How do chief executive officers with pilot status navigate through corporate social responsibility?

Karel Hrazdil, Jeong Bon Kim and Xin Li

Applied Economics, 2022, vol. 54, issue 47, 5460-5475

Abstract: We investigate whether and how managerial risk-tolerance at the individual level affects corporate social responsibility (CSR) performance at company level. We use CEO aviation training as an observable ex-ante measure of CEO risk-tolerance. Contrary to a commonly held view, we show that firms led by CEOs with pilot status exhibit lower CSR performance. This finding holds even after controlling for CEO pay–performance incentives, military experience, overconfidence and other CEO and firm characteristics that prior studies document as affecting CSR performance. In further cross-sectional tests, we show that when a firm is R&D intensive, belongs to a high-tech industry, or faces fiercer product market competition, the negative effect of CEO risk-tolerance on CSR performance is more pronounced, suggesting that CSR may act as an insurance or risk-hedging tool. Overall, we provide evidence that risk-tolerance of CEO plays a significant role in shaping CSR performance.

Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1080/00036846.2022.2047595

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