Original title: ESG: Research Progress and Future Prospects
ESGA way to consider environmental, social, and governance issues together. means looking at environmental, social, and governance issues together. This paper reviews research on ESG and uses a literature-analysis tool to map collaboration, popular topics, and trends. It groups past work around theory, links between the three ESG areas, economic effects, risk prevention, and measurement. It also describes gaps and suggests directions for future research.
Imagine sorting a pile of recipes to see which ingredients show up together and which dishes people keep making. The pile is too large to understand by reading one recipe at a time, so you look for patterns and missing areas. In this paper, the recipes are research papers about environmental, social, and governance issues, and the patterns show what researchers have studied and what they have left open.
Investors, businesses, and policymakers need to understand how environmental and social concerns connect with governance and economic results. This review maps what researchers have studied, where the field has gaps, and what questions may guide future work.
The abstract does not report specific findings, the size or selection of the literature set, or how the proposed future priorities were chosen. It presents a review of research rather than evidence that ESG practices cause particular economic or risk outcomes.
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ESG: Research Progress and Future Prospects — Tingting Li, Kai Wang, Toshiyuki Sueyoshi et al. — Sustainability — doi:10.3390/su132111663
Abstract licence: CC BY
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