Director’s networks and environmental, social and governance (ESG) performance

This study attempts to examine the relationship between board network centralities and a company's environmental, social and governance (ESG) performance. Four main network centralities measure namely, degree, eigenvector, closeness and betweenness measure the social capital using social network analysis. This study can potentially unveil network centralities powers which influence social capital and information advantages to the companies to effectively, timely and accurately deal with the pressures from stakeholders, leading to better ESG performance.