CEOs

In this thesis I investigate gender in environmental non-governmental organisations (ENGOs) in the United Kingdom (UK) and Turkey. ENGOs play an increasingly important role as lobbyists on environmental policy making at national and international scales. There is large literature dealing with gender inequalities in governing bodies, and in organisations. However, gender structures of ENGOs and their implications for campaigns have been under-researched. I therefore examined the structure and composition of ENGOs in the UK and Turkey, how far they include women in decision-making process and the implications for their campaigns. To this end, I undertook cross-national comparative research applying feminist research methodology to explore differences and similarities and underlying factors for gender inequalities in organisational settings in two different societies. The research methods included 38 interviews and one focus group interview in 9 ENGOs in the UK and 40 interviews in 10 ENGOs in Turkey. These were conducted mainly with senior managers, but also with junior managers and staff. Furthermore, I placed myself as a volunteer and researcher in two ENGOs, one in the UK and one in Turkey in order to observe the organisational practices directly and to enable triangulation of data. In addition, I collected secondary data from annual reports, staff charts, publications and websites of the organisations to collect data on gender compositions as well as campaigns of the ENGOs. In order to explore and provide sufficient explanation for the under-representation of female senior managers and gender inequalities in ENGOs settings, theoretical approaches were looked into in order to find the most appropriate feminist theories that explain the gendered nature of ENGOs. I found that while the ENGO sectors in both countries are dominated by female employees, white, middle class men are in charge of the decision-making in the ENGOs. Moreover, in the ENGOs I found that there seemed to be resistance to integrate gender related perspectives when deciding environmental campaigns. Since there is no research on ENGOs that makes gender blindness visible, this thesis is an attempt to fill that gap. I argue that neglecting gender relations in environmental decision-making and campaigns reinforces the current gendered practices and imbalances in ENGOs that fail to integrate women’s perspectives in environmental policies.

This paper investigates the liaison between chief executive officer (CEO) psychological biases and corporate social responsibility (CSR). It uses a sample of 450 European real estate firm-year-observations indexed on STOXX Europe 600 Index from 2009 to 2018. To test the developed hypotheses, feasible generalised least square (FGLS) regression is applied. Findings suggest that CEOs' narcissism and overconfidence are significant factors in determining firms' incentives to undertake CSR activities. Further, it is found that an effective CG practices significantly moderates CEOs behaviour regarding corporate social responsibility engagement. The study's importance lies in the overview it provides of CSR performance in the European real estate industry. As corporate governance can have a major impact in CEOs' behaviour regarding corporate social responsibility, the author recommends firms to improve corporate governance in listed European real estate firms. Research on individual determinants of corporate social responsibility, especially psychological factors of top executives, is a field where progress is needed. This paper contributes to the existing literature with two empirical novelties: 1) providing a novel insight into CSR involvement using a sample of European real estate sector; 2) investigating the moderating effect of the corporate governance mechanisms in listed European real estate companies.

En este Informe de Investigación Nº2 del Observatorio de las Elites radicado en el IDAES-UNSAM, presentamos un conjunto de precisiones
conceptuales sobre las nociones de “puerta giratoria”, conflictos de interés y captura de la decisión estatal, y acudimos a la legislación comparada para mostrar que se trata de problemas públicos de gravedad, que han sido regulados, en muchos casos muy estrictamente, en numerosos países desarrollados.
Asimismo, mostramos los efectos concretos de la “puerta giratoria”, los conflictos de interés y la captura de la decisión estatal mediante el análisis del caso del Ministerio de Energía y Minería de la Nación, conducido por Juan José Aranguren, ex CEO de Shell, la cartera del gabinete que se ha transformado en el ejemplo más concreto de estos problemas.

Research background: Despite increased attention in the literature to the importance of the CEO's brand for companies, understanding of the effect of the CEO brand on the corporate brand remains limited. To contribute to this discussion, this paper investigates different facets of the impact of the CEO brand, and particularly its media coverage, on corporate brand equity. Purpose of the article: This study investigates the relationship between the different aspects of the CEO brand's media coverage and corporate brand equity. Methods: Comprehensive media monitoring in the press and online sourcing of CEOs from the strongest Polish brands were conducted. For three years (2014-2017), media monitoring covered 81 CEOs, resulting in over 44,000 data points for this study. Regression analysis was conducted to determine whether a relationship exists between different facets of the CEO's personal brand and company brand equity. Findings & value added: This study provides a new perspective on the relationship between the CEO and corporate brands and showcases empirical evidence of the CEO brand's relationship with corporate brand equity. It introduces two relevant and novel variables (CEO brand reach and CEO brand advertising value equivalent [AVE]) to the literature, which have been limited to the number of mentions and its sentiment. Accordingly, this study contributes to the emerging litera

This paper investigates the liaison between chief executive officer (CEO) psychological biases and corporate social responsibility (CSR). It uses a sample of 450 European real estate firm-year-observations indexed on STOXX Europe 600 Index from 2009 to 2018. To test the developed hypotheses, feasible generalised least square (FGLS) regression is applied. Findings suggest that CEOs' narcissism and overconfidence are significant factors in determining firms' incentives to undertake CSR activities. Further, it is found that an effective CG practices significantly moderates CEOs behaviour regarding corporate social responsibility engagement. The study's importance lies in the overview it provides of CSR performance in the European real estate industry. As corporate governance can have a major impact in CEOs' behaviour regarding corporate social responsibility, the author recommends firms to improve corporate governance in listed European real estate firms. Research on individual determinants of corporate social responsibility, especially psychological factors of top executives, is a field where progress is needed. This paper contributes to the existing literature with two empirical novelties: 1) providing a novel insight into CSR involvement using a sample of European real estate sector; 2) investigating the moderating effect of the corporate governance mechanisms in listed European real estate companies.

Theme paper for the Dubai Global Convention 2016 and 26th World Congress for Business Excellence & Innovation which raises questions about the nature and meaning of contemporary leadership and business excellence in relation to creativity, innovation, digital applications and entrepreneurship against the background of the changing nature of production and organisation. Published as: Coulson-Thomas, Colin (2016), [Theme Paper] Dubai Global Convention 2016: 26th World Congress for Business Excellence & Innovation, www.iodonline.com, New Delhi, Institute of Directors (India), [http://iodonline.com/images/dubai2016/empowering-boards-to-become-instruments-of-innovation-and-excellence-2016.pdf] 28th March