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Purpose: This bibliometric review investigates the evolution and thematic development of Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) research from 2000 to 2024, highlighting critical trends, regulatory milestones, and emerging solutions. Study design/methodology/approach: The study employs a structured methodology to analyze research outputs through quantitative and qualitative bibliometric tools. Sample and data: The analysis identifies three distinct phases of ESG research: Initial Growth (2000-2010), focusing on theoretical foundations and stakeholder engagement; Mainstreaming ESG (2011-2015), driven by regulatory frameworks such as the EU Non-Financial Reporting Directive; and Exponential Growth (2016-2024), marked by the adoption of global frameworks like the Paris Agreement and SDGs. Results: Key findings include the increasing integration of technologies such as AI and blockchain in ESG reporting and the continued dominance of finance and energy sectors in ESG studies. However, significant gaps remain, including the underrepresentation of developing economies and small and medium enterprises (SMEs). Originality/value: The study underscores the need for standardized ESG metrics, capaci¬ty-building initiatives, and cross-sector collaborations to bridge these gaps. Emerging solu¬tions, such as the International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB) and programs like AGRA, exemplify actionable pathways to enhance ESG adoption globally. Research limitations/implications: This research provides policymakers, businesses, and academics with actionable insights to advance ESG practices, foster sustainability, and address inequities across regions and industries.

The proliferation and changing nature of electronic communications (e.g., email, texting, instant messaging, Skype, etc.) as a necessary resource for knowledge requires continuing research in order to understand how these technologies affect relationships among managers and their employees. I seek to measure the extent to which employees’ perceived email content monitoring (PECM), defined as the extent to which employees believe that their emails are being read regardless of whether that is done within the organization, affects their behavior and job attitudes. Further, employees’ supervisors can monitor how and when employees utilize electronic communications as a means of evaluating job performance. Employees’ perceived email activity monitoring (PEAM), defined as the extent to which employees perceive that their usage of email is being monitored by their supervisors, can have negative attitudinal effects. Job attitudes can be especially impacted where the monitoring of the actual content of emails and/or email usage behaviors is considered to be inappropriate, overly intrusive, or beyond the scope of traditional managerial monitoring practices. In order to help understand the implications of electronic communication monitoring in the workplace, I investigate how theoretical social exchange mechanisms of leader-member exchange (LMX) and perceived organizational support (POS) influence employee attitudinal outcomes including job satisfaction, organizational commitment, stress, and work/life conflict. I also develop a concept of “monitoring justice” that can be employed by managers to defer the potential for negative implications of monitoring. Further, I explore how the level of importance that individuals place on being connected to their organization via electronic communication technology can exacerbate the social exchange relationships and resulting job attitudinal outcomes. The findings of this study suggest that formal monitoring of email content reduces levels of social exchange and results in negative employee attitudes regarding their work environment. However, where employees determine that there is a sufficient level of monitoring justice, these negative responses to monitoring were not found to be significant. Further, I found that high levels of monitoring of electronic communication usage behavior significantly decreased social exchange levels and negatively impacted attitudinal outcomes. This negative result was increased where employees attributed high levels of importance to remaining connected to their organization. This dissertation suggests that organizational leadership take the perceptions of their employees and overall effects on job attitudes into account when engaging in electronic communication monitoring practices.

There is information asymmetry between the investment banks that act as underwriters of a first-issue initial public offering (IPO) from outside the U.S. and the subsequent investors. Accordingly, the issued stock can suffer from ''underpricing'' and fail to maximize potential proceeds of the IPO. The empirical analysis set forth in this paper finds that law firms can act as reputational intermediaries to provide signals of value. Prestigious law firms that represent investment banks are found to reduce underpricing, while the prestige of the law firms representing the issuer can increase underpricing depending on the nation of domicile for the firms.

We explore the proposition that parametric interdependence makes learning-by-doing a nondeterministic, path-dependent process. The implications of our model challenge two conventional beliefs about the relationships between industrial structure, spillovers, and learning-by-doing. First, we challenge the belief that the monopolistic industrial structure always maximizes learning-by-doing gains when there are no spillovers. Second, we challenge the belief that increasing spillovers unambiguously increases welfare when learning-by-doing drives innovation.

Although interest in ethical stewardship and corporate social responsibility (CSR) is mounting, research development of these concepts is still at a nascent stage. Regrettably, current research has focused solely on macro concerns, largely ignoring the significant micro level leadership questions. In addition, the preponderance of the emerging literature in these domains has fixated on large corporations, ignoring the realities of most entrepreneurial ventures. In the smaller entrepreneurial setting, we argue that current interpretations of what constitutes ethical stewardship and socially responsible leadership should be adapted. Towards this aim, we examined the historical case of Lillian Shedd McMurry, the extraordinary entrepreneurial leader of Trumpet Records, a 1950s independent record label, to identify specific elements inherent within the role of entrepreneur as ethical steward and socially responsible leader. [PUBLICATION ABSTRACT]

The proliferation of email as a standard method of business communication necessitates research to understand effects on managers and their employees. This research investigates the phenomena of \"email responsiveness,\" defined as the extent to which individuals in the workplace perceive that they must prioritize how quickly they act in response to receiving an email, and \"importance of connectedness,\" defined as the priority individuals place on being connected to the organization. We present testable propositions that the social exchange mechanisms of leader-member exchange (LMX) and perceived organizational support (POS) are moderated by connectedness and thereby influence job attitudinal outcomes.

The goal of NASA’s Europa Clipper mission is to assess the habitability of Jupiter’s moon Europa. After entering Jupiter orbit in 2030, the flight system will collect science data while flying past Europa 49 times at typical closest approach distances of 25–100 km. The mission’s objectives are to investigate Europa’s interior (ice shell and ocean), composition, and geology; the mission will also search for and characterize any current activity including possible plumes. The science objectives will be accomplished with a payload consisting of remote sensing and in-situ instruments. Remote sensing investigations cover the ultraviolet, visible, near infrared, and thermal infrared wavelength ranges of the electromagnetic spectrum, as well as an ice-penetrating radar. In-situ investigations measure the magnetic field, dust grains, neutral gas, and plasma surrounding Europa. Gravity science will be achieved using the telecommunication system, and a radiation monitoring engineering subsystem will provide complementary science data. The flight system is designed to enable all science instruments to operate and gather data simultaneously. Mission planning and operations are guided by scientific requirements and observation strategies, while appropriate updates to the plan will be made tactically as the instruments and Europa are characterized and discoveries emerge. Following collection and validation, all science data will be archived in NASA’s Planetary Data System. Communication, data sharing, and publication policies promote visibility, collaboration, and mutual interdependence across the full Europa Clipper science team, to best achieve the interdisciplinary science necessary to understand Europa.

The science operations of the LISA Pathfinder mission has demonstrated the feasibility of sub-femto-g free-fall of macroscopic test masses necessary to build a LISA-like gravitational wave observatory in space. While the main focus of interest, i.e. the optical axis or the \\(x\\)-axis, has been extensively studied, it is also of interest to evaluate the stability of the spacecraft with respect to all the other degrees of freedom. The current paper is dedicated to such a study, with a focus set on an exhaustive and quantitative evaluation of the imperfections and dynamical effects that impact the stability with respect to its local geodesic. A model of the complete closed-loop system provides a comprehensive understanding of each part of the in-loop coordinates spectra. As will be presented, this model gives very good agreements with LISA Pathfinder flight data. It allows one to identify the physical noise source at the origin and the physical phenomena underlying the couplings. From this, the performances of the stability of the spacecraft, with respect to its geodesic, are extracted as a function of frequency. Close to \\(1 mHz\\), the stability of the spacecraft on the \\(X_SC\\), \\(Y_SC\\) and \\(Z_SC\\) degrees of freedom is shown to be of the order of \\(5.0\\ 10^-15 m\\ s^-2/Hz\\) for X and \\(4.0 \\ 10^-14 m\\ s^-2/Hz\\) for Y and Z. For the angular degrees of freedom, the values are of the order \\(3\\ 10^-12 rad\\ s^-2/Hz\\) for \\(_SC\\) and \\(3\\ 10^-13 rad\\ s^-2/Hz\\) for \\(H_SC\\) and \\(_SC\\).

Since the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded for the observation of gravitational waves, it is fair to say that the epoch of gravitational wave astronomy (GWs) has begun. However, a number of interesting sources of GWs can only be observed from space. To demonstrate the feasibility of the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA), a future gravitational wave observatory in space, the LISA Pathfinder satellite was launched on December, 3rd 2015. Measurements of the spurious forces accelerating an otherwise free-falling test mass, and detailed investigations of the individual subsystems needed to achieve the free-fall, have been conducted throughout the mission. This overview article starts with the purpose and aim of the mission, explains satellite hardware and mission operations and ends with a summary of selected important results and an outlook towards LISA. From the LISA Pathfinder experience, we can conclude that the proposed LISA mission is feasible.