Influence of Senior Executives Characteristics on Corporate Environmental Disclosures: A Bibliometric Analysis

Abstract

This study aims to synthesize the literature on the top management team (TMT) characteristics influence on environmental disclosures of public organizations and identify recent trends, key themes, influential journals, and authors. Our study recruited 88 research articles on the relationship of TMT characteristics and environmental disclosures from 54 academic journals published from 2010 to 2021 for bibliometric analysis. Our study has identified three influential streams: (1) Role of Politically connections of TMT, good governance in environmental disclosures; (2) Significance of environmental disclosures and performance; and (3) institutional investors and environmental disclosures. Thematic map classifies the TMT characteristics and environmental disclosures relationship themes into four categories: Niche theme (e.g., financial expertise, CFO characteristics, CEO tenure, and board backgrounds); motor themes (e.g., environmental sustainability and climate change); emerging/declining themes (e.g., Environmental disclosure, managerial ownership, and CEO tenure); and basic/transversal themes (e.g., CEO characteristics, upper echelon theory, corporate governance). This study assists academicians, policymakers, managers, and consultants in the corporate sector to understand the role of different dimensions of TMT characteristics regarding environmental disclosures. Our study concludes with important practical implications and future research directions.

Educational technologies and elementary level education – A bibliometric review of scopus indexed journal articles

“…Various study topics have been identified to deepen understanding of the research outcomes. These existing themes can be strategically categorized and visualized through a graph to evaluate the significance and evolution of each research theme [ 68 ]. Fig.…”

Understanding the dynamics of capital structure, corporate governance, and corporate social responsibility in high- and low-leveraged US and Chinese firms

“…This relationship is significant at a 1% level of significance in all the 10 models presented in Table 3 , which explains that firms with low leverage ratios have extra money for spending on CSR, as confirmed by some other researchers such as Mishra and Modi ( 2013 ). The main reason for this negative relationship is that firms spending on CSR are more ethical in its hierarchy of top management teams and also in boards of directors (Arslan et al 2022a , b , c ; Li et al 2016a , b ), resultantly firms perform better financially and have less requirements for debt to fulfill capital requirements (Harjoto 2017 ; Mishra and Modi 2013 ; Sheikh 2019 ; Swandari and Sadikin 2016 ).…”

Environmental regulation and corporate environmental performance: A bibliometric analysis

“…The second objective of the study is to contribute to the identification of core journals, articles, authors, keywords, and other aspects of the field using Biblioshiny and Microsoft Excel. Specifically, for influential sources and core authors we use H-Index, total citations (TC), and annual net publications (NP) to identify them (Arslan et al, 2022). In addition, Bradford's law is used to tri-categorize major journals.…”