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This article aims to improve the understanding of corporate governance and environmental reporting literature by analyzing the impact of board gender diversity (BGD) on environmental performance, environmental disclosure, and greenwashing behavior. The panel regression estimation technique with fixed effects was applied to Chinese firm data. As a result, it was found that more women who served on corporate boards enhanced the company's environmental performance and disclosures while limiting greenwashing behavior. The result indicated that women in top management play a constructive role in establishing firms' active environmental initiatives. Furthermore, this relationship was nonlinear and exponentially increased when women's representation reached the threshold of 33.5% representation on board or higher. Based on the findings, no internal bias was found even after other governance and firm‐level control factors and probable endogenies were considered and variable biases were omitted. Notably, the results present important implications for regulators and policymakers by highlighting the influential role of BGD in promoting environmentally responsible practices and reducing greenwashing. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In terms of attaining the objectives of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the Asian economies are considered as laggards, and one of the major problems faced by these economies is the issue of environmental degradation. For addressing this pertaining issue, a policy-level reorientation might be necessary. In this view, this study aims to explore the impact of urbanization, renewable energy consumption, financial development, agriculture, and economic growth on CO2 emissions in 15 Asian economies over 1990–2014. The empirical evidence demonstrates that urbanization, financial development, and economic growth increase CO2 emissions, renewable energy consumption reduces CO2 emissions, and the impact of agriculture is insignificant. Impulse response function and variance decomposition techniques are used to test the causality among the variables. Based on the study outcomes, a comprehensive SDG-oriented policy framework has been recommended, so that these economies can make progression toward attaining the objectives of SDG 13 and SDG 7. This study contributed to the literature by recommending this SDG-oriented policy framework, which encapsulates economic growth and its drivers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Like many other professionals, the University teachers in the country assumed that change of the mode of work due to the lock down sessions of Covid 19 pandemic. The need to move online from physical on-campus teaching added to the challenges of university teachers trying to balance job requirements, teaching preparations, research and professional training commitments. Describing the situation, this study is an attempt to show the positive impact of Job Crafting as a mediator between job satisfaction and employees' personality traits. The body of literature on Job Crafting shows that limited research on the role of job crafting as a mediator between employees' personality and job satisfaction. Therefore, this quantitative survey questionnaire-based study has explored this research niche by reporting findings of the data collected from 528 University teachers. The study supports university teachers' interventions in crafting jobs during Covid 19 lockdown to attain job satisfaction. Job Crafting positively mediates the selected Big Five Personality traits and Job Satisfaction. It shows that the university teachers showed positive behavior of Job Crafting during the Covid 19 lockdown to attain Job Satisfaction. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]