... Publishing Limited 2026 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Microfinance Convergence clubs Female borrowers Social mission Speed of convergence Sustainable development goals Modern microfinance originated nearly five decades ago in Bangladesh with the aim...

...Jayita Saha; Jhumoor Biswas Purpose This study aims to explore railway-specific Sustainable Development Goals and make an inter-comparison across selected railway organizations from six different nations on their degree of implementation of sustainable measures and their sustainable performance...

...Poornima Gupta; Sanghamitra Bhattacharyya; Alok Kumar Purpose The urgency of achieving sustainable development goals (SDGs) necessitates individual behavior change toward environmental sustainability. Given the positive influence of high intelligence quotient (IQ) and emotional quotient (EQ...

..., with a life expectancy of 66.1 years, eight years of expected schooling and a gross per capita national income of $4,624 (UNDP, 2022 -Human Development Report). Pakistan ranks 128th out of 166 countries on the United Nations’ (2023) Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) index with a score of 59.0. The Global...

... contributions in literature have approached the topic. This study aims at understanding which determinants impact the contribution of SOEs to Agenda 2030. Design/methodology/approach To analyse SOEs’ contribution to the sustainable development goals (SDGs) through their disclosures, this study adopted...

... education sector. The results will be of interest to policymakers and regulators who decide to implement and standardize SDGs reporting at higher education, as well as of HEIs’ managers who wish to follow these new trends in their reporting cycle. Sustainable development goals Online reporting Higher...

...Jubin Jacob-John; Clare D’Souza; Timothy Marjoribanks; Stephen Pragasam Singaraju Purpose This paper aims to analyze the influence of institutional pressures on Indian Food Supply Chain (FSC) actors’ intention to adopt strategies for Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). By focusing on an agrarian...

...Giuseppe Nicolò; Gianluca Zanellato; Adriana Tiron-Tudor; Paolo Tartaglia Polcini Purpose This study aims to contribute to the existing literature by presenting new knowledge about sustainable development goals’ (SDGs) reporting practices through integrated reporting (IR). This paper’s ultimate...

...Maria João Santos; Cristina Silva Bastos Purpose Two years on from the launch of the United Nations 2030 agenda, this study aims to approach just how and why large Portuguese companies are incorporating the sustainable development goals (SDGs) into their strategies. This sets out a theoretical...