New issue of the Corporate & Business Strategy Review journal

The editorial team of Virtus Interpress is pleased to publish a new issue of the journal Corporate and Business Strategy Review in 2024 (volume 5, issue 3), which illustrates some current research topics, especially in corporate social responsibility, corporate governance, competitive strategies, and digital innovation in business.

In particular, the present issue analyses such crucial areas as accounting, corporate social responsibility, CSR disclosure, profitability, internal control, business strategy, entrepreneurial leadership, organizational sustainability, sustainability performance, sustainability reporting, ESG disclosure, integrated reporting, bank performance, commercial banking, management accounting, corporate finance, financial distress, foreign direct investment, gross domestic product, inflation, unemployment, family business, dividend policy, capital structure, independent directors, insurance, international relations, international trade, competitiveness, digitalization, digital marketing, digital entrepreneurship, innovation, workforce development, intellectual capital, public policy, etc.

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Muhammad Nurrasyidin, Meutia Meutia, Elvin Bastian, and Agus Sholikhan Yulianto examine the impact of corporate social responsibility and green accounting implementation on the profitability of mining companies.

Duc Dinh Truong, Duc Tai Do, Thi Huong Tra Le, Thi Quynh Lien Duong, The Nu Tran, and Thi Thu Phuong Ha investigate how internal control and business strategy interact in Vietnamese aquaculture companies.

Jose Carlos Montes Ninaquispe, Marco Agustín Arbulú Ballesteros, Diego Alejandro Ludeña Jugo, Milagros Lamadrid Aldana, María de los Ángeles Guzmán Valle, Luis Edgardo Cruz Salinas, Gary Christiam Farfán Chilicaus, and Hugo Daniel García Juárez assess the competitiveness of Chilean cherry exports, with a specific focus on the Chinese market, identifying sectoral challenges and opportunities.

Zain Khaled AlGhamdi and Nadia Abdelhamid Abdelmegeed Abdelwahed explore the customer experience with ChatGPT and how it has shaped their satisfaction in digital marketing.

Mohamad Rizan, Efriyani Sumastuti, Heri Prabowo, Agung Kresnamurti, Farah Chalida Hanoum, Raka Pria Anugrah, Amirah Kamila Safitri, Muhamad Akbar Fauzan, Siska Febriani, and Istikhomah attempt to teach students why it is so crucial to start their own businesses and encourage the growth of an entrepreneurial mindset by conducting an introduction and deepening of the business model canvas.

Akram Salim Hasan Al-Janabi, Sahraa Anwer Hussein, Hussam Ali Mhaibes, and Hakeem Hammood Flayyih aim to build a model that supports organizational sustainability by analyzing the correlations and revealing the impact between entrepreneurial leadership and organizational sustainability.

Fatbardha Jashari and Kushtrim Osmani put together an analysis of the impact of COVID-19 on tourism governance and strategies in the emerging market.

Vineet Chouhan, Raj Bahadur Sharma, Shubham Goswami, Najeeba Al-Zaimoor, and Anjali Sharma aim to measure ESG disclosure by Indian companies and the perspective of stakeholders.

Silvana Gashi, Denada Liça, and Brunela Trebicka estimate the critical role of digitalization in enhancing the competitive advantage of Albanian manufacturing firms amidst a rapidly changing business environment.

Anshika Goel, Namita Sahay, and Anshu Tyagi evaluate the sustainability performance of Indian banks using grey relational analysis.

Stavros G. Efthimiou focuses on the relationship between macroeconomic variables and foreign direct investments for the period 2010–2015, in Greece, Cyprus, Portugal, and Ireland.

Rula Hani AlHalaseh and Fawaz Khalid Al Shawawreh identify the most effective strategy for constructing an optimal investment portfolio by comparing the mean-variance model and risk-parity contribution strategies during 2018–2022.

Minh Phuong Nguyen, Thi Thu Hien Hoang, and Anh Phan aim to find out the factors that influence the intention to apply MPA in Vietnamese commercial banks and propose recommendations for Vietnamese commercial banks.

Meiliana Jaunanda, Roy Sembel, Edison Hulu, and Gracia Shinta S. Ugut analyse the effect of intangible assets on corporate financial performance and financial distress.

Sanjay Kumar Patel, Poonam Kumari, Amit Manglani, Ashish Kant Chaudhari, and Pushpender Kadian discuss the disclosed accounting practices of Certified Emission Reductions by Indian firms in their annual reports.

Rio Dhani Laksana, Intan Shaferi, and Humaira Naznii try to determine how independent boards and family company controls affect capital structure and dividend policy.

Sandesh Srikissoon and Bibi Z. Chummun shed light on the factors that influence the growth of the insurance industry in the emerging market

Pranesh Debnath, Kalyan Das, Ashima Goel, Vikram Singh, Anil Kumar Bhuyan, Hiranmayee Debi, Rishav Kanoo, and Animesh Saha investigate the level of CSR disclosure practices of banking sector companies operating in India.

Finally, Christos Konstantinidis, Paschalia Plioska, Ioanna Seferidou, and Ioanna Antoniadou assess the competitiveness of three of the largest Greek hotel units in economic terms with the use of financial indexes and determine the most suitable strategies for their further development.

The research presented in this issue of the journal highlights the importance of defining a correct competitive strategy that considers the role of CSR and ESG, the corporate governance structure and context in which the firm operates and the potential of digital innovation that can allow for an improvement in performance results.

We are grateful to all the scholars who have contributed to this issue, and we hope that you find this issue of the journal useful, informative and interesting!