OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management is 51. 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Political network embeddedness and ecological innovation: Do absorptive capacity and dynamic capability have any influence?	332
The influence of state ownership on environmental proactivity: An institutional perspective of international firms	202
Renewable energy, social disruption and formalising the social licence to operate in South Africa	189
Enacting institutional drivers towards strategic corporate social responsibility: The sensemaking process in multinational companies	139
Board Characteristics and Stakeholder Engagement and ESG Performance: The Relevance of European Gender Parity	134
	133
Corporate social responsibility: Formal versus informal firms	114
Identifying the Impact of Stakeholder Empowerment During the Social Innovation Journey	106
Business–society interface: An exploration of a paradigmatic heuristic model of corporate social responsibility in Colombia	106
Influence of Proactive ESG Strategies, Slack Resources, and Collective Brain on ESG Disclosure and Firm Value in Japanese Companies	104
How do female CEOs affect corporate pay dispersion? The perspective of risk aversion and competition avoidance	104
Unveiling sustainable practices in financial institutions: A bibliometric analysis cum meta‐analytical review on enhancing financial performance	103
Board network and ESG performance: Evidence from China	95
Sustainable human resource management and job satisfaction—Unlocking the power of organizational identification: A cross‐cultural perspective from 54 countries	95
Does internal control improve enterprise environmental, social, and governance information disclosure? Evidence from China	91
Do takeover threats influence corporate social responsibility? Evidence from hostile takeover vulnerability	91
Corporate social responsibility, green financial system guidelines, and cost of debt financing: Evidence from pollution‐intensive industries in China	90
ESG investing & firm performance: Retrospections of past & reflections of future	88
Local directors and corporate social responsibility activities of multinational companies in Africa	82
Guiding organizations toward sustainable success: The strategic role of leadership in environmental corporate governance in the wine industry	80
Corporate social responsibility and energy efficiency: Empirical evidence from the manufacturing sector of India	78
Stakeholder management, CSR commitment, corporate social performance: The moderating role of uncertainty in CSR regulation	77
The impact of corporate environmental reporting on the financial performance of listed manufacturing firms in Ghana (Csr‐24‐2036)	77
Does ESG implementation influence performance and risk in SMEs?	73
The impacts of artificial intelligence literacy, green absorptive capacity, and green information system on green innovation	72

	70
CEO power, board features and ESG performance: An extensive novel moderation analysis	70
How to explain stock returns of utility companies from an environmental, social and corporate governance perspective	70
Corporate environmentalism and value creation: Investigating the role of shared independent directors in green technology adoption and financial performance	70
The spillover effects of positive and negative corporate social responsibility publicity: How and why the effect is lessened versus amplified	68
Archival research on sustainability‐related executive compensation. A literature review of the status quo and future improvements	68
Investor behavior and the demand for conventional and socially responsible mutual funds	65
How green transformational leadership drives environmental performance and firm performance? Empirical evidence from an emerging economy	64
Determinants of sustainability reporting: A systematic literature review	63
Encouraging corporate sustainability through effective strategic partnerships	63
How corporate social responsibility can incentivize top managers: A commitment to sustainability as an agency intervention	63
Enhancing social responsibility and resilience through entrepreneurship and digital environment	62
Green human resource practices and corporate sustainable performance—The role of corporate green culture and dynamic capabilities	61
Confucianism and employee treatment: Evidence from China	60
Corporate Social Responsibility's Role in Shaping Environmental Innovation and Reputation: Evidence From London's Non‐Financial Sector	59
De‐politicization and corporate social responsibility: Empirical evidence from China	59
The role of risk management committee on the relationship between corporate carbon emission disclosure and capital structure	58
Unveiling the value of institutional pressure in socially sustainable supply chain management: The role of top management support for social initiatives and organisational culture	58
Accounting for nature contributions to people in corporate sustainability: The case of a waste management company in Portugal	55
Irresponsible to others but responsible to me: Testing employees' responses to external corporate social irresponsibility and internal corporate social responsibility	54
The Effect of Social CSR on Labor Investment Decisions: Theory and International Evidence	54
Correction to “Sustainability in the pharmaceutics industry – An assessment of ESG maturity and effects of ESG measure implementation on supply chain security”	54
The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and global finance: Recent evidence	52
Fashion and sustainability: Evidence from the consumption of second‐hand clothes	51
Shaping tomorrow's managers: The influence of university education on economics students' attitudes toward corporate social responsibility and labor unions	51
A Literature Analysis of Sustainability Reporting Quality	51