Establishing balanced and sustainable development is critical for improving banks’ capability and performance. Financial development has enormous significance in an environment of increasingly contestable international markets, and can be achieved by enhancing banking efficiency and performance. The bank efficiency is estimated through data envelopment analysis (DEA). By applying the quantile regression technique, this research examines the impact of revenue diversification (RD) on the bank efficiency (BE) of seven Asian emerging economies over 2008–2019. In this regard, non-performing loans (NPLs), non-interest income, capitalization, and gross domestic product (GDP) are taken as control variables. The empirical findings indicate that RD, market capitalization, non-interest income, and GDP have a significant positive impact on BE, whereas NPLs have a significant negative relationship with BE. These results have significant strategic implications for managers, regulators, and policymakers, who share a common interest in boosting financial sustainability and performance.

Considering climate change challenges, firms face increasing pressure to adopt eco-friendly practices to revive the natural climate. This empirical research uses the green servant leadership phenomenon by combining eco-friendly, socially responsible initiatives with sustainable innovation. Green dynamic capabilities are taken as a moderator between green servant leadership and green innovative performance. The data was collected from 375 workers in the manufacturing industry in Pakistan. Using descriptive and inferential statistics through SPSS and SMART PLS 4, we examined how green servant leadership might improve eco-sustainability and the firm’s societal accountability. It is identified that social responsibility initiatives backed by green initiatives positively impact innovative green performance. Moreover, green dynamic capabilities strengthen the link between Environment-focused CSR and green servant leadership. The findings highlighted the need for GDC regulation between environment-focused CSR, green Servant leadership, and green creative performance.

Corporate social responsibility (CSR) plays a vital role in improving the firm performance. Many researches have been done in this context but the relationship among the CSR, inflation and performance is not explored yet. Hence the purpose of this study is to demonstrate how corporate social responsibility and inflation affect firm profitability in the 30 manufacturing industries of China over the period 2011 to 2023. This study checks the impact of CSR, inflation, leverage and firm size on profitability using the bivariate regression, ordinary least square and heterogeneous model. The study's findings indicate that: (1) firm profitability are significantly impacted by CSR; (2) profitability is significantly impacted by inflation. Leverage and firm size also affect the firm performance. A crisis of trust can result from inflation, which seriously damages a company's relationships with its stakeholders, including employees, customers, and other parties. This is especially true at a time when a lot of people are accusing businesses of artificially boosting prices in order to increase profits. If the companies are interested to enhance their profits, then ultimately they should focus on CSR and environmental activities.