Artificial intelligence, corporate information governance, and Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) performance: A systematic review
The development of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in business decision-making has posed new risks to corporate information governance, regulatory compliance, and Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) performance, making transparency, accountability, and responsible innovation issues a concern. Though there is an increasing interest in AI governance, sustainable corporate governance, and ESG disclosure, the literature is still not synthesized, and data governance, algorithmic accountability, and digital sustainability have not been visualized in a coherent structure. To fill this gap, the proposed study is a systematic literature review on AI-driven governance, ESG reporting, responsible AI, and corporate sustainability performance. The review syntactically examines recent studies on the topic of AI adoption, information governance mechanisms, ethical AI, green innovation, AI-enabled ESG reporting, and digital corporate governance with the emergent themes of explainable AI, regulatory technology (RegTech), sustainable finance analytics, AI risk management, and stakeholder-centric governance models. Results show that properly-coordinated AI governance systems with corporate information governance frameworks can produce a substantial increase in ESG performance, quality disclosure, the predictive sustainability analytics, and organizational accountability. Nevertheless, the literature also points to the dangers of algorithmic bias, data privacy, automated reporting as greenwashing, and poor frameworks of AI oversight, so the need to ensure strong governance architectures. The review suggests an integrative approach between Artificial Intelligence, Corporate Information Governance and ESG performance based on responsible digital governance, sustainability-minded innovation, and regulatory alignment to present a future research agenda on AI ethics, sustainable digital transformation, Governance automation, and ESG intelligent systems to inform scholars and policymakers, as well as corporate leaders.
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Artificial intelligence, corporate information governance, and Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) performance: A systematic review
Semantic Scholar · 2026
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The development of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in business decision-making has posed new risks to corporate information governance, regulatory compliance, and Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) performance, making transparency, accountability, and responsible innovation issues a concern. Though there is an increasing interest in AI governance, sustainable corporate governance, and ESG disclosure, the literature is still not synthesized, and data governance, algorithmic accountability, and digital sustainability have not been visualized in a coherent structure. To fill this gap, the proposed study is a systematic literature review on AI-driven governance, ESG reporting, responsible AI, and corporate sustainability performance. The review syntactically examines recent studies on the topic of AI adoption, information governance mechanisms, ethical AI, green innovation, AI-enabled ESG reporting, and digital corporate governance with the emergent themes of explainable AI, regulatory technology (RegTech), sustainable finance analytics, AI risk management, and stakeholder-centric governance models. Results show that properly-coordinated AI governance systems with corporate information governance frameworks can produce a substantial increase in ESG performance, quality disclosure, the predictive sustainability analytics, and organizational accountability. Nevertheless, the literature also points to the dangers of algorithmic bias, data privacy, automated reporting as greenwashing, and poor frameworks of AI oversight, so the need to ensure strong governance architectures. The review suggests an integrative approach between Artificial Intelligence, Corporate Information Governance and ESG performance based on responsible digital governance, sustainability-minded innovation, and regulatory alignment to present a future research agenda on AI ethics, sustainable digital transformation, Governance automation, and ESG intelligent systems to inform scholars and policymakers, as well as corporate leaders.