The growing demand for sustainable business practices has led to the development of corporate sustainability assessment tools, with environmental, social, and governance (ESG) indicators becoming central to non-financial performance evaluation. These metrics increasingly influence investment...

We present a model in which firms compete for workers who have a taste for a nonpecuniary job attribute, such as purpose, sustainability, ES/CSR, or working conditions. Firms can invest in flexible production technologies that allow them to create jobs with different levels of the desirable job...

This article evolved as part of the research project ‘Transformation-oriented innovation policy in the bio-economy-status, potentials and strategies’, which has been supported by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research under grant number 031B0781A. The authors thank an anonymous...