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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Research on business models for sustainability (BMfS) has primarily focused on the conceptual aspects and sustainability potential of BMfS rather than their actual impact. There is a need to understand whether BMfS have less environmental impact on society than conventional business models and in what context and conditions they can reduce ...
Emma Johnson, Oksana Mont
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Capital Asset Pricing Model with Size Factor and Normalizing by Volatility Index [PDF]
arXivThe Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM) relates a well-diversified stock portfolio to a benchmark portfolio. We insert size effect in CAPM, capturing the observation that small stocks have higher risk and return than large stocks, on average. Dividing stock index returns by the Volatility Index makes them independent and normal.
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The financial sector plays an important yet ambivalent role in society's sustainability transition. Credit decisions have a substantial impact as they determine the allocation of large amounts of financial resources. This study applies the Framework for Strategic Sustainable Development as a lens to review literature and investigate practices ...
Jesko Schulte +3 more
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arXiv, 2019 An open market is a subset of an entire equity market composed of a certain fixed number of top capitalization stocks. Though the number of stocks in the open market is fixed, the constituents of the market change over time as each company's rank by its market capitalization fluctuates.
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Environmental Violation and Cost of Equity Capital—Evidence From Europe
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We examine the association between environmental violations and the cost of equity capital. We posit that firms that breach environmental compliance introduce firm‐specific risks and, consequently, elevate the costs associated with equity capital.
Md. Borhan Uddin Bhuiyan, Yimei Man
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper analyses the relationship between firms' investment in green technologies and competitive performance. We take advantage of new data on the adoption of different green technologies (circular economy, technical advancements, energy savings, and efficiency gains) from a large representative sample of Italian firms.
F. Quatraro, A. Ricci
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Climate change is one of the greatest challenges facing humanity today. In this paper, we analyze the role of firms in mitigating climate change through their model of corporate governance. We examine the impact of key organizational control and incentive mechanisms on firms' carbon emission intensity.
Cécile Cezanne +3 more
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Driven by the growing focus on decarbonisation and energy economic dynamics in emerging economies, this study examines the interplay between executive compensation (EC), sustainability‐based compensation (SBC), board sustainability committee initiative (BSCI), corporate energy transition initiatives (CETIs), corporate carbon emissions (CCEs ...
Emmanuel A. Morrison +3 more
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Evaluating the Influence of Board Characteristics on Environmental Decoupling: Evidence From Europe
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study investigates the relationship between corporate governance characteristics and environmental decoupling, that is, the misalignment between environmental disclosure and environmental performance. We analyze a sample of 728 European companies (3061 firm‐year observations) belonging to 18 industries and 20 different countries from 2017
Sabrina Pisano +3 more
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Asset Prices with Overlapping Generations and Capital Accumulation: Tirole (1985) Revisited [PDF]
arXivWe revisit the classic paper of Tirole "Asset Bubbles and Overlapping Generations" (1985, Econometrica), which shows that the emergence of asset bubbles solves the capital over-accumulation problem. While Tirole's main insight holds with pure bubbles (assets without dividends), we argue that his original analysis with a dividend-paying asset contains ...
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