The correlation between ESG factors and the effectivity of a company in different industries

Sammanfattning: Modern investors are considering investments in sustainable companies more than ever and oneof the main metrics that are of use is ESG performance. This criterion provides a comprehensiveoverview over an organization’s ability to generate value for all stakeholders, including employees,customers and shareholders. As the use of ESG criterion increases, so does the amount ofstudies regarding ESG performance and a company’s profitability. Most of these studies showa non negative correlation between the two. This study will however aim to examine how ESGperformance impact the efficiency and productivity level of a company. This will be done bystudying the sales generated by each employee. Moreover, the project will focus on two industries,tech and industrial and will analyse their differences. The results will be of help to business ownersand decision makers with questions regarding if investing in the company’s ESG performancecan be a way of increasing the company’s internal performance. The results of this projectsuggest that there exist a statistically significant correlation between them for both industries.The project also presented an insight to which categories of ESG are most significant in theregression model in the two different industries. The adjusted R2 for the regression model forindustrials was higher than the tech industry, which means that it is a more extensive correlationbetween the regressors and the response variable for the industrial industry.