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    Product differentiation as a tool of sustainability and financial performance
    (2019-11-20) Sever, Funda; Güntay, Levent; Güntay, Levent; Akat, Muzaffer; Yöner, Erkan; Department of Financial Engineering; Sever, Funda
    Sustainable product differentiation has been distinguished essential factors to assist environmental balance of ecosystem, gain growth to sustainable future. Defining sustainable product differentiation is initiated with ecological and environmental innovations and sustaining on market. This paper focus on environmental product differentiation aspect on sustainability. Analysis examines the relationship between sustainable product differentiation and financial performance employing the companies in WRDS as sample. Within this frame, ESG (Environmental, Social and Governance) Rating and Environment Score and WRDS Global Financial Statement dataset are obtained. The analysis which is made with 7 years samples on 43 companies which is from different sectors put some essential points: Which dimension of ESG rating does initiated with companies’ financial performance? Is environment score sufficient to explain increase in financial performance in companies?