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Political Appointment of Executives, Green Action and Firm Performance: Evidence From the World Bank Enterprise Survey

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Environmental sustainability and political influence increasingly shape corporate strategy, yet the link between politically appointed executives and firms' environmental actions remains underexplored. This study investigates whether political appointments to top executive positions influence the adoption of green action initiatives and how ...
Post Raj Pokharel, Munirah Sarhan AlQahtani, Suman Lodh, Monomita Nandy   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Environmental Management Accounting in Private Hospitals: Navigating Competing Strategic Priorities for Sustainable Decision‐Making

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Environmental management accounting (EMA) is increasingly recognised as essential for carbon governance, accountability and net zero transitions, yet research has overlooked how sustainability is negotiated within mission‐driven but commercially exposed service organisations such as private hospitals in developing economies, a sector often ...
M. M. Swalih, Ronita Ram, Edward Tew
wiley   +1 more source

Large blockholders and stock price crash risk

, 2019
This paper examines the relationship between large blockholders and stock price crash risk for the entire population of non-financial companies listed on the Swiss Exchange for the period 2003-2016. The results show that firms held by a large blockholder
Eugster, Nicolas
core   +1 more source

Managing Biodiversity Disclosure in Global Firms: How Culture, Institutions and Risk Shape Corporate Reporting

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines the drivers of biodiversity disclosure and the interplay between firm strategies and national institutions in shaping transparency. Using a global panel of 4703 firms across 40 economies from 2013 to 2022, we integrate differentiation, signalling and institutional perspectives to explain variation in reporting behaviour ...
Chi Chen, Yaman O. Erzurumlu, Giray Gozgor   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Exploring the impact of customer concentration on stock price crash risk

Humanities & Social Sciences Communications
This paper, rooted in agency theory, explores the intricate relationship between stock price crash risk and customer concentration within the context of Iran, a developing nation.
Mahla Afghahi, Farzaneh Nassirzadeh, Davood Askarany   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

When Nature Counts: Corporate Biodiversity Attention and Access to Bank Finance

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper investigates whether corporate attention to biodiversity influences firms' access to bank loans, an overlooked question in the emerging biodiversity–finance literature. Using a novel, text‐based measure constructed from 446 biodiversity‐related keywords and applied to Chinese A‐share listed firms from 2000 to 2023, we show that ...
Ruxiao Li, Bo Zhang, Zhang‐Hangjian Chen, Hafiz Hoque   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Navigating Ethical Minefields: Micro‐Foundations of Corporate Political Work in Ethical and Sustainable Business Performance

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In an era of rising geopolitical tensions and environmental instability, corporate political activities have become increasingly intertwined with ethical challenges and sustainability requirements. This study investigates the influence of environmental dynamics and corporate ethical responsibility on interorganizational conflict and ...
David Yulong Liu, Justin Zuopeng Zhang, Jimmy Sun, Muhammad Mustafa Kamal, Bhumika Gupta   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Circling the Archetype: Tensions Limiting the Transformation to a Circular Economy

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This research examines key tensions and the archetypal paradox that prevent the transformation to a circular economy (CE) across individual, organizational, and systems levels, problematizing CE assumptions. Tension manifestations are analyzed using a qualitative case study across eight diverse industries and geographies.
Helleke Heikkinen, Lisa Ellram, Sarah Schiffling, John Kibe Munyoro, Anna Hiltunen, Stina Lundin   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Critical Success Factors and Stakeholder Influence for Environmental, Social and Governance Assessment and Reporting

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) assessment criteria have drawn substantial attention by investors in recent years. ESG factors have been considered by investors to create greater wealth and better investment decisions and opportunities. However, there are ambiguities about ESG assessment and reporting with issues of transparency and
Caleb Boadi, Robert Osei‐kyei, Vivian W. Y. Tam   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Crafted Responsibility: How Handmade Language Shapes Social Media Engagement for Socially (Ir)Responsible Luxury Fashion Brands

Journal of Consumer Behaviour, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This research examines how the disclosure of production cues interacts with corporate social responsibility cues to influence social media engagement in luxury fashion. Two complementary field studies analyse marketer‐generated Facebook posts from luxury fashion brands, providing large‐scale empirical evidence of a real‐world impact on ...
Tuba Degirmenci, Frank Mathmann, Gary Mortimer   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source