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45 Citations
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Digital Financial Inclusion, Financial Efficiency and Green Innovation

  • Yanru Li,
  • Guanglin Sun,
  • Qiang Gao and
  • Changming Cheng

18 January 2023

The financing difficulty of green innovation projects has always been an obstacle to enterprises’ green innovation. Digital financial inclusion provides a new opportunity to solve the financing difficulty of green innovation. Based on the const...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Low Carbon Energy and Sustainability)
  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
14,164 Views
23 Pages

This paper addresses the application of financial innovations from the corporate finance perspective. The objective is to identify and prioritize the main types of barriers to the implementation of financial innovations by nonfinancial firms. The mot...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue FinTech and the Future of Finance)
  • Article
  • Open Access
41 Citations
14,167 Views
11 Pages

Financial innovation and institutional quality play a key role in financial development. This study investigates the impact of financial innovation and institutional quality on financial development in an emerging markets setting. We used the sample...

(This article belongs to the Section Sustainability and Finance)
  • Article
  • Open Access
51 Citations
9,500 Views
27 Pages

This paper examines the nexus between financial inclusion and financial innovation while incorporating financial development and remittance inflows in the case of six South Asian countries—Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, and Srilank...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,108 Views
26 Pages

15 May 2024

Innovation is the primary driving force for development, and enterprises, as the main drivers of innovation, are an important part of implementing the national innovation strategy. This paper, combining the perspective of the enterprise lifecycle, th...

(This article belongs to the Section Economic and Business Aspects of Sustainability)
  • Article
  • Open Access
29 Citations
5,880 Views
22 Pages

10 June 2022

Corporate innovation has become the main driving force for the long-term development of enterprises, but the characteristics of high risk, long cycle, and high capital demand of corporate innovation activities expose enterprises to high financial rej...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Multinational Enterprises, Sustainability and Innovation)
  • Article
  • Open Access
312 Views
28 Pages

4 September 2026

This paper investigates the impact of corporate financial asset holdings on green innovation and explores the internal mechanisms through which financialization shapes firms’ sustainability-oriented technological strategies. Using a comprehensi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
612 Views
20 Pages

Innovation as a Mediating Mechanism Between ESG Performance and Financial Performance

  • Jingjing Duan,
  • Matěj Hrouda,
  • Omar Ameir and
  • Ondrej Grycz

1 July 2026

Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) performance has become a central criterion for evaluating corporate sustainability. Yet the empirical relationship between ESG and financial performance remains contested, especially in emerging markets whe...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
6,160 Views
23 Pages

The Effect of Innovation and Information Technology on Financial Resilience

  • Saeid Homayoun,
  • Mohammadreza Pazhohi and
  • Hashem Manzarzadeh Tamam

25 May 2024

This paper aims to examine the views of managers, accountants, and auditors on the impact of innovation and information technology on financial resilience, and answers the question of whether in today’s businesses, which are rapidly changing an...

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  • Open Access
15 Citations
3,891 Views
13 Pages

Financial Reporting as a Source of Innovation-Relevant Competitive Intelligence

  • Vincent O’Connell,
  • Naser AbuGhazaleh and
  • Garvan Whelan

In this article, we demonstrate that contemporary financial reporting systems have the capacity to contribute significantly to the generation of innovation-relevant competitive intelligence. This potential arises because, as part of its regular work,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
5,864 Views
21 Pages

A body of work has emerged that examines human capital from the perspective of skills to better understand the types of expertise that influence innovation. The relationship between skill and financial innovation, however, is poorly understood in the...

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  • Open Access
11 Citations
5,303 Views
13 Pages

29 April 2021

In a rapidly changing technology world, companies need to conform to their customers’ expectations if they wish to remain competitive in the marketplace. New products, services, processes, marketing, management, and organizational innovation can all...

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  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,485 Views
34 Pages

Spatial Effects of Financial Agglomeration and Green Technological Innovation on Carbon Emissions

  • Zhijie Hao,
  • Ziqian Zhao,
  • Zhiwei Pan,
  • Decai Tang and ,
  • Meiling Zhao and
  • Hui Zhang
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

19 March 2025

Financial agglomeration and green technology innovation are important measures to reduce carbon emissions and promote the development of a green economy. Based on the panel data of 30 provinces and cities in China from 2011 to 2020, this paper uses t...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Achieving Sustainability: Role of Technology and Innovation)
  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
8,384 Views
17 Pages

This study explores the effect of corporate governance on financial innovation and the effect of financial innovation on performance in Taiwan’s banking industry from 2011 to 2019. The results find that the banks have higher shareholding of instituti...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
670 Views
29 Pages

26 May 2026

This study aims to examine the relationship between financial development, innovation, and economic growth in Saudi Arabia over the period 1989–2023. Using the Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) approach, the study investigates both the shor...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Green Economy and Sustainable Economic Development)
  • Article
  • Open Access
89 Citations
10,059 Views
17 Pages

Agricultural technology innovation is key for improving productivity, sustainability, and resilience in food production and agriculture to contribute to public health. Using panel data of 31 provinces in China from 2003 to 2015, this study examines t...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue AgriFood 4.0: Economics, Finance and Engineering for Sustainable Futures)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,489 Views
20 Pages

31 March 2025

This study analyzes the impact of financial institution quality (FIQ) and financial stability (FSI) on trade-adjusted carbon emissions (TAE) in G7 countries from 2000 to 2022. It also examines whether green innovation (GI) and environmental taxes (ET...

  • Article
  • Open Access
53 Citations
4,825 Views
14 Pages

This paper takes the China A-shares listed companies in heavy polluting industries from 2011 to 2020 as samples, combines the digital financial inclusion index to empirically examine the impacts of digital financial inclusion development on the green...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Frontiers in Healthy Cities: Policy Impacts and Inclusive Governance)
  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
5,827 Views
17 Pages

This study aims to explore whether a firm’s financial sustainability is enhanced by open innovation especially after a global financial crisis. There are few studies on the relationship between open innovation and financial sustainability. This...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Ambidextrous Open Innovation: Technology, Market and Complexity)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
6,262 Views
19 Pages

This study focuses on the mediation channels through which the financial performance of intelligent manufacturing industries closely related to the Fourth Industrial Revolution has been affected. Along with compiling a massive volume of datasets publ...

  • Article
  • Open Access
57 Citations
15,811 Views
30 Pages

This study aims to explore the relationship between economic growth, financial innovation, and stock market development of Bangladesh for the period 1980–2016. To investigate long-run cointegration, this study used the autoregressive distribute...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4,129 Views
50 Pages

Innovation-driven development is the main driving strategy for promoting high-quality economic development. Technological innovation is the core of innovation-driven development. Financial innovation is an important aspect of promoting financial deve...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Recent Developments in Data Science and Knowledge Discovery)
  • Article
  • Open Access
67 Citations
7,193 Views
25 Pages

1 June 2021

Eco-innovation has gained considerable attention in the academic and corporate world due to its potential in mitigating a firm’s sustainability issues. Most previous studies focused on the reactive approaches of eco-innovation using primary data. Thi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Impact of Eco-Innovation and Sustainable Product Development on Shaping Circular Economy)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,733 Views
22 Pages

Using a hand-collected sample of non-financial firms listed on the Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) over the period of 2011–2021, we examine the joint effect of intellectual capital and innovation on the financial vulnerability of a firm, which is...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Durable, Inclusive, Sustainable Economic Growth and Challenge)
  • Article
  • Open Access
463 Views
23 Pages

Financial innovation is recognized as a major catalyst of long-term economic progress. The main aim of this study is to analyze the nexus between financial innovation and economic growth in Bangladesh. While financial innovation plays a crucial role,...

(This article belongs to the Section Economics and Finance)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
5,342 Views
18 Pages

16 November 2018

Will the top managers’ attention to financial goals such as profit targets, operating expenses or debt payback schedule affect the firm’s innovation investment? The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between the attenti...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Transition from China-Made to China-Innovation )
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  • Open Access
44 Citations
4,983 Views
18 Pages

23 February 2021

The study’s motivation is to gauge the impact of financial innovation on economic growth from 2004M1 to 2018M12 in India and Pakistan’s economy with the mediating role of economic policy uncertainty. For instituting the possible association between f...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,538 Views
18 Pages

This study investigates the determinants of financial performance among Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) in Indonesia, addressing the critical issues of low accountability and limited access to capital. Grounded in the Resource-Based View...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Accounting and Financial/Non-financial Reporting Developments)
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  • Open Access
16 Citations
5,330 Views
29 Pages

Balancing Sustainability and Profitability: The Financial Effect of Green Innovation in Chinese High-Pollution Industries

  • Fatima Batool,
  • Ibrahim A. Alhidary,
  • Jhansi Rani Boda,
  • Belal Mahmoud Alwadi and ,
  • Khurshid Khudoykulov and
  • Mohammad Haseeb
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

16 April 2025

Green innovation plays a crucial role in sustainable development, yet its financial impact on high-pollution industries remains underexplored. This study analyzes the short- and long-term financial effects of green innovation using 30,108 firm-year o...

(This article belongs to the Section Economic and Business Aspects of Sustainability)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,829 Views
21 Pages

14 May 2022

Crowd innovation space ecosystem (CISE) can realize the combination of innovation and entrepreneurship and that of incubation and investment. Based on synergetics, this paper defines the agent interactions and subsystem synergy of the CISE, explores...

(This article belongs to the Section Economic and Business Aspects of Sustainability)
  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
10,791 Views
18 Pages

This study examines the impact of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) practices on green innovation and financial performance among 174 publicly listed firms across ASEAN countries over the period from 2019 to 2023. Utilizing an unbalanced pa...

(This article belongs to the Section Business and Entrepreneurship)
  • Article
  • Open Access
66 Citations
19,547 Views
21 Pages

16 April 2024

This paper analyzes the effects of Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) performance on corporate financial performance (CFP), enriching the research on the intrinsic mechanism between ESG and financial performance in developing countries. This...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
5,296 Views
17 Pages

Financial Innovation and Crowdfunding: Influencing Investment Decisions in Tech Startups

  • Kaimuk Panitkulpong,
  • Amnuay Saengnoree and
  • Thapong Teerawatananond

This study investigates the financial behavior of Thai investors in equity crowdfunding (ECF), focusing on the factors that influence their investment intentions. Drawing upon the Information System Success Model (ISSM), the Theory of Diffusion of In...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,282 Views
25 Pages

10 January 2026

This study investigates how financial constraints influence environmental innovation and how such innovation contributes to business sustainability and competitive advantage. Existing research has primarily examined financial constraints in isolation...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainable Innovation, Business Models and Economic Performance)
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  • Open Access
62 Citations
8,257 Views
22 Pages

31 January 2020

This study develops a multiple mediating model for exploring the link between environmental regulation and financial performance through green dynamic capability, sustainability exploration/exploitation innovation, based on the data from 355 Chinese...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Environmental Policy Design and Implementation: Toward Sustainable Society)
  • Article
  • Open Access
65 Citations
9,513 Views
16 Pages

13 February 2023

Green technology innovation is crucial for achieving sustainable development. This paper establishes fixed effect and mediation effect models to study how digital finance influences corporate green technology innovation and the moderating role of fin...

(This article belongs to the Section Economic and Business Aspects of Sustainability)
  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
7,792 Views
15 Pages

The Impact of R&D Innovation Success on the Relationship between R&D Investment and Financial Leverage

  • Vincent O’Connell,
  • Naser AbuGhazaleh,
  • Yasean Tahat and
  • Garvan Whelan

This paper explores the interrelationship between R&D investment, financial leverage, and a firm’s R&D innovation success. Using a sample of UK and EU firms, we predict that changes in one-year-ahead R&D investment are negatively as...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,349 Views
25 Pages

24 June 2025

Applying the resource-based view and dynamic capability theory, this study employs panel data analysis to examine how financial flexibility influences corporate innovation efficiency from an integrated resource-capability perspective. Analyzing data...

  • Review
  • Open Access
45 Citations
8,444 Views
21 Pages

The relationship between green technology innovation and corporate financial performance has gained considerable traction in academics and businesses. However, there is limited overall bibliometric analysis on this topic. To meet the research need, t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,878 Views
20 Pages

30 June 2024

Green industrial growth is at the core of the green and low-carbon transformation of the real economy. Financial services provide new channels for green innovation financing for enterprises. How to utilize financial development to enhance the industr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
6,174 Views
17 Pages

24 January 2022

Astonishingly little attention has been paid in academic literature to the 2008–2009 foreign exchange (FX) options debacle in Poland, the scale of which was unheard of. It affected not only an individual organization but a significant part of e...

  • Article
  • Open Access
55 Citations
5,642 Views
18 Pages

Inter-Organizational Trust on Financial Performance: Proposing Innovation as a Mediating Variable to Sustain in a Disruptive Era

  • Judit Oláh,
  • Yusmar Ardhi Hidayat,
  • Zdzisława Dacko-Pikiewicz,
  • Morshadul Hasan and
  • József Popp

4 September 2021

Hungarian Information and Communication Technology (ICT) companies have an essential role to play in a disruptive era. ICT firms should collaborate and innovate to obtain profit. The elusive correlation between trust in business partners and financia...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainability in Innovation Performance and Business Performance)
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  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,233 Views
10 Pages

10 December 2021

Recently, eco-innovation has received a lot of attention in the academic and corporate world due to its potential to accelerate firm financial progression. To measure eco-innovation, mostly primary data and a reactive approach were employed. By empha...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
3,424 Views
22 Pages

23 June 2022

Financial innovation is a powerful source to promote the intellectualized transformation and upgrading of the manufacturing industry. At present, the influence mechanism behind the impact of financial innovation on the manufacturing industry is still...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Circular Economy: Innovative Approaches to Circularity Toward Green Transformation and Blue Growth)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,478 Views
25 Pages

26 May 2025

Our research investigates the relationship between eco-innovation and earnings management among 567 firms listed on the FTSE All-Share Index from 2014 to 2022. By examining how sustainability-driven innovation influences financial reporting practices...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Feature Papers in Economic and Business Aspects of Sustainability—2nd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
898 Views
24 Pages

Amid global population growth and the pressures of climate change, traditional factors in driving grain production are increasingly inadequate. In this context, this study utilizes panel data from 31 provinces in China (2001–2022) to examine th...

(This article belongs to the Section Agricultural Economics, Policies and Rural Management)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
669 Views
23 Pages

Financial Perceptions of Sustainable Innovation: Linking Management Decisions to Consumer Purchase Intention

  • Corina-Maria Rusu,
  • Vanesa-Luisa Sidor,
  • Raluca-Simina Bilți and
  • Lucian-Ionel Cioca

20 June 2026

This paper addresses the critical challenge of accelerating the adoption of sustainable innovations by examining the interdependence between managerial credibility and consumer pragmatism. The aim of the study was to investigate how perceived trust i...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Consumption Innovation and Consumer Behavior in Sustainable Marketing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,236 Views
16 Pages

17 January 2022

According to the data of financial technology and high-tech innovation level of 17 cities in the pilot area of China Independent Innovation Demonstration Zone (Shandong Province) from 2007 to 2017, and taking human capital as the threshold variable,...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue The Future and Sustainability of Financial Markets)
  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
11,638 Views
32 Pages

18 December 2018

Organizational performance development and financial slack have drawn extensive attention in management research. Recent studies have indicated that financial slack has a positive effect on innovation outcomes and organizational performance. However,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,072 Views
32 Pages

15 July 2025

The coupled development of economic and ecological systems is crucial for achieving sustainable growth, with the financial system playing a pivotal adaptive role. Green financial innovation (GFI) is central to enhancing this adaptation. Urban land us...

(This article belongs to the Section Systems Practice in Social Science)

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