Paola Carrabba, Laura Maria Padovani, Barbara Di Giovanni
{"title":"The overall sustainability index (OSI): A suitable way to measure the sustainability of electrical industry in Italy","authors":"Paola Carrabba, Laura Maria Padovani, Barbara Di Giovanni","doi":"10.1002/csr.2934","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/csr.2934","url":null,"abstract":"The objective of this research is to develop a comprehensive and effective quantitative method to measure the overall sustainability performance of electric companies in Italy. Due to the vast diversity of the sustainability issues, many methods have been developed to measure the sustainability performance of companies, but with results that are, in our opinion, not fully satisfactory, either because they are difficult to apply or because they only cover some of the sustainability aspects. In an attempt to overcome these shortcomings, we have applied a methodology to meet the requirements of our research, on the basis of its high versatility (<jats:ext-link xmlns:xlink=\"http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink\" xlink:href=\"https://lab24.ilsole24ore.com/qualita-della-vita/\">https://lab24.ilsole24ore.com/qualita-della-vita/</jats:ext-link>). The analysis was carried out on the 12 largest Italian electricity companies, by calculating the overall sustainability index (OSI) for the years 2020 and 2021, taking into account 56 different indicators, chosen from those made available by the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) for corporate sustainability reporting. For a more comprehensive evaluation of the sustainability performance of the electricity companies, selected indicators were chosen from all the three pillars of sustainability (economic, environmental, social). The OSI results of this research have allowed to highlight the critical points of the corporate reporting systems on sustainability providing valuable indications on the targets achieved and achievable in view of the European Commission's Green Deal 2050. This work also highlighted the strengths and weaknesses of the method.","PeriodicalId":48334,"journal":{"name":"Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management","volume":"6 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":9.8,"publicationDate":"2024-08-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142175607","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Adnan Khurshid, Ying Hongbin, Javier Cifuentes‐Faura, Sardar Fawad Saleem
{"title":"Does corporate social responsibility and environmental governance drive green innovation?","authors":"Adnan Khurshid, Ying Hongbin, Javier Cifuentes‐Faura, Sardar Fawad Saleem","doi":"10.1002/csr.2942","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/csr.2942","url":null,"abstract":"In a phase of environmental awareness, corporate social responsibility (CSR) and environmental governance's (EG) involvement in green innovation (GI) is a subject of growing significance. Therefore, the objective of this study is to assess the extent of environmental degradation that can be ascribed to the corporations listed on the Karachi Stock Exchange. This study examines the detailed connection between CSR, EG, and GI within the context of ecologically sustainable development led by innovation. The data encompassing the years 2011 to 2020 are employed for this analysis. The findings indicate that the adoption of CSR initiatives by heavily polluting businesses significantly boosts their capacity for innovation. The positive effect is further enhanced by robust EG, particularly in the short term. The findings further suggest that CSR has a moderate influence on innovation within privately owned companies and those that primarily focus on addressing less severe environmental concerns. In contrast, CSR exhibits a more pronounced influence in state‐owned enterprises that face more substantial environmental challenges. The findings offer significant perspectives for businesses, policymakers, and scholars, thereby promoting sustainability and enabling eco‐friendly innovation in contaminated environments.","PeriodicalId":48334,"journal":{"name":"Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management","volume":"116 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":9.8,"publicationDate":"2024-08-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142175606","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Maria Chiara Demartini, Valentina Beretta, Anna Larisch
{"title":"Does the transparency of sustainability reports matter? A quantitative assessment","authors":"Maria Chiara Demartini, Valentina Beretta, Anna Larisch","doi":"10.1002/csr.2926","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/csr.2926","url":null,"abstract":"Despite the recognized advantages of sustainability disclosure and transparency in reducing information asymmetries, the quality of sustainability reports often falls short. Measuring sustainability disclosure transparency is challenging due to its multidimensional nature, necessitating a comprehensive approach. Moreover, the impact of sustainability reporting transparency on firm performance remains ambiguous. Therefore, this study examines 177 reports from companies listed in the Dow Jones sustainability index (DJSI) World index, manually collecting information on transparency indicators and subdimensions. Grounded on the disclosure, clarity, and accuracy (DCA) framework introduced by Schnackenberg and Tomlinson, a factor analysis is conducted to construct the transparency index, followed by testing research hypotheses using a linear regression model via ordinary least squares (OLS). By providing a quantitative assessment of sustainability report transparency, this study investigates its influence on firm performance. Our findings support existing research linking firm performance to the transparency of sustainability reports. Surprisingly, contrary to expectations, our study reveals that increased transparency efforts are associated with lower firm performance.","PeriodicalId":48334,"journal":{"name":"Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management","volume":"18 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":9.8,"publicationDate":"2024-08-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142175621","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Carmen Isensee, Frank Teuteberg, Kai‐Michael Griese
{"title":"Digital platforms and the SDGs: A socio‐eco‐technical framework for SMEs based on cross‐case analysis","authors":"Carmen Isensee, Frank Teuteberg, Kai‐Michael Griese","doi":"10.1002/csr.2914","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/csr.2914","url":null,"abstract":"Managing the complex relationship between digitalization and sustainable development is a key challenge for many small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs). To understand strategies of forerunners in the field of digital platforms and platformization, this study performs a cross‐case analysis of three sustainability‐oriented SMEs employing multi‐sided platforms operating in three sectors (wholesale, information and communication technology, and construction) in Germany. The integrated analysis framework draws from Belief‐Action‐Outcome theory, multi‐sided platform strategies, and the sustainable development goals (SDG). The findings identify four platformization strategies and exemplarily specify contributions to SDG 2, 7, 8, 9, 12, 13, and 17. The proposed socio‐eco‐technical framework emphasizes linkages between an employed platformization strategy (technical system), the corporate culture (social system), the platform stakeholders and the SDGs (ecological system). A seven‐step approach is proposed to motivate and facilitate the development and continuous improvement of platformization for sustainability in SMEs.","PeriodicalId":48334,"journal":{"name":"Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management","volume":"66 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":9.8,"publicationDate":"2024-08-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142175618","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Revisiting the relationship between ESG, institutional ownership, and corporate innovation: An efficiency perspective","authors":"Qiang Li, Minglai Li, Lin Zhang","doi":"10.1002/csr.2937","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/csr.2937","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This paper investigates how environmental, social, and governance (ESG) efficiency impacts corporate innovation, highlighting its role as a crucial indicator of resource utilization within firms. Analyzing data from A-share listed companies in China between 2009 and 2021, we find that ESG efficiency levels are positively correlated with corporate innovation outputs. This indicates that higher ESG efficiency contributes to greater innovation. Our result also reveals that the relationship between ESG efficiency and corporate innovation is moderated by the firm's ownership structure. Specifically, the negative moderating effects of ownership are more pronounced in regions with lower economic development or stringent environmental regulations. Technology-based firms are particularly affected, exhibiting greater vulnerability to these negative effects. These findings confirm that ESG efficiency is a significant mechanism linking ESG practices to enhanced innovation capabilities. By exploring both the efficiency aspects of ESG performance and the institutional factors influencing ESG-innovation dynamics, our study makes a notable contribution to the literature, offering new insights into how effective ESG practices can strategically drive innovation within firms.</p>","PeriodicalId":48334,"journal":{"name":"Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management","volume":"31 6","pages":"6504-6525"},"PeriodicalIF":8.3,"publicationDate":"2024-08-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/csr.2937","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142588000","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The power of crowds: The effect of online platform interactions on greenwashing","authors":"Hui Zheng, Jing Zhang","doi":"10.1002/csr.2933","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/csr.2933","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Greenwashing is a fraudulent environmental, social and governance (ESG) behavior. Previous literature has explored the impact of unidirectional disclosure on greenwashing. However, how interactive disclosures affect greenwashing has not been fully explored. Given the background of the regulatory transformation of China's capital market, we use data from the Q&A boards of the Shenzhen Stock Exchange (SZSE) “Interactive Easy” and Shanghai Stock Exchange (SSE) “SSE e-Interactive” online platforms to investigate the impact of interactive disclosure between firms and retail investors on greenwashing. We find that online platform interactions (OPIs) inhibit greenwashing. Moreover, such negative effects are more pronounced for firms with high-quality internal controls, high executive shareholding, high analyst coverage, low financing constraints, and executives with overseas backgrounds. Overall, our research provides empirical evidence that OPIs improve capital market efficiency by inhibiting greenwashing.</p>","PeriodicalId":48334,"journal":{"name":"Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management","volume":"31 6","pages":"6481-6503"},"PeriodicalIF":8.3,"publicationDate":"2024-08-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142587999","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Massimo Postiglione, Cristian Carini, Alberto Falini
{"title":"ESG and firm value: A hybrid literature review on cost of capital implications from Scopus database","authors":"Massimo Postiglione, Cristian Carini, Alberto Falini","doi":"10.1002/csr.2940","DOIUrl":"10.1002/csr.2940","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The relationship between ESG and firm value has been a relevant subject of study in recent years. We conducted a hybrid literature review to understand the literature's findings on this relationship and its implications in terms of cost of capital. First, a keyword co-occurrence analysis on a 122 ABS ranked journals articles selection from Scopus database was adopted to identify and investigate the main research fields of the current literature. Then a content analysis through the bibliographic coupling of the most globally cited contributions was made, defining a final sample of 50 articles obtained through a minimum threshold of at least 15 total global citations (TGCs). We found that studies on the cost of debt configuration are more aimed at determining the implications on firm value, while most contributions on the cost of equity focus on the assessment of the risk–return profile for the investor or the construction of an ESG portfolio. Furthermore, we found that most of the literature has a consensus view on the lack of transparency behind the ESG ratings and their construction methodology, stating that disagreement on ESG ratings not only limits the results of empirical analysis, but can also negatively affect firm value due to a higher level of uncertainty.</p>","PeriodicalId":48334,"journal":{"name":"Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management","volume":"31 6","pages":"6457-6480"},"PeriodicalIF":8.3,"publicationDate":"2024-08-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/csr.2940","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142175609","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Eduardo Sánchez-García, Johnny Vicente Montalvo-Falcón, Bartolomé Marco-Lajara, Javier Martínez-Falcó
{"title":"Guiding organizations toward sustainable success: The strategic role of leadership in environmental corporate governance in the wine industry","authors":"Eduardo Sánchez-García, Johnny Vicente Montalvo-Falcón, Bartolomé Marco-Lajara, Javier Martínez-Falcó","doi":"10.1002/csr.2925","DOIUrl":"10.1002/csr.2925","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Our natural environment is suffering the consequences of the current highly dynamic and competitive social and economic conditions that force people and firms to mainly focus on economic outputs rather than in reducing their impact on the environment. In this context, environmentally aware leaders can play a key role in driving the development and implementation of sustainable practices within organizations, as well as the development an adequate organizational culture that promotes the engagement of its members. The objective of this research is to empirically evidence the influence of green transformational leadership on green performance, as well as the mediating role of green organizational culture and green engagement in this relationship. The results provide empirical evidence on the positive influence of green transformational leadership on green performance, as well as about the mediating variables raised, which has interesting practical, political and theoretical implications, related to the strategic management of firms, the promotion of environmental sustainability in corporate governance and industry standards, and the broader understanding of sustainable leadership in the academic sphere. Thus, this study provides a roadmap to embrace a leadership model that prioritizes environmental sustainability, advocating for a collective journey toward a sustainable future where leadership, culture, and commitment coalesce into a formidable force for environmental sustainability. It is concluded that there is a need for a paradigm shift where leadership integrates sustainability into the ethos of organizational culture.</p>","PeriodicalId":48334,"journal":{"name":"Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management","volume":"31 6","pages":"6438-6456"},"PeriodicalIF":8.3,"publicationDate":"2024-08-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/csr.2925","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142175617","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Adadu Michael Ushie, Xu Jiang, Adnan Ali, Qadeer Abdul
{"title":"Enhancing sustainable fit between corporate social responsibility and innovation: Implications for firm performance","authors":"Adadu Michael Ushie, Xu Jiang, Adnan Ali, Qadeer Abdul","doi":"10.1002/csr.2922","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/csr.2922","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Despite several studies on corporate social responsibility (CSR) and innovation on firm performance, the extent to which different CSR practices interacts with distinct innovation types in enhancing firm performance remains underexplored. We draw on contingency theory to examine how internal and external CSR interacts with exploitative and explorative innovation to improve firm performance. We discuss the interaction effects using a panel dataset of 1156 publicly listed Chinese firms that disclosed CSR and innovation information from 2008 to 2019. The results indicate that firms with high-internal CSR benefit to a greater extent from explorative innovation than from exploitative innovation as a means of enhancing performance. In contrast, firms with high-external CSR benefit to a greater extent from exploitative innovation than from explorative innovation to improve performance. We contribute to strategy and CSR literature by revealing how firms match specific CSR practices with distinct innovation types to enhance firm performance.</p>","PeriodicalId":48334,"journal":{"name":"Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management","volume":"31 6","pages":"6419-6437"},"PeriodicalIF":8.3,"publicationDate":"2024-08-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142588049","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Domenico Rocco Cambrea, Paolo Tenuta, Valeria Naciti
{"title":"Family and nonfamily female directors' effect on CSR strategy","authors":"Domenico Rocco Cambrea, Paolo Tenuta, Valeria Naciti","doi":"10.1002/csr.2930","DOIUrl":"10.1002/csr.2930","url":null,"abstract":"<p>By investigating a sample of industrial Italian listed firms for the years 2003–2020, this research aims to explore two main relationships. First, the study examines the association between the ratio of female directors and CSR strategy score in both family and nonfamily firms. Second, it investigates the link between family female directors and nonfamily female directors within the subsample of family firms. The empirical findings show the existence of a positive link between the ratio of female directors and CSR strategy score only in the subsample of family firms and that this result is driven by the percentage of nonfamily female directors. Additional analyses, aiming to elucidate the heterogeneity of family female directors, report that family females who have an executive role on the board are beneficial for the CSR strategy score, whereas family females who are interlocked and with long tenure are detrimental for the CSR strategy score.</p>","PeriodicalId":48334,"journal":{"name":"Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management","volume":"31 6","pages":"6387-6400"},"PeriodicalIF":8.3,"publicationDate":"2024-08-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/csr.2930","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142175620","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}