... – the Russia–Ukraine war. Design/methodology/approach Using a sample of Russian-listed firms, a cross-sectional Heckprobit model is used to investigate the association between a firm’s ESG ranking and Russian business leaders’ sociopolitical activism, controlling for the potential selection bias...

.... Third, Russia is regarded as a personal network-oriented economy. Weak legitimacy of formal institutions encourages managers to rely on informal cultural–cognitive institutions such as personal networks (Puffer and McCarthy, 2011). Michailova and Worm (2003) argue that personal connections have been...

... Earnings management Audit committee Board of directors Corporate governance Russia The G20/OECD Principles of Corporate Governance emphasize, among other factors, the importance of due disclosure and transparency by public companies. Specifically, they urge the system of corporate governance...

... sustainability (BST) 1.0-3.0 spectrum. The analysis is settled on survey data collected from leading Russian companies participated in the “Report on Social Investments in Russia” project conducted by the Russian Managers Association from 2008 to 2019. Findings This paper finds that the BST 2.0 is becoming...

...Mirgul Nizaeva; Ali Uyar Purpose The purpose of this paper is to comparatively analyze the corporate governance codes of transition economies, particularly five Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) members (i.e. Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Armenia). Specifically, the convergence...

... between corporate governance practices and bank performance in Russia across different financial crisis periods. The findings revealed the uniqueness of corporate governance scenarios of Russia which could provide important guidelines for other transition economies and emerging markets. Monowar Mahmood...

...Gilbert Lenssen; André Nijhof; Ludwig Roger; Henk Kievit; Nikolai Mouraviev; Nada Kakabadse Purpose – This paper aims to investigate the influence of public-private partnerships (PPPs) on social and economic conditions in Kazakhstan and Russia from a public economics perspective, namely, through...

...Gilbert Lenssen; Luk Van Wassenhove; Simon Pickard; Joris‐Johann Lenssen; Yury Blagov; Anastasia Petrova‐Savchenko Purpose The aim of this paper is to examine how companies officially recognized in Russia as corporate philanthropy leaders actually introduce, implement, and evaluate...

...Jokull Johannesson; Iryna Palona; Jose Francisco Salazar Guillen; Michael Fock Purpose The purpose of this paper is to compare and contrast the corporate governance standards of Cyprus, Russia, and Kazakhstan to those of the UK to facilitate investment decisions. The paper aims to discover...

... with greater social responsibility. Given a relative scarcity of research into CSR in Russia, particular attention is to be given to firms from that country. Design/methodology/approach The research question is examined through an analysis of differences between firms from industrialized nations...

... business Russia Oil industry Gas industry Since the breakdown of the Soviet Union, the system of a central planned economy, which succeeded in cutting the country off from international markets, has been replaced by market institutions. Subsequently, Russia – as one successor state of the Soviet...