scholarly journals Green Transition and Sustainable Social Governance

2022 ◽  
pp. 231-313
Author(s):  
Keyword(s):  
Social Governance

scholarly journals A Framework for Evaluating and Disclosing the ESG Related Impacts of AI with the SDGs

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (15) ◽  
pp. 8503
Author(s):  
Henrik Skaug Sætra
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
Sustainability Reporting ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Ripple Effects ◽  
The Core ◽  
Social Governance ◽  
Ai Ethics ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
Negative Impacts ◽  
Corporate Social

Artificial intelligence (AI) now permeates all aspects of modern society, and we are simultaneously seeing an increased focus on issues of sustainability in all human activities. All major corporations are now expected to account for their environmental and social footprint and to disclose and report on their activities. This is carried out through a diverse set of standards, frameworks, and metrics related to what is referred to as ESG (environment, social, governance), which is now, increasingly often, replacing the older term CSR (corporate social responsibility). The challenge addressed in this article is that none of these frameworks sufficiently capture the nature of the sustainability related impacts of AI. This creates a situation in which companies are not incentivised to properly analyse such impacts. Simultaneously, it allows the companies that are aware of negative impacts to not disclose them. This article proposes a framework for evaluating and disclosing ESG related AI impacts based on the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDG). The core of the framework is here presented, with examples of how it forces an examination of micro, meso, and macro level impacts, a consideration of both negative and positive impacts, and accounting for ripple effects and interlinkages between the different impacts. Such a framework helps make analyses of AI related ESG impacts more structured and systematic, more transparent, and it allows companies to draw on research in AI ethics in such evaluations. In the closing section, Microsoft’s sustainability reporting from 2018 and 2019 is used as an example of how sustainability reporting is currently carried out, and how it might be improved by using the approach here advocated.

scholarly journals Environmental, Social, Governance Activities and Firm Performance: Evidence from China

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 767
Author(s):  
Lei Ruan ◽  
Heng Liu
Keyword(s):  
Firm Performance ◽  
Emerging Markets ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Listed Companies ◽  
Regulatory Agencies ◽  
Rating Data ◽  
Social Governance ◽  
Environmentally Sensitive ◽  
Regulatory Measures ◽  
A Share

Increasingly noticeable environmental and risk problems have made more and more companies and regulatory agencies realize the importance of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) activities. However, on the question that whether ESG activities have promoted or reduced firm performance, there is still no consensus. Especially for China, a representative country in emerging markets whose corporate ESG activities are still in their infancy and related systems and regulatory measures not complete, its theoretical and practical circles more urgently need to know an accurate answer to this question. Therefore, this article takes China’s Shanghai and Shenzhen A-share listed companies that have ESG rating data from 2015 to 2019 as samples and finds that corporate ESG activities have a significantly negative impact on firm performance. Further research finds that compared with state-owned enterprises and environmentally sensitive enterprises, non-state-owned enterprises and non-environmentally sensitive enterprises provide stronger evidence to support the above conclusions.

Environmental, social, governance: Implications for businesses and effects for stakeholders

2019 ◽  
Vol 26 (6) ◽  
pp. 1627-1628
Author(s):  
Robert Engle ◽  
Marina Brogi ◽  
Nicola Cucari ◽  
Valentina Lagasio
Keyword(s):  
Social Governance

scholarly journals CSR Committees and Their Effect on ESG Performance in UK, France, Germany, and Spain

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (18) ◽  
pp. 5077 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elisa Baraibar-Diez ◽  
María D. Odriozola
Keyword(s):  
Financial Performance ◽  
Reporting Quality ◽  
Panel Data Models ◽  
Listed Firms ◽  
Independent Variables ◽  
Social Governance ◽  
Multidisciplinary Nature ◽  
Governance Models ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Corporate Social

The multidisciplinary nature of a corporate social responsibility (CSR) committee reflects the commitment as well as the expectations and demands of diverse stakeholders. So far, CSR committees have been mainly considered as variables of control in larger corporate governance models and independent variables that determine CSR or environmental, social, and governance (ESG) disclosure and its reporting quality. However, the effect on corporate performance has been biased to financial performance, so the potential of the analysis of the effect it may have on different facets of non-financial performance has not been exploited. Which it should, since it can be a fundamental tool to achieve sustainability. The objective of this contribution is to test whether companies with a CSR committee not only leads to higher economic scores, but also to higher ESG (environmental, social, governance) scores. To do this, we used regression panel data models in 197 listed firms in Spain, France, Germany, and the UK during the period 2005–2015 including the perspective of European organizations and completing the extant studies in US-based samples. Our results showed that 90% of companies in the sample had a CSR committee in 2014, and that those companies had significantly different ESG scores than those without a CSR committee. Having a CSR committee also triggered better non-financial performance when considering the four scores and the four countries independently (except for the economic scores in Spain). These results have great implications for practitioners, reflecting the importance of promoting these tools in an organization to enhance non-financial performance and sustainability.

Population Health and Social Governance: A Review, an Update, Some Clarifications, and a Response

2018 ◽  
Vol 29 (5) ◽  
pp. 731-738 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patrick O’Byrne
Keyword(s):  
Critical Theory ◽  
Population Health ◽  
Health Research ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Research Approach ◽  
Qualitative Health Research ◽  
Social Governance ◽  
Depth Study ◽  
And Control

Critical theory is a paradigm that promotes viewpoints that are alternative and, at times, contrary to mainstream beliefs and dictates. In 2012, I adopted this perspective to review the role of ethnography and surmised that the data which arise from this research approach, which I described as an in-depth study of cultures, can be used to discipline and control these groups. In this edition of Qualitative Health Research, another author has critiqued this position. In this article, I review this critique, reiterate my position, update the data I used for my 2012 article, and highlight how I navigate what I feel is a tension between critical theory and practice.

scholarly journals Die Außenansicht der europäischen Linken

1993 ◽  
Vol 23 (92) ◽  
pp. 427-449
Author(s):  
Samir Amin
Keyword(s):  
Capital Accumulation ◽  
World System ◽  
Capitalist Mode ◽  
The Third ◽  
Social Governance ◽  
System Type ◽  
World Level ◽  
First World ◽  
Labour Power ◽  
Mode Of Production

In the framework of a world-system type of analysis, the perspectives of the European left after the decline of Soviel type socialism are described as a response to the polarization between the Third and the First World: In contrast to the capitalist mode of production in the centre, which operates as a market-based integration of the circulation of capital, of commodities and of labour power, labour in the periphery is blocked. In view of the contradiction between capital accumulation on a world-level and political and social governance on national levels, a socialist strategy should be based on a new internationalism, emphasizing regional alliances whose expansion is coupled to the increase in the unfettered mobility of labour.

scholarly journals The Application of Big Data in Modern National Economy and Politics

2021 ◽  
pp. 133-142
Author(s):  
Weili Tian
Keyword(s):  
Big Data ◽  
Technology Research ◽  
Privacy And Security ◽  
Response Strategies ◽  
Existing Problems ◽  
Social Governance ◽  
Government Decision ◽  
Rapid Spread ◽  
Development Data ◽  
Global Data

Big data is a new stage of informatization development. With the convergence and integration of information technology and human production and life, the rapid spread of the Internet, global data showing explosive growth and massive agglomeration, have had a significant impact on economic development, social governance, national management, and people’s lives.Countries around the world regard the promotion of economic digitization as an important driving force for innovation and development, and have made forward-looking layouts in cuttingedge technology research and development, data open sharing, privacy and security protection, and talent training.In-depth understanding of the current situation and trends of big data development, and its impact on economic and social development, analyze the achievements and existing problems of my country’s big data development, summarize and discuss the government’s response strategies, and promote the innovation of government management and social governance models, and realize government decision-making Identification, precise social governance, and efficient public services all have important meanings.

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