The contribution of environmental, social, and governance disclosure to a sustainable economy

Ganda, Fortune; Ngwakwe, Collins C.

doi:10.1007/s40483-013-0004-z

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“…The required indicators may have to be built from detailed local data (Mallampalli et al, 2016; Marnika et al, 2015). Disclosure and reporting efforts are steps in the required direction (Ganda and Ngwakwe, 2013). There are various approaches for sustainability measurement and development measurement (UN Sustainable, n.d.).…”

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Multi-Level Social Institutions in Conflict over Sustainable Development

Windsor

2017

Critical Sociology

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An identifiable research gap in extant literature concerns how social institutions can develop more pro-sustainability attributes. Better collaboration is vital to enabling institutions to function effectively for sustainability. A conceptual scenario approach illustrates how multi-level institutions can be in fundamental conflict concerning sustainable development. A rich complexity of formal and informal institutions functions at global, regional, national, and local levels of human interaction in ways that influence both anti-sustainability and pro-sustainability behaviors, practices, and outcomes. The scenario approach underscores that the balance of anti-sustainability and pro-sustainability attributes is not readily assessed theoretically or empirically as a basis for improving social justice outcomes.

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Section: Problems In Conceptualizing Sustainable Developmentmentioning

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Multi-Level Social Institutions in Conflict over Sustainable Development

Windsor

2017

Critical Sociology

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“…Healthy economies help companies to survive and to be sustainable, which in turn improves the economy through the movement of its indicators (Pham, et al, 2021). For companies to survive and to be sustainable, Kisten (2020) avers that they need a good and healthy economic environment, and they must devise strategies to reduce their negative impact on their environment through their policies (Aifuwa, 2020;Ganda and Ngwakwe, 2013). Corporate sector is a major contributor to any healthy economy, both locally and internationally (Matar and Eneizan, 2018).…”

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The impact of the selected macroeconomic indicators’ volatility on the performance of South African JSE-listed companies: a pre-and post- Covid-19 study

Benson¹,

Thomas²,

Ganda³

2022

IJRBS

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The influence of macroeconomic variables on aspects of business and the country's economy has been a subject of robust discussion. This study was conducted to identify the effect of macroeconomic variables, namely inflation rate, economic growth, exchange rate and share price, on listed companies in South Africa. The goal was to study the long run and short run effects of macroeconomic volatility on company performance because of the world’s recent pandemic experience. To achieve this objective, the study applied the panel Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) model on annual panel data from 2010 to 2020 to analyse the short run and long run effects of macroeconomic variables on a company’s performance. The study results suggested a positive impact of economic growth, exchange rate and share price on asset returns, whilst a company's equity return is supported by economic growth and share price in the long run. The short run revealed that none of the independent variables has a sufficiently significant effect to influence a company's performance changes in the short run. Based on the findings, it was recommended that policymakers and economic authorities should introduce and implement strategies that favour and enhance the country's economic growth and stable exchange rate in order to improve company performance. Additionally, given that the company's short-run performance may highly depend on internal factors such as corporate governance, internal policies and business strategies, these decisions should be taken with precaution and a high level of professionalism.

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“…Investors in financial markets also analyse a firm's possible impact on climate change as well as its green initiatives before deciding to invest in it (Ganda, 2018). However, company feedback on climate change matters is complex, and diverse evaluation tools are employed (Ganda & Ngwakwe, 2013). Furthermore, in addition to their production processes, many firms are affected by carbon emissions that are derived upstream and downstream, rendering it difficult to obtain a holistic picture of the carbon emissions produced.…”

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“…However, company feedback on climate change matters is complex, and diverse evaluation tools are employed (Ganda & Ngwakwe, 2013).…”

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The influence of carbon performance on the financial debt of listed companies in an emerging economy: Does company size matter?

Ganda

2021

Bus Strat Dev

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This paper analyses the extent to which the impact of carbon performance on corporate financial debt varies according to company size. The system Generalized Method of Moments (GMM) and the Fixed Effects Panel Threshold regression models are deployed to consider 107 South African listed companies (CDP South Africa) spanning the period 2014–2018. The GMM outcomes demonstrate that carbon performance is negatively significant to firm financial debt in all the regression equations in the short‐run settings (both with and without interaction terms) and the long‐run setting (except for the ROA regression without interaction term, which is just negative). Moreover, the interaction term, carbon performance × company size is also significant and negatively related to debt in short‐run contexts (except for the ROA regression with an interaction term that is just negative) for all equations. In the long run, the interaction term is also significant and negatively related to debt in all the regressions analysed in this paper. The panel threshold regression framework highlights a threshold level of 7.4268 below (above) which the financial debt of small (large) companies, decreases (increases) when carbon performance increases. Granger causality findings and policy suggestions are also presented.

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The contribution of environmental, social, and governance disclosure to a sustainable economy

Cited by 6 publications

References 67 publications

Multi-Level Social Institutions in Conflict over Sustainable Development

Multi-Level Social Institutions in Conflict over Sustainable Development

The impact of the selected macroeconomic indicators’ volatility on the performance of South African JSE-listed companies: a pre-and post- Covid-19 study

The influence of carbon performance on the financial debt of listed companies in an emerging economy: Does company size matter?

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