Corporate Finance and Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) Practices
- ISBN 978-3-7258-1927-0 (Hardback)
- ISBN 978-3-7258-1928-7 (PDF)
This is a Reprint of the Special Issue Corporate Finance and Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) Practices that was published in
This special issue comprises 12 papers published in the Special Issue entitled “Corporate Finance and Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) Practices”, addressing a wide range of topics related to the following: corporate reporting (sustainability reporting; environmental accounting information disclosure and financial risk; compulsory preliminary profit and loss disclosure and stock prices; capital expenditure and ESG disclosure; and International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) disclosure and the cost of equity capital); essential drivers of enterprise value (the mediating role of ESG scores in the association between board gender diversity and firm values; promoters’ holdings, institutional holdings, the dividend payout ratio and firm value; leverage and firm values; sustainable finance, capital and firm values); the impact of agency issues, as well as ESG, socially responsible investing (SRI), ethical investing, and impact investing, on corporate performance; and perspectives concerning the way the automobile sector is evolving to produce zero-emission vehicles.