Hello and Happy New Year!
Just a quick reminder that the virtual seminar series of the Alliance for Research on Corporate Sustainability (ARCS) will be hosting George Wernicke (HEC Paris) on Jan 10th. He will present "Let's not get sued: How litigation risk affects firms' engagement in Corporate Social Responsibility" It is a great opportunity for all to learn about research-in-progress in corporate sustainability (the presentation is 20 mins long and Q&A is another 10 mins) and for all juniors out there (PhD students and junior faculty) to socialize with the speaker afterwards (the last 30 mins). Please find the abstract below and paper attached:
We study firms' reactions to an exogenous increase in their external litigation risk. Based on the risk-management perspective of corporate social responsibility (CSR), we predict that firms increase their CSR engagement when they face an increase in the likelihood of being sued. To test our hypotheses, we use exogenous variation in litigation risk caused by changes in the composition of the political ideology of judges serving on district courts caused by the replacement of judges when these retire. Results from our analyses lend support to our hypotheses.
Here is the list of the remaining speakers and dates of the virtual seminars (11am-12pm EST):
Feb 7 Sinziana Dorobantu (NYU)
Mar 7 Lucca Berchicci (Rotterdam)
Apr 4 Vanessa Burbano (Columbia)
May 2 Hannah Schupfer (King's College, Ivey/ARCS PhD best paper award winner)
Please register for the seminar here: https://corporate-sustainability.org/online-seminar-series/
Hope to see you there!
Best regards,
Olga Hawn, PhD
Associate Professor, Strategy and Entrepreneurship
Sustainability Distinguished Fellow
Faculty Director, Ackerman Center for Excellence in Sustainability
UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School
Associate Editor, Strategic Management Journal
Associate Editor, Management Science