High-profile leadership: celebrity CEOs and corporate cash reserves
Published in: Journal of Accounting Literature
Aug 01, 2025
Purpose Using a hand-collected dataset, this research contributes to the literature on how CEO personal qualities influence company choices and decision-making. To accomplish this, it investigates the relationship between the CEO’s personal celebrity and cash reserves. Design/methodology/approach Our sample includes all non-financial businesses that were listed on the S&P 500 between 2005 and 2020. Employing principal component analysis, we create the CEO celebrity index as a multidimensio...
Right-to-Work Laws and Firm Productivity in U.S. Firms
Published in: Industrial Relations Journal
Jul 01, 2025
We investigate the impact of Right-to-Work (RTW) laws on firm-level total factor productivity (TFP) in U.S. firms. We find that RTW laws, which reduce union bargaining power, are associated with a decrease in firm-level TFP, particularly for firms adopting innovation-driven strategies or facing financial constraints. These effects are robust across various models and endogeneity treatments, emphasising the importance of internal and external factors in assessing labour policy impacts. Weakening...
Green Leadership Support as a Catalyst for Innovative Behavior: A Study of Green Absorptive Capacity and Work Climate in UAE Hotels
Published in: Business Ethics, the Environment & Responsibility Journal
Jun 24, 2025
This study investigated how green absorptive capacity influences employee perceptions of a green work climate and their engagement in green innovative behavior. It also examines the moderating role of green leadership support in shaping these relationships. Guided by the resource-based view, the research explores how environmental knowledge capabilities and supportive organizational conditions contribute to sustainability-focused innovation. Survey data were collected from employees at twelve f...
Institutional complexity in cross-border HRM practices: a comparative analysis in India
Published in: International Journal of Manpower
May 13, 2025
This study aims to conduct a comparative analysis of human resource management (HRM) practices between domestic and multinational enterprises within India, a large emerging economy. It also highlights the distinct institutional arrangements that potentially influence the employment practices of these organizations. Data were collected from a diverse sample of domestic and multinational enterprises in India. The study utilized multivariate analysis to examine HRM practices, focusing on trai...