Sustainable Finance and Society Grand Challenges of the New Millennium

Introduction

Francesco Gangi, Daniele Angelo Previati, and Flora Sfez

PART I. Sustainable finance as ecosystem

1. The ecosystem of sustainable investing: key players and roles

Francesco Gangi, Nicola Varrone, and Lucia Michela Daniele

2. The interplay of stakeholders in the sustainable finance ecosystem: a European perspective

Hammed Afolabi and Satish Sharma

3. Sustainable finance literacy and financial well-being: a literature review

Maria Grazia Starita

PART II. Sustainable investing evaluation

4. Watch out and prevent! Addressing new rising risks in finance: a theoretical framework

Francesco Manta

5. Corporate social responsibility, real options, and value: the role of internal resources

Eugenio D’Angelo, Antonio Renzi, Pietro Taragoni, and Gianluca Vagnani          

6. Understanding ESG indices as drivers of multiple stakeholder value creation

Karolina Łudzińska

PART III. Sustainable finance, entrepreneurship, and innovation

7. Sustainable entrepreneurial finance: the role of digital technologies

Luca Farè and Silvio Vismara

8. Sustainable private equity: leveraging ESG integration

Francesco Gangi and Lucia Michela Daniele

9. Social finance in the social open innovation trend: a new role

Salvatore Esposito De Falco, Mario Tani, Gianpaolo Basile, and Maria Antonella Ferri

10.  Green innovation and financial structures in firms: new insights from a survey of Italian SMEs

Mauro Aliano, Giuliana Birindelli, and Pierluigi Martino

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

Emmanuelle Dubocage and Juan González

12. How to take sustainability matters into account for finance?  

Clément Carn and Alexandre Rambaud

13. Sustainable finance by public authorities in France: a bureaucracy of experts legitimised by New Public Management

Flora Sfez and Eric-Alain Zoukoua

 PART V. Sustainability, financial markets, and institutions

14. Banks and national recovery and resilience plans: sustainability awareness and organisational challenges

Vincenzo Farina, Edoardo Lanciano, and Daniele Angelo Previati

15. Bank-firm relationship: relevance and evidence of sustainability issues

Edoardo Lanciano

16. Towards green financing: the case of net zero banking alliance program in the banking sector

Redha Bayou, Karima Bouaiss, and Pascal Grandin

17.  Decarbonising finance: the case of insurance alliances

Gianluca Santilli

18.  The climate courtroom: unpacking the spillover effects of climate change litigations in the energy sector in europe

Franco Fiordelisi and Alessia Lucentini

19. Introducing environmental adjustment factors: risks and opportunities

Marika Carboni

PART VI. Advancing women for sustainable finance

20. Towards a sustainable finance paradigm: the role of gender diversity

Maria Coscia

21. Empowering sustainable finance: the impact of women in European equity fund management and ESG integration

Lidia Lobán, Laura Baselga-Pascual, Sofia Brito-Ramos, and Leyre Goitia-Berriozabal

Biography

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.