Green finance in the context of sustainable development sits within the broader discourse of environmental economics and sustainable finance. Their integration has become imperative in addressing global challenges, with the aims of understanding how financial mechanisms can be aligned with sustainability goals, investigating the role of green finance in promoting environmentally friendly investments, and fostering sustainable development. This bibliometric analysis explores the evolution, trends, and challenges in green finance research. It examines 436 articles published between 2016 and 2024, revealing insights into influential publications, authors, journals, institutions, and countries engaged in green finance for sustainability. The study identifies China, the UK, and Pakistan as leaders in research output and citation impact. Furthermore, it highlights the interdisciplinary nature of green finance, reflected in diverse publication outlets spanning environmental, social, and economic domains. The analysis underscores the increasing global interest in green finance, as evidenced by the growing citation rates over time. Key findings include the pivotal role of green finance in energy efficiency, renewable energy development, and the promotion of sustainable economic growth. Overall, this research provides valuable insights for policymakers, researchers, and practitioners, emphasizing the importance of interdisciplinary collaboration and continued research efforts in advancing sustainable finance agendas.

Modern technologies require the need to analyze the opportunities for improving the integration of digital technologies in CSR activities in the context of added values between business and science in perspective, including the future digital society. The main goal of this article is to identify the current state of research on the integration of digital technologies in CSR activities in business, as well as to prepare recommendations for further research and practice. Additionally, the study aims to recognize the relationship and dependencies between CSR and digital technologies. A systematic literature review and bibliometric analysis of 129 scientific articles published between 2014 to 2023 was performed. The bibliometric analysis was organized in two directions: descriptive and performance analysis, through which we can study the contribution of the analyzed objects to the given scientific area, and science mapping, which studies the relationships among them. The results indicate that companies more frequently use artificial intelligence, blockchain, the Internet of Things and other technologies to increase the efficiency and impact of their CSR activities. In addition, this research reveals the basis of bringing forward the new trends for future publications, which shall upgrade and enrich the theory and practice.

Sustainability reporting has evolved into a multidimensional field encompassing Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) disclosure, integrated reporting (IR), and circular economy (CE) practices. This study aims to map the intellectual and thematic landscape of sustainability reporting research over the past decade, with a focus on sectoral differentiation. Drawing on bibliometric analysis of 1611 scientific articles indexed in Scopus, this research applies co-word analysis, thematic mapping, and bibliographic coupling to identify prevailing trends, conceptual clusters, and knowledge gaps. The results reveal a clear progression from fragmented debates toward a more integrated discourse combining ESG, IR, and CE frameworks. In the real economy, sustainability reporting demonstrates a mature operational focus, supported by standardized frameworks and extensive empirical evidence. In contrast, the banking sector exhibits emerging engagement with sustainability disclosure, while the public sector remains at an earlier stage of conceptual and practical development. Despite the increasing convergence of research streams, gaps persist in linking reporting practices to tangible sustainability outcomes, integrating digital innovations, and addressing social dimensions of circularity. This study concludes that further interdisciplinary and sector-specific research is essential to advance credible, comparable, and decision-useful reporting practices capable of supporting the transition toward sustainable and circular business models.

Nowadays all businesses need access to an extensive pool of information. Reporting, financial and accounting analysis, financial planning and budgeting are key factors for market-oriented corporate management and successful business. In the digital economy, strong competition, responsible entrepreneurship and corporate social responsibility the business feels a need for revolution and new decision sciences for complex systems that collect big data, analyze it and create reports that can be used by managers for decision-making. The present study aims to prove that the accounting automation system is an important tool for managing the economic activity of companies, because it mediates the interrelationships between managers/decision-makers, or subjects of management, economic activity and its results, or object of management, in support of Business intelligence, or BI, Data and Analysis, Power Platform, etc. The following research tasks have to be settled for reaching the above-mentioned goal: 1. to analyze the components of decision support systems; 2. to research the types of decision support systems; 3. to demonstrate the impact of the accounting automation system as a decision support system on the optimization and improvement of the working processes and making adequate timely management decisions; 4. to analyze the technological aspects of accounting automation system as a decision support system; 5. to research the challenges and solutions regarding ERP systems and SAP. In the course of the study shall be justified the thesis that the successful business is based on true, accurate and reliable information which is mostly generated by automated accounting system as a decision support system and contemporary information technologies. The results of the research are expressed in establishing the way to ensure and guarantee the unification, acceleration and optimization of the input-processing-output process, analysis, financial modelling, financial planning, etc. about decision support and respectively wealth management.

Introduction. Nowadays participants in the business and social life face challenges in the context of the sustainability and the social responsibility. The only way to successfully overcome them is by all of them working together in one direction at all levels and in all fields. All efforts to harmoniously achieve the goals of sustainable development by the various communities of the planet are extremely relevant today and will continue in the future. Higher accounting and economic education are in support of sustainability, management of natural resources and social responsibility. Aim and tasks. The aim of the research is to analyze the possibilities for further development of economic solutions in the context of application integration approaches with care for our unique planet and its riches for the future. The tasks of the research find expression in: 1) to prove the need to pay attention to the issues of sustainable development when making decisions about the economy; 2) to analyze the essence and principles of an up-to-date concept for a sustainable way of doing business and management of natural resources; 3) to indicate the path that business and society shall take in order to develop responsibly; 4) to prove the importance of developing an international and national strategy for corporate social responsibility. Results. The data shows that today it is required that the specialist with a higher economic and accounting degree possess knowledge and competences for the quality realization of reporting, controlling, and other activities in the private and public sectors. Specifically, the investments in new knowledge and competences of such specialists in the context of sustainability, management of natural resources, and social responsibility create prerequisites for a more competitive and resilient business. At the same time, the data shows that the degree of balance between the three aspects (social, economic, and environmental) and the whole direction of higher education towards the problems of sustainable development as of this moment is not satisfactory. Conclusions. The dominant idea is that successful implementation of flexible educational schemes, accelerated digital transformation, and full adaptation to relevant business challenges (the practice) will result in the establishment of a new model of educational policy that will contribute to the successful realization of sustainability, natural resource management, and social responsibility.

The study focuses on analyzing the impact of corporate social responsibility (CSR) on economic growth and reducing inequality, highlighting the importance of CSR in achieving sustainable development and social justice. The main aim is to analyze how different CSR initiatives contribute to economic development, social prosperity, and the reduction in inequality by reviewing the methods used to assess their impact. The research methodology includes a detailed literature review, bibliometric analysis and scientific mapping, surveys of various business organizations, and a gap analysis regarding the identification of gaps between the current state of CSR activities and the expected outcomes. The research shows that companies perceive CSR as a key tool for improving corporate image, responding to stakeholder expectations, and investing in social justice. Despite positive intentions, challenges include the lack of clearly defined methodologies for measuring the impact on economic inequality, as well as difficulties in assessing the long-term effects of CSR initiatives. Key conclusions highlight the need for more structured approaches to assessing the social and economic effects of CSR, recommending that companies improve their transparency and accountability and implement clear indicators of success to achieve sustainable economic and social outcomes.