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Sustainable Finance: Environmental, Social, and Corporate Governance Sustainability
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Sustainable Finance: Environmental, Social, and Corporate Governance Sustainability

A special issue of Journal of Risk and Financial Management (ISSN 1911-8074). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainability and Finance".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (1 September 2021) | Viewed by 3533

Special Issue Editor

Prof. Dr. Galina Hale

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Economics Department, The University of California, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA
Interests: international finance; financial stability; climate change; food system sustainability

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

This Special Issue focuses on the broad topic of “Sustainable Finance: Environmental, Social, and Corporate Governance Sustainability.” The increased adoption of environmental, social, and corporate governance sustainability (ESG) goals by corporations, financial institutions, and regulators has inevitable impacts on financial institutions, asset markets, and financial stability and regulation.

We welcome theoretical and empirical articles on any aspect of the interplay between each of the three sustainability pillars and financial sector developments and innovation. Areas of interest include but are not limited to the following:

  • Environmental (E): “green” financial instruments and investment strategies, evaluating, and pricing of climate-related risks, climate-related financial disclosure;
  • Social (S): policies, strategies, and innovations to improve financial inclusion worldwide;
  • Governance (G): diversity, equity, and inclusion in the financial industry and financial regulation.

Prof. Dr. Galina Hale
Guest Editor

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Keywords

  • Sustainability
  • Climate risks
  • Financial inclusion
  • Diversity
  • ESG
  • Physical risks
  • Transition risks
  • Green finance
  • Sustainable finance
  • Responsible investment
  • Responsible banking

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Integrated Thinking and Reporting Process: Sensemaking of Internal Actors in the Case of Itaú Unibanco
by Kelli Juliane Favato, Marguit Neumann, Simone Leticia Raimundini Sanches, Manuel Castelo Branco and Daniel Ramos Nogueira
J. Risk Financial Manag. 2021, 14(6), 245; https://doi.org/10.3390/jrfm14060245 - 1 Jun 2021
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Abstract
This study aims to understand the meaning created by Itaú Unibanco’s internal actors in the Integrated Reporting (IR) processes. An interpretative approach based on Karl Weick’s sensemaking perspective is adopted. A case study methodology was adopted for undertaking the empirical work. The results [...] Read more.
This study aims to understand the meaning created by Itaú Unibanco’s internal actors in the Integrated Reporting (IR) processes. An interpretative approach based on Karl Weick’s sensemaking perspective is adopted. A case study methodology was adopted for undertaking the empirical work. The results show that IR identity in the institution is related to three issues: synergy processes between sectors; integration for the production of other reports; and development of an integrated thinking chain for the entire business. We present perceptions on benefits and difficulties in the process of preparing the integrated report. Although the practices and processes established did not change the characteristics of the bank, the perspective of the social actors seems to have changed from a sectoral view to a multidimensional view. In addition, the conclusions suggest that it is not difficult to understand that separating ‘thinking’ from ‘doing’, attributing to the individual the role of mere operationalization is tantamount to ignore the meaning attributed to the organization’s journey towards the creation of a process, namely the IR one. The study’s contribution lies in pointing out that the IR process is directly related to the integrated thinking process. This could be the most significant differential of IR as a form of corporate communication as it amounts to a new reporting framework that proposes integrating social, environmental, and governance disclosures (non-financial information) with financial disclosures in a single report. Full article
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