Maximizing Sustainable Performance: AI & FinTech-Driven Innovation Strategies
A special issue of Journal of Risk and Financial Management (ISSN 1911-8074). This special issue belongs to the section "Financial Technology and Innovation".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 September 2025 | Viewed by 111
Special Issue Editors
2. Gulf Finance Center, Gulf University for Science & Technology (GUST), Mubarak Al-Abdullah, Kuwait
Interests: green finance and green strategic investment decision-making; corporate governance; corporate narrative disclosure measurement of strategic changes; business innovation strategies and corporate transformation in UK companies towards Industry 4.0 and sustainable performance and SDGs; accounting and governance of state-owned enterprises; public sector accounting and budgeting reform
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: corporate sustainability; governance; digital transformation in emerging economies
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The Journal of Risk and Financial Management (JRFM) was inaugurated in 2008 with the focus on novel technical and theoretical papers that provide innovative empirical contributions. Prior studies contributed to debates on corporate Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) performance through various theoretical lenses using conceptual and empirical paradigms. The current issues in accounting and finance serve as an initial platform for a new paradigm of research including interdisciplinary investigations as well as encouraging innovation in theoretical perspectives. This Special Issue is rooted in the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and aims at a comprehensive investigation of the nexus between business innovation strategies, AI techniques, and green governance structures and their influence on sustainable performance towards Sustainable Development Goals.
This Special Issue focuses on interdisciplinary perspectives in order to examine the relationships between the above-stated constructs and their impacts on sustainable value creation towards SDGs. This Special Issue serves as a knowledge hub to explore and shape the evolving landscape of AI, innovation, and sustainability in businesses. Digitalization, environmental concerns, and social and governance factors drive business model transformation toward sustainability and circular economies. The impact of digitalization on business and society remains open for further research. In an era defined by rapid technological advancements and growing environmental and social challenges, the intersection between sustainability, innovation, and advanced technologies is reshaping the global business landscape. This Special Issue brings together interdisciplinary perspectives to explore how businesses can harness innovation and emerging technologies, particularly FinTech and other applications of artificial intelligence (AI), to drive sustainable growth while addressing the broader economic, social, and ethical implications of their actions.
In this Special Issue, we are interested in bringing together rigorous manuscripts that advance accounting and finance research. We invite manuscripts featuring original research that which complement our understanding of the impact of emerging AI techniques and green governance structures on green innovation strategies and sustainable performance maximization towards SDGs. We are interested in conceptual, theoretical, methodological, empirical, and systematic review studies. Submissions are invited on, but are not limited to, the following topics:
- AI implications for risk and financial management.
- Risk management strategies, AI governance, and ethical issues.
- AI implications for green strategic investment decision-making.
- Industry 4.0 technologies and firm performance.
- AI implications for investment appraisals and real-option approaches.
- AI implications for financial management and management accounting.
- AI implications for risk analysis and risk-mitigation strategies.
- FinTech and corporate finance and their influence of firm performance.
- FinTech and financial inclusion.
- AI-driven financial applications.
- AI implications for control mechanisms, governance, and accountability.
- The nexus between AI adoption, tax compliance, and planning.
- The role of auditors in monitoring AI-driven decision-making.
- AI implications for control and governance mechanisms.
- Challenges and solutions in implementing AI models for credit risk assessment and financial compliance.
- The role of AI in the sustainable finance and transparency of ESG metrics.
- Leveraging AI and FinTech for more accurate and real-time ESG reporting.
- Business innovation using emerging technologies and organizational performance.
- The nexus between business innovation, AI, SDGs, and sustainable performance.
- Digital transformations towards the circular economy and their impact on firm performance.
- The impact of Industry 4.0 on firm performance.
- The nexus between Industry 4.0, sustainability accounting, and sustainable performance.
Dr. Fadi Alkaraan
Dr. Hala Zaidan
Dr. Khalil Nimer
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- risk
- financial management
- FinTech
- artificial intelligence (AI)
- governance
- sustainable finance risk management strategies
- risk analysis
- corporate finance
- financial inclusion AI-driven decision-making
- accounting
- transparency
- accountability
- tax compliance
- auditing
- credit risk
- business innovation
- emerging technologies
- environmental, social, and governance transparency
- sustainable development goals
- corporate disclosure
- sustainable performance
- sustainability
- green strategic investment
- investment techniques
- Industry 4.0
- firm performance
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