Corporate Social Responsibility in the European Banking Sector: Commitment to the 2030 Agenda and Its Relationship with Gender Diversity

Gallego-Sosa, Clara; Gutiérrez-Fernández, Milagros; Torres, Yakira Fernández; Gil, María Teresa Nevado

doi:10.3390/su13041731

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“…Indeed, where organisations have committed to certain SDG's specific, measurable outcomes are evident. Gallego-Sosa [51] have examined the degree of CSR, using a sample of the 30 largest banks in Europe in terms of market capitalization, found that these banks target at least one of the SDGs and that the banks that are most committed to Goals 11 (Sustainable Cities and Communities) and 13 (Climate Action) of the 2030 Agenda have greater gender diversity on their boards of directors. Again, Sprinks [52] et al (2021) demonstrate greater confidence among people associated with business organisations the projects of which are readily related to the SDGs.…”

Section: Sustainable Developmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

Corporate Social Responsibility, Sustainability, Sustainable Development and Corporate Sustainability: What Is the Difference, and Does It Matter?

Sheehy

Farneti

2021

Sustainability

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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 make decisions about investment, policy development, and strategy creation. The terms emerged in different fields of endeavour at different points in time. Accordingly, they have different meanings; however, over time they have come to be used interchangeably mixing up policy agendas, confusing managers, regulators, activists and the public at large. We demonstrate that CSR is the best term for focusing on individual business organisations, “corporate sustainability” is an organisation level environmental policy, “sustainable development” is a public policy, and “sustainability” is the broadest term encompassing global local and organisational levels.

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Section: Sustainable Developmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

Corporate Social Responsibility, Sustainability, Sustainable Development and Corporate Sustainability: What Is the Difference, and Does It Matter?

Sheehy

Farneti

2021

Sustainability

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“…Specifically, women are more aware of the exploitation of the planet [74], more sensitive to environmental problems and more likely to tackle the needs of stakeholders [43,75,76]. Therefore, the presence of women on the board shifts the orientation of companies towards tackling environmental sustainability [18] and meeting SDG 13 (Climate Action) [77]. It also contributes to the implementation of environmental policies and initiatives [78][79][80] and green entrepreneurship programmes [81], all of which results in improved environmental performance [82].…”

Section: Board Gender Diversity and Environmental Performancementioning

confidence: 99%

“…This relationship has been confirmed for samples from various countries and regions. Specifically, studies have been conducted in the United States [26,42,43,50,64,83], France [47], the United Kingdom [25], China [86], Australia [85], Europe [27,77,88] and globally [44,73,96].…”

Section: Board Gender Diversity and Environmental Performancementioning

confidence: 99%

Environmental Performance of the Tourism Sector from a Gender Diversity Perspective

Torres

Gutiérrez-Fernández

Gallego-Sosa

2021

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The tourism sector is a driver of economic development characterised by its environmental impact. It is a prevalent part of the 2030 Agenda, given its potential to help meet the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). At the same time, board gender diversity is considered essential for companies to implement environmentally sustainable initiatives. However, analysis of the relationship between the role of women on boards and environmental performance has been neglected in the tourism literature. This paper adopts a novel approach to the study of this sector by analysing the relationship between gender diversity on the board of directors and companies’ environmental practices. A fixed effects model is estimated using an international sample of 120 listed tourism companies for the period 2002 to 2019. The results show that boards that are more gender diverse and have a greater female presence are associated with poorer environmental performance and a weaker implementation of policies and practices to reduce resource use and emissions. However, board gender diversity aids performance in environmental innovation.

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“…A study on the European banking sector shows that two-thirds (of the banks studied) of the banking sector shows commitment towards CSR. However, the lack of rigid regulations and guidelines has resulted in uncoordinated efforts towards reaching the UN's SDGs by the banking sector in Europe (Gallego-Sosa et al, 2021).…”

Section: Csr Practices In the Banking Sectors Around The Worldmentioning

confidence: 99%

Practices of corporate social responsibility in the UAE banking sector: An assessment

Aarthi

Sahu

2021

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There is a conspicuous lack of research on Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) practices undertaken in the United Arab Emirates, more so in the banking sector. This paper attempts to fill the gap by examining the government policies drawn up to support enterprises in their CSR efforts. The paper aims to examine the nature and practices of CSR undertaken by the banking sectors in the UAE. UAE's desire to go beyond being a tourist destination to an international business hub and financial market has resulted in their desire to set up CSR activities. In the UAE the banking sectors are the first to have adopted social responsibility and worked to advance it. Banks like Mashreq, ADCB, and Emirates NBD have actively involved themselves in CSR projects. For this study, ten UAE banks (Islamic and Non-Islamic banks) have been chosen based on purposive sampling to ensure the selected banks are currently or in the recent past involved themselves in CSR projects.

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Corporate Social Responsibility in the European Banking Sector: Commitment to the 2030 Agenda and Its Relationship with Gender Diversity

Cited by 26 publications

References 101 publications

Corporate Social Responsibility, Sustainability, Sustainable Development and Corporate Sustainability: What Is the Difference, and Does It Matter?

Corporate Social Responsibility, Sustainability, Sustainable Development and Corporate Sustainability: What Is the Difference, and Does It Matter?

Environmental Performance of the Tourism Sector from a Gender Diversity Perspective

Practices of corporate social responsibility in the UAE banking sector: An assessment

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