ESG ratings and corporate financial performance in South Africa

Business & Economics

• Corporate Financial Performance 88%
• Rating 67%
• South Africa 56%
• Responsible Investment 34%
• Financial Performance 28%
• Two-stage Least Squares 27%
• Governance 24%
• Market Performance 23%
• Performance Indicators 18%
• Instrumental Variables Regression 16%
• Accounting Performance 15%
• Investors 13%
• Social Practice 11%
• Performance Measures 9%
• Policy Implications 9%
• Panel Data 8%
• Empirical Analysis 8%
• Authority 7%
• Design Methodology 5%

Social Sciences

• financial performance 100%
• firm 54%
• Republic of South Africa 51%
• rating 51%
• market 26%
• governance 22%
• performance 16%
• regulatory authority 13%
• policy studies 13%
• investor 11%
• regression 7%
• methodology 5%
• management 5%

Earth & Environmental Sciences

• firm 68%
• Africa 52%
• accounting 37%
• market 33%
• panel data 14%
• empirical analysis 14%
• indicator 13%
• pillar 12%
• index 11%
• effect 8%
• policy 7%
• methodology 6%
• analysis 3%