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August 19, 2026Sustainability Accounting Management and Policy Journal

University sustainability rankings and sustainability performance: assessing the relationship

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CAChiara AlbertiMMMichele MeoliSPStefano Paleari

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Overview

Dynamic panel analysis reveals bidirectional effects between rankings and sustainability metrics in Italian universities, suggesting institutions prioritize scored areas over broader goals.

Key Points

  • To evaluate whether a bidirectional relationship exists between university sustainability rankings and actual institutional sustainability performance.
  • Gathered external sustainability metrics from Italian higher education institutions and corresponding UI GreenMetric ranking scores.
  • Conducted Granger causality tests to evaluate bidirectional causality and utilized dynamic panel models to identify relationship determinants.
  • Demonstrated a bidirectional relationship indicating rankings both reflect institutional sustainability performance and actively influence institutional behavior.
  • Observed that institutions improve predominantly on specific metrics tracked by rankings, while unranked sustainability dimensions risk decline or neglect.

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Alberti et al. (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a85642503308d306e2d7aefhttps://doi.org/10.1108/sampj-04-2025-0598
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