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Tran, N & Pham, B. (2020). The influence of CEO characteristics on corporate environmental performance of SMEs: Evidence from Vietnamese SMEs.Management Science Letters , 10(8), 1671-1682.
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Carpenter, M. A., Geletkanycz, M. A., & Sanders, W. G. (2004). Upper echelons research revisited: Antecedents, elements, and con-sequences of top management team composition. Journal of Management, 30(6), 749-778.
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Child, J. (1975). Managerial and organizational factors associated with company performance‐part II. A contingency analy-sis. Journal of Management Studies, 12(1‐2), 12-27.
Chin, M. K., Hambrick, D. C., & Treviño, L. K. (2013). Political ideologies of CEOs: The influence of executives’ values on corpo-rate social responsibility. Administrative Science Quarterly, 58(2), 197-232.
Chown, S. M. (1961). Age and the rigidities. Journal of Gerontology.
Cook, A., & Glass, C. (2018). Women on corporate boards: Do they advance corporate social responsibility?. Human relations, 71(7), 897-924.
De Silva, D. G., & Pownall, R. A. (2014). Going green: does it depend on education, gender or income?. Applied Economics, 46(5), 573-586.
Dey, P. K., Petridis, N. E., Petridis, K., Malesios, C., Nixon, J. D., & Ghosh, S. K. (2018). Environmental management and corpo-rate social responsibility practices of small and medium-sized enterprises. Journal of cleaner production, 195, 687-702.
Eagly, A. H., & Johannesen‐Schmidt, M. C. (2001). The leadership styles of women and men. Journal of social issues, 57(4), 781-797.
Escribá‐Esteve, A., Sánchez‐Peinado, L., & Sánchez‐Peinado, E. (2009). The influence of top management teams in the strategic orientation and performance of small and medium‐sized enterprises. British Journal of Management, 20(4), 581-597.
Fabrizi, M., Mallin, C., & Michelon, G. (2014). The role of CEO’s personal incentives in driving corporate social responsibil-ity. Journal of Business Ethics, 124(2), 311-326.
Faccio, M. (2006). Politically connected firms. American economic review, 96(1), 369-386.
Finkelstein, S., Cannella, S. F. B., Hambrick, D. C., & Cannella, A. A. (2009). Strategic leadership: Theory and research on execu-tives, top management teams, and boards. Oxford University Press, USA.
Ge, W., & Liu, M. (2015). Corporate social responsibility and the cost of corporate bonds. Journal of Accounting and Public Poli-cy, 34(6), 597-624.
Gigerenzer, G., & Selten, R. (Eds.). (2002). Bounded rationality: The adaptive toolbox. MIT press.
González-Benito, J., & González-Benito, Ó. (2005). Environmental proactivity and business performance: an empirical analy-sis. Omega, 33(1), 1-15.
González-Rodríguez, M. R., Díaz-Fernández, M. C., & Simonetti, B. (2015). The social, economic and environmental dimensions of corporate social responsibility: The role played by consumers and potential entrepreneurs. International Business Review, 24(5), 836-848.
Goren, P., Federico, C. M., & Kittilson, M. C. (2009). Source cues, partisan identities, and political value expression. American Jour-nal of Political Science, 53(4), 805-820.
Hambrick, D. C. (2007). Upper echelons theory: an update. 32(2), 334–343.
Hambrick, D. C., & Mason, P. A. (1984). Upper echelons: The organization as a reflection of its top managers. Academy of manage-ment review, 9(2), 193-206.
Haniffa, R. M., & Cooke, T. E. (2005). The impact of culture and governance on corporate social reporting. Journal of accounting and public policy, 24(5), 391-430.
Hu, M., & Loh, L. (2018). Board governance and sustainability disclosure: A cross-sectional study of Singapore-listed compa-nies. Sustainability, 10(7), 2578.
Huang, S. K. (2013). The impact of CEO characteristics on corporate sustainable development. Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, 20(4), 234-244.
Hyun, E., Yang, D., Jung, H., & Hong, K. (2016). Women on boards and corporate social responsibility. Sustainability, 8(4), 300.
Inoue, Y., & Lee, S. (2011). Effects of different dimensions of corporate social responsibility on corporate financial performance in tourism-related industries. Tourism Management, 32(4), 790-804.
Jenkins, H. (2004). A critique of conventional CSR theory: An SME perspective. Journal of General Management, 29(4), 37-57.
Ji, S. H., Yoon, K. C., Park, J., An, S. B., & Oh, H. M. (2019). The Relationship between CEO Governance and Social Responsibility of Service Firms. Sustainability, 11(18), 4942.
Jiang, X., & Akbar, A. (2018). Does increased representation of female executives improve corporate environmental investment? Ev-idence from China. Sustainability, 10(12), 4750.
Kanter, R. M. (1993). Men and Women of the corporation (2nd ed.). Basic Books.
Kassinis, G., Panayiotou, A., Dimou, A., & Katsifaraki, G. (2016). Gender and environmental sustainability: A longitudinal analy-sis. Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, 23(6), 399-412.
Lee, K. H., Herold, D. M., & Yu, A. L. (2016). Small and medium enterprises and corporate social responsibility practice: A Swedish perspective. Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, 23(2), 88-99.
Lee, W. S., Sun, K. A., & Moon, J. (2018). Application of upper echelon theory for corporate social responsibility dimensions: Evi-dence from the restaurant industry. Journal of Quality Assurance in Hospitality & Tourism, 19(3), 387-414.
Lepoutre, J., & Heene, A. (2006). Investigating the impact of firm size on small business social responsibility: A critical re-view. Journal of Business Ethics, 67(3), 257-273.
Lewis, B. W., Walls, J. L., & Dowell, G. W. (2014). Difference in degrees: CEO characteristics and firm environmental disclo-sure. Strategic Management Journal, 35(5), 712-722.
Li, H., Meng, L., Wang, Q., & Zhou, L. A. (2008). Political connections, financing and firm performance: Evidence from Chinese private firms. Journal of Development Economics, 87(2), 283-299.
Louis, O., & Osemeke, N. (2017). The role of ethnic directors in corporate social responsibility: Does culture matter? The cultural trait theory perspectives. International Journal of Disclosure and Governance, 14(2), 152-172.
Lubatkin, M. H., Simsek, Z., Ling, Y., & Veiga, J. F. (2006). Ambidexterity and performance in small-to medium-sized firms: The pivotal role of top management team behavioral integration. Journal of Management, 32(5), 646-672.
Manner, M. H. (2010). The impact of CEO characteristics on corporate social performance. Journal of Business Ethics, 93(1), 53-72.
Marcel, J. J. (2009). Why top management team characteristics matter when employing a chief operating officer: A strategic contin-gency perspective. Strategic Management Journal, 30(6), 647-658.
March, J. G. (1978). Bounded rationality, ambiguity, and the engineering of choice. The Bell Journal of Economics, 587-608.
Markussen, T., & Ngo, Q. T. (2019). Economic and non-economic returns to communist party membership in Vietnam. World De-velopment, 122, 370-384.
Marquis, C., & Qian, C. (2013). Corporate social responsibility reporting in China: Symbol or substance?. Organization sci-ence, 25(1), 127-148.
McCarthy, S., Oliver, B., & Song, S. (2017). Corporate social responsibility and CEO confidence. Journal of Banking & Finance, 75, 280-291.
Meyer, A. (2016). Heterogeneity in the preferences and pro-environmental behavior of college students: the effects of years on cam-pus, demographics, and external factors. Journal of Cleaner Production, 112, 3451-3463.
Nguyen, T. T. P., & Baulch, B. (2007). A review of ethnic minority policies and programs in Vietnam. Retrieved from https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/57a08c06e5274a27b2000f1d/60423-RevEthnicPol.pdf
Oh, W. Y., Chang, Y. K., & Cheng, Z. (2016). When CEO career horizon problems matter for corporate social responsibility: The moderating roles of industry-level discretion and blockholder ownership. Journal of Business Ethics, 133(2), 279-291.
Ramasamy, B., Ling, N. H., & Ting, H. W. (2007). Corporate social performance and ethnicity: A comparison between Malay and Chinese chief executives in Malaysia. International Journal of Cross Cultural Management, 7(1), 29-45.
Raza, J., & Majid, A. (2016). Perceptions and practices of corporate social responsibility among SMEs in Pakistan. Quality & Quanti-ty, 50(6), 2625-2650.
Revell, A., & Blackburn, R. (2007). The business case for sustainability? An examination of small firms in the UK's construction and restaurant sectors. Business Strategy and the Environment, 16(6), 404-420.
Saeed, A., Belghitar, Y., & Clark, E. (2015). Political connections and leverage: Firm‐level evidence from Pakistan. Managerial and Decision Economics, 36(6), 364-383.
Saeed, A., & Ziaulhaq, H. M. (2018). The impact of CEO characteristics on the internationalization of SMEs: Evidence from the UK. Canadian Journal of Administrative Sciences/Revue Canadienne des Sciences de l'Administration.
Shahab, Y., Ntim, C. G., Chen, Y., Ullah, F., Li, H. X., & Ye, Z. Chief executive officer attributes, sustainable performance, envi-ronmental performance, and environmental reporting: New insights from upper echelons perspective. Business Strategy and the Environment.
Simon, H. A. (1972). In Management Science Theories of Bounded Rationality. Decision and Organization, pp. 161–176.
Sitthipongpanich, T., & Polsiri, P. (2015). Do CEO and board characteristics matter? A study of Thai family firms. Journal of Family Business Strategy, 6(2), 119-129.
Taylor, R. N. (1975). Age and experience as determinants of managerial information processing and decision making perfor-mance. Academy of Management Journal, 18(1), 74-81.
Turker, D. (2018). What Are the Drivers of Social Responsibility?. In Managing Social Responsibility (pp. 17-39). Springer, Cham.
Van Vu, H., Tran, T. Q., Van Nguyen, T., & Lim, S. (2018). Corruption, types of corruption and firm financial performance: New evidence from a transitional economy. Journal of Business Ethics, 148(4), 847-858.
Vu, T. H., Nguyen, V. D., Ho, M. T., & Vuong, Q. H. (2019). Determinants of Vietnamese listed firm performance: Competition, wage, CEO, firm size, age, and international trade. Journal of Risk and Financial Management, 12(2), 62.
World Bank. (n.d.). SME Finance. Retrieved December 12, 2019, from SME Finance website: https://www.worldbank.org/en/topic/smefinance
Wu, W., Wu, C., Zhou, C., & Wu, J. (2012). Political connections, tax benefits and firm performance: Evidence from China. Journal of Accounting and Public policy, 31(3), 277-300.12
Zhang, C. (2017). Political connections and corporate environmental responsibility: Adopting or escaping?. Energy Economics, 68, 539-547.
Zhu, Q., Zou, F., & Zhang, P. (2019). The role of innovation for performance improvement through corporate social responsibility practices among small and medium‐sized suppliers in China. Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Manage-ment, 26(2), 341-350.
Abu-Baker, N., & Naser, K. (2000). Empirical evidence on corporate social disclosure (CSD) practices in Jordan. International Jour-nal of Commerce and Management, 10(3/4), 18-34.
Amore, M. D., Bennedsen, M., Larsen, B., & Rosenbaum, P. (2019). CEO education and corporate environmental footprint. Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 94, 254-273.
Aragón-Correa, J. A., Hurtado-Torres, N., Sharma, S., & García-Morales, V. J. (2008). Environmental strategy and performance in small firms: A resource-based perspective. Journal of environmental management, 86(1), 88-103.
Benson, B. W., & Davidson, W. N. (2010). The relation between stakeholder management, firm value, and CEO compensation: A test of enlightened value maximization. Financial Management, 39(3), 929-964.
Bhagat, S., Bolton, B. J., & Subramanian, A. (2010). CEO education, CEO turnover, and firm performance. Available at SSRN 1670219.
Boulouta, I. (2013). Hidden connections: The link between board gender diversity and corporate social performance. Journal of Busi-ness Ethics, 113(2), 185-197.
Carpenter, M. A., Geletkanycz, M. A., & Sanders, W. G. (2004). Upper echelons research revisited: Antecedents, elements, and con-sequences of top management team composition. Journal of Management, 30(6), 749-778.
Carroll, A. B., & Brown, J. A. (2018). Corporate social responsibility: A review of current concepts, research, and issues. In Corporate Social Responsibility (pp. 39-69). Emerald Publishing Limited.
Chai, D.H., 2010. Firm ownership and philanthropy. Centre for Business Research, University of Cambridge.
Child, J. (1975). Managerial and organizational factors associated with company performance‐part II. A contingency analy-sis. Journal of Management Studies, 12(1‐2), 12-27.
Chin, M. K., Hambrick, D. C., & Treviño, L. K. (2013). Political ideologies of CEOs: The influence of executives’ values on corpo-rate social responsibility. Administrative Science Quarterly, 58(2), 197-232.
Chown, S. M. (1961). Age and the rigidities. Journal of Gerontology.
Cook, A., & Glass, C. (2018). Women on corporate boards: Do they advance corporate social responsibility?. Human relations, 71(7), 897-924.
De Silva, D. G., & Pownall, R. A. (2014). Going green: does it depend on education, gender or income?. Applied Economics, 46(5), 573-586.
Dey, P. K., Petridis, N. E., Petridis, K., Malesios, C., Nixon, J. D., & Ghosh, S. K. (2018). Environmental management and corpo-rate social responsibility practices of small and medium-sized enterprises. Journal of cleaner production, 195, 687-702.
Eagly, A. H., & Johannesen‐Schmidt, M. C. (2001). The leadership styles of women and men. Journal of social issues, 57(4), 781-797.
Escribá‐Esteve, A., Sánchez‐Peinado, L., & Sánchez‐Peinado, E. (2009). The influence of top management teams in the strategic orientation and performance of small and medium‐sized enterprises. British Journal of Management, 20(4), 581-597.
Fabrizi, M., Mallin, C., & Michelon, G. (2014). The role of CEO’s personal incentives in driving corporate social responsibil-ity. Journal of Business Ethics, 124(2), 311-326.
Faccio, M. (2006). Politically connected firms. American economic review, 96(1), 369-386.
Finkelstein, S., Cannella, S. F. B., Hambrick, D. C., & Cannella, A. A. (2009). Strategic leadership: Theory and research on execu-tives, top management teams, and boards. Oxford University Press, USA.
Ge, W., & Liu, M. (2015). Corporate social responsibility and the cost of corporate bonds. Journal of Accounting and Public Poli-cy, 34(6), 597-624.
Gigerenzer, G., & Selten, R. (Eds.). (2002). Bounded rationality: The adaptive toolbox. MIT press.
González-Benito, J., & González-Benito, Ó. (2005). Environmental proactivity and business performance: an empirical analy-sis. Omega, 33(1), 1-15.
González-Rodríguez, M. R., Díaz-Fernández, M. C., & Simonetti, B. (2015). The social, economic and environmental dimensions of corporate social responsibility: The role played by consumers and potential entrepreneurs. International Business Review, 24(5), 836-848.
Goren, P., Federico, C. M., & Kittilson, M. C. (2009). Source cues, partisan identities, and political value expression. American Jour-nal of Political Science, 53(4), 805-820.
Hambrick, D. C. (2007). Upper echelons theory: an update. 32(2), 334–343.
Hambrick, D. C., & Mason, P. A. (1984). Upper echelons: The organization as a reflection of its top managers. Academy of manage-ment review, 9(2), 193-206.
Haniffa, R. M., & Cooke, T. E. (2005). The impact of culture and governance on corporate social reporting. Journal of accounting and public policy, 24(5), 391-430.
Hu, M., & Loh, L. (2018). Board governance and sustainability disclosure: A cross-sectional study of Singapore-listed compa-nies. Sustainability, 10(7), 2578.
Huang, S. K. (2013). The impact of CEO characteristics on corporate sustainable development. Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, 20(4), 234-244.
Hyun, E., Yang, D., Jung, H., & Hong, K. (2016). Women on boards and corporate social responsibility. Sustainability, 8(4), 300.
Inoue, Y., & Lee, S. (2011). Effects of different dimensions of corporate social responsibility on corporate financial performance in tourism-related industries. Tourism Management, 32(4), 790-804.
Jenkins, H. (2004). A critique of conventional CSR theory: An SME perspective. Journal of General Management, 29(4), 37-57.
Ji, S. H., Yoon, K. C., Park, J., An, S. B., & Oh, H. M. (2019). The Relationship between CEO Governance and Social Responsibility of Service Firms. Sustainability, 11(18), 4942.
Jiang, X., & Akbar, A. (2018). Does increased representation of female executives improve corporate environmental investment? Ev-idence from China. Sustainability, 10(12), 4750.
Kanter, R. M. (1993). Men and Women of the corporation (2nd ed.). Basic Books.
Kassinis, G., Panayiotou, A., Dimou, A., & Katsifaraki, G. (2016). Gender and environmental sustainability: A longitudinal analy-sis. Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, 23(6), 399-412.
Lee, K. H., Herold, D. M., & Yu, A. L. (2016). Small and medium enterprises and corporate social responsibility practice: A Swedish perspective. Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, 23(2), 88-99.
Lee, W. S., Sun, K. A., & Moon, J. (2018). Application of upper echelon theory for corporate social responsibility dimensions: Evi-dence from the restaurant industry. Journal of Quality Assurance in Hospitality & Tourism, 19(3), 387-414.
Lepoutre, J., & Heene, A. (2006). Investigating the impact of firm size on small business social responsibility: A critical re-view. Journal of Business Ethics, 67(3), 257-273.
Lewis, B. W., Walls, J. L., & Dowell, G. W. (2014). Difference in degrees: CEO characteristics and firm environmental disclo-sure. Strategic Management Journal, 35(5), 712-722.
Li, H., Meng, L., Wang, Q., & Zhou, L. A. (2008). Political connections, financing and firm performance: Evidence from Chinese private firms. Journal of Development Economics, 87(2), 283-299.
Louis, O., & Osemeke, N. (2017). The role of ethnic directors in corporate social responsibility: Does culture matter? The cultural trait theory perspectives. International Journal of Disclosure and Governance, 14(2), 152-172.
Lubatkin, M. H., Simsek, Z., Ling, Y., & Veiga, J. F. (2006). Ambidexterity and performance in small-to medium-sized firms: The pivotal role of top management team behavioral integration. Journal of Management, 32(5), 646-672.
Manner, M. H. (2010). The impact of CEO characteristics on corporate social performance. Journal of Business Ethics, 93(1), 53-72.
Marcel, J. J. (2009). Why top management team characteristics matter when employing a chief operating officer: A strategic contin-gency perspective. Strategic Management Journal, 30(6), 647-658.
March, J. G. (1978). Bounded rationality, ambiguity, and the engineering of choice. The Bell Journal of Economics, 587-608.
Markussen, T., & Ngo, Q. T. (2019). Economic and non-economic returns to communist party membership in Vietnam. World De-velopment, 122, 370-384.
Marquis, C., & Qian, C. (2013). Corporate social responsibility reporting in China: Symbol or substance?. Organization sci-ence, 25(1), 127-148.
McCarthy, S., Oliver, B., & Song, S. (2017). Corporate social responsibility and CEO confidence. Journal of Banking & Finance, 75, 280-291.
Meyer, A. (2016). Heterogeneity in the preferences and pro-environmental behavior of college students: the effects of years on cam-pus, demographics, and external factors. Journal of Cleaner Production, 112, 3451-3463.
Nguyen, T. T. P., & Baulch, B. (2007). A review of ethnic minority policies and programs in Vietnam. Retrieved from https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/57a08c06e5274a27b2000f1d/60423-RevEthnicPol.pdf
Oh, W. Y., Chang, Y. K., & Cheng, Z. (2016). When CEO career horizon problems matter for corporate social responsibility: The moderating roles of industry-level discretion and blockholder ownership. Journal of Business Ethics, 133(2), 279-291.
Ramasamy, B., Ling, N. H., & Ting, H. W. (2007). Corporate social performance and ethnicity: A comparison between Malay and Chinese chief executives in Malaysia. International Journal of Cross Cultural Management, 7(1), 29-45.
Raza, J., & Majid, A. (2016). Perceptions and practices of corporate social responsibility among SMEs in Pakistan. Quality & Quanti-ty, 50(6), 2625-2650.
Revell, A., & Blackburn, R. (2007). The business case for sustainability? An examination of small firms in the UK's construction and restaurant sectors. Business Strategy and the Environment, 16(6), 404-420.
Saeed, A., Belghitar, Y., & Clark, E. (2015). Political connections and leverage: Firm‐level evidence from Pakistan. Managerial and Decision Economics, 36(6), 364-383.
Saeed, A., & Ziaulhaq, H. M. (2018). The impact of CEO characteristics on the internationalization of SMEs: Evidence from the UK. Canadian Journal of Administrative Sciences/Revue Canadienne des Sciences de l'Administration.
Shahab, Y., Ntim, C. G., Chen, Y., Ullah, F., Li, H. X., & Ye, Z. Chief executive officer attributes, sustainable performance, envi-ronmental performance, and environmental reporting: New insights from upper echelons perspective. Business Strategy and the Environment.
Simon, H. A. (1972). In Management Science Theories of Bounded Rationality. Decision and Organization, pp. 161–176.
Sitthipongpanich, T., & Polsiri, P. (2015). Do CEO and board characteristics matter? A study of Thai family firms. Journal of Family Business Strategy, 6(2), 119-129.
Taylor, R. N. (1975). Age and experience as determinants of managerial information processing and decision making perfor-mance. Academy of Management Journal, 18(1), 74-81.
Turker, D. (2018). What Are the Drivers of Social Responsibility?. In Managing Social Responsibility (pp. 17-39). Springer, Cham.
Van Vu, H., Tran, T. Q., Van Nguyen, T., & Lim, S. (2018). Corruption, types of corruption and firm financial performance: New evidence from a transitional economy. Journal of Business Ethics, 148(4), 847-858.
Vu, T. H., Nguyen, V. D., Ho, M. T., & Vuong, Q. H. (2019). Determinants of Vietnamese listed firm performance: Competition, wage, CEO, firm size, age, and international trade. Journal of Risk and Financial Management, 12(2), 62.
World Bank. (n.d.). SME Finance. Retrieved December 12, 2019, from SME Finance website: https://www.worldbank.org/en/topic/smefinance
Wu, W., Wu, C., Zhou, C., & Wu, J. (2012). Political connections, tax benefits and firm performance: Evidence from China. Journal of Accounting and Public policy, 31(3), 277-300.12
Zhang, C. (2017). Political connections and corporate environmental responsibility: Adopting or escaping?. Energy Economics, 68, 539-547.
Zhu, Q., Zou, F., & Zhang, P. (2019). The role of innovation for performance improvement through corporate social responsibility practices among small and medium‐sized suppliers in China. Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Manage-ment, 26(2), 341-350.