Diversity washing

AC Baker, DF Larcker, CG McCLURE… - Journal of …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
We provide large‐sample evidence on whether US publicly traded corporations use
voluntary disclosures about their commitments to employee diversity opportunistically. We …

[PDF][PDF] Human capital disclosures

T Bourveau, M Chowdhury, A Le… - Available at SSRN …, 2022 - tilburguniversity.edu
We explore the recent landscape of quantitative human capital (HC) disclosures for publicly
listed US firms. Using a hand-collected sample of disclosures for 2, 393 firms, we first …

Corporate human capital disclosures: Early evidence from the SEC's disclosure mandate

E Demers, VX Wang, K Wu - Available at SSRN 4153845, 2022 - papers.ssrn.com
In November 2020, the SEC issued amendments to Regulation SK requiring filers to provide
expanded discussions related to the firm's human capital (HC). This study provides the first …

Employee demographic diversity and firm performance

B Frijns, A Garel, S Liao - Financial Management, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
This article examines the relationship between employee demographic diversity and firm
performance measured by future stock returns for a large sample of US public companies …

The information content of mandatory human capital disclosures-initial evidence

S Arif, YSJ Yoon, HH Zhang - Haiwen (Helen), The Information …, 2022 - papers.ssrn.com
This paper provides evidence on the information content of newly mandated qualitative
Human Capital Disclosure (HCD) to equity and bond investors. We hand-collect and code …

Artificial Intelligence Along the Supply Chain

L Cen, Y Han, J Qiu, J Wu - Available at SSRN, 2024 - papers.ssrn.com
We examine the supply chain as an important economic channel for the diffusion of artificial
intelligence (AI) technologies. Leveraging a novel textual dataset of individual career …

Decoding Social Disclosure Decisions: A Field Experiment with Workforce Diversity Data

JH Choi, MF McNichols, M Muhn - Available at SSRN 5002242, 2024 - papers.ssrn.com
In recent years, US public companies have increasingly begun to voluntarily disclose official
workforce diversity data (ie, EEO-1 reports), which they previously only confidentially filed …

Measuring Corporate Human Capital Disclosures: Lexicon, Data, Code, and Research Opportunities

E Demers, VX Wang, K Wu - Journal of Information Systems, 2024 - publications.aaahq.org
Human capital (HC) is increasingly important to corporate value creation. Unlike other
assets, however, HC is not currently subject to well-defined measurement or disclosure …

The Impact of Knowledge Management Capability, Workforce Diversity, and Organization commitment on German Small and Medium Enterprises Performance in …

M Zhao, K Kakhai - International Journal of Operations and …, 2023 - submissions.ijoqm.org
This study investigates the influence of KMC, WD, and OC's impact on German SMEs' OP
(Organizational Performance) in China. The researcher employed a quantitative approach to …

Does the risk aversion of accountants matter? Female rank-and-file accounting employees and internal control quality

C Liang, B Lourie, A Nekrasov - Journal of Accounting and Public Policy, 2024 - Elsevier
Using novel data on corporate accounting employees, we find that the risk aversion of rank-
and-file accounting employees, proxied by the proportion of female accountants, is …