“…In this sense, as Yamane and Kaneko (2021) showed, raising stakeholder awareness of the SDGs leads private companies to engage in SDG implementation. In particular, due to the increase in the institutional investors' participation in listed companies' ownership, which ascends to more than 40% (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development -OECD, 2020), they significantly influence corporate strategies, including SDG engagement and reporting (Calza et al, 2016;Hadro et al, 2021;Jonsdottir et al, 2021;Mel on-Izco et al, 2021). Indeed, introduced in April 2006, the United Nations Principles for Responsible Investment (UN PRI) establish commitments to incorporate social, environmental, and governance criteria into investment decisions (Cohen et al, 2011), encouraging Socially Responsible Investment (SRI) and investors' activism to promote sustainability in the companies in which they invest (García-Sánchez, Aibar-Guzmán, & Aibar-Guzmán, 2020).…”