Korea University · Business, Management and Accounting
Professor Jay Hyuk Rhee's research lab specializes in sustainable business practices, with a strong focus on Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) investing, biodiversity conservation, and the financial implications of corporate sustainability. The lab explores the intersection of ESG factors and corporate performance, particularly through bibliometric analysis and empirical studies on sustainability disclosure, regulatory frameworks, and nature-positive strategies. Research also examines the role of institutional and private investors in advancing sustainable development, as well as the strategic internationalization of firms under uncertainty. The lab emphasizes evidence-based policy and managerial insights to support global sustainability goals.
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With technological advancements, many interconnected environmental issues have been worsening, including soil, water, and air pollution, climate change, loss of biodiversity, and over-exploitation of natural resources. With the inception of the term “sustainable development”, many market participants, including institutional and private investors, want to consider environmental sustainability in their investment decisions. However, until the upsurge of Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG)
Investment in environmental, social, and governance (ESG) significantly influences a company’s financial aspects that drive sustainability. This study sample covers the data of 981 articles obtained from the Scopus database spanning over 141 journals from 2001 to 2021 and uses quantitative bibliometric analysis to discover present and future research directions of ESG. This analysis evaluates prolific research elements, such as authors, citations, journals, institutions, countries, regions, poss
This exploratory study investigates causes and consequences of internationalization launched by new ventures.
Loss of biodiversity and natural degradation are vital issues that have significant impacts on society and economy. Businesses, investors, and regulators have focused on corporate efforts to support biodiversity and nature-positive activities. This review provides a comprehensive overview of the importance of biodiversity for businesses, its materiality, and the roles of mandatory and nonmandatory regulations in corporate environmental reporting and sustainability disclosure frameworks. It also
This study tests the proposition that foreign market uncertainty leads firms to internationalize incrementally. The results show that the nature of this relationship differs between operational uncertainty and cultural uncertainty. Industry and host-country factors were found to moderate the relationship between operational uncertainty and incremental expansion. No such effect was found for the relationship involving cultural uncertainty. These findings reinforce the need to re-examine and refin
Corporation operations and other anthropogenic activities threaten global biodiversity and ecosystem services. They also raise financial risks for the sustainability of society. International organizations and initiatives have developed guidelines on the disclosure of nature-positive business practices to support the conservation of biodiversity. However, biodiversity-conserving performances of corporations have yet to undergo a comprehensive assessment, either quantitatively or qualitatively. H
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