Sustainability Accounting, Management and Policy Journal: Volume 14 Issue 5

Guest editorial: Driving impact through responsible investing and finance

Ivo Matser, Joan Fontrodona, Luk Van Wassenhove

Did ESG portfolio augment investors’ wealth during Covid19? Evidence from Indian stock market

Kirti Sood, Kumar Arijit, Prachi Pathak, H.C. Purohit

This paper aims to empirically examine the performance of the high-ESG (environment, social and governance) portfolio vis-à-vis the low-ESG portfolio at the Indian stock market…

Capital structure and speed of adjustment: the impact of environmental, social and governance (ESG) performance

Yusuf Babatunde Adeneye, Ines Kammoun, Siti Nur Aqilah Ab Wahab

This study aims to examine the impact of sustainable practices as proxied by the environmental, social and governance (ESG) score on capital structure. It also investigates…

Is foreign direct investment caring for sustainability? A look in African sub-Saharan countries

Rui Vicente Martins, Eulália Santos, Teresa Eugénio, Ana Morais

Business politics and social and economic policies in the past decades brought us to the inevitability of change. Foreign direct investment (FDI) plays a vital role in this change…

Impact case or impact washing? An analysis of investors’ strategies to influence corporate behavior

Joel Diener

This paper aims to substantiate the premise that the very task of socially responsible investment (SRI) today is to achieve impact. Based on extensive empirical studies on how…

Shareholder-initiated environmental and energy resolutions: too little too late?

Suzette Viviers, Lee-Ann Steenkamp

Given the urgency to address the climate change crisis, the purpose of this study was to investigate the impact of 12 macro-level antecedents on energy and environmental (E&E…

Environmental, social, and governance (ESG) investing and commodities: dynamic connectedness and risk management strategies

Efe C. Caglar Cagli, Pinar Evrim Mandaci, Dilvin Taşkın

The purpose of this study is to examine the dynamic connectedness and volatility spillovers between commodities and corporations exhibiting the best environmental, social and…

Contribution of sustainable investment to sustainable development within the framework of the SDGS: the role of the asset management industry

María Folqué, Elena Escrig-Olmedo, María Teresa Corzo Santamaría

This study aims to understand how scholarly research addresses sustainable investments’ contribution to sustainable development (SD) within the sustainable development goals (SDG…