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Beyond the ESG Facade: Measuring and Addressing Corporate ‘Lip Service’

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Amid growing global attention to environmental, social and governance (ESG), this study examines the misalignment between ESG disclosures and actual practices—termed ‘lip service’—using data from Chinese firms from 2006 to 2022, constructing an index to quantify it.
Jia Xu, Mingwei Liu, Helen X. H. Bao
wiley   +1 more source

Different FaçadeTypes and Building Integration in Energy Efficient Building Design Strategies

International Journal of Built Environment and Sustainability, 2021
Building façades play a major role in improving the effects of outdoor environment conditions on indoor comfort conditions. Façades, which are designed as energy efficiency, are created according to different performance ...
Muammer Yaman
doaj   +1 more source

Occupant-Centered Adaptive Façades Assessment Survey (OCAFAS-15) [PDF]

, 2019
The Occupant-Centered Adaptive Façades Assessment Survey (OCAFAS-15) is an instrument with good validity, reliability and high internal consistency in assessing well-being and interaction of occupants in buildings with adaptive facades.
Attia, Shady
core  

The Fast, the Steady and the Tenacious: Funding Pathways for Circular Start‐Ups

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Circular start‐ups (CSUs) are critical for unlocking the circular economy, yet they face persistent barriers in accessing finance. Despite growing interest from policymakers and financing institutions, little empirical evidence explains how these ventures pursue and secure funding.
Pilar Mejía‐Vélez, Wim Van Opstal, Christina Bidmon, Saskia Manshoven, Julian Kirchherr   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Deriving the Production Rules of Shape-Shifting Grammars for Adaptive Façades: The Case of Hygromorphic Thermo-Bimetal Composites (HMTM)

, 2022
Shape shifting mechanisms have long been introduced for adaptive façades. More recently, these mechanisms have relied on latent properties of materials rather than complex mechanical actuators.
Abdelmohsen, Sherif, Rana El-Dabaa, El-Dabaa, Rana; id_orcid, Sherif Abdelmohsen   +3 more
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Reciprocity on the Edge of Distance Paradox: How Sustainability Motives and Hypocrisy Shape Consumer Responses to Nearshoring

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Despite growing interest in corporate relocation decisions and sustainability, the existing literature is limited in its consumer‐centric approach. Integrating social exchange theory and construal level theory, this research investigates how consumers perceive sustainability‐driven nearshoring motives (i.e., socio‐economic vs.
Cagla Dayangan, Nilay Bıçakcıoğlu‐Peynirci, Ozge Ozgen   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Adaptive Energy Skins: A Climate Zones-Based, Multi-Scale Analysis for High Performance Buildings

Energies
Adaptive facades represent the result of a complex combination of innovative technologies, components, and materials, as well as mechanical, electronic, or digital technologies from sectors outside the construction world (technology transfer), which ...
Antonello Monsù Scolaro, Emanuele Lisci, Sara Moro, Katia Gasparini   +3 more
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Unpacking the Process of Integrating Sustainability into Management Control Systems: A Literature Review and an Analytical Framework

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In recent years, organizations are adapting their control systems to meet institutional demands for sustainability disclosure. However, the process of integrating sustainability within management control systems (MCSs) remains underexplored, despite extensive literature on sustainability controls.
Anna Lucia Missaglia, Valentina Minutiello, Andrea Urbinati, Patrizia Tettamanzi   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Two Hundred Eighty Characters of Environment: Relative Environmental Performance, Strategic Communication, and Firm Value

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Corporate environmental communication has become an essential aspect of modern business practices, as stakeholders increasingly demand transparency and accountability regarding sustainability efforts. Within this context, we examine whether firms use environmental communication on X/Twitter to offset weaker relative environmental performance ...
Ivan Russo, Federico Bertacchini, Ugo Rizzo, Maria Cristina Arcuri   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Circular Innovations in Complex Systems: A Blueprint of Four Design Archetypes

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Circular innovations (CI), defined as the redesign of products, services or practices to minimise waste, reduce resource use and regenerate natural systems, are essential for advancing the circular economy. Despite growing recognition, their deployment in systems of linked parts with unpredictable interactions (complex systems) remains limited
Sophie Führer, Lucas Miehé, Catharina Bening   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source