Special issue: Measuring corporate environmental performance

Measuring Corporate Environmental Performance: the Trade-Offs of Sustainability Ratings

Socially responsible investing (SRI) represents an investment process that refl ects environmental and social preferences. The fi nancial industry is in a unique position to move corporations towards corporate sustainability. However, there is often little transparency regarding the metrics used to evaluate corporate social and environmental performance and the trade-offs involved in the evalua...

Corporate finance theory: Introduction to special issue

Available online 30 October 2014 Theoretical research in corporate finance is critical for our understanding of real-world phenomena, for interpreting empirical results, and for deriving policy implications.Wediscuss the benefits and limitations of research in corporate finance theory and link them to the nine articles in this special issue on “Corporate Finance Theory.” We provide a perspectiv...

Corporate Sustainability Reporting and Measuring Corporate Performance

Corporate sustainability reporting and the measurement of environmental, social, economic and governance performance are discussed in the paper. These are necessary tools of top management for the company strategy choice of sustainable success. In doing so, the relationship between company performance and these factors is important, therefore, the need to develop the modern and advanced methods...

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Special Issue on Environmental Data Mining

Data Mining is the discipline for non trivial identifying of valid, novel, potentially useful, ultimately understandable patterns in data [3] and provides the opportunity to extract relevant decisional knowledge from data bases in any application field. In particular it can contribute to a better understanding of Environmental Sciences. Environmental Sciences is a wide research field with a num...