caa a22 4500 605484503 CHVBK 20210128100436.0 cr unu---uuuuu 210128e20150801xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10551-014-2231-7 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10551-014-2231-7 From Board Composition to Corporate Environmental Performance Through Sustainability-Themed Alliances [Elektronische Daten] [Corinne Post, Noushi Rahman, Cathleen McQuillen] A growing body of work suggests that the presence of women and of independent directors on boards of directors is associated with higher corporate environmental performance. However, the mechanisms linking board composition to corporate environmental performance are not well understood. This study proposes and empirically tests the mediating role of sustainability-themed alliances in the relationship between board composition and corporate environmental performance. Using the population of public oil and gas firms in the United States as the sample, the study relies on renewable energy alliances to measure sustainability-themed alliances and longitudinally analyzes lagged data for independent and control variables. The study found that (1) the higher the representation of women on a firm's board, the more likely the firm is to form sustainability-themed alliances, and (2) the higher the representation of independent directors on a firm's board, the more likely the firm is to form sustainability-themed alliances. Such alliances, in turn, positively contribute to corporate environmental performance. This paper discusses the study's contributions to the board composition-social performance literature. Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht, 2014 Board composition nationallicence Gender nationallicence Diversity nationallicence Board independence nationallicence Environmental corporate social responsibility nationallicence Social performance nationallicence Alliances nationallicence Post Corinne College of Business and Economics, Lehigh University, 621 Taylor Street, 18015, Bethlehem, PA, USA aut Rahman Noushi Lubin School of Business, Pace University, New York City campus, Room W-465, 1 Pace Plaza, 10038, New York, NY, USA aut McQuillen Cathleen Georgian Court University, 900 Lakewood Ave, 08701, Lakewood, NJ, USA aut Journal of Business Ethics Springer Netherlands 130/2(2015-08-01), 423-435 0167-4544 130:2<423 2015 130 10551 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-014-2231-7 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-014-2231-7 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Post Corinne College of Business and Economics, Lehigh University, 621 Taylor Street, 18015, Bethlehem, PA, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Rahman Noushi Lubin School of Business, Pace University, New York City campus, Room W-465, 1 Pace Plaza, 10038, New York, NY, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- McQuillen Cathleen Georgian Court University, 900 Lakewood Ave, 08701, Lakewood, NJ, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Journal of Business Ethics Springer Netherlands 130/2(2015-08-01), 423-435 0167-4544 130:2<423 2015 130 10551