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title: ESG Risk Management's Impact on Shareholder Value
url: https://www.ml-quant.com/papers/ssrn/4565374/
site: ML-Quant (https://www.ml-quant.com)
updated: 2026-09-26
license: Summaries CC BY 4.0; links go to the original sources
index: https://www.ml-quant.com/llms.txt
identifier: SSRN 4565374
source_url: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4565374
featured: 2023-09-14
citations: unknown
topic: Risk, Credit & Banking
---


# ESG Risk Management's Impact on Shareholder Value

The study reveals that companies with fewer supply chain ESG incidents yield higher future stock returns and accounting performance, emphasizing the importance of ESG risk management.

- Source: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4565374
- Identifier: SSRN 4565374
- Released: 2023-07-12
- First featured: Quant Letter No. 15 (2023-09-14): https://www.ml-quant.com/issues/2023-09-14/
- Citations (Semantic Scholar): not tracked
- Published in: not yet
- Topic: Risk, Credit & Banking

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