The role of ethnic directors in corporate social responsibility: Does culture matter? The cultural trait theory perspectives

Abstract

The title of his PhD research paper is 'the effect of culture on corporate governance structure and the effect of corporate governance on firms' performance' from Teesside University Business School.

The influence of CEO characteristics on corporate environmental performance of SMEs: Evidence from Vietnamese SMEs

“…Another major finding of our study relate to CEOs' ethnicity, the results reveal that there is a relationship between CEOs' ethnicity and the probability of CEP, being consistent with those of other studies (Ramasamy et al, 2007;Louis & Osemeke, 2017;Haniffa & Cooke, 2005). This finding also confirms the prediction of our fifth hypothesis, which suggests that CEO, who comes from an ethnic minority are favorable with the CEP.…”

“…This finding also confirms the prediction of our fifth hypothesis, which suggests that CEO, who comes from an ethnic minority are favorable with the CEP. It seems possible that the result is due to intangible assets that CEO from an ethnic minority brings into firms such as ethnicity's' cultural values (Haniffa & Cooke, 2005), ethnic education (Ramasamy et al, 2007), external and specific knowledge, and the commitment with long-term goals of the firm (Louis & Osemeke, 2017). This finding may also be explained by the fact that Vietnamese government have supported to the development of ethnic minorities by the provision of subsidies such as financial and technical assistance from the government (Nguyen & Baulch, 2007).…”

“…The authors also argued that managers' observable demographic indicators that refer to their personalities such as education level, business degree, age, gender, ethnicity, and tenure length can be more objective and measurable (Marcel, 2009;Abdullah & Said, 2018). By drawing on the insights of UET, several studies reveal various characteristics of executives, such as gender (Kassinis et al, 2016), age (Lee et al, 2018), education (Manner, 2010), ethnicity (Louis & Osemeke, 2017) and political ideology (Chin et al, 2013), can impact on firms' social-environmental performance. Taken together, our UET-based study concentrates on the CEOs' observable characteristic indicators, including age, gender, educational level, political connection, and ethnicity, which can explain the level of the firms' corporate social performance.…”

“…In terms of explanation, Louis and Osemeke (2017) used cultural trait theory to indicate that ethnic minorities can bring external resources and concentrate on the long-term goal of the firm (Benson, 2009;Chai, 2010). There are several studies which suggest that the characteristics of CEOs' ethnicity can help their businesses to obtain tangible and intangible resources such as ethnicity's cultural values and governmental support (Haniffa & Cooke, 2005); ethnic education (Ramasamy et al, 2007); external and specific knowledge and the commitment with long-term goal of the firm (Louis & Osemeke, 2017). Refer to the context of Vietnam where the majority of population is from Kinh ethnic group (approximately over 80% total population) and the rest from ethnic minority groups.…”

The Effect of CEO on Bank Efficiency: Evidence From Private Commercial Banks

“…could suggest to their characters; these are objective and measurable (Marcel, 2009 ; Abdullah and Said, 2018 ). By drawing on UET, a few studies have revealed that how different attributes of executives, for example, gender (Kassinis et al, 2016 ), age (Lee et al, 2018 ), education (Manner, 2010 ), ethnicity (Louis and Osemeke, 2017 ), and political belief system (Chen, 2015 ), can affect the financial performance of a firm. Generally, our UET-based investigation concentrated on noticeable attribute indicators of CEOs, which comprises education, experience, nationality, political association, and MTB, to clarify the level of effect they have on corporate financial performance.…”