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Table 6

Prominent theoretical lenses, models and frameworks used in sustainable finance and financial performance literature

Theory/model/framework	Sample articles	Total number of articles
Stakeholder theory	Lynch & O'Hagan-Luff (2023), Kalia and Aggarwal (2022), Deng, Wu, and Qin (2022), Velte (2017), Lin et al. (2009), Vogel (2005)	84
Resource-based view	Le (2023), Lichtenthaler (2022), Kuo et al. (2021), Koroleva et al. (2020), Anser, Zhang, and Kanwal (2018), Jiao et al. (2022)	27
Institutional theory	Gupta and Gupta (2021), Weber (2017), Marti et al. (2015), Doh et al. (2010)	16
Agency theory	Sideri (2023), Bodhanwala and Bodhanwala (2022), Peng and Isa (2020)	14
Legitimacy theory	Khanchel et al. (2023), Shin et al. (2023), Wahyudi et al. (2018)	11
Slack resource theory	Ra (2021), Adegbite, Guney, Kwabi, and Tahir (2019), Moneva et al. (2020)	5

Theory/model/framework	Sample articles	Total number of articles
Stakeholder theory	Lynch & O'Hagan-Luff (2023), Kalia and Aggarwal (2022), Deng, Wu, and Qin (2022), Velte (2017), Lin et al. (2009), Vogel (2005)	84
Resource-based view	Le (2023), Lichtenthaler (2022), Kuo et al. (2021), Koroleva et al. (2020), Anser, Zhang, and Kanwal (2018), Jiao et al. (2022)	27
Institutional theory	Gupta and Gupta (2021), Weber (2017), Marti et al. (2015), Doh et al. (2010)	16
Agency theory	Sideri (2023), Bodhanwala and Bodhanwala (2022), Peng and Isa (2020)	14
Legitimacy theory	Khanchel et al. (2023), Shin et al. (2023), Wahyudi et al. (2018)	11
Slack resource theory	Ra (2021), Adegbite, Guney, Kwabi, and Tahir (2019), Moneva et al. (2020)	5