Sustainability in Bank and Corporate Business Models: The Link between ESG Risk Assessment and Corporate Sustainability

Discusses the relationship among banks’ decision-making processes, sustainable values creation in companies’ business models, and ESG risk

Provides a combination of financial and management-related activities, in the context of bank business models, taking into account the concept of sustainability

Assesses the decision criteria adopted by banks in the process of transaction risk valuation in terms of the presence of ESG criteria

Magdalena Ziolo is Associate Professor at University of Szczecin, Poland. Her research and teaching scope focus on finance, banking and sustainability. She has extensive experience gained in financial institutions. She has received scholarships from the Dekaban-Liddle Foundation (University of Glasgow, Scotland) and Impakt Asia Erasmus + (Ulan Bator, Mongolia). She was a member of State Quality Council, Kosovo Accreditation Agency. She is Principal Investigator in the research projects funded by National Science Center, Poland in the field sustainable finance. She is the author and editor of numerous books, mostly about financing sustainable development.

Beata Zofia Filipiak is Professor at University of Szczecin, Poland. She has worked in different financial institutions and obtained the qualifications of a tax advisor in 1998. She was involved in 25 scientific projects regarding corporate financial strategies, financial strategies of LGU’s, and sustainable development and finance. Her research was financed by the Polish Committee for Scientific Research, DAAD (Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst), and the Polish-German Foundation for Science. She carries out research supported by National Science Centre Poland in the scope of financing sustainable development.

Blanka Tundys is Associate Professor at University of Szczecin, Poland. Her research interests span green supply chain, sustainable supply chain, close loop chain, eco-innovation, city logistics, logistics, transport systems, city economics, strategy in logistics, transportation, performance measurement in logistics and supply chain, efficiency in logistics, circular economy, smart city, risk management in the supply chain, uncertainty, vulnerability of the supply chain, logistics, AHP, MCDA, simulation.