Table 3 ESG management and revenues of the most responsible companies in the retail industry in the USA in 2020.

From: A humanistic model of corporate social responsibility in e-commerce with high-tech support in the artificial intelligence economy

Industry rank

Company

Score

Environmental Score

Social Score

Corporate Governance Score

Sales, $ bln.

env

soc

gov

SL

1

Target

82.9

73.8

88.1

87.0

93.6

2

Home Depot

79.5

76.3

78.6

83.8

132.1

3

Best Buy

77.9

72.2

81.9

79.7

47.3

4

Lowe’s

77.5

62.0

88.9

81.6

89.6

6

Dick’s Sporting Goods

75.1

68.2

75.9

81.2

9.6

7

Gap

71.9

48.9

83.2

83.7

13.8

9

Kroger

70.6

61.7

69.4

80.9

132.5

11

Walmart

69.4

57.6

74.8

75.9

559.2

12

eBay

66.8

64.7

53.8

82.1

1.7

13

TJX

65.9

48.2

68.2

81.4

32.1

14

Sysco

65.0

46.3

68.1

80.8

45.9

16

Amazon

60.1

48.8

57.9

73.5

386.1

  1. Source: Compiled by the authors based on Newsweek (2022) and Murphy and Contreras (2022).