Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) Performance Assessment, 2nd Edition
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Economic and Business Aspects of Sustainability".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 October 2025 | Viewed by 2411
Special Issue Editors
2. College of Economics, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, China
Interests: supply chain finance; ESG; energy and environmental management
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Interests: optimization; supply chain
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Interests: manufacturing; logistics; ESG
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Since its debut in a United Nations report in 2006, environmental, social, and governance (collectively referred to as ESG) performance has shifted from the periphery into the mainstream. ESG performance has become a proxy for a company's resilience and risk management capabilities, but it also manifests and enhances the long-term value of a business. Prominent agencies, for example, MSCI, Sustainlytics, Moody, and others, have developed various ESG ratings to assess the ESG performance of companies, funds, and portfolios. However, different rating agencies usually publish different ESG rating results. The disagreement of ESG ratings introduces uncertainty into any decision that is made based on ESG ratings, and thus indicates a challenge for a wide spectrum of decision makers.
This Special Issue calls for a more critical discussion about how ESG performance could be assessed in a more well-designed manner. We particularly invite articles that explore, examine, and propose ESG performance assessment rationales and methods. Both reviews and prescriptive and experimental research assessing ESG performance in industry and regions are welcome.
Topics of potential interest include, but are not restricted to, the following:
- ESG reporting;
- ESG ratings;
- ESG portfolio optimization;
- ESG investing;
- Construction of ESG measures;
- Uncertainty in ESG performance assessment;
- Divergency in ESG rating;
- ESG data authenticity;
- Decision analytics in ESG;
- Efficiency analysis in ESG performance evaluation.
Dr. Yelin Fu
Dr. Zelong Yi
Prof. Dr. George G.Q. Huang
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- ESG performance assessment
- ESG rating
- ESG data authenticity
- ESG measure
- ESG investing
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