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  • Open Access
37 Citations
9,672 Views
17 Pages

Fulfillment of ESG Responsibilities and Firm Performance: A Zero-Sum Game or Mutually Beneficial

  • Liang Chen,
  • Tian Yuan,
  • Richard J. Cebula,
  • Wang Shuangjin and
  • Maggie Foley

1 October 2021

Focusing on the 311 Chinese firms listed in the global markets from 2008 to 2019, based on the trade-off theory and the resource slack theory, using panel vector autoregressive model and panel threshold model, this paper explores the impact of fulfil...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,471 Views
19 Pages

28 June 2024

Against the backdrop of economic transformation and sustainable development, this paper utilizes listed companies from the Shanghai and Shenzhen A-share markets from 2009 to 2021 as research samples, measures corporate leverage manipulation levels us...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,732 Views
20 Pages

21 June 2023

This paper theoretically analyzes the bilateral mechanism of ESG responsibility fulfillment on green innovation of industrial enterprises and decomposes the promotion effect, inhibition effect and the net effect of mutual influence of ESG responsibil...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,162 Views
29 Pages

3 October 2025

This study constructs a research model with regulation and mediation based on the resource dependence theory to explore the nonlinear relationship between ESG responsibility fulfillment and firm value. This study uses a sample of Chinese A-share list...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
6,826 Views
13 Pages

28 April 2025

Grounded in institutional theory, this study uses a sample of A-share listed companies from 2009 to 2023 to empirically examine the effects of coercive, mimetic, and normative pressures on corporate ESG responsibility. The results indicate that coerc...

  • Article
  • Open Access
339 Views
19 Pages

Fulfilling social responsibilities within the ESG framework has gradually become a core competitive advantage for sustainable corporate development that also serves to enhance future returns. Charitable donations constitute a crucial method through w...

  • Article
  • Open Access
188 Citations
28,901 Views
29 Pages

1 July 2020

The increasing awareness of climate change and human capital issues is shifting companies towards aspects other than traditional financial earnings. In particular, the changing behaviors towards sustainability issues of the global community and the a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
6,631 Views
24 Pages

1 April 2025

In the context of increasingly severe global climate change, both companies and investors are placing greater emphasis on investment philosophies centered around environmental protection, social responsibility, and corporate governance (ESG). This pa...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,004 Views
26 Pages

14 October 2024

The National Civilized City Program is an important governance championship for cities in China. Taking the National Civilized City Program as a quasi-natural experiment, based on the data of A-share listed companies in Shanghai and Shenzhen from 200...

  • Article
  • Open Access
611 Views
18 Pages

25 November 2025

Enterprises fulfilling ESG responsibilities represent a strategic choice to achieve sustainable and high-quality development. Using the sample of A-share state-owned listed companies in China from 2015 to 2022, this study investigates the association...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
5,941 Views
21 Pages

The Impact of Climate Policy Uncertainty on the ESG Performance of Enterprises

  • Zhi Zhang,
  • Yanhong Feng,
  • Hongwei Zhou,
  • Liming Chen and
  • Yi Liu

16 November 2024

In the context of addressing climate change, the uncertainty of climate policies has intensified the environmental and regulatory risks faced by enterprises, forcing them to adjust their strategies for fulfilling ESG responsibilities in pursuit of su...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,725 Views
42 Pages

6 March 2025

This study examines the mutual relationships among ESG performance, total factor productivity (TFP), and energy efficiency (EE) in a sample of Chinese A-share listed firms from 2010 to 2022. This study shows that ESG has a significant promotional eff...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,019 Views
16 Pages

1 June 2025

Sustainable development has become the universal consensus among nations worldwide, with society increasingly recognizing the importance of fulfilling ESG responsibilities. This recognition has begun to influence companies’ supplier evaluation...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
4,911 Views
17 Pages

6 July 2023

Under the new trend of digitalization leading the era, the popularity and development of digital finance have become key components in promoting better corporate practices and investment activities such as social responsibility fulfillment. Against t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,515 Views
23 Pages

Does Corporate ESG Performance Influence Carbon Emissions?

  • Ziyang Liu,
  • Baogui Yang,
  • Bernadette Andreosso-O’Callaghan and
  • Xiaoao Zhang

22 August 2025

Against the backdrop of increasingly severe global carbon emissions and China’s commitment to achieving carbon peaking by 2030, accelerating the transition to a low-carbon economy has become an urgent priority. As fundamental microeconomic enti...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,308 Views
19 Pages
Sustainability2024, 16(24), 10895;https://doi.org/10.3390/su162410895 
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12 December 2024

Climate risk’s effects on society and economic development are becoming more pronounced, and enterprises have to seize the opportunity for green transformation. Based on public company data from 2011 to 2022, this study explores the causal rela...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,620 Views
21 Pages

23 May 2024

In this study, we leverage a comprehensive dataset of over 3.8 million bid entries from institutional investors participating in China’s capital market to investigate the determinants of heterogeneous bidding behavior among these investors and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,345 Views
31 Pages

3 November 2025

Against the backdrop of increasingly interconnected environmental, social, and governance (ESG) challenges, enterprises must formulate sustainable strategies to achieve synergistic development among economic performance, social responsibility, and ec...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,406 Views
13 Pages

13 September 2023

Corporate social responsibility (CSR) has become a management strategy that simultaneously pursues societal and company sustainable development. Additionally, CSR is becoming a key strategy to secure competitiveness and sustainability by improving a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
54 Citations
7,403 Views
19 Pages

3 February 2022

The increasing focus on environmental, social, and corporate governance (ESG) has led to a growing interest in how firms’ internal behaviors affect their contributions in promoting sustainable economic development and fulfilling social responsi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
385 Views
23 Pages

26 December 2025

Against the backdrop of pursuing technological self-reliance and strength, examining how participation in technical standard setting influences corporate patient capital investment holds significant importance. This study constructs a complex mediati...