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Corporate Sustainability as a Tool for Improving Economic, Social, and Environmental Performance
To raise money, a business will sell shares to investors.
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Scaling Up “Sustainability Development”: Analyzing the Intricacies and Application of Blockchain Technology vis-à-vis Financial Markets
Ridhi Rani (Symbiosis International University (Deemed), India), Ved Srinivas (Thiagarajar School of Management, India), and Anita Sable (Symbiosis International University (Deemed), India)
Copyright: © 2023 |Pages: 23
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-6684-7422-8.ch010
Abstract
Blockchains are currently recognized as a new area of digitization with difficulties in attaining sustainability. The research has not yet produced a unified framework for understanding the characteristics of blockchains that allow the development of financial trading markets over the long term. The topic of how blockchains support the growth of sustainable financial trading platforms and services still exists. A qualitative and iterative investigation was done to compile the basic concepts found in the literature to provide a conceptual framework with four sustainability themes and eleven types of affordances. The results are significant because they show how closely related these categories are, leading to conflicts between various sustainability-related concepts.
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