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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Institutional investors increasingly rely on ESG ratings to evaluate financially material sustainability risks, while governments promote corporate alignment with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Because these frameworks differ substantially in capital market salience and monitoring intensity, board oversight may not ...
Mohamed Hegazy +2 more
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The Evolution and Integration of ESG Reporting: A Framework for Sustainable Business Accountability
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study examines how multinational corporations incorporate Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) reporting frameworks to foster trust, enhance legitimacy, and move beyond mere symbolic disclosure. A qualitative comparison of Microsoft and Unilever from 2020 to 2023 assesses how both firms integrate leading standards, including GRI ...
Gabriela Marques Alves Aguiar
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study examines the impact of EU Directive 2014/95/EU (NFRD) on the Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) performance of EU‐listed companies, focusing on variations across ESG dimensions and national institutional contexts. Using a dataset of 19,036 observations from 2010 to 2022, we apply a time‐varying Difference‐in‐Differences ...
Yuqing Xiao, Antonio Somoza
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Small‐ and medium‐sized enterprises (SMEs) are expected to contribute more significantly to the sustainability agenda. Digital transformation (DT) has the potential to enable SMEs to fulfil their sustainable development goals. However, SMEs encounter unique challenges in leveraging DT for sustainability due to their size, limited resources and
Phuc G. Le +3 more
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT To understand the heterogeneous performance outcomes of sustainable entrepreneurship, this study investigates the role of founder impression management. We develop and test a moderated mediation model, drawing on signaling and impression management theories, using a dual‐study design with longitudinal data (n = 217) and survey data (n = 259 ...
Rongzhi Liu +6 more
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study theorises and empirically tests performative purpose alignment theory (PPAT), which conceptualises corporate purpose as a performative artefact materialised through discursive and multimodal signals. To operationalise this, we introduced the SDG–Purpose Alignment Index (SPAI), a computational construct that quantifies the thematic ...
Augustine Okeke, Ifeanyi Ugbebor
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Firms increasingly rely on ESG materiality assessments to prioritise sustainability issues under heightened stakeholder scrutiny. Yet the strategic consequences of materiality beyond firm‐level disclosure remain underexplored. This study examines how materiality assessments shape ESG prioritisation at the industry level using sustainability ...
Shiqi Mai +3 more
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Strategic Approaches to ESG Reporting: Analysing ESG Disclosures of Listed Companies
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study adopts an exploratory approach to examine how firms communicate strategic orientation through ESG disclosures. Using a validated dictionary of exploration and exploitation language, we analyse 278 ESG reports from all UAE‐listed companies between 2020 and 2023, classifying ESG disclosures as exploration‐dominant, exploitation ...
Cintia Külzer‐Sacilotto +1 more
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT While signalling theory predicts that ESG disclosure reduces information asymmetry and supports forward‐looking firm valuation, this relationship remains contested in emerging markets with concentrated ownership. Using a panel of 84 Turkish listed firms over 2014–2024 (924 firm‐years) and two‐step system GMM, we examine whether business groups,
Ajab Khan +2 more
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Talking the Walk: ESG Discourse as Strategic Dynamic Capability
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Conventional wisdom suggests that firms must “walk the talk” on sustainability. In turbulent institutional environments, however, talking increasingly becomes part of the walk, as organizations use sustainability discourse to construct and maintain legitimacy.
Floriana Luisi +1 more
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