role of CEO incentives on CSR. Incentives were monetary (based on both bonus compensation and changes in the value of the CEO’s portfolio of stocks and options) and non-monetary (career concerns, incoming/departing CEOs, and power and entrenchment). In 597 US [...]

A selection of interesting research and articles we found recently on workplace ethics and codes of conduct. Does the quality of a firm’s code of ethics make a difference? Many studies have investigated the content of codes of ethics, as well as their capacity to condition the behaviour of people within organisations. However, few studies have considered the intrinsic quality of codes of ethics. This study aims to investigate the impact that specific factors—firm size, [...]

A selection of interesting research and articles we found recently on Corporate Social Responsibility. Does corporate social responsibility enhance access to finance? Apparently so, according to Beiting Cheng, Ioannis Ioannou and George Serafeim, who hypothesised that better access to finance can be attributed to (1) reduced agency costs due to enhanced stakeholder engagement and (2) reduced informational asymmetry due to increased transparency. Using a large cross-section of firms, Cheng et al. found that firms with [...]

A selection of interesting research and articles we found recently on innovation and creativity. Core values and beliefs in leading innovative organisations Innovation is a key driving force for sustainability and growth even in the current economic global slowdown. At present hardly any studies show why innovation is successful at some organizations and yet fails to achieve the desired results at others. Sai Manohar and Shiv Pandit investigated the role of “core values and beliefs” [...]

A selection of interesting research and articles we found recently on HRM and Sustainable Performance. Is sustainable human resource management next? Yes, according to Robin Kramar. She notes that strategic human resource management (SHRM) emerged as a dominant approach to human resource management (HRM) policy during the past 30 years. However, during the last decade, a new approach to HRM has evolved. This approach has been labelled sustainable human resource management (sustainable HRM). It is [...]