...Geeta Singh; Abhishek Ranga Purpose This study investigates the relationship between directors' busyness, measured as multiple board appointments and corporate environmental performance, specifically carbon emissions. It explores whether busy directors hinder or facilitate firms' ability to reduce...

...: the reputational hypothesis and the busyness hypothesis. The “busyness hypothesis” states that firms with busy directors tend to have poor corporate governance, as these directors may be overcommitted and therefore unable to effectively monitor management (Andres et al., 2013). This board busyness...