A large body of literature claims that corporate sustainable development is a cross-functional challenge, which requires all functional units to be involved. However, it remains uncertain to what extent and in which way different corporate functions are actually involved in corporate...

Based on the stakeholder-agency theory, this study empirically investigates the impact of environmental, social, governance, and sustainable economic performance (ESGEP) on financial performance (FP). We rely on a sample from the German DAX30, MDAX, and TecDAX stock indices from 2008 to 2017. In...