Politically conservative boards pay CEOs more and tie compensation more closely to performance, write Abhinav Gupta and Adam Wowak.
Firms governed by politically conservative boards of directors pay their CEOs more money than do firms with more liberal-leaning (the ideological left in the US) boards. That’s the conclusion of our new study on the impact of political ideology in the boardroom. […]
Liberal-leaning companies engage in more CSR than conservative-leaning ones, write Abhinav Gupta, Forrest Briscoe and Donald C. Hambrick.
The United States Supreme Court has ruled that corporations are, essentially, people. They enjoy many of the same rights and responsibilities as individual Americans. But do profit-seeking enterprises also have discernible political ideologies? Our research suggests that they do.
In a recent study, […]
In their campaigns to get organizations to adopt socially responsible practices, social activists choose between disruptive protests and evidence-based persuasion, often targeting select few organizations in the hope that more will also change their practices. But are such tactics effective? In their study of an anti-sweatshop campaign on US university campuses, Forrest Briscoe, Abhinav Gupta, and Mark Anner find […]
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