Social and environmental sustainability challenges have led researchers to concentrate on sustainable banking and corporate social responsibility (CSR) practices. CSR aspects that are used for sustainable banking are explored, evaluated and summarized by limited literature. This study aims at identifying and summarizing the theories and the CSR dimensions used in sustainable banking related studies. The study critically analyzed 30 relevant documents that were systematically extracted from the Web of Science and Scopus databases covering the period of 2012 to 2022. The results show that researchers’ concentration on sustainable banking increased after the declaration of the Paris agreement and sustainable development goals (SDGs) in 2015 and 2016, respectively, where the majority of studies highlight the Asian and European contexts. The study identifies 14 theories and 28 CSR dimensions for sustainable banking. Based on those dimensions, the study proposes a model of sustainable banking. Later, it maps the relevant theories with the CSR dimensions so that future researchers can experiment with those theories and dimensions with sustainable banking in different contexts. Moreover, the study recommends that researchers can focus more on organizational change and risk management theories, and CSR dimensions that integrate social and environmental issues, as well as SDGs.

Purpose: This paper attempts to review the corporate voluntary disclosure (CVD) from the theoretical perspective as well as propose a conceptual framework.Design/methodology/approach: The researchers use structural literature review technique. The sample literature consisting of 55 articles was extracted from the Scopus database over the period of 2017–2021.Findings: The literature observes that the legitimacy, agency and stakeholder theories are most applied in CVD related studies than the other theories. It is also revealed that researchers need to concentrate more studies on those theories of CVD that have been applied in a limited study such as neo-institutional, signaling, resource dependence, political economy and impression management theories.Practical implications: The findings can help the understanding of parties such as practitioners', regulators and potential investors of the theories in CVD from a combined and comprehensive view.Social implications: The results of the study offer new insights into the potential impact of organizational level and country level theories in CVD from different perspectives of developed and developing countries.Originality/value: This study delivers an inclusive literature review of the current study approach on the theories of CVD and highlights some stimulating guidelines for future study.

This paper summarizes empirical findings on servant leadership (SL) in the academic domain. Using PRISMA guidelines, the study identified pertinent studies from the Scopus and Web of Science databases. A total of 20 quantitative studies that were published between 2020 and 2024 were selected using strict inclusion and exclusion criteria. Descriptive and thematic analyses were employed to interpret the selected studies, and the Mixed Methods Appraisal Tool (MMAT) was applied to ensure methodological rigor. The results have shown that SL produces a significant improvement in faculty engagement, commitment, and job satisfaction. It also shows positive relationalities between SL, psychological empowerment, and organizational citizenship behavior (OCB). The implementation of SL principles leads to a favorable school climate, academic success of students, better performance, engagement, and extra-role behaviors of the staff, especially in crisis periods. The majority of studies used Liden et al.’s (2008, 2015) servant leadership scale, whereas the theoretical framework shows the dominance of social exchange theory, social learning theory, and leader-member exchange theory. These insights can be used by educational administrators and policymakers to design new educational settings that can strengthen faculty motivation and institutional performance. Nevertheless, the search is restricted to English-language articles included in two databases, which limits the review in terms of examining cultural implications or causal relationships. The study is the first synthesis through PRISMA particularly focusing on SL in education that demonstrates its great effect on teachers, students, and institutions.

Drawing on Bourdieu’s linguistic capital theory, this study utilized semi-structured inter-views with76 low-skilled Bangladeshi workers in Malaysia to explore how language ca-pability influences the overtime pay. The findings suggest that linguistic capital acts as an informal threshold in the allocation of overtime pay through three mechanisms: commu-nication efficiency, opportunity screening, and competency-based trust. This study ex-tends research on linguistic capital by demonstrating how language skills influence the informal income distribution of low-skilled foreign workers. This study contributes to the literature on linguistic capital and labor inequality by reconceptualizing language capa-bility as an informal institutional mechanism embedded in managerial practices through which overtime opportunities and income advantages for low-skilled foreign workers are unevenly distributed.