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Past, present, and future of sustainable finance: insights from big data analytics through machine learning of scholarly research

Kumar, Satish, Sharma, Dipasha, Rao, Sandeep orcid logoORCID: 0000-0001-7752-4492, Weng Marc, Lim and Mangla, Sachin (2022) Past, present, and future of sustainable finance: insights from big data analytics through machine learning of scholarly research. Annals of Operations Research . ISSN 0254-5330

Abstract
Sustainable finance is a rich field of research. Yet, existing reviews remain limited due to the piecemeal insights offered through a sub-set rather than the entire corpus of sustainable finance. To address this gap, this study aims to conduct a large-scale review that would provide a state-of-the-art overview of the performance and intellectual structure of sustainable finance. To do so, this study engages in a review of sustainable finance research using big data analytics through machine learning of scholarly research. In doing so, this study unpacks the most influential articles and top contributing journals, authors, institutions, and countries, as well as the methodological choices and research contexts for sustainable finance research. In addition, this study reveals insights into seven major themes of sustainable finance research, namely socially responsible investing, climate financing, green financing, impact investing, carbon financing, energy financing, and governance of sustainable financing and investing. To drive the field forward, this study proposes several suggestions for future sustainable finance research, which include developing and diffusing innovative sustainable financing instruments, magnifying and managing the profitability and returns of sustainable financing, making sustainable finance more sustainable, devising and unifying policies and frameworks for sustainable finance, tackling greenwashing of corporate sustainability reporting in sustainable finance, shining behavioral finance on sustainable finance, and leveraging the power of new-age technologies such as artificial intelligence, blockchain, internet of things, and machine learning for sustainable finance.
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Item Type:Article (Published)
Refereed:Yes
Uncontrolled Keywords:Sustainable finance; sustainable development goals; socially responsible investing; climate financing; green financing; impact investing; carbon financing; energy financing, governance; big data analytics; bibliometric analysis; systematic literature review.
Subjects:Business > Accounting
Business > Finance
Business > Business ethics
Computer Science > Machine learning
DCU Faculties and Centres:DCU Faculties and Schools > DCU Business School
Publisher:Springer
Official URL:https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10479-021-04410-8
Copyright Information:© 2022 Springer
Use License:This item is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-Share Alike 3.0 License. View License
ID Code:26499
Deposited On:07 Jan 2022 12:26 by Sandeep Keshava Rao . Last Modified 04 Nov 2022 04:30
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