Abstract Research Summary CEOs increasingly engage in activism on controversial social
and political issues that do not directly affect their core business. Simultaneously, the …

Purpose Chief Executive Officer (CEO) activism, ie executives, publicly weighing in on
sociopolitical debates, is an area of increasing interest in academia and business. This …

We investigate the increasingly common practice of chief executive officers (CEOs) taking
public stances on social and political issues (CEO activism). We find that CEO activism …

We examine employee responses to CEO activism, the increasingly common practice of
CEOs taking public stances on socio-political issues. CEO activism may bolster employees' …

Activism undertaken by CEOs has been on the rise in recent years. Research on this
practice has been primarily concerned with determining the conditions under which a CEO's …

Purpose When CEOs are publicly weighing in on sociopolitical debates, this is known as
CEO activism. The steadily growing number of such statements made in recent years has …

We investigate why firms voluntarily disclose support for the Black Lives Matter movement
(BLM firms) even though these disclosures have little impact on shareholder value. We …

This study investigates retail investor responses to corporate engagement in corporate socio-
political activism (CSA). Using manually collected evidence of companies' support for the …

We examine customer responses to publicly traded firms speaking out in response to the
state of Georgia's voting reform laws. For firms that speak out, we find that customer visits …

Prosocial CEOs advocate for social issues through supporting politicians who represent
their social values. We focus on two types of social issues: racial inequality and gun …