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Greening the supply chain: Institutional pressures, data‐driven innovations, and the road to circular sustainability Bus. Strategy Environ. (IF 13.4) Pub Date : 2024-05-14 Rohit Kumar Singh, Heena Thanki Joshi
This study explores the association among institutional pressure (IP), green innovations (GIs), green supply chain practices (GSCPs), and circular supply chain performance (CSCP) and the moderating role of big data analytics capability (BDAC) in the manufacturing sector. First, it aims to examine how IPs act as triggers of GIs in different aspects of business and reciprocal impact these innovations
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Enabling organizations to strategically manage risks in circular supply chains Bus. Strategy Environ. (IF 13.4) Pub Date : 2024-05-09 Mladen Krstić, Leonardo Agnusdei, Pamela Palmi, Tomas Baležentis
Circular supply chains (CSCs) prioritize resource efficiency by reusing, remanufacturing, and recycling materials, offering environmental benefits and competitive advantages. However, they are facing various risks and organizational challenges that hinder their efficiency. To ensure long‐term sustainability, this study identifies the key risks and introduces a prioritization model for risk management
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Relationship between recycling, circular economy and eco‐innovation in Europe. Application of a dynamic network data envelopment analysis model Bus. Strategy Environ. (IF 13.4) Pub Date : 2024-05-08 Teresa García‐Valderrama, Jaime Sánchez‐Ortiz, María Del Carmen Pérez‐González, María Del Carmen Puentes‐Graña
Monitoring of European‐level circular economy (CE) efficiency requires more research than does currently exists in the body of literature on CE. In this regard, this research aims to answer two research questions. Firstly, to be efficient in the implementation of CE at a macroeconomic level, should there be a relationship between the efficiency of the three phases of CE (efficiency in recycling, efficiency
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Climate policy uncertainty and firm‐level carbon dioxide emissions: Assessing the impact in the U.S. market Bus. Strategy Environ. (IF 13.4) Pub Date : 2024-05-06 Djula Borozan, Burak Pirgaip
This paper examines the impact of climate policy uncertainty (CPU) on carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions of 1007 listed firms over 2003–2021. As the urgency to combat climate change and implement effective policies may create uncertainty, it focuses on the Unites States, a significant emitter with a complex policy landscape. Using the two‐step system generalized method of moments estimation, the analysis
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Impact of business strategy on carbon emissions: Empirical evidence from U.S. firms Bus. Strategy Environ. (IF 13.4) Pub Date : 2024-05-06 Muhammad Nurul Houqe, Tarek Abdelfattah, Muhammad Kaleem Zahir‐ul‐Hassan, Subhan Ullah
This study examines the nexus between business strategy and carbon emissions by utilising a dataset of U.S. firms from 2007 to 2020. It focuses on two broad types of firms, that is, prospectors and defenders. Regarding carbon emissions, we consider total emissions (Scope 1 & 2), direct emissions (Scope 1) and indirect emissions (Scope 2). The results reveal a significant association between business
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The productivity paradox in carbon‐intensive companies: How eco‐innovation affects corporate environmental and financial performance Bus. Strategy Environ. (IF 13.4) Pub Date : 2024-05-05 Albert Czerny, Peter Letmathe
Empirical studies analyzing the relationship between strategies to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and firms' environmental and financial performance often fail to find significant effects when firms invest in innovative green technologies. Indeed, as efficiency and productivity gains of new technologies can often be reaped only after a certain time gap, cross‐sectional studies are bound to ignore
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What gets measured well is managed well: Determining a hierarchy of interdependencies of environmental elements for effective environmental performance Bus. Strategy Environ. (IF 13.4) Pub Date : 2024-05-03 Shiri Vivek, Sufian Qrunfleh, Vivek Dalela
Climate effects of greenhouse gas emissions, land use, water use, energy use, and waste are a universal concern. With disparate reporting firms and a lack of universal measures of corporate sustainability, environmental sustainability for businesses is an afterthought, with minimal consequences for inaccurate reporting, or green washing and brown washing. This research explores four widely used reporting
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Issue Information Bus. Strategy Environ. (IF 13.4) Pub Date : 2024-05-02
No abstract is available for this article.
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Issue Information Bus. Strategy Environ. (IF 13.4) Pub Date : 2024-05-02
No abstract is available for this article.
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Strategic pathways to achieve Sustainable Development Goal 12 through Industry 4.0: Moderating role of institutional pressure Bus. Strategy Environ. (IF 13.4) Pub Date : 2024-04-29 Mahak Sharma, Pratibha Singh, Konstantinos Tsagarakis
Emerging economies, at the vanguard of extensive resource depletion and limited environmental stewardship, are worst‐hit by climate change events, necessitating an extensive investigation of the relevance of I4.0 in attaining sustainable consumption and production patterns. This study focuses on Sustainable Production and Consumption (SDG12) and investigates how the implementation of I4.0 can contribute
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Exploring the drivers of supply chain sustainability: An internal and external configuration perspective Bus. Strategy Environ. (IF 13.4) Pub Date : 2024-04-29 Weili Yin
The global supply chains sustainability and viability has been severely impacted due to the emergence of black swan events such as COVID‐19. Previous studies have examined how to enhance supply chain sustainability from a single internal capability perspective or an external relationship perspective, few studies have examined the combined effects of internal and external factors to enhance supply chain
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Do local government sustainability initiatives impact corporate social sustainability practices? Bus. Strategy Environ. (IF 13.4) Pub Date : 2024-04-29 Atsuhiro Ida, Kenichi Yoshida, Jun Xie, Yoshitaka Tanaka, Shunsuke Managi
This study quantifies the initiatives of local governments' Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and examines their impacts on regional corporate social sustainability practices. Our analysis reveals statistically significant results for corporate action on the following government initiatives on SDGs: BOD/COD effluent standard (6. clean water and sanitation and 14. life below water); number of students
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When and How does in‐role pro‐environmental behavior spill over to extra‐role behavior: Two experimental studies in the retail and education industries Bus. Strategy Environ. (IF 13.4) Pub Date : 2024-04-29 Wenjing Guo, Kerrie Unsworth, Christian Bretter, Matthew Davis
By integrating theories of goal proximity and crowding‐out, this research investigates how and when employees' performance of in‐role pro‐environmental behaviors will spill over to future engagement in extra‐role pro‐environmental behaviors. Using two experiments with employees from the retail (N = 338) and education (N = 448) industries, we found a conditional positive spillover effect, mediated by
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How sustainability shapes consumer preferences on special occasions Bus. Strategy Environ. (IF 13.4) Pub Date : 2024-04-26 Costanza Dasmi, Acuti Diletta, Valentina Mazzoli, Raffaele Donvito
With the aim to guide sustainability strategies of fashion companies, this study explores consumers' interest in sustainable alternatives on special occasions, which have been largely neglected by the literature. Drawing on 35 semistructured interviews and using weddings as the consumption setting, this study first identifies the meanings that are associated with special occasions and defines the role
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The impact of Fintech on corporate carbon emissions: Towards green and sustainable development Bus. Strategy Environ. (IF 13.4) Pub Date : 2024-04-25 Chang'an Wang, Long Wang, Shikuan Zhao, Cunyi Yang, Khaldoon Albitar
Fintech, as the fusion of finance and technology, has not only transformed the traditional financial industry and contributed to reshaping the real economy. But also, it holds the potential to offer a feasible solution for achieving green and sustainable development. This paper investigates the impact of Fintech on corporate carbon emissions (CCEs) by using data from the National Tax Survey Database
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Do environmental regulations and technological innovation enhance environmental well‐being in sub‐Saharan Africa? Bus. Strategy Environ. (IF 13.4) Pub Date : 2024-04-25 Emmanuel Kwaku Manu, George S. Chen, Samuel Adomako
We investigate the regulation–technology–environment nexus in sub‐Saharan Africa (SSA), one of the world's most rapidly growing regions. Using a comprehensive panel dataset consisting of 32 countries from 2000 to 2022, we find that stronger environmental regulations and technological innovation enhance environmental well‐being. Moreover, we identify that stronger environmental regulations positively
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Stakeholder pressure and circular supply chain practices: Moderating roles of environmental information exchange capability and circular innovation orientation Bus. Strategy Environ. (IF 13.4) Pub Date : 2024-04-23 Yaw Agyabeng‐Mensah, Ebenezer Afum, Charles Baah
This study deploys institutional theory and Resource orchestration theory (ROT) to examine the roles supply chain stakeholder pressure, circular innovation orientation (CIO) and environmental information exchange capability (EIEC) play in adopting Circular supply chain (CSC) practices. This study uses a partial least square structural equation modelling (PLS‐SEM) to analyse survey data gathered from
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The impact of sustainable development strategy on sustainable supply chain firm performance in the digital transformation era Bus. Strategy Environ. (IF 13.4) Pub Date : 2024-04-22 Kirti Nayal, Rakesh D. Raut, Vinay Surendra Yadav, Pragati Priyadarshinee, Balkrishna E. Narkhede
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Consumer behavioral intention toward sustainable biscuits: An extension of the theory of planned behavior with product familiarity and perceived value Bus. Strategy Environ. (IF 13.4) Pub Date : 2024-04-21 Rosa Maria Dangelico, Gaia Ceccarelli, Luca Fraccascia
Sustainable food consumption may help mitigate the impact that the food industry exerts on the natural environment. To foster sustainable food consumption, it is essential to understand consumers' perceptions related to sustainable food as well as the determinants of the intention to purchase sustainable food. Through an extension of the theory of planned behavior (TPB) with product familiarity (direct
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Environmental sustainability and customer experience in emerging markets Bus. Strategy Environ. (IF 13.4) Pub Date : 2024-04-19 Ernest Kafui Kwasi Tsetse, Russell Adams, Esi A. Elliot, Clara Downey
Increasingly, environmental sustainability becomes an important consideration for customer engagement (CE). The globalization of the marketplace has led to a marketing renaissance focused on environmental sustainability, which highlights the importance of our study. Our research question is, therefore, “How does environmental sustainability enhance customer engagement?” We argue that attention to environmental
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Meeting the closed‐loop challenge: The “Who‐What‐How” strategic choices for a successful remanufacturing approach Bus. Strategy Environ. (IF 13.4) Pub Date : 2024-04-19 Danilo Pesce, Claudia Franzè, Emilio Paolucci
Remanufacturing is a life‐cycle renewal process recognised as one of the most effective circular strategies that can be adopted to achieve sustainable production. However, its potential has been hindered by the absence of an integrated perspective across various business domains to catalyse successful remanufacturing efforts. This paper aims to explore how such an integrated perspective can facilitate
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Sustainability competence in small and medium exporters: Determinant and outcomes Bus. Strategy Environ. (IF 13.4) Pub Date : 2024-04-18 Hsing‐Hua Stella Chang
The pursuit of sustainability has become critical for exporting small and medium enterprises (SMEs), driven by stakeholder pressure and international buyer requirements. This poses challenges to their survival and performance in international markets. Drawing on the capabilities perspective, the present research pioneers the study of this issue by proposing and empirically validating a theoretical
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Evolution of dynamic capabilities for business sustainability performance: Evidence from the Indian manufacturing sector Bus. Strategy Environ. (IF 13.4) Pub Date : 2024-04-17 K. V. Bhadra, T. J. Kamalanabhan, Sanjay Kumar Singh
Firms can achieve trinomial sustainability goals if they can constantly build and rejuvenate their capabilities to adapt to new situations. However, few studies consider the interrelationships between the distinct capabilities pertinent to sustainable development and the impact of these capabilities on firm performance under diverse contexts, especially in emerging economies. Drawing on dynamic capability
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Digital data‐driven technologies and the environmental sustainability of micro, small, and medium enterprises: Does size matter? Bus. Strategy Environ. (IF 13.4) Pub Date : 2024-04-15 Virginia Hernández, Antonio Revilla, Alicia Rodríguez
Despite the increasing interest in understanding the relations between firms' digitalization and their environmental sustainability, they are still poorly understood as research on this hot topic is nascent and empirical evidence is sparse and fragmented. In this study, we delve into the relations between different digital data‐driven technologies (DTs) used for gathering and storing (smart devices
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Climate risk and opportunity exposure and firm value: An international investigation Bus. Strategy Environ. (IF 13.4) Pub Date : 2024-04-12 Xuefeng Li, Le Luo, Qingliang Tang
While previous studies mainly focus on the valuation of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and climate risk exposure, climate opportunity exposure is less frequently visited in the current literature. We use an international sample from 23 countries that have participated in the CDP. By categorizing climate risks/opportunities into physical, regulatory and other, the study suggests that investors have
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Regulatory distance and firms' environmental innovation: The role of environmental information disclosure and social trust Bus. Strategy Environ. (IF 13.4) Pub Date : 2024-04-10 Zhongju Liao, Mengnan Zhang
Environmental innovation is an important force driving the development of a green and low‐carbon economy, and close supervision can assist the government in guiding firms' environmental innovation behavior. Based on institutional theory, we construct a model of the relationship between regulatory distance, environmental information disclosure, social trust, and firms' environmental innovation. We analyze
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Corporate governance structure and climate‐related financial disclosure: Conventional banks versus Islamic banks Bus. Strategy Environ. (IF 13.4) Pub Date : 2024-04-10 Rasim Simsek, Sabur Mollah, Abongeh Tunyi
This paper examines whether the different corporate governance structures of conventional banks (CBs) and Islamic banks (IBs) have varying effects on their respective climate‐related disclosure (CRD). Employing a unique dataset of CBs and IBs' CRD and corporate governance structures for the period of 2016–2019, we found that their respective corporate governance structures did indeed affect their CRD
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Mapping the signaling environment between sustainability-focused entrepreneurship and investment inputs: A topic modeling approach Bus. Strategy Environ. (IF 13.4) Pub Date : 2024-04-08 Nan Yang, Dimitrios Dousios, Nikolaos Korfiatis, Konstantinos Chalvatzis
The need for climate action has increased attention to sustainability-focused entrepreneurship. In this context, entrepreneurial firms play a fundamental role in developing high-technology solutions for decarbonization but face funding gaps due to the liabilities of newness and smallness. Despite the importance of signaling in entrepreneurship, little is known about what and how to effectively signal
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Do corporate sustainability practices mitigate earnings management? The moderating role of firm size Bus. Strategy Environ. (IF 13.4) Pub Date : 2024-04-08 Haseeb Ur Rahman, Muhammad Zahid, Parvez Alam Khan, Mamdouh Abdulaziz Saleh Al-Faryan, Khaled Hussainey
The majority of the prior empirical literature that inquired about the direct role of corporate sustainability practices (CSP) as a composite construct in mitigating earnings management (EM) has produced equivocal outcomes. Therefore, this study examines the role of CSP not only as a combined construct but also as its three separate dimensions—social, economic, and environmental sustainability in restricting
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Women green entrepreneurship: Conceptualisation and use of bricolage for policy recommendations Bus. Strategy Environ. (IF 13.4) Pub Date : 2024-04-08 Seema Potluri, Subramaniam Ananthram, Bollempalli Venkata Phani
In the context of global concerns such as environmental degradation and gender inequality, international and national agencies and academicians have recognised the curative potential of green entrepreneurship and women entrepreneurship. Furthering these concepts, this paper draws from extant literature on green entrepreneurship (GE) and women entrepreneurship and supplements it with ecofeminism (a
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Blockchain technology in circular economy: Unpacking the potential issues and critical echoes through data triangulation and natural language processing Bus. Strategy Environ. (IF 13.4) Pub Date : 2024-04-09 Santosh Kumar Shrivastav, Surajit Bag
This study aims to identify the current status, potential issues and critical echoes in the integration of blockchain within circular economy (CE) practices. This study utilizes multiple data sources and synthesizes 91 published articles, and over 11,182 social media documents. Word‐embedding‐based clustering technique is employed to derive topics and themes on the use of blockchain in CE. The result
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Business reporting of Sustainable Development Goals: Global trends and implications Bus. Strategy Environ. (IF 13.4) Pub Date : 2024-04-08 Chonlawan Thammaraksa, Caroline Herlev Gebara, Michael Zwicky Hauschild, Caroline Aggestam Pontoppidan, Alexis Laurent
With a reported insufficient progress toward achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), improving knowledge on the uptake and use of SDGs within the private sector is imperative. To address this need, we examine the SDG reporting characteristics of 8500 companies using a global business and governance database. Our results show no correlation in reporting specific goals, which could impede
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Sustainable business model innovation, dynamic capabilities, and organizational design: Insights from Norwegian aquaculture Bus. Strategy Environ. (IF 13.4) Pub Date : 2024-04-05 Matthew Coffay, Ragnar Tveterås, Nancy Bocken, Marcel Bogers
Firms must increasingly grapple with complex sustainability challenges. Business model innovation is needed to achieve radical sustainability improvements. Recent research highlights the interrelatedness between business model innovation, dynamic capabilities, and organizational design, calling for empirical work to better illuminate these relationships. These connections are relevant in sustainability
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Business model innovation through the design of circular product-service system value propositions: A method proposal Bus. Strategy Environ. (IF 13.4) Pub Date : 2024-04-01 Sânia da Costa Fernandes, Henrique Rozenfeld
Circular economy requires rethinking the foundations of business strategy and innovating the business model to incorporate sustainability-driven capabilities. Value propositions rooted in product-service system (PSS) holds promise for leading manufacturing companies to circularity. However, an integrated and practical approach crafting circular and service-based value propositions (herein called as
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Stock price reactions to climate science information from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change: A mitigation function of corporate and sector emissions responsibility? Bus. Strategy Environ. (IF 13.4) Pub Date : 2024-04-01 Constanze Teutrine, Mario Schuster, Sophie Constance Bornhöft, Rainer Lueg, Yassin Denis Bouzzine
This research investigates the influence of climate science information released by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) on the European stock market, with a particular emphasis on differentiating the stock price reactions based on sector climate sensitivity and corporate emissions responsibility. Performing an event study on Stoxx Europe 600 constituents, we analyse stock price reactions
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What are the factors that most influence the formation of workers' labor values in order to achieve sustainable development in Latin America? Bus. Strategy Environ. (IF 13.4) Pub Date : 2024-04-01 Arelys López-Concepción, Ana I. Gil-Lacruz, Isabel Saz-Gil, Miguel-Ángel Garcia-Madurga, Ignacio Sánchez-Medalón
This research delves into the formation of labor values in Latin America, exploring the complex interaction between socio-demographic characteristics (gender, age, and educational level), well-being (happiness, health, and life satisfaction), and macroeconomic factors (wealth, equity, and labor market stability). With microdata drawn from the World Values Survey, the study employs Logit and Blinder–Oaxaca
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Competitive strategy and circular economy practice implementation toward corporate sustainability performance Bus. Strategy Environ. (IF 13.4) Pub Date : 2024-04-02 Vivian Osei, Chunguang Bai, Disraeli Asante‐Darko, Amoako Kwarteng
The impact of competitive strategy on corporate sustainability and the role of circular economy (CE) practices remains scanty in the extant literature. This study therefore examines the mediating role of CE practices on the relationship between competitive strategy and sustainability performance. Drawing on the natural resource‐based view (NRBV) theory and institutional logics (IL) theory, this study
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Policy stimulation for the electric vehicle industry: An analysis of mainstream media discourse Bus. Strategy Environ. (IF 13.4) Pub Date : 2024-04-01 Monika Jain, Shalini Talwar, Rashmi Rastogi, Puneet Kaur, Amandeep Dhir
Motivated by the indisputable relevance of comprehensively understanding and portraying multiple facets of ongoing conversations on electric vehicles (EVs), we employ critical discourse analysis (CDA) to go beyond the how and why of these discussions and fathom the complex interplays and subtleties. Operationally, we inductively analyze 718 popular media articles published from 2020 through 2023 to
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Friends and foes: Embracing coopetition for sustainability in the New Zealand alternative protein industry Bus. Strategy Environ. (IF 13.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-30 Viet Vu, Benjamin Fath
Developing solutions to sustainability challenges requires cooperation among various stakeholders, including organizations that compete at the same time. Prior studies investigate the barriers, drivers, outcomes and tensions of coopetition among sustainable entrepreneurs. In this paper, we consider the coopetition both among sustainable entrepreneurs and between sustainable entrepreneurs and incumbents
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Accomplishing sustainable development goals through international management system standards and multinational supply chains Bus. Strategy Environ. (IF 13.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-28 Pantri Heriyati, Neeraj Yadav, Dewi Tamara
The United Nations has set up 17 sustainable development goals (SDGs) to be achieved by 2030. This research investigates the role of management system standards and multinational supply chains in achieving SDGs and targets, as well as whether these two paths produce varying degrees of effectiveness in achieving these goals. Questionnaire‐based research is conducted among 264 Indian manufacturing organisations
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Gender diversity and environmental activism: Gender discrimination or socialisation? Bus. Strategy Environ. (IF 13.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-27 Jialing Yu, Yang Stephanie Liu
This paper empirically investigates the association between different executive roles taken by women and environmental shareholder activism at the shareholder proposal filing stage and the withdrawal stage. Building on gender socialisation theory and the managerial power perspective, and with 2350 firm‐year observations from Standard and Poor's (S&P) 1500 companies in the United States for the years
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Advancing the understanding of sustainable business models through organizational learning Bus. Strategy Environ. (IF 13.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-27 Bejtush Ademi, Alf Steinar Sætre, Nora Johanne Klungseth
Increased regulations and shifting consumer priorities are driving businesses to become more sustainable and to develop more sustainable business models. To achieve this, businesses must have a solid understanding of sustainability. Organizational learning (OL) is a key capability that helps firms understand and adapt to new phenomena such as sustainability. We explore the nexus between OL and sustainability
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Investing in our planet: Examining retail investors' preference for green bond investment Bus. Strategy Environ. (IF 13.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-22 Shivam Azad, S L Tulasi Devi, Anand Kumar Mishra
The green bond has emerged as an important financial instrument to advance environmentally friendly projects. While institutional investors have shown ample interest in green bonds, retail investors have lagged in their adoption. This study intends to examine the determinants of retail investors' attitude and intention toward green bond investment, utilizing the theory of planned behavior as the fundamental
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Big data driven supply chain innovative capability for sustainable competitive advantage in the food supply chain: Resource‐based view perspective Bus. Strategy Environ. (IF 13.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-22 Mukesh Kumar, Rakesh D. Raut, Sachin Kumar Mangla, Jonathan Moizer, Jonathan Lean
The food supply chain (FSC) is becoming more sustainable as companies aim to meet demand with lower waste and emissions. Big data analytics (BDA) can help achieve sustainability goals by extracting meaningful information from past data to help create sustainable strategies. However, in the sustainability literature, BDA's role in enabling sustainable FSC innovations is not explored. Thus, this study
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Sustainability‐oriented innovation in manufacturing firms: Implementation and evaluation framework Bus. Strategy Environ. (IF 13.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-21 Budi Harsanto, Niraj Kumar, Roula Michaelides
In this paper, complementary perspectives from innovation management capabilities (IMC), the natural resource‐based view (NRBV) and the social resource‐based view (SRBV) are revisited in order to lay the theoretical foundation for developing evaluation framework for sustainability‐oriented innovation (SOI). Six dimensions of SOI are identified, as innovation focus, sustainability focus, integration
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Measuring the impact of circular economy performance on financial performance: The moderating role of stakeholder engagement Bus. Strategy Environ. (IF 13.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-21 Benedetta Esposito, Daniela Sica, Stefania Supino, Ornella Malandrino
This paper investigates whether and to what extent circular economy performance affects the financial performance of a global sample of listed agri‐food firms. Furthermore, the potential moderating role of stakeholder engagement in empowering this relationship has been tested. A circular economy performance index has been developed based on Environmental Social and Governance scores reclassified in
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Business strategies towards climate‐smart agriculture in Europe: A literature review Bus. Strategy Environ. (IF 13.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-19 Gohar Isakhanyan, Christopher Junior Galgo, Marilena Gemtou, Søren Marcus Pedersen
In response to increasing demands for sustainability, the entire agri‐food sector is in transition towards climate‐smart agriculture (CSA). The academic discourse on CSA has substantially expanded, including a large number of empirical studies, quite often case studies. There is a strong need to take stock of research, both from an academic and from a managerial point of view. This article integrates
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Toward sustainable automobility: Insights from a stewardship literature review of the industry Bus. Strategy Environ. (IF 13.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-19 Tracey Dodd, Chee Cheong, Arvid Hoffmann, Ralf‐Yves Zurbrugg
The automotive industry is actively pursuing a course of sustainable development; however, to date, progress has been limited. This is because a truly sustainable future requires a substantial and transformative approach to automobility. Some scholars argue that this transformative approach might be found by exploring an industry transition based on stewardship rather than the current status quo of
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Do firms' sustainability practices pay off during global crises? Evidence from Asia and the Pacific Bus. Strategy Environ. (IF 13.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-19 Md Lutfur Rahman, Gazi Salah Uddin, Donghyun Park
This paper examines the relationship between firms' sustainability practices and their value during a crisis when overall trust and support are lacking in the economy. While a handful of studies explore this research agenda concentrating on the US context and a standalone crisis, we provide novel evidence on the Asia Pacific region considering three global crises. Applying difference‐in‐differences
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Does combining analytical and synthetic knowledge benefit eco‐innovation? Evidence from Norway Bus. Strategy Environ. (IF 13.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-16 Faraimo Jay Vai
Analytical or synthetic knowledge is widely considered beneficial for eco‐innovation (EI). For a firm, analytical and synthetic knowledge can be acquired externally through collaboration with various partners or generated internally through R&D and other internal firm activities. However, evidence supporting the assumption that both forms of knowledge are complementary and that “doing more of all”
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Degrowth attitudes among entrepreneurs hinder fast venture scaling Bus. Strategy Environ. (IF 13.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-16 Sebastian Hinderer, Andreas Kuckertz
The degrowth paradigm has gained popularity in the sustainability discourse in recent years. Questioning the absolute decoupling of economic growth from environmental degradation, degrowth proponents suggest downscaling production and consumption to reduce resource extraction and energy consumption. However, this seems to be at odds with conventional wisdom about entrepreneurship. Thus, our research
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Marketing plant‐based versus animal‐sourced foods in online grocery stores: A comparative content analysis of sustainability and other product claims in the United States Bus. Strategy Environ. (IF 13.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-14 Suzannah Gerber, Sadie R. Dix, Sean B. Cash
The market share of e‐commerce grocery is swiftly rising, but online product listings may present different environmental sustainability and public health information. We analyzed product marketing content available on retailer websites and product images, comparing plant‐based (PBFs) and animal‐sourced foods (ASFs). Over sixteen thousand marketing and labeling content observations were gathered from
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Renewable energy use, slack financial resources, and board attributes: Does energy efficiency policy matter? Bus. Strategy Environ. (IF 13.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Ali Uyar, Ali Meftah Gerged, Cemil Kuzey, Abdullah S. Karaman
This study examined the impact of slack financial resources, board characteristics (such as gender diversity, tenure, and skill/expertise), and energy efficiency policies on firms' consumption of renewable energy. Using a dataset of 17,753 observations from 2002 to 2019, we primarily utilized fixed‐effects regression, among other methods, for robustness analysis. We find that while slack financial
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Carbon reporting regulation: Real effects, external pressures, and internal policies Bus. Strategy Environ. (IF 13.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-06 Diogenis Baboukardos, Anastasia Kopita, Charlotte Ranegaard, Elias Demetriades
Mandatory climate change reporting is suggested as a mechanism for mitigating firms' climate change impact and, in particular, their carbon emissions. Although extant literature provides evidence of a negative association between the introduction of carbon reporting regulation and firms' carbon emissions, the literature on real effects of climate change reporting regulation is still in its infancy
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Risk management of green supply chains for agricultural products based on social network evaluation framework Bus. Strategy Environ. (IF 13.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-08 Wenke Wang, Qilin Cao, Yang Liu, Cheng Zhou, Qinghui Jiao, Sachin Kumar Mangla
The green supply chain of agricultural products (GSCAP) is a key link for rural revitalization and sustainable development in China. However, it faces various risks from internal and external environments that threaten its performance and stability. This paper proposes a novel framework and system for identifying and evaluating the main risks in the GSCAP from the perspective of agricultural enterprises
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Issue Information Bus. Strategy Environ. (IF 13.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-07
No abstract is available for this article.
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Issue Information Bus. Strategy Environ. (IF 13.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-07
No abstract is available for this article.
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Promoting green supply chain under carbon tax, carbon cap and carbon trading policies Bus. Strategy Environ. (IF 13.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-07 Reza Eslamipoor, Abbas Sepehriyar
This article examines a supply chain network that considers both economic and environmental factors. The network faces challenges related to multi‐item products and non‐homogenous vehicle types with different costs. Additionally, the production process involves multiple energy sources that emit different levels of air pollution. The main objective is to maximise profits while adhering to different
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Responsible entrepreneurship, social innovation, and entrepreneurial performance: Does commitment to SDGs matter? Bus. Strategy Environ. (IF 13.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-06 Samuel Adomako, Nguyen Phong Nguyen
In this study, we investigate the effect of responsible entrepreneurship on entrepreneurial performance through the mediating mechanism of social innovation. Further, we explore the moderating role of a firm's degree of sustainable development goals (SDGs) commitment on the relationship between social innovation and entrepreneurial performance. Data were collected from 220 firms in Ghana using a time‐lagged
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Circular economy startups and digital entrepreneurial ecosystems Bus. Strategy Environ. (IF 13.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-06 Ravi Roshan, Krishna Chandra Balodi, Sagnika Datta, Anil Kumar, Arvind Upadhyay
Circular economy (CE) is the way forward to protect an endangered environment, promote social justice, and advance sustainable and balanced regional economic development. The proliferation of the CE concept and the circular startup (CSU) boom coincides with digital transformation, a socioeconomic change propelled by the widespread adoption of digital technologies. This paper uses a systems theory perspective