Corporate Accoutability, Sustainability and Green Finance

Dear Colleagues,

Green finance is becoming increasingly important for corporations due to changing perspectives around the world. Corporate Sustainability, as a strategic approach that aims to create stakeholder value, is critical for goodwill, enhancing the opportunities, and managing the risks that occur due to economic, social and environmental developments.

This Special Issue calls for research covering a wide range of aspects related to accounting and corporate management and their interaction with corporate sustainability and green finance. This type of research responds to the call for an increased awareness these impacts of organizational activities, and strategic and operational decision making.

In this Special Issue, original research articles and reviews are welcome. The research areas may include (but are not limited to) the following:

• Accounting disclosures and sustainability;
• Environmental, social and governance (ESG) analyses;
• The determinants and consequences of green finance;
• ESG reporting and corporate governance;
• Voluntary versus mandatory non-financial reporting;
• Regulations, public policies and non-financial reporting;
• Socially responsible investments;
• Corporate policies and corporate sustainability;
• The trends and challenges in corporate finance and sustainability;
• Climate change and corporate policies;
• The role of technology in corporate sustainability;
• Green finance and digital finance;
• Microfinance and sustainability.

We look forward to receiving your contributions.

Prof. Dr. Yaowen Shan
Dr. Yuqiang Cao
Dr. Meiting Lu
Guest Editors

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• green finance
• corporate sustainability
• social and environmental accounting
• accounting disclosures
• corporate governance
• sustainable finance
• corporate finance
• ESG and integrated reporting
• corporate social responsibility (CSR)
• risk management