Corporate Governance and Climate Change: Policy, Innovation, Strategies, and Legitimacy

The climate crisis has become one of modern society's major threats. The objective of this study is to understand the governance practices addressed in the literature to tackle climate change, identifying common variables, methods, regions, and sources of information that facilitate the framing of novel analyses for researchers and practitioners. We perform a systematic review of 45 studies between 1980 and 2019 published in Web of Science. The results suggest that policy, innovation, operations, and legitimacy are common variables in addressing climatic change. Our findings show that Ordinary Least Squares and Panel Data are the most frequent methods developed in the literature. Emerging economies such as India, Brazil, Indonesia, Iran, South Korea, and Mexico offer an interesting context to explore.