... markets. Design/methodology/approach This paper investigates the effect of board informal hierarchy on the protection of minority shareholders. The study empirically analyzes the aforementioned relationship using panel data from Chinese A-share listed companies between 2013 and 2022. The Gini...

... mechanism of board informal hierarchy influencing enterprise’s ESG, and to explore the heterogeneity of this effect under varying corporate governance settings. Design/methodology/approach This study applies fixed effects models and empirically tests the hypotheses using samples of Chinese A-share...