Trust and ESG Strategies explores how trust shapes the design, implementation, and impact of Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) initiatives across sectors and regions. As ESG moves from a niche concern to a central lens for evaluating organizations, questions about credibility, greenwashing, and stakeholder confidence have become impossible to ignore. This volume brings together international scholars and practitioners to examine trust not as a soft add-on but as a strategic and ethical core of ESG.
Through conceptual chapters, empirical studies, and sectoral case analyses, the book shows how trust influences financial markets, regulatory frameworks, digital technologies, workplaces, consumer relationships, higher education, aviation, and urban development. Contributors highlight both the opportunities and the tensions that arise when organizations seek to align ESG promises with measurable results and lived experience.
Accessible to readers without a specialist background, the book offers a rich, evidence-based perspective for academics, practitioners, policymakers, and students who want to move beyond checklists and ratings and understand what makes ESG strategies genuinely believable and sustainable.
This book explores how trust shapes the design, implementation, and impact of ESG initiatives across sectors and regions.
Part I Trust as the Foundation of ESG Strategy and Performance
1. The
Role of Trust in ESG: Theoretical Foundations and Emerging Perspectives
2.
The Role of Trust in ESG Implementation Impact on Corporate Sustainability
and Stakeholder Engagement
3. Sustainable Trust: Integrating Ethics,
Performance, and Technological Landscape in ESG Strategy
4. ESG Performance,
Trust, and Financial Outcomes: Evidence from the European Food Sector
5.
Digital Trust Equity: Redefining ESG Performance Metrics
6. Trust as the
Catalyst: Linking ESG Disclosure and Performance in a Virtuous Cycle
7.
Sustainable development of enterprises, CSR, and ESG as elements that inspire
trust among stakeholders in the market
8. Trust and ESG: a Comparative
Perspective between Poland and Tenerife Part II Trust, ESG, and Stakeholders
From Employees to Consumers
9. Sustainability Development (ESG) in the
Opinion of Diary Cooperatives Management in Poland
10. Enhancing trust
through ESG practices in consumer relations
11. Young consumers perception
of information on environmental and social activities of food companies
12.
Corporate Social Responsibility Initiatives in Building a Culture of Trust
within Organizations
13. Enhancing Urban Consumers' Loyalty to the
Community-Supported Agriculture Organic Farms Via SNSs: A Study From
Perspectives Of Farmer-To-Consumer Know-How Exchange Model
14. Trust in AI
Technology in the Food Service Sector as a Key to Reducing Food Waste The
Erasmus+ FoodConscious Project Part III Sectoral Applications of ESG and
Trust
15. Building Trust through ESG in Higher Education: How European
Universities are Embracing Sustainability and Governance
16. Sustainable
Development of Higher Education Institutions: How Can Universities Strengthen
the Trust of Their Stakeholders?
17. Green Skies, Trusted Wings: Global
Perspectives on ESG and SDGs in Aviation
18. Nature-Based Solutions for
Increased Reciprocal Trust Relationship Between Citizens and City
Administration: An Urban Planning View
Joanna Paliszkiewicz is a professor and the director of the Management Institute at the Warsaw University of Life Sciences, Poland.
Ireneusz Dbrowski is an associate professor at the Department of Applied Economics and Head of the Monetary Policy Unit at SGH Warsaw School of Economics.
Steven Lorenzet, PhD, is the dean of the School of Health Sciences at Touro University, USA.
Angelica Marotta, PhD, is a researcher at the Cybersecurity at MIT Sloan (CAMS) Center at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
Quang-An Ha, PhD, is a senior lecturer at the School of International Business Marketing, University of Economics Ho Chi Minh City (UEH).
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