标题：CEO ethical leadership, corporate social responsibility and financial performance in the industrial revolution 4.0: Evidence from garment and textile industry
摘要：The objective of the paper is to assess the relationship between the CEO ethical leadership style
and the corporate social responsibility (CSR) implementation through corporate culture; thereby
testing the impact of CSR implementation on financial performance; finally examining the regulatory
role of CEO founder status and the corporation size in the relationship between the CEO ethical
leadership style and corporate culture. A research on 536 Vietnamese garment and textile enterprises
is conducted and the results show that CEO ethical leadership style positively impacts
CSR implementation through corporate culture. Simultaneously, the CSR implementation brings
more positive financial results henceforth. A statistically significant regulatory role of the CEO
founder status and the corporation size in the relationship is also determined. The bigger the CEO
founder performs, the better the influence of CEO ethical leadership style on corporate culture, and
the smaller the CEO founder performs, the less impact of CEO ethical leadership style on corporate
culture. In contrast to larger businesses, the CEO ethical leadership style slightly influences the
corporate culture because at this time corporate culture has been formed for a long time and has
become a habit of employees.
关键词：CEO ethical leadership;
Corporate social responsibility;
and financial performance;
Garment and textile;
Vietnam
