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Corporate social and environmental responsibility (CER) has received significant scholarly attention in the past decade (Qiu et al., 2016; Trumpp, C., & Guenther, 2017; Tapver, 2019; Li et al., 2019). However, corporate innovation is essential for firms to fulfil CER and improve firm value. With the development of information technology and the complexity of user demand, CER requires firms to provide high-quality products and services to consumers, establish cooperation and win-win relationship with suppliers and customers, and produce more environmentally products through corporate innovation (Provasnek et al., 2017; Chuang and Huang, 2018, Li et al., 2019). Corporate innovation will also bring new and better quality products, which helps in gaining competitive advantage, higher market share, and excess returns (Martinez‐Conesa, Soto‐Acosta, & Palacios‐Manzano, 2017). Corporate innovation is considered to be one of the key factors that influences the long-term success of the firm in today’s competitive markets. Innovation therefore represents a crucial tool to the implementation of CER and sustainable development (Li et al., 2019).

Innovation goes beyond technological change. As many authors (Alexiev et al., 2016;  Jansen et al., 2006) have highlighted, innovation results also from non-technological developments, which often can be more important than technological change (Broadstock et al., 2019). These broader inter-relationships, in particular links between CER, sustainability and different types of innovation consider as a relevant topics to be explored.

We welcome research papers using diverse methodological and theoretical approaches and focus on the context of Emerging and Developing Economies.
   We invite submissions that address, but are not restricted to, the following issues:

• New measures of CER and innovation.
• Comparison of CER practices, strategies and policies.
• CER and Sustainability.
• CER in Islamic Financial Institutions (IFIs).
• Corporate governance, CER disclosure and firm performance.
• The interaction between CER and corporate governance and their impact on firm performance.
• CER engagement and integrated reporting.
• Evaluating CER activities and engagement.
• CER and earning management.
• Socially responsibly investment.
• Economic growth and sustainable development.
• Sustainability, environmental issues and innovation.
• Disclosure of innovation activates and corporate performance.
• The interaction between CER and innovations and their impact on firm performance.
• Stock market reaction to CER and innovation related activities.
• The impact of CER on credit ratings.
• The readability of CER and innovation-related disclosure.
•  Key performance information related to CER and innovation activities.
• CER and stakeholders’ reactions.
• CER and Social Media.
• CER and firm reputation.

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References

Alexiev, A.S., Volberda, H.W., Bosch. V. (2016). Inter organizational collaboration and firm innovativeness: Unpacking the role of the organizational environment. Journal of Business Research, 69 (2), pp. 974-984. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusres.2015.09.002

Broadstock, D., Matousek, R., Meyer, M., Tzeremes, N. (2019). Does corporate social responsibility impact firms' innovation capacity? The indirect link between environmental & social governance implementation and innovation performance. Journal of Business Research. In Press. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusres.2019.07.014

Chuang, S. P., & Huang, S. J. (2018). The effect of environmental corporate social responsibility on environmental performance and business competitiveness: The mediation of green information technology capital. Journal of Business Ethics, 150(4), 991-1009. https://doi:10.1007/s10551-016-3167-x 

Jansen, F.A.J. Van Den Bosch, H.W. Volberda. (2006). Exploratory innovation, exploitative innovation, and performance effects of organizational antecedents and environmental moderators. Management Science, 52 (2006), pp. 1661-1674. https://doi.org/10.1287/mnsc.1060.0576

Li, Z., Liao, G. and Albitar, K. (2019). Does corporate environmental responsibility engagement affect firm value? The mediating role of corporate innovation. Business Strategy and the Environment. https://doi.org/10.1002/bse.2416

Martinez-Conesa, I., Soto-Acosta, P., & Palacios-Manzano, M. (2017). Corporate social responsibility and its effect on innovation and firm performance: An empirical research in SMEs. Journal of cleaner production, 142, 2374-2383. https://doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2016.11.038 

Provasnek, A. K., Schmid, E., Geissler, B., & Steiner, G. (2017). Sustainable corporate entrepreneurship: Performance and strategies toward innovation. Business Strategy and the Environment, 26(4), 521-535. https://doi:10.1002/bse.1934 

Qiu, Y., Shaukat, A., & Tharyan, R. (2016). Environmental and social disclosures: Link with corporate financial performance. The British Accounting Review, 48(1), 102-116. https://doi:10.1016/j.bar.2014.10.007 

Tapver, T. (2019). CSR reporting in banks: does the composition of the board of directors matter? Quantitative Finance and Economics, 3(2): 286-314. https://doi:10.3934/qfe.2019.2.286 

Trumpp, C., & Guenther, T. (2017). Too little or too much? Exploring U‐shaped relationships between corporate environmental performance and corporate financial performance. Business Strategy and the Environment, 26(1), 49-68. https://doi:10.1002/bse.1900