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  • Article
  • Open Access
128 Citations
46,343 Views
17 Pages

25 May 2021

The terms “corporate social responsibility” (CSR), “sustainability”, “sustainable development” and “corporate sustainability” (CS) are critical terms for developing, analysing and evaluating public and private policy goals. These terms are used to ma...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
4,286 Views
19 Pages

8 August 2022

This study aims to investigate the antecedents of corporate sustainability performance, focusing on corporate governance mechanisms. The growing diffusion of sustainability-related corporate governance regulation raises a legitimate question about th...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
7 Citations
7,216 Views
10 Pages

15 October 2020

This paper introduces a theory for the evolution of corporates in which the growth and sustainability strategies are developed simultaneously. Since the introduction of corporate sustainability, it has been seen an extra cost for risk mitigation and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
33 Citations
10,927 Views
15 Pages

21 November 2022

Sustainable corporate development has become essential for many enterprises in the context of economic globalization and fierce technological competition. In fact, it is being tackled at a strategic level by most companies. The fulfillment of corpora...

  • Article
  • Open Access
96 Citations
21,730 Views
15 Pages

Measuring Corporate Sustainability Performance

  • Eugen Nicolăescu,
  • Cristina Alpopi and
  • Constantin Zaharia

13 January 2015

The aim of the present study is to examine and evaluate the evolving character of sustainability management in corporations, the significance of environmental protection and sustainability, and barriers to carrying out an incorporated and strategic f...

  • Article
  • Open Access
42 Citations
11,089 Views

Measuring Corporate Sustainability and Environmental, Social, and Corporate Governance Value Added

  • Alena Kocmanová,
  • Marie Pavláková Dočekalová,
  • Stanislav Škapa and
  • Lenka Širáňová

15 September 2016

The aim of the paper is to propose a model for measuring sustainable value which would complexly assess environmental, social, and corporate governance contribution to value creation. In the paper the concept of the Sustainable Environmental, Social...

  • Article
  • Open Access
59 Citations
24,281 Views
13 Pages

Corporate Sustainability Reporting and Financial Performance

  • Ionica Oncioiu,
  • Anca-Gabriela Petrescu,
  • Florentina-Raluca Bîlcan,
  • Marius Petrescu,
  • Delia-Mioara Popescu and
  • Elena Anghel

24 May 2020

In the past few decades, business performance has been approached from a multidimensional perspective, because a pro-active corporate sustainability reporting system for assessing the financial performance of an organization should at least address i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
5,595 Views
23 Pages

Why Corporate Sustainability Is Not Yet Measured

  • Mariapia Pazienza,
  • Martin de Jong and
  • Dirk Schoenmaker

6 April 2023

Measuring Corporate Sustainability (CS) has been identified as an important enabler for integrating sustainability into corporate practices. Different methodologies and frameworks for measuring CS have been developed in the literature with limited su...

  • Article
  • Open Access
32 Citations
9,636 Views
18 Pages

2 July 2014

Several studies have proven that information technology (IT) can improve enterprises’ performance. The effective and efficient management of enterprise resources has for long been the role of enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems. Whereas tradit...

  • Article
  • Open Access
45 Citations
13,188 Views
39 Pages

1 August 2019

The present study aims at exploring processual relationships between corporate sustainability predictors and sustainability performance, as informed by the Thai philosophy of Sufficiency Economy, and accordingly proposes a theory of corporate sustain...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
4,923 Views
18 Pages

Key Corporate Sustainability Assessment Methods for Coal Companies

  • Ekaterina Blinova,
  • Tatyana Ponomarenko and
  • Sofiya Tesovskaya

26 March 2023

Many businesses view sustainability issues as important and design corporate sustainability strategies. However, creating such a strategy does not mean the company will progress in sustainable development because the factors influencing businesses re...

  • Article
  • Open Access
53 Citations
19,991 Views
28 Pages

25 August 2015

The acceptance of corporate sustainability implementation and sustainability reporting has continued to grow steadily in recent years. This is particularly true for companies in the automotive industry. Increasing regulatory demands, for example, wit...

  • Article
  • Open Access
46 Citations
12,834 Views
21 Pages

27 June 2022

Organizations are under mounting pressure to adapt to and to adopt corporate sustainability (CS) practices. Notwithstanding the increasing research attention given to the subject and the meaningful theoretical contributions, it is claimed that a defi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,830 Views
20 Pages

Corporate Sustainability and Wealth Distribution: Evidence from Brazil’s Corporate Sustainability Index

  • Paulo A. Lozano,
  • Feni Agostinho,
  • Arno P. Clasen,
  • Cecília M. V. B. Almeida and
  • Biagio F. Giannetti

18 June 2025

The growing demand for sustainable business practices has led to the development of corporate sustainability assessment tools, with environmental, social, and governance (ESG) indicators becoming central to non-financial performance evaluation. These...

  • Article
  • Open Access
107 Citations
23,647 Views
17 Pages

21 January 2020

To unlock the potential for corporations to play a more proactive role in sustainable development, it is critical to have a fundamental understanding of the pathways leading to a responsible and sustainable business. This study explores contributions...

  • Article
  • Open Access
117 Citations
33,381 Views
36 Pages

Measurement of Corporate Social Responsibility: A Review of Corporate Sustainability Indexes, Rankings and Ratings

  • Borja Diez-Cañamero,
  • Tania Bishara,
  • Jose Ramon Otegi-Olaso,
  • Rikardo Minguez and
  • José María Fernández

10 March 2020

Companies are currently changing their traditional role in society and transforming it into a proactive role in which their operations generate social and environmental positive impacts. Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) has evolved from simple p...

  • Article
  • Open Access
35 Citations
12,927 Views
21 Pages

15 August 2022

The issues surrounding corporate sustainability (CS), which have gained importance in organizational theory and practice that could help in gaining a competitive advantage, are becoming complex and far-reaching. Competitive advantage could decline if...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
4,675 Views
19 Pages

21 May 2020

This study examines the association of corporate sustainability management with earnings transparency. Based on previous studies that indicate that sustainability management activities reduce earnings management and corporate risk and increase a firm...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,329 Views
15 Pages

Environmental degradation and ecological devastation have become widespread global concerns in recent years as a result of the expansion of the international economy. China’s rapid economic development has been accompanied by a sloppy economic...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,144 Views
17 Pages

20 October 2025

The concept of accountability is central to understanding how sustainable corporate governance (SCG) structures shape organizational behavior, legitimacy, and firm performance in the pursuit of sustainability goals. While widely invoked, accountabili...

  • Article
  • Open Access
272 Views
30 Pages

1 January 2026

This study uses Chinese A-share listed companies from 2014 to 2023 as the research sample (comprising a total of 18,053 firm-year observations) and explores the impact of executive tone manipulation on corporate sustainable growth capability from the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
74 Citations
24,304 Views
25 Pages

Sustainability and Convergence: The Future of Corporate Governance Systems?

  • Daniela M. Salvioni,
  • Francesca Gennari and
  • Luisa Bosetti

22 November 2016

In today’s world, a sustainable approach to corporate governance can be a source of competitive advantage and a long-term success factor for any firm. Sustainable governance requires that the board of directors considers economic, social and environm...

  • Article
  • Open Access
32 Citations
6,723 Views
21 Pages

Rethinking Corporate Responsibility and Sustainability in Light of Economic Performance

  • Anca Antoaneta Vărzaru,
  • Claudiu George Bocean and
  • Michael Marian Nicolescu

2 March 2021

Concepts of ethical behavior and corporate social responsibility have emerged in recent years due to organizations’ increasing ethical problems. Business ethics, social responsibility, and corporate governance are significant drivers for organization...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
7,810 Views
19 Pages

Corporate Venture Capital and Sustainability

  • Luciano Mathias Döll,
  • Micaela Ines Castillo Ulloa,
  • Alexandre Zammar,
  • Guilherme Francisco do Prado and
  • Cassiano Moro Piekarski

Corporate Venture Capital (CVC) has been receiving increasingly more attention all over the world as a special way for accessing new ideas and innovative opportunities through minor-share investing in established companies. The purpose of CVC investm...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
6,274 Views
37 Pages

Business IT Alignment Impact on Corporate Sustainability

  • Uroš Zabukovšek,
  • Polona Tominc and
  • Samo Bobek

17 August 2023

Business–IT alignment (BITA) has become crucial for effective organisational management in today’s interconnected global economy. This article investigates the relationship between BITA and corporate sustainability, exploring how business...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,663 Views
14 Pages

2 July 2021

This study analyzed the relationship between the environmental, social, and governance (ESG) assessment results of the Korea Corporate Governance Service, which evaluates the sustainability management levels of Korean companies and the variability in...

  • Article
  • Open Access
43 Citations
9,054 Views
15 Pages

10 June 2019

We empirically explore the innovation and corporate sustainability link using a large sample of worldwide banks for the period 2003–2016. Our results suggest that service innovation performance enhances the banking industry’s corporate su...

  • Review
  • Open Access
22 Citations
10,002 Views
27 Pages

29 November 2022

In response to the prevailing sustainability problems that are difficult to solve since they are characterized by complex interdependencies, and the effort to solve one aspect of a sustainability problem may lead to other problems, the present study&...

  • Article
  • Open Access
77 Citations
15,695 Views
16 Pages

Communicating Sustainability: An Operational Model for Evaluating Corporate Websites

  • Alfonso Siano,
  • Francesca Conte,
  • Sara Amabile,
  • Agostino Vollero and
  • Paolo Piciocchi

21 September 2016

The interest in corporate sustainability has increased rapidly in recent years and has encouraged organizations to adopt appropriate digital communication strategies, in which the corporate website plays a key role. Despite this growing attention in...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,531 Views
24 Pages

Assisted Sustainability: How Digital Technologies Promote Corporate Sustainability

  • Lisa Schrade-Grytsenko,
  • Karolin Eva Kappler and
  • Stefan Smolnik

17 June 2025

Sustainability has evolved from a new trend to an imperative and strategical necessity for companies. Despite the growing focus from economics and information systems (IS) research, practical solutions for integrating sustainability into business pra...

  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
7,075 Views
14 Pages

Internal Corporate Social Responsibility for Sustainability

  • M. Isabel Sánchez-Hernández,
  • Jose Luis Vázquez-Burguete,
  • Maria P. García-Miguélez and
  • Ana Lanero-Carrizo

15 July 2021

The recent attention paid to internal corporate social responsibility (ICSR) observed in the academic literature has been paralleled by an increased focus thereof in management, to achieve the United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)....

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
10,900 Views
24 Pages

15 September 2022

This study explores whether employees’ perceptions of corporate human resource practices (training and rewards), and employees’ perceptions of corporate sustainability responsibility, affect their adoption of sustainable behaviors. In the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
7,171 Views
33 Pages

An In-Depth Analysis of Barriers to Corporate Sustainability

  • Kennedy Mutua,
  • Julieanna Powell-Turner,
  • Melissa Spiers and
  • Jess Callaghan

27 April 2025

Recent decades have witnessed an unprecedented demand for corporate sustainability. Driven by a desire to remain competitive amidst economic turmoil and climate change, organisations are embedding sustainable measures into their long-term goals and s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
5,223 Views
27 Pages

Escalating climate crisis activism highlights the potential of self-organised approaches in sustainability to address the disconnect between corporate sustainability activities and globally declining ecological systems. This paper argues that corpora...

  • Review
  • Open Access
80 Citations
10,103 Views
30 Pages

4 July 2022

Promoting the concept and principles of sustainable development at the micro level requires that industrial companies understand and improve approaches to managing corporate sustainability. Currently, economics does not provide a universal definition...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,788 Views
16 Pages

10 March 2025

(1) Purpose: In recent decades, sustainability has become an important concept across the globe. Poor environmental performance is likely to put firms at risk of public censure and even environmental litigation, especially those operating in internat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
5,060 Views
20 Pages

31 January 2020

The subject of this article is a determination of the potential of the prohibition of unfair commercial practice, as an institution of consumer law, established to strengthen consumers’ protection, to contribute to the achievement of corporate...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,403 Views
31 Pages

25 July 2022

There are two opposite views about corporate sustainability in the existing literature. Sustainability activities are considered as a source of long-term value creation for the shareholders’ interest whereas they also occupy scarce corporate re...

  • Article
  • Open Access
75 Citations
12,721 Views
13 Pages

An Empirical Exploration, Typology, and Definition of Corporate Sustainability

  • Manfred Max Bergman,
  • Zinette Bergman and
  • Lena Berger

The relationship between business and society is evolving. On the one hand, social, environmental, and long-term economic issues subsumed under the UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development are inspiring intergovernmental organizations, governments,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,227 Views
24 Pages

25 September 2025

This study examines the mediating role of corporate culture in the relationship between corporate financial strategy and sustainability performance within Guangxi’s automobile industry. Employing a stratified sampling method, data were collecte...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
5,623 Views
17 Pages

Holonic Crisis Handling Model for Corporate Sustainability

  • Levente Bakos and
  • Dănuț Dumitru Dumitrașcu

7 December 2017

The new approaches of risk and crisis management of organizations point to corporate responsibility and corporate sustainability. In the ‘Internet of Everything’ era, when the new media and social networks create the possibility to ruin in a few seco...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
5,116 Views
13 Pages

Online Company Reputation—A Thorny Problem for Optimizing Corporate Sustainability

  • Ionica Oncioiu,
  • Delia-Mioara Popescu,
  • Elena Anghel,
  • Anca-Gabriela Petrescu,
  • Florentina-Raluca Bîlcan and
  • Marius Petrescu

9 July 2020

The new economic environment, characterized as volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous, has been generated through the evolution of a world in which online reputation and corporate social responsibility have become closely interconnected. In this...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,624 Views
12 Pages

Study of Corporate Sustainability Dimensions in the Cooperatives of Ecuador

  • Iliana Loor Alcívar,
  • Francisco González Santa Cruz,
  • Nelly Moreira Mero and
  • Amalia Hidalgo-Fernández

8 January 2020

This research has the aim of analysing corporate sustainability dimensions in the cooperativism of a developing country such as Ecuador by means of a valid and reliable measuring scale. These institutions, as part of the social economy, should be foc...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,935 Views
23 Pages

A Proposed Typology for the Validation of Corporate Sustainability

  • Joan R. Sanchis,
  • Vanessa Campos and
  • Ana T. Ejarque

14 August 2025

Corporate sustainability is a multi-stakeholder approach with a Triple or Quadruple Bottom Line focused on long-term horizons and the creation of shared or triple value. The objective of this study is to present a theoretical framework for the implem...

  • Review
  • Open Access
400 Citations
84,648 Views
25 Pages

13 February 2018

This paper presents an analysis of the literature concerning the impact of corporate sustainability on corporate financial performance. The relationship between corporate sustainable practices and financial performance has received growing attention...

  • Review
  • Open Access
124 Citations
17,556 Views
13 Pages

17 January 2018

Organizational sustainability (OS) has been guiding the decision-making process of managers in order to generate competitive advantage. This paper aims to identify the sustainable practices performed by large corporations in the implementation of OS....

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
6,376 Views
31 Pages

29 March 2024

Achieving sustained competitive advantage in the current business landscape has become an important challenge for both the service and manufacturing sectors. Based on the thematic analysis of the empirical data from expert interviews of 46 profession...

  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
6,804 Views
21 Pages

21 August 2023

This study aimed to investigate the effect of corporate sustainability on financial performance as well as examine whether CEO characteristics influence the association between corporate sustainability and the financial performance of listed firms in...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
6,575 Views
26 Pages

Sustainable Circular Economy Strategies: An Analysis of Brazilian Corporate Sustainability Reporting

  • Julia Romano Sanches,
  • Adriana Hofmann Trevisan,
  • Bruno Michel Roman Pais Seles,
  • Camila Gonçalves Castro,
  • Roberta Souza Piao,
  • Henrique Rozenfeld and
  • Janaina Mascarenhas

11 May 2022

Corporate Sustainability Reporting provides essential data for academic and empirical research on sustainability and the still-growing adoption of the circular economy by companies. Despite the wide attention that the circular economy receives from t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
185 Citations
17,609 Views
20 Pages

Does Corporate Governance Affect Sustainability Disclosure? A Mixed Methods Study

  • Zeeshan Mahmood,
  • Rehana Kouser,
  • Waris Ali,
  • Zubair Ahmad and
  • Tahira Salman

16 January 2018

This research paper aims to understand the impact of corporate governance (CG) on economic, social, and environmental sustainability disclosures. This paper adopted an explanatory sequential mixed methods approach. The data regarding corporate govern...

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