Sandeep Khurana is an independent researcher with current research interests in Sustainability and Generative AI. He was a research scholar at ISB, Hyderabad from 2019-2023, and has published in tier-1 journals and conferences in e-commerce and social media. Sandeep is an alumnus of ISB Hyderabad and has rich experience of 30 years in corporate sector, Army and academic domain. He currently teaches and mentors post-graduate level students in areas of applied AI, sustainability and healthcare.
Independent Researcher
January 10, 2025
Corporate Sustainability Disclosures in India: Approaches to Qualitative and Quantitative Analyses.
As digital platforms expand globally, understanding heterogeneous local market preferences becomes essential for optimizing market integration strategies. The rapid growth of the“Global Localization” industry highlights the increasing demand for companies to tailor their content and products to resonate with local audiences. Thispaper examines the impact of international cross-market integration on consumer behavior within a major global Consumer-to-Consumer (C2C) online marketplace,which merged neighboring geographic markets.
Corporate ESG disclosures in India were first mandated from FY 2022-23, for top 1000 corporates, and to be extended in scale and scope in following years. It is a landmark shift from singular focus on financial accounting, that now aligns Indian corporates and India as a nation, to UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). For various reasons, however, critical and comprehensive analyses of the disclosures made, have eluded the public domain through research or media. In the talk we understand key features of the new regulatory requirement, its progression, benefits and challenges. The speaker shall then be presenting insights from his current research that analyses both qualitatively and quantitatively, the corporate sustainability disclosures made in the last two years.
