Sustainable Finance and Society

Francesco Gangi is Full Professor of Management at the Università degli Studi della Campania, Luigi Vanvitelli. His main research interests cover corporate social responsibility and socially responsible investments. He has published in international journals and books. Past SIG Chair of the Business for Society SIG, currently he is in charge as the Italian Representative in the EURAM Council of Country Representatives.Daniele Angelo Previati is Full Professor of Financial Markets and Institutions at the University of Rome III and Fellow of the SDA Bocconi School of Management. He was President of ADEIMF, the Italian scientific association of the Professors in Financial Markets and Institutions and Corporate Finance, from 2019 to 2021. His current research interests include financial literacy and education, fintech, alternative finance, stakeholder engagement, HR and intellectual capital management, operational risks, and strategy, with special reference to financial services companies.Flora Sfez is an Associate Professor at the IAE-University of Poitiers, specialising in corporate finance, and a researcher at CEREGE laboratory. She has been the vice president in charge of finance at the University of Poitiers since December 2020 and is responsible for the master’s degree in finance and financial engineering. Her research and publications focus on the bureaucratisation of financial markets and have evolved to address the issue of expert control in financial organisations and the valuation of football transfers.

• Introduction PART I. Sustainable Finance as Ecosystem 1. The ecosystem of sustainable investing: key players and roles 2. The interplay of stakeholders in the Sustainable Finance Ecosystem: a European perspective 3. Sustainable finance literacy and financial well-being: a literature review PART II. Sustainable Investing evaluation 4. Watch out and prevent! Addressing new rising risks in finance. A theoretical framework 5. Corporate social responsibility, real options, and value: the role of internal resources 6. Understanding ESG indexes as drivers for multiple stakeholder value creation PART III. Sustainable finance, Entrepreneurship, and Innovation 7. Sustainable entrepreneurial finance: the role of digital technologies 8. Sustainable private equity: leveraging ESG integration 9. A new role for social finance in the social open innovation trend 10. Green innovation and financial structures in firms: new insights from a survey of Italian SMEs PART IV. Impact Investing, Accounting and Financial Public Policies 11. Sustainable finance: a plea for impact, the integration of vulnerable stakeholders and an interdisciplinary research agenda 12. How to truly take sustainability matters into account for finance? 13. The integration of sustainable finance by public authorities in France: a bureaucracy of experts legitimised by New Public Management PART V. Sustainability, Financial Markets, and Institutions 14. Banks and national recovery and resilience plans: sustainability awareness and organizational challenges 15. Bank-firm relationship: relevance and evidence of sustainability issues 16. Toward green financing: the case of net zero banking alliance program in the banking sector 17. Decarbonizing Finance: The case of insurance alliances 18. The climate courtroom: unpacking the spillover effects of climate change litigations in the energy sector in Europe 19. Introducing environmental adjustment factors: risks and opportunities PART VI. Advancing women for Sustainable Finance 20. Toward sustainable finance paradigm: the role of gender diversity 21. Empowering sustainable finance: the impact of women in European equity fund management and ESG integration