Pub Date : 2022-02-22DOI: 10.1080/20430795.2022.2040943
G. Vulturius, Aaron Maltais, Kristina Forsbacka
{"title":"Sustainability-linked bonds – their potential to promote issuers’ transition to net-zero emissions and future research directions","authors":"G. Vulturius, Aaron Maltais, Kristina Forsbacka","doi":"10.1080/20430795.2022.2040943","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/20430795.2022.2040943","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45546,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Sustainable Finance & Investment","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.3,"publicationDate":"2022-02-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43801294","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-02-22DOI: 10.1080/20430795.2022.2039998
Mohammad Hassan Shakil, Z. H. Munim, Stephen Zamore, Mashiyat Tasnia
{"title":"Sustainability and financial performance of transport and logistics firms: Does board gender diversity matter?","authors":"Mohammad Hassan Shakil, Z. H. Munim, Stephen Zamore, Mashiyat Tasnia","doi":"10.1080/20430795.2022.2039998","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/20430795.2022.2039998","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45546,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Sustainable Finance & Investment","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.3,"publicationDate":"2022-02-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49045612","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-02-10DOI: 10.1080/20430795.2022.2034595
K. Akeju
{"title":"Household financial behaviour: the role of financial inclusion instruments in Nigeria","authors":"K. Akeju","doi":"10.1080/20430795.2022.2034595","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/20430795.2022.2034595","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45546,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Sustainable Finance & Investment","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.3,"publicationDate":"2022-02-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42357160","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-02-10DOI: 10.1080/20430795.2022.2030662
Jessica Espinoza Trujano, Annette Levesque
ABSTRACT Development finance institutions (DFIs) play a major role in mobilizing private sector investments in developing countries. While there has recently been an increasing interest among DFIs in gender-lens investing, these efforts have been somewhat blind to the question of women’s unpaid work and have not yet led to a stronger investment focus on the care economy. Adopting what has been defined by other feminist scholars as a transformative approach to care, this article analyses the potential transformative effects of private sector investments in the care economy by DFIs to help build more resilient and gender-equitable economies following the global COVID-19 pandemic. The authors find there is significant potential for DFIs to approach investments with a more strategic gender- and care-lens and contribute to the recognition, reduction, redistribution, reward, and representation of care work, in line with their objective to promote sustainable socioeconomic development in developing countries.
{"title":"Development finance institutions and the care economy: opportunities for building more resilient and gender-equitable economies","authors":"Jessica Espinoza Trujano, Annette Levesque","doi":"10.1080/20430795.2022.2030662","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/20430795.2022.2030662","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Development finance institutions (DFIs) play a major role in mobilizing private sector investments in developing countries. While there has recently been an increasing interest among DFIs in gender-lens investing, these efforts have been somewhat blind to the question of women’s unpaid work and have not yet led to a stronger investment focus on the care economy. Adopting what has been defined by other feminist scholars as a transformative approach to care, this article analyses the potential transformative effects of private sector investments in the care economy by DFIs to help build more resilient and gender-equitable economies following the global COVID-19 pandemic. The authors find there is significant potential for DFIs to approach investments with a more strategic gender- and care-lens and contribute to the recognition, reduction, redistribution, reward, and representation of care work, in line with their objective to promote sustainable socioeconomic development in developing countries.","PeriodicalId":45546,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Sustainable Finance & Investment","volume":"12 1","pages":"704 - 723"},"PeriodicalIF":4.3,"publicationDate":"2022-02-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47991080","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-02-10DOI: 10.1080/20430795.2022.2030665
N. Puri, Vikas Garg
ABSTRACT The banking system has evolved with time. Earlier, the banks maintained the storage and counting of coins, but the storage was not safe. Then started the concept of lending with interest. The banking system has completely revolutionised the system, and made it easier to transact online. In this study, the main aim is to understand the banking services and how it impacts the level of satisfaction. To conduct the study, a questionnaire was circulated, containing two sections. The first section contains a set of 16 questions containing demographic- and services-related question. Section 2 contains 24 questions, showing a Likert scale to measure the level of satisfaction of the customers. One hundred ten customers of State Bank of India, SBI Branch Gurgaon and Haryana responded to the questionnaire. Different tools such as factor analysis and reliability tests were conducted to find out the relationship between customer behaviour and banking services.
{"title":"A sustainable banking services analysis and its effect on customer satisfaction","authors":"N. Puri, Vikas Garg","doi":"10.1080/20430795.2022.2030665","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/20430795.2022.2030665","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The banking system has evolved with time. Earlier, the banks maintained the storage and counting of coins, but the storage was not safe. Then started the concept of lending with interest. The banking system has completely revolutionised the system, and made it easier to transact online. In this study, the main aim is to understand the banking services and how it impacts the level of satisfaction. To conduct the study, a questionnaire was circulated, containing two sections. The first section contains a set of 16 questions containing demographic- and services-related question. Section 2 contains 24 questions, showing a Likert scale to measure the level of satisfaction of the customers. One hundred ten customers of State Bank of India, SBI Branch Gurgaon and Haryana responded to the questionnaire. Different tools such as factor analysis and reliability tests were conducted to find out the relationship between customer behaviour and banking services.","PeriodicalId":45546,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Sustainable Finance & Investment","volume":"13 1","pages":"678 - 699"},"PeriodicalIF":4.3,"publicationDate":"2022-02-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46500502","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-02-06DOI: 10.1080/20430795.2022.2031850
Rizwan Ullah, H. Ahmad, Sohail Rizwan, M. S. Khattak
{"title":"Financial resource and green business strategy: the mediating role of competitive business strategy","authors":"Rizwan Ullah, H. Ahmad, Sohail Rizwan, M. S. Khattak","doi":"10.1080/20430795.2022.2031850","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/20430795.2022.2031850","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45546,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Sustainable Finance & Investment","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.3,"publicationDate":"2022-02-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48981836","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-02-06DOI: 10.1080/20430795.2022.2030664
Alida Monaco
ABSTRACT An event-study analysis of U.S. university fossil fuel divestment announcements on public fossil fuel companies’ abnormal returns (AR) is used to estimate divestment’s impact on fossil fuel companies’ greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. These ARs could affect the companies’ capital development, and subsequent GHG emissions. The event-study is paired with a probit regression analysis of annual fossil fuel companies’ Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filings, to ascertain whether divestment is viewed as a material risk to capital expansion. This analysis finds a statistically significant negative average AR for divestment announcements on event day negative one and a statistically insignificant three-day cumulative average AR. Furthermore, this study finds that a 1% decrease in the average or cumulative average AR is associated with a statistically significant increase in the probability that firms disclose divestment. Therefore, while the overall change in GHG emissions is still ambiguous, there may be evidence for divestment’s efficacy.
{"title":"Divestment and greenhouse gas emissions: an event-study analysis of university fossil fuel divestment announcements","authors":"Alida Monaco","doi":"10.1080/20430795.2022.2030664","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/20430795.2022.2030664","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT An event-study analysis of U.S. university fossil fuel divestment announcements on public fossil fuel companies’ abnormal returns (AR) is used to estimate divestment’s impact on fossil fuel companies’ greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. These ARs could affect the companies’ capital development, and subsequent GHG emissions. The event-study is paired with a probit regression analysis of annual fossil fuel companies’ Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filings, to ascertain whether divestment is viewed as a material risk to capital expansion. This analysis finds a statistically significant negative average AR for divestment announcements on event day negative one and a statistically insignificant three-day cumulative average AR. Furthermore, this study finds that a 1% decrease in the average or cumulative average AR is associated with a statistically significant increase in the probability that firms disclose divestment. Therefore, while the overall change in GHG emissions is still ambiguous, there may be evidence for divestment’s efficacy.","PeriodicalId":45546,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Sustainable Finance & Investment","volume":"13 1","pages":"1451 - 1479"},"PeriodicalIF":4.3,"publicationDate":"2022-02-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49224040","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-01-31DOI: 10.1080/20430795.2022.2030666
Stanislav Škapa, Nina Bočková, Karel Doubravský, M. Dohnal
ABSTRACT ESG (Environmental, social, and corporate governance) parameters are involved in investing-related decision-making. DESG (Dominantly ESG) related investing represents a complex tasks studied under severe information shortages. NESG (Non-dominantly ESG) investing either ignores ESG parameters completely or it takes it as less important. ESG investing is partially DESG and partially NESG. A very simple fuzzy reasoning algorithm is used to find out the similarity between DESG and NESG in this paper. A similarity graphs is generated. An edge represents a fuzzy similarity between two nodes / conditional statements. Each statement specifies fuzzy conditions under which some DESG/NESG tools are mutually similar or totally dissimilar. Examples of investing tools are Developed Markets, Emerging Markets Small Caps, Sustainability Index and Environmental Social Governance Index. The following five parameters of investing tools are Risk, Cost, Return, Drop, and Correlation. Low pairwise fuzzy similarities between DESG and NESG are detected.
{"title":"Fuzzy confrontations of models of ESG investing versus non-ESG investing based on artificial intelligence algorithms","authors":"Stanislav Škapa, Nina Bočková, Karel Doubravský, M. Dohnal","doi":"10.1080/20430795.2022.2030666","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/20430795.2022.2030666","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT ESG (Environmental, social, and corporate governance) parameters are involved in investing-related decision-making. DESG (Dominantly ESG) related investing represents a complex tasks studied under severe information shortages. NESG (Non-dominantly ESG) investing either ignores ESG parameters completely or it takes it as less important. ESG investing is partially DESG and partially NESG. A very simple fuzzy reasoning algorithm is used to find out the similarity between DESG and NESG in this paper. A similarity graphs is generated. An edge represents a fuzzy similarity between two nodes / conditional statements. Each statement specifies fuzzy conditions under which some DESG/NESG tools are mutually similar or totally dissimilar. Examples of investing tools are Developed Markets, Emerging Markets Small Caps, Sustainability Index and Environmental Social Governance Index. The following five parameters of investing tools are Risk, Cost, Return, Drop, and Correlation. Low pairwise fuzzy similarities between DESG and NESG are detected.","PeriodicalId":45546,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Sustainable Finance & Investment","volume":"13 1","pages":"763 - 775"},"PeriodicalIF":4.3,"publicationDate":"2022-01-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43691787","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-01-31DOI: 10.1080/20430795.2022.2030663
Mohammad K. Najjar, I. Alsurakji, Amjad El-Qanni, A. Nour
ABSTRACT Global supply networks encompass many inter-connected suppliers. Many of these suppliers are unpredictable and beyond the direct realm of the company, making the management of sustainability a difficult task. This research attempts to put forth a profound exploration of the integration of sustainability across complex multi-tier supply networks through the utilization of blockchain technology. The research includes a selected literature review compromising well-cited research that focuses on multi-tier supply networks and blockchain technology. The findings suggest that blockchain can enhance suppliers’ visibility. Managers will have increased transparency and traceability of their global supply networks, which will eventually reduce information asymmetry and limit opportunistic behaviors. Furthermore, the connectivity and rapid/immutable sustainable information sharing features associated with blockchain increase suppliers’ predictability and create robust sustainable supply networks. Despite the potential benefits enabled by the technology, the research highlights some vital complexities that may obstruct the adoption of the technology across multi-tier supply networks.
{"title":"The role of blockchain technology in the integration of sustainability practices across multi-tier supply networks: implications and potential complexities","authors":"Mohammad K. Najjar, I. Alsurakji, Amjad El-Qanni, A. Nour","doi":"10.1080/20430795.2022.2030663","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/20430795.2022.2030663","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Global supply networks encompass many inter-connected suppliers. Many of these suppliers are unpredictable and beyond the direct realm of the company, making the management of sustainability a difficult task. This research attempts to put forth a profound exploration of the integration of sustainability across complex multi-tier supply networks through the utilization of blockchain technology. The research includes a selected literature review compromising well-cited research that focuses on multi-tier supply networks and blockchain technology. The findings suggest that blockchain can enhance suppliers’ visibility. Managers will have increased transparency and traceability of their global supply networks, which will eventually reduce information asymmetry and limit opportunistic behaviors. Furthermore, the connectivity and rapid/immutable sustainable information sharing features associated with blockchain increase suppliers’ predictability and create robust sustainable supply networks. Despite the potential benefits enabled by the technology, the research highlights some vital complexities that may obstruct the adoption of the technology across multi-tier supply networks.","PeriodicalId":45546,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Sustainable Finance & Investment","volume":"13 1","pages":"744 - 762"},"PeriodicalIF":4.3,"publicationDate":"2022-01-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47762359","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-01-04DOI: 10.1080/20430795.2021.2017256
Valentina Marquez-Cardenas, J. D. González-Ruiz, Eduardo Duque‐Grisales
ABSTRACT This study aims at analysing the relationship between board gender diversity (BGD) and financial performance for firms with headquarters based in Latin America (LatAm). Using panel data from 243 listed firms during the period 2012–2018, we find that BGD in LatAm does not lead to any change in firm performance, mainly because the underrepresentation of women on boards in the region compared to their male counterparts. As a result, the ability to improve the firms’ reputation and the relationships with stakeholders as well as the capability to better monitor performance and bring new ideas by female board members are then unavailable to enhance the firms’ performance. The paper also analyses the moderating effect of board independence on the relationship between BGD and firm performance. These study’s findings may be used for providing a roadmap that researchers and investorss can use to improve their understanding of BGD.
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