Purpose – The thesis aims to empirically investigate the impact of environmental, social and corporate governance (ESG) activities on corporate financial performance (CFP) of emerging countries’ listed firms operating in seven specific Global Industry Classification Standards (GICS) sectors. Design/methodology/approach – Using secondary data, this study covers 3999 observations from 635 listed companies in emerging countries for the period 2011- 2017. Our sample includes firms belonging to seven specified GICS sectors. The thesis uses panel corrected standard errors to estimate the effect of ...