Quote from sachinm on 19 November 2023, 5:44 pm

Suggested Themes

• Use of resource-based view (RBV) to examine a firm’s strategic resources to achieve sustainable competitive advantage.
• Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) to understand causal analysis.
• Industry 4.0 (CTTI4.0)
• Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD)
• How "woke" capitalism is being accused of enabling greenwashing.
• Challenges of bundling ‘E’, ‘S’, and ‘G’ together, and managing their cross-impact complexity together.
• Politicisation of ESG aims, and push-back reactions, adding to complexity.

Suggested Reading List

• Kun-Huang Huarng, Tiffany Hui-Kuang Yu, “Causal complexity analysis of ESG performance”, Journal of Business Research, Volume 170, 2024, 114327, ISSN 0148-2963
• Douglas Miller, “The Resource-Based View of the Firm”, Published online: 26 March 2019
• Charles C. Ragin, “Qualitative Comparative Analysis Using Fuzzy Sets (fsQCA), Configurational Comparative Analysis”, Sage Publications, 2007 University of Arizona
• Charalampos Saridakis, Ghasem Zaefarian, Panagiotis Ganotakis, Sofia Angelidou, "A step-by-step guide of (fuzzy set) qualitative comparative analysis: From theory to practice via an implementation in a B2B context", Industrial Marketing Management, Vol 107.
• Fadi Alkaraan*, Khaldoon Albitar, Khaled Hussainey, V. G. Venkatesh, “Corporate transformation toward Industry 4.0 and financial performance: The influence of environmental, social, and governance (ESG)”, Lincoln University Normandie Université
• Michael T. Lee, Ikseon Suh, “Understanding the effects of Environment, Social, and Governance conduct on financial performance: Arguments for a process and integrated modelling approach”, Sustainable Technology and Entrepreneurship, Vol 1, Issue 1, 2022