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<p>Investments with sustainable principles that fulfil environmental, social, and governance (ESG) that stress the notion of sovereignty, with varied financing needs and criteria and jurisdictional features, have just lately begun to emerge. We intend to investigate and debate the volume and scope of research performed in that environment. Using PRISMA framework, we obtained 37 articles from 2009 to 2021 related to sovereign aspects of ESG based sustainable investment from the Scopus database. We found that the issues discussed were dominated by Sovereign Wealth Funds (SWF), particularly from Norway, which has the world’s largest market value. We emphasize the need for research in developing countries that have SWFs as well as host countries, analyze sovereign investment in the climate-impacted sectors, formulate our own composite index as a common denominator, where the cross-border legal basis for SWF is strengthened.</p>
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Investments with sustainable principles that fulfil environmental, social, and governance (ESG) that stress the notion of sovereignty, with varied financing needs and criteria and jurisdictional features, have just lately begun to emerge. We intend to investigate and debate the volume and scope of research performed in that environment. Using PRISMA framework, we obtained 37 articles from 2009 to 2021 related to sovereign aspects of ESG based sustainable investment from the Scopus database. We found that the issues discussed were dominated by Sovereign Wealth Funds (SWF), particularly from Norway, which has the world’s largest market value. We emphasize the need for research in developing countries that have SWFs as well as host countries, analyze sovereign investment in the climate-impacted sectors, formulate our own composite index as a common denominator, where the cross-border legal basis for SWF is strengthened.

Sovereign ESG Integration: A Bibliometric and Systematic Literature Review

Studies in Business and Economics

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Investments with sustainable principles that fulfil environmental, social, and governance (ESG) that stress the notion of sovereignty, with varied financing...

Sovereign ESG Integration: A Bibliometric and Systematic Literature Review

Publié en ligne: 15 mai 2023

Pages: 231 - 260

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/sbe-2023-0013

Mots clés
Sustainable investment, ESG, Systematic Literature Review, Bibliometric Analysis, Sovereign Wealth Fund

© 2023 Fabian Buddy Pascoal et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Sovereign ESG Integration: A Bibliometric and Systematic Literature Review

Publié en ligne: 15 mai 2023

Pages: 231 - 260

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/sbe-2023-0013

Mots clésSustainable investment, ESG, Systematic Literature Review, Bibliometric Analysis, Sovereign Wealth Fund

© 2023 Fabian Buddy Pascoal et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Mots clés
Sustainable investment, ESG, Systematic Literature Review, Bibliometric Analysis, Sovereign Wealth Fund