Do inside directors affect sustainability performance? A test of a contingency approach

As boards are increasingly responsible for addressing sustainability and accountable for the extent to which they do so, this study's point of departure is to examine the impact of inside directors on sustainability performance. By creating an aggregate measure that accounts for economic, envir...

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Main Author: Galbreath, Jeremy
Other Authors: Martin Grimmer
Format: Conference Paper
Published: ANZAM 2013
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Online Access:http://www.anzam.org/wp-content/uploads/pdf-manager/8_ANZAM-2013-005.PDF
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/29000
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description As boards are increasingly responsible for addressing sustainability and accountable for the extent to which they do so, this study's point of departure is to examine the impact of inside directors on sustainability performance. By creating an aggregate measure that accounts for economic, environmental, and social metrics, this study finds that insiders are negatively related to sustainability performance. However, when the variables of compensation linked to environmental and social metrics, sustainability training, and comprehensive company codes of conduct are introduced, their interactive effects positively moderate the insider-sustainability performance relationship. Implications of findings are discussed, along with future research directions and limitations.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-290002017-01-30T13:09:05Z Do inside directors affect sustainability performance? A test of a contingency approach Galbreath, Jeremy Martin Grimmer performance sustainability Boards of directors corporate governance As boards are increasingly responsible for addressing sustainability and accountable for the extent to which they do so, this study's point of departure is to examine the impact of inside directors on sustainability performance. By creating an aggregate measure that accounts for economic, environmental, and social metrics, this study finds that insiders are negatively related to sustainability performance. However, when the variables of compensation linked to environmental and social metrics, sustainability training, and comprehensive company codes of conduct are introduced, their interactive effects positively moderate the insider-sustainability performance relationship. Implications of findings are discussed, along with future research directions and limitations. 2013 Conference Paper http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/29000 http://www.anzam.org/wp-content/uploads/pdf-manager/8_ANZAM-2013-005.PDF ANZAM fulltext
spellingShingle performance
sustainability
Boards of directors
corporate governance
Galbreath, Jeremy
Do inside directors affect sustainability performance? A test of a contingency approach
title Do inside directors affect sustainability performance? A test of a contingency approach
title_full Do inside directors affect sustainability performance? A test of a contingency approach
title_fullStr Do inside directors affect sustainability performance? A test of a contingency approach
title_full_unstemmed Do inside directors affect sustainability performance? A test of a contingency approach
title_short Do inside directors affect sustainability performance? A test of a contingency approach
title_sort do inside directors affect sustainability performance? a test of a contingency approach
topic performance
sustainability
Boards of directors
corporate governance
url http://www.anzam.org/wp-content/uploads/pdf-manager/8_ANZAM-2013-005.PDF
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/29000