Does supply chain finance improve firms’ ESG performance?
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
• Firms’ participation in SCF (supply chain finance) enhances their ESG performance. • SCF participation improves ESG performance by alleviating financial constraints. • SCF participation enhances ESG performance by increasing monitoring and oversight. • This study uses textual analysis to identify SCF participation from annual reports. • The positive SCF-ESG relationship remains robust after addressing endogeneity. This study investigates the impact of supply chain finance (SCF) participation on firms’ ESG performance by studying Chinese companies between 2011 and 2021. We find a significant positive association between SCF participation and ESG performance. Additional analysis indicates that SCF improves ESG by alleviating financial constraints and enhancing operational scrutiny. The results are consistent across various ESG and SCF measures and remain robust after endogeneity concerns are addressed.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it