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Free Trade Zones and Corporate ESG: Evidence From a Quasi‐Natural Experiment in China

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines how China's Pilot Free Trade Zones (FTZs) influence corporate ESG performance. Using a staggered difference‐in‐differences model on Chinese listed firms from 2009 to 2024, we combine coarsened exact matching (CEM) and geography‐based instrumental variables to ensure robust identification.
Wen Li, Yinghan Zhao, Brian Lucey
wiley   +1 more source

Top Management Environmental Concern, Eco‐Product Development Effectiveness and Firms' Environmental Performance: The Paradoxical Moderating Role of Environmental Information Sharing

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigates the combined effect of top management environmental concern and eco‐product development effectiveness on firms' environmental performance. The study also considers the moderating impact of environmental information sharing on this process.
Ayodele C. Oniku, Awele Achi, Solomon Jeresa, Olamide O. Akintimehin, Adejumoke Adeoti   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Sustainable Innovation and Impact on Triple Bottom Line Performance: Are Innovation Types Simple Mediators?

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigates the way sustainable innovation, conceptualized as a second‐order construct integrating sustainable orientation and innovation culture, impacts triple bottom line (TBL) performance. It also examines the mediating roles of product, process, organizational, and marketing innovations.
Nuno Fernandes Crespo, Lucas Bonacina Roldan   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Digital Orientation and Green Practices in Chilean SMEs: Innovation as the Pathway to Competitive Performance

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines how digital strategic orientation (DSO) and environmental practices (EP) interact to shape innovation and performance among Chilean SMEs. Using survey data from 271 firms (February–May 2022), we estimate a generalized structured component analysis (GSCA) model that accommodates a nonrecursive relationship between DSO and EP.
Constanza Caicha‐Caroca, Antonia Madrid‐Guijarro, Claudia Andrea Pezoa‐Fuentes   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Hidden Human Capital Risks to Sustainable Logistics Systems: A Moderated Mediation Model of Overqualification, Abusive Supervision, and Workplace Ostracism

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines how perceived overqualification (POQ) becomes a source of work alienation by focusing on interpersonal dynamics in the workplace. Drawing on relational and power‐based perspectives, we propose that abusive supervision serves as a key mechanism linking POQ to work alienation, while workplace ostracism conditions the strength
Ahmet Hakan Özkan
wiley   +1 more source

Decarbonization Boundary Choices and the Effectiveness of Stakeholder Engagement in Voluntary Climate Action Commitments: Evidence From Emerging Economies

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines how stakeholder engagement, conceptualized as a boundary‐spanning organizational capability, interacts with firms' decarbonization strategies, in relation to climate action commitments (CACs) in voluntary initiatives.
David Tobón Orozco, Jose Pla‐Barber
wiley   +1 more source

Carbon Footprint of Bank Loans: Opportunities and Risk Implications in the Banking Industry

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines whether the carbon footprint of bank loan portfolios influences bank stability, profitability and cost efficiency and whether regulatory quality moderates these relationships. Using a balanced panel of 33 countries from 2005 to 2018, the analysis combines banking‐sector indicators from the World Bank Global Financial ...
Honglei Wang, Chen Lin, Kingsley Imandojemu, Omozele Lynda Showunmi, Romanus Osabohien, Felix Orole   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

What Do We Know About Scope 3 Emissions in Small‐ and Medium‐Sized Enterprises? Mapping Current Knowledge and Advancing a Theory–Practice‐Oriented Framework

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Although SMEs comprise over 90% of firms globally, research on their engagement with Scope 3 (value‐chain) greenhouse gas emissions remains limited. This PRISMA‐guided systematic review synthesises 49 SME‐relevant studies to develop a theory‐informed, practice‐oriented framework for more credible and sustained Scope 3 engagement.
Chidinma Uchendu, Okechukwu Okorie, Fatemeh Khosravi, Stuart Connop, Hebba Haddad, Mike Medas   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Dormancy Season Is Key to Submergence Tolerance of Annual Plant Seeds in the Drawdown Zone of the Three Gorges Reservoir. [PDF]

Plants (Basel)
Lin F, Ayi Q, Ge M, Liu T, Luo J, Tian X, Xu Y, Jiang H, Liu S, Zhang X, Zeng B.   +10 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Can Credit Rating Changes Affect Corporate Carbon Emissions? Some Evidence From the S&P 500

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Using panel data on US S&P 500 firms from 2012 to 2024, this study examines how credit rating changes affect corporate carbon performance. Drawing on the resource‐based view and prospect theory, we show that credit rating downgrades lead to a statistically and economically significant deterioration in emission reduction scores.
Michal Wojewodzki, Mohamad H. Shahrour, Alireza Rohani, Bradley R. Barnes, Chi Keung Marco Lau   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source