ESG performance and financial distress during COVID-19: the moderating effects of innovation and capital intensity

Fatemeh (Nasim) Binesh, PhD is an assistant professor in the Department of Tourism, Hospitality, and Event Management at University of Florida. She received her MBA from Multimedia University in Malaysia, and her B.Sc. in Statistics from Ferdowsi University of Mashhad in Iran. She has published 13 papers in various journals. She is serving as reviewer for multiple reputable journals including Tourism Management Perspectives, Journal of Supercomputing and Review of Managerial Science. Her research interests are corporate governance, revenue management, artificial intelligence, machine learning, and innovation.

Sahar E-Vahdati is currently Lecturer in Accounting at EFA, Faculty of Business and Law at Coventry University, in the United Kingdom. Before joining Coventry University, Sahar worked as Senior Lecturer and as the Ph.D. and Doctoral Programme Director at OYAGSB, Universiti Utara Malaysia (UUM) from 2019 to 2023. She also served as Lecturer and Research Fellow at the University of Malaya and the International University of Malaya-Wales from 2014 to 2019. Moreover, she has more than five years of industry and professional experience. With over ten years of experience, she has been teaching financial and management accounting modules at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels. Her teaching interests encompass corporate governance, sustainability and ethics, financial analysis and decision-making, managerial accounting and research methodology.

Ozgur Ozdemir, PhD is an assistant professor in the William F. Harrah College of Hospitality at University of Nevada Las Vegas. He obtained his PhD in Hospitality Management with a concentration in financial management from the Pennsylvania State University. Dr Ozdemir's main research areas include capital markets, agency issues, initial public offerings (IPOs), and corporate governance in the hospitality industry. His work has been published in hospitality, tourism and business journals including Tourism Management, International Journal of Hospitality Management, International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management, Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Research, Hospitality Financial Management, and International Business Review.