This paper aims to examine the publication metrics of literature related to the influential aspects of ESG (environmental, social, and governance), SRI (socially responsible investing), ethical, and impact investing on the portfolio and financial performance literature. It also seeks to identify major patterns and core themes in this topic and draw lessons from the past literature for future directions. Data from the SCOPUS database were used in this study. The ‘biblioshiny’ R package, also known as ‘bibliometrix 3.0’, was employed to conduct bibliometric analysis, utilising mapping and clustering techniques on 260 articles, in order to distil the comprehensive knowledge and identify emerging trends in ESG, SRI, ethical, and impact investing. The thematic map classified the ESG, SRI, ethical, impact investing and performance relationship themes into four categories of themes: niche themes (SRI, engagement and ESG), motor themes (corporate financial performance, corporate social performance, ESG, ESG factors, sustainability, performance, integrated reporting, gender diversity, and board size), emerging or declining themes (social responsibility, environmental performance, socially responsible investment, ethical investment, and SRI), and basic or transversal themes (financial performance, corporate social performance, ESG performance, environmental, social, and governance). Socially responsible investing, engagement, and ESG imply a position between niche themes and a highly developed topic/emerging or a decreasing theme, while the impact of COVID-19 on sustainability and financial performance implies a position between a highly developed topic/emerging or decreasing theme and a basic theme. The findings contribute to the enhanced understanding of ESG, SRI, ethical, impact investing and performance, which are crucial for an efficient capital market in promoting sustainability and sustainable development. The study offers vital practical implications and future research directions.

The previous research on the relationship between corporate social responsibility (CSR) and business performance produced mixed findings. Scholars exerted the mixed findings are largely influenced by several factors and contexts where different markets, type of companies, industries, and countries would show different results. On that basis, this study examines how the dimensions of objective environment influence the relationship between CSR dimensions and the business performance of Takaful agencies in Malaysia. Malaysia was chosen as the country because it is among the largest Takaful contributors in the world. Stakeholder and contingency theory are used to analyze the hypothetical relationship between the variables. Questionnaires were distributed to Takaful agency managers who operate their businesses in Kuala Lumpur, Putrajaya, and Selangor state. About 211 of them participated in this study. The empirical findings suggest that economic and ethical activities have a direct influence on Takaful agencies’ business performance. Further results imply that while environmental dynamism influences business performance directly, environmental complexity significantly moderates the relationship between legal, philanthropy, and business performance. This research considered only the direct effect of CSR activities and the moderating effect of environmental dimensions on business performance with only the agency managers’ perspective studied. It adds new insights to the CSR and Takaful literature by revealing the relationship between the dimensions of CSR and business performance in the Takaful context, and sheds light on how governing authorities and Takaful operators should implement the CSR strategy and activities to make the industry successful in Malaysia and around the world, as Takaful businesses are heading towards becoming a global industry.

Islamic banking should expand its scope beyond commercial banking and actively contribute to all levels of the community by offering products and services, utilizing effective distribution channels, and engaging in sustainable activities. Although Islamic banks are evaluated based on financial performance, there is a notable absence of a mechanism to assess their social impact on society. Presently, social themes related to Islamic banking are scattered across various sustainability agendas such as SDG, ESG, SRI, and CSR. This paper aims to develop an integrative framework that addresses and reconciles the fragmented aspects of Islamic social banking in line with the principles of Maqasid Shariah. This study employed a qualitative method which was conducted in two phases. In the first phase, content analysis was utilized to construct social themes under SDG, ESG, SRI, CSR, and Maqasid Shariah. In the subsequent phase, semi-structured interviews were conducted to gain input for the framework development. The integrated framework incorporates five (5) dimensions of Maqasid Shariah with corresponding thirteen (13) themes to measure Islamic banking practices. This framework has the potential to serve as a significant contributor to the development of comprehensive performance indicators for the effective implementation of social banking within the Islamic banking sector. Moreover, it plays a pivotal role in realizing the objectives outlined in Malaysia's Shared Prosperity Vision 2030.

The research analysed the publications metric of literature regarding the impact of socially responsible investing (SRI) and environmental, social, and governance (ESG) on portfolio and financial performance. The study aimed to determine the latest trends, key themes, authors, and influential journals. Data from the SCOPUS database was used in this study. A total of 1377 research articles from academic journals related to this topic and published from 2013 to 2022, they data was cleaned to remove duplicate, and documents that do not meet the criteria of this study. For this bibliometric analysis, a total of 260 articles were chosen in order to summarise the collective knowledge and emerging patterns in ESG, SRI, ethical, and impact investing, a bibliometric analysis was employed. The thematic map classified the ESG, SRI, and performance relationship themes into four categories of themes: niche themes, motor themes (corporate financial performance, corporate social performance, ESG, ESG factors, sustainability, performance, integrated reporting, gender diversity, and board size), emerging or declining themes (social responsibility, environmental performance, socially responsible investment, ethical investment, and SRI), and basic or transversal themes (financial performance, corporate social performance, ESG performance, environmental, social, and governance). Social responsible investing, engagement, and ESG, implies a position between niche themes and highly developed topic/emerging or decreasing theme, and covid, ROA, while, tobin’s Q, implies a position between highly developed topic/emerging or decreasing theme and basic theme. The findings contribute to the enhanced understanding of ESG, SRI, ethical, and impact investing, which are crucial for an efficient capital market in promoting sustainability and sustainable development. The study offers vital practical implications and future research directions.

This study aims to analyze how the stock market investment strategy using fundamental analysis affects stock prices. Fundamental analysis is an approach used to assess the intrinsic value of a stock based on the company's fundamental factors, including financial statements. This study utilizes historical stock data from 170 Shariah-compliant publicly listedcompanies on Bursa Malaysia and applies various financial ratios and stock valuation methods, such as net profit margin (NPM), price earnings ratio (PER), current ratio (CR), dividend payout ratio (DPR), earnings per share (EPS) and firm size (FS). The sample consists of 170 Shariah-compliant firms from all sectors except for the financial sector of Bursa Malaysia and 20 years maintained listed as status of Shariah-compliant Firms. This research employs panel data estimation techniques for regression analysis with robust panel data estimation technique for statistical inferences. The results indicate that PER, CR, EPS and FS have a positive effect on the stock price. This result confirms that higher in price earnings ratio, liquidity, earnings per share and firm size can increase stock price. The results also found that that NPM and DPR are negatively significant effect to the stock price of Shariah-compliant companies in Malaysia. This research contributes to the understanding of how fundamental analysis methods can be effectively applied in stock market strategies to influence stock prices. It aims to broaden investors' horizons by helping them identify the best strategies using fundamental analysis to generate profits from stock market investments and contribute to economic growth by strengthening economic conditions. This research is among the few studies examining the impact of stock investment decisions using a fundamental analysis approach on the stock prices of Shariah-compliant listed companies in Malaysia.