We investigate the relationship between corporate and country sustainability on the cost of bank loans. We look into … operating in all major industries. Our principal findings reveal that country sustainability related to both social and … of one unit in country sustainability scores is associated with an average decrease in the costs of debt by 64 basis …

The link between Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) activities and financial performance of firms has been … intensively examined and debated in academics and politics, but the connection to innovation has so far lacked research attention …. This paper investigates whether CSR is complementary to environmental innovations, so that a joint introduction of both …

challenges for its sustainability. Therefore, recently suggested reform options are discussed at the end of the paper showing …

Sustainability indices for countries provide a one-dimensional metric to valuate country-specific information on the … be performed. This paper reviews the explanatory power of various sustainability indices applied in policy practice. We …

realization of an environmental product and a process innovation, indeed only compared with the realization of no environmental … innovation. …

We analyze the effects of captive off-shoring of innovation activities on the firms' ability to adapt their … Community Innovation Survey to test our hypotheses. We find an inverted u-shape of innovation off-shoring on the effectiveness … of organizational adaptability, implying an optimal threshold value of innovation off-shoring. This value is 11% for …

This study examines how industry-specific managerial experience affects firms' innovation performance in the context of …