Corporate boards and outside stakeholders as determinants of environmental litigation

By George I. Kassinis, N. Vafeas. 2002

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Subfields: Marketing, Strategy and Management

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Corporate social responsibility, board of directors, and firm performance: an analysis of their relationships (2014, background): “The empirical evidence suggests a positive and significant link between board size and CSR activities (De Villiers et al. 2011; Kassinis and Vafeas 2002).”
Is Environmental Governance Substantive or Symbolic? An Empirical Investigation (2012, background): “Dependent Variable (Model 1): Environmental Regulatory Performance Violations of environmental regulations are an important aspect of environmental performance (Kassinis and Vafeas 2002) and, consequently, regulatory performance is the minimum level of performance targeted by all types of environmen”
Organizational Responses to Environmental Demands: Opening the Black Box (2008, methodology): “…violations during 2002–2003, the number of formal enforcement actions during 1999–2003, and the log sum of penalties accrued during 1999–2003 (Kassinis and Vafeas, 2002; Khanna and Anton, 2002; Russo and Fouts, 1997).9 This information was obtained from the U.S. EPA’s Integrated Data for…”
Board reputation attributes and corporate social performance: an empirical investigation of the US Best Corporate Citizens (2011, background): “…idea that boards with great prestige in terms of the external directorships of non-executive directors beneﬁt in terms of stakeholders’ legitimacy (Kassinis and Vafeas 2002) but, when non-executive directors are community inﬂuentials, the fact that they serve on many boards is detrimental to…”
Board Diversity and Corporate Social Responsibility: Empirical Evidence from France (2020, background): “In line with Kabir and Thai Minh (2017), De Villiers et al. (2011) and Kassinis and Vafeas (2002), we show that large boards are more prone to undertake CSR activities and have a better CSR performance.”
Do Banks Value the Eco-Friendliness of Firms’ in Their Corporate Lending Decision? Some Empirical Evidence (2012, background): “Moreover, complying with social and legal norms related to environment (Kassinis & Vafeas, 2002), firms enhance their reputation by not polluting and exploiting environment.”
US State Policies for Renewable Energy: Context and Effectiveness (2011, methodology): “Several researchers have used the scores of the League of Conservation Voters as a measure of the preferences of the elected representatives of a state (Delmas et al., 2007; Hamilton, 1997; Kassinis and Vafeas, 2002, 2006; Lubell, Schneider, Scholz, and Mete, 2002; Viscusi and Hamilton, 1999).”
Women in the boardroom and their impact on climate change related disclosure (2017, background): “Board directors are also participating more actively in decision making about corporate environmental policies (Kassinis and Vafeas, 2002).”
Deregulation and environmental differentiation in the electric utility industry (2007, methodology): “Following King and Lenox (2000) and Kassinis and Vafeas (2002), we used the state’s toxic emissions (the total amount of on-site and off-site toxic release) from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) database (U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 1998–1999),…”
Responsible Corporate Governance: Towards a Stakeholder Board of Directors? (2009, unknown): “ Kassinis and Vafeas (2002) suggest that stakeholder directors, such as academics, members of the military and clergy, and politicians have interests that are more closely aligned with the interests of the community at large.”
Stakeholder Theory: Reviewing a Theory That Moves Us (2008, background): “Also, Kassinis and Vafeas (2002) conclude that stakeholder management does not deter polluters from harming the environment, which casts additional doubt on the existence of this relationship.”