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Working Capital Efficiency and Firm Profitability: Evidence from Pakistan’s FMCG Sector
Market ForcesThis study examines the impact of working capital management (WCM) on firm profitability in Pakistan’s fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) sector. The study evaluates how components of the cash conversion cycle influence financial performance in an ...
Dilshad Hasan Qazi +2 more
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Working Capital Management and Firm Profitability. Empirical Evidence for the Romanian Industry [PDF]
Ovidius University Annals: Economic Sciences Series, 2017 The paper aims on empirically testing the connection between a firm's liquidity, or else a firm's ability to manage short-term liabilities, without undue stress and its profitability.
Miloş Marius Cristian +1 more
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Climate Change Exposure and Firms' Biodiversity Impact Reduction Strategy
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper investigates how climate change exposure shapes long‐run biodiversity disclosure strategies, for instance, by informing efforts to reduce biodiversity impacts and by contributing to the existing environment and strategy literature in various ways. First, this paper adds insight into horizon issues related to climate change and shows
Post Raj Pokharel
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In a macroeconomic environment characterised by systemic disruptions and global uncertainty, companies are forced to reconfigure their sustainability strategies. This study examines the combined impact of geopolitical and climate risks on corporate commitment to and actual progress toward the United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Goals ...
Isabel‐María García‐Sánchez
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We study how environmental innovation shapes investor expectations. We propose two mechanisms through which sustained improvements in environmental innovation may influence these expectations: non‐pecuniary investor preferences and risk mitigation.
Ellen Pei‐yi Yu +3 more
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Cash Conversion Cycle and Profitability, Evidence from Jordan
Asian Journal of Finance & Accounting, 2019 This study investigates the impact of working capital management and its components on profitability as a practical aspect, and how is compatible with the theoretical aspect. Besides, it examines other financial factors that may affect profitability by using a sample of Jordanian manufacturing firms listed in the Amman Stock Exchange for the period ...
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In recent years, environmental concerns have reached critical levels, emphasizing e‐waste management as essential to mitigating resource depletion. However, existing literature lacks frameworks identifying the antecedents of a circular economy.
Pedro Senna +4 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 Global climate change has elevated the strategic importance of corporate climate risk disclosure, yet the role of industry peer effects in shaping such disclosure remains underexplored. Grounded in social learning theory, this study proposes an “observation–imitation–reinforcement” framework and empirically tests it using panel data on Chinese
Huer Shuang +3 more
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Net‐Zero Investment Strategies Need an Absolute Emission Reduction Metric
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The climate crisis calls for rapid absolute reductions in greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, requiring significant capital reallocation. In the financial industry, net‐zero investment strategies are mostly guided by relative carbon intensity (CI) metrics rather than absolute GHG emissions.
Andreas G. F. Hoepner +4 more
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