Past studies on the effects of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) scores firm performance have found mixed support. To further unpack these findings, we focus industry-level dynamism predictability ESG sales investor expectations prospects growth. Dynamism (predictability) is based standard error (R-squared) industry ratings regressed sales. Taking an investor’s perspective, a forward-...

Shapes Systematic exploration of the affective meanings of shapes (as opposed to the actual incidents or personalities depicted in a visual image) has a considerable history, both in the area of art and in that of advertising and other forms of deliberately manipulative imagery. Among painters in the Western fine-arts tradition, an especially noteworthy investigator of these matters was Georges...