Corporate innovation culture and ESG: Evidence from textual analysis in emerging market

Tanakorn Likitapiwat, Stefano Starita, Sirimon Treepongkaruna and Kam Fong Chan

Economics Letters, 2024, vol. 244, issue C

Abstract: Using Li et al.’s (2021b) culture dictionary, developed through word embedding technique, we study the impact of corporate innovation culture on the ESG performance of firms. We focus on Thai's companies, since Thailand's unique economic and cultural contexts provide key insights into how innovation culture affects ESG performance in emerging markets. Consistent with the institutional, stakeholder and legitimacy hypotheses, we find that a one-unit standard deviation increase in innovation culture is significantly associated with 21.1% rise in ESG scores. This finding, robust across various econometric tests, underscores the importance of innovation culture in shaping corporate sustainability in emerging markets.

Keywords: Corporate culture; Innovation; ESG; Legitimacy; Stakeholder; Textual analysis (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: G3 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2024.112047

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