Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) dominate the global business landscape, making their sustainability efforts crucial. Yet little is known about how institutional contexts shape these practices. Using Institutional Theory, we compare the influence of cluster membership (CM), global value chain (GVC) membership, and the organizational ...
Barbara Caemmerer +2 more
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Corporate Environmental Responsibility and Cost of Equity Capital: A Meta‐Analytical Review
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Despite extensive research on the relationship between corporate environmental responsibility (CER) and cost of equity capital (COEC), empirical evidence remains inconsistent. This study addresses these inconsistencies through a comprehensive meta‐analysis of 1139 effect sizes from 75 studies.
Robert Witte +2 more
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Provenance of late Pleistocene loess in central and eastern Europe: isotopic evidence for dominant local sediment sources. [PDF]
Sci RepFenn K +4 more
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT As businesses are increasingly integrating circular economy (CE) principles to promote concrete sustainability actions, understanding which managerial aspects may align with this change becomes paramount. Employing a conceptual framework based on Cognitive‐Affective Personality System (CAPS) and Organizational Support theories, this study ...
Fiorenza Meucci +3 more
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Digital Technology's Role in Circular Waste Management: A Systematic Review
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Combining circular economy ideas with digital tools offers a game‐changing way to tackle global sustainability problems. This paper focuses on how digital changes and circular economy models link up. A review has been conducted for 112 articles from 2021 to September 2025, using PRISMA‐2020 methodology. This study covered new tech like AI, IoT,
Reza Eslamipoor
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Multidimensional well-being and income inequality in Central and Eastern Europe: A comparative analysis of CEE North and CEE Continental countries. [PDF]
PLoS OneGeise A, Szczepaniak M.
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Policy and Market Mechanisms for Sustainable Finance: A Systematic Review and Research Agenda
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Sustainable finance has emerged as a critical instrument for addressing the dual challenges of climate change and sustainable development. Nonetheless, a substantial financing gap persists, while the concept remains under‐theorized without a universally accepted definition, and empirical evidence of its effectiveness remains inconsistent and ...
Jihyung Joo, Byounguk Keum, Taewoo Roh
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The tourism performance of spa destinations during crises in Central and Eastern Europe: An adjusted RCA index. [PDF]
HeliyonBacsi Z, Kovács E, Lőke Z.
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Circular product design (CPD) is central to advancing the circular economy by enabling the narrowing, slowing, and closing of resource flows. Yet, its implementation remains persistently challenging for firms. Prior research has largely framed these challenges as discrete barriers, overlooking the structural contradictions embedded in CPD ...
Vanessa Robertson +2 more
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Heart failure care in the Central and Eastern Europe and Baltic region: status, barriers, and routes to improvement. [PDF]
ESC Heart FailChioncel O +14 more
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