Note(s): Table 9 reports whether the effect of CEO narcissism on corporate ESG performance is realized through the pathway of lower internal control quality. pred_Icq1 and pred_Icq2 denote the predicted values of internal control quality in the first stage, respectively. Other variables are defined in Table 1. All regressions are firm-level clustered robust standard errors. *, ** and *** denote significance at the 10%, 5% and 1% levels, respectively