We explore transposition—bringing ideas from one context to a distant other context—as a
mechanism for institutional change, and we study the conditions under which institutional …

This paper extends nascent work on returnees as agents of socio-economic change by
examining whether education/training abroad affects the corporate social responsibility …

Using a manually collected dataset on the overseas experiences of directors of Chinese
listed firms, we examine the effects of returnee directors on firms' corporate social …

This study examines how privately owned firms that are listed on Chinese stock exchanges
and often surrounded by Buddhist or Taoist temples use money to bind themselves to …

Addressing the fact that there are few studies exploring the relationship between board
characteristics and corporate social responsibility (CSR) in non-Western contexts, this study …

How do individual actors institute changes in established ways of working? Longitudinal
research is the basis for our theoretical model showing how actors legitimize new practices …

China's rapidly growing outbound foreign direct investment (OFDI) has attracted a great deal
of concern about its impact on the recipient countries. But so far there has been little …

Using the unique data of China, this paper finds that institutional investors' corporate site
visits will promote firms' corporate social responsibility (CSR) performance, the main …

Does internationalization promote or inhibit home country charitable donation for firms from
developing countries? This is an important question that remains poorly studied. This paper …

Building on institutional theory, this study investigates the impact of local officials' turnover
on corporate philanthropy in China. Using data from Chinese listed firms from 2000–2015 …