Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/288411 
Year of Publication: 
2020
Citation: 
[Journal:] Sustainability Management Forum NachhaltigkeitsManagementForum [ISSN:] 2522-5995 [Volume:] 28 [Issue:] 3-4 [Publisher:] Springer [Place:] Berlin, Heidelberg [Year:] 2020 [Pages:] 83-90
Publisher: 
Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg
Abstract: 
Purpose: Financial sustainability is underrepresented in both research on and the practice of sustainability management and reporting. In this article, we examine empirically how financially sustainable firms performed in the Corona crisis.Methods: We measure financial sustainability by four conditions: (1) firm growth, (2) the company’s ability to survive, (3) an acceptable overall level of earnings risk exposure, and (4) an attractive earnings risk profile. We apply this measurement to investment portfolios of a broad sample of firms from 15 European countries of the MSCI Europe using typical investment portfolio characteristics.Results: We find that financially sustainable firms outperform both the broad market and firms with low financial sustainability for the time span July 2019 to March 2020.Conclusion: An investment strategy that invests in financially sustainable firms seems to be better capable of overcoming economic breakdowns such as the Corona crisis. We find that the returns increase with each of the four conditions that are included in the investment strategy. This underlines that considering financial sustainability is interesting for financial management, corporate governance and management control.
Subjects: 
Sustainability
Financial sustainability
Risk management
Risk governance
Earnings risk
Rating
JEL: 
D81
M41
M48
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Article
Document Version: 
Published Version

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