The role of digitalization and ESG on financial performance: An empirical analysis on the Energy and Utilities sectors

• Donato Morea ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: donato.morea@unica.it

  Affiliation Department of Mechanical, Chemical and Materials Engineering, University of Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0995-6685

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• Gianpaolo Iazzolino,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Mechanical, Energy and Management Engineering, University of Calabria, Arcavacata, Italy

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• Carlo Giglio,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Mechanical, Energy and Management Engineering, University of Calabria, Arcavacata, Italy, School of Economics, Business and Accounting, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil, School of Public Affairs, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, P. R. China

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• Maria Elena Bruni,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Mechanical, Energy and Management Engineering, University of Calabria, Arcavacata, Italy

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• Giovanni Baldissarro,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Mechanical, Energy and Management Engineering, University of Calabria, Arcavacata, Italy

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• Elisa Farinelli

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Mechanical, Chemical and Materials Engineering, University of Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy

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