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Journal of Risk and Financial Management, Volume 18, Issue 10

2025 October - 63 articles

Cover Story: This figure visually synthesizes global evidence on the relationship between ESG, firm value, and financial risk. It highlights that although the correlation between ESG performance and corporate value remains context-dependent, the association between ESG and reduced financial risk is consistently strong across the literature. View this paper
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Articles (63)

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,718 Views
19 Pages

Global enterprises face increasingly volatile market conditions, with foreign exchange (FX) movements often forcing executives to make rapid pricing and strategy decisions under uncertainty. While artificial intelligence (AI) has transformed operatio...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,492 Views
21 Pages

This study investigates the impact of working capital management (WCM) on profitability in the Indian cement industry, an energy-intensive sector central to the country’s infrastructure growth. Using a balanced panel of listed firms over 2010&n...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,878 Views
18 Pages

The new financial standards, IFRS S1 and S2, have not only modified the way financial reporting is presented to diverse stakeholders but have also increased uncertainty. These changes make traditional valuation methods inadequate. This article propos...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,864 Views
25 Pages

Committee Diversity Effect on Corporate Investment Risk Practices

  • Chung-Chieh Li,
  • John Sands,
  • Lyn Daff,
  • Adam G. Arian and
  • Richard Busulwa

Background: This study examines how diversifying committees influence corporate investment risk practices, specifically in decision-making and resource allocation strategies. Previously, board diversity was commonly used in studies, but committee div...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
5,690 Views
34 Pages

Corporate Governance and Tax Avoidance: Evidence from Greek Service-Sector Firms

  • Vasileios Giannopoulos,
  • Maria Vlachakou,
  • Spyridon Kariofyllas and
  • Ilias Makris

This study investigates the relationship between corporate governance mechanisms and tax avoidance in Greek service-sector firms over the period 2014–2023. Using panel data, the analysis evaluates the influence of board characteristics, audit c...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,557 Views
19 Pages

This study examines the influence of institutional pressures and personal attributes on the perceived importance of financial reporting among micro-entrepreneurs in Malaysia. Survey data from 194 micro-entrepreneurs were analyzed using ordinary least...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,248 Views
30 Pages

This study explores how firms’ strategic orientations—operational efficiency, customer intimacy, and product innovation—along with corporate social responsibility (CSR) disclosure, influence investment efficiency in emerging markets...

  • Systematic Review
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,602 Views
26 Pages

Sustainability Practices, Corporate Value, and Financial Risk: Is There an Academic Consensus? A Systematic Bibliometric Review

  • Felippe Aparecido Cippiciani,
  • José Roberto Ferreira Savoia,
  • Frédéric de Mariz and
  • Daniel Reed Bergmann

This study presents a systematic review and bibliometric analysis of the relationship between sustainability practices—commonly framed within the environmental, social, and governance (ESG) framework—and both corporate value creation and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,573 Views
23 Pages

This study investigates how Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) influences financial performance in the Middle Eastern banking sector through the mediating roles of corporate reputation, employee engagement, and innovation orientation. Drawing on s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,319 Views
22 Pages

We use unique hand-collected data to conduct an initial examination of the relationship between the information in dividend decreases and proxies of chief executive officer (CEO) entrenchment. The evidence suggests that CEO entrenchment weakens the n...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,750 Views
24 Pages

This study examines links between global financial stress and cryptocurrency returns from 1 January 2017 to 31 January 2025, while explicitly accounting for commodity markets. We use an econometric toolkit: unit-root and cointegration testing, ARDL b...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,622 Views
16 Pages

Founder CEOs and Utility Firms’ Financial Choices

  • Md Asif Ul Alam,
  • Md Maruf Ul Alam and
  • Toufiq Nazrul

Founder CEOs lead a significant number of public U.S. firms, and these firms often differ from other firms led by non-founder CEOs in terms of various important firm characteristics. In our paper, we investigate the financial choices of founder-CEO-l...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
5,079 Views
16 Pages

Sustainable investing has grown rapidly, but it remains unclear whether actively managed sustainable funds outperform passive ones. This study compares the performance of high-sustainable active U.S. equity mutual funds and their index peers from Sep...

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