TY - JOUR T1 - IMPACT OF SUSTAINABILITY PERFORMANCE OF COMPANY ON ITS FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE: AN EMPIRICAL STUDY ON BORSA ISTANBUL (BIST) TT - İŞLETMELERİN SÜRDÜRÜLEBİLİRLİKLERİNİN İŞLETME PERFORMANSI ÜZERİNDEKİ ETKİSİ: BIST ÜZERİNE AMPİRİK BİR ÇALIŞMA AU - Önder, Şerife PY - 2018 DA - April JF - Dumlupınar Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi PB - Kütahya Dumlupinar University WT - DergiPark SN - 1302-1842 SP - 115 EP - 127 IS - 56 LA - en AB - The aim of this study is to investigate the effectof institutional sustainability, thereflection of cyclical economy concept at the macro level on businessorganizations, on profitability through the organizations in Turkey. For this reason, Multiple LinearRegression Analysis was applied withthe data of 33 business organizations preparing sustainability report accordingto Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) and located in Istanbul stock exchange(BIST). In this study, in whichbusiness organization profitability was measuredby Return on Assets (ROA), sustainability was measured with five different variablesincluding both Overall Sustainability Rating and Community Employees,Environmental and Governance Performance Rating which are subtitles. In this study, twodifferent models were used considering sustainability measurement (fromboth main topics and subtopics). After the analysis, it was found out that sustainability applications in Turkey affected profitabilitystatistically significant and positive way. It wasfound out that this effect of sustainability resulted from the environmental applications of thebusiness organization and environmental factors positively affected businessorganization profitability. KW - Corporate Sustainability KW - Sustainability Reporting KW - Business Profitability N2 - Bu çalışmanın amacı, Türkiye’deişletmelerin sürdürülebilir olmasının işletmenin karlılığına etkisinin olupolmadığının araştırılmasıdır. Bu nedenle 2015 yılında Global ReportingInitiative (GRI)’ye göre sürdürülebilirlik raporu bulunan ve Borsa İstanbul’da(BİST) yer alan işletmelerin 33 işletmenin verileri kullanılarak çoklu doğrusalregresyon analizi yapılmıştır. İşletme karlılığının Return on Assest (ROA)tarafından ölçüldüğü çalışmada sürdürülebilirliğin genel puanı ve altbaşlıklarını kullanan iki farklı model kullanılmıştır. Yapılan analiz sonucundaişletmelerin sürdürülebilirliğinin karlılık üzerinde istatistiksel olarakanlamlı fakat düşük oranda etkilediği sonucuna ulaşılmıştır. Ayrıcasürdürülebilirliğin alt başlıklarında karlılık üzerinde çevre skorunun önemlibir etki yarattığı görülmüştür. CR - Aggarwal, P., 2013. Impact of sustainability performance of company on its financial performance: a study of listed Indian companies. Global Journal of Management and Business Research Finance, 13(11), pp. 60-70.Allouche, J. and Laroche, P., 2005. 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