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Audit Committee and ESG Disclosure Quality: The Moderating Role of Female CEO Leadership

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT ESG reporting is widespread among large public firms, yet the extent and completeness of these disclosures vary widely, raising concerns about transparency and comparability. Drawing on Stakeholder Theory and Resource Dependency theory, this study examines how audit committee (AC) effectiveness influences ESG disclosure quality (ESGDQ) and ...
Mutalib Anifowose, Manirul Islam, Md Yousuf Ali, A. T. M. Enayet Karim   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Beyond Linear ESG Effects: Configurational Pathways to Superior Profitability Among Environmental Proactive Firms

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study re‐examines the relationship between environmental, social, and governance (ESG) engagement and firm financial performance by moving beyond linear, net‐effect models toward a configurational perspective. Focusing on a global sample of 1380 non‐financial firms with high environmental maturity (CDP Climate Change score ≥ B), we ...
Daniel Yeung, Lingju Chen, Qingliang Tang   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Using Machine Learning to Predict Corporate Environmental Violation: A Stakeholder Pressure Perspective

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Predicting corporate environmental violations remains a key challenge in practice and in environmental governance research. However, existing studies have largely focused on ex post associations between stakeholder pressures and realized environmental violations, offering limited insight into whether stakeholder pressures can be used ex ante ...
Xiaolan Chen, Ning Ding, Haodong Jin, Rui Xue, Yuhao Yang   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Eyes on the Ground: Can Institutional Investor Site Visits Discipline Corporate ESG Hypocrisy?

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper investigates whether institutional investor site visits serve as an effective external governance mechanism for curbing environmental, social and governance (ESG) hypocrisy. Using panel data on Chinese A‐share listed firms from 2012 to 2021, we find that site visits significantly reduce ESG hypocrisy by improving internal control ...
Lichun Zheng, Wenjia Tang, Liang Zhao, Salwa Saleh Almasabi, David Kalisz   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Greenwashing Across Industries: A Scoping Review of Explanatory Factors, Reporting Tactics, and Disclosure‐Action Decoupling

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This scoping review provides an industry‐comparative synthesis of greenwashing and disclosure‐action decoupling in sustainability‐related reporting. Guided by PRISMA, it reviews 73 peer‐reviewed articles published between 2016 and 2025 and organizes them into three streams: variable‐based explanatory, report analysis, and disclosure‐action ...
Zhang Yiping, Amr ElAlfy, Jeffrey Wilson, Olaf Weber   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Drivers of Scope 3 Emissions Disclosure Quality—CDP Analysis

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Scope 3 emissions account for a significant portion of a supply chain's carbon footprint, yet very little research explores the key drivers of high‐quality Scope 3 disclosures. Additionally, while climate governance is a vital part of both improving carbon performance and ensuring corporate accountability, its broader impact on disclosure ...
Xintao Li, Binh Bui, Thanh Phan
wiley   +1 more source

Disclosure, Verification, and Value: The Impact of Climate Risk Disclosure on Institutional On‐Site Research and Economic Consequences

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Based on signaling theory and information asymmetry theory, this study uses a sample of Chinese A share listed firms from 2012 to 2023 to examine the effect of climate risk disclosure (CRD) on institutional on‐site research and its economic consequences.
Sha Tang, Chante Jian Ding, Abdullahi D. Ahmed   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Firm‐Level Climate Risk and Stock Price Crash: Does Investor Attention or Sentiment Matter?

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study moves beyond traditional crash‐risk channels focused on managerial bad‐news hoarding to examine how firm‐level climate risk translates into stock price crashes through investor behaviour. Using a novel text‐based measure of climate exposure extracted from earnings call transcripts, we capture firm‐specific regulatory, physical and ...
Hoa Phan, Nhan Huynh, Cuong Nguyen, Nirav Parikh, Lurion de Mello   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Climate Change Exposure and the Discipline of Capital Structure: Evidence From Managerial Leverage Distortion

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines how climate change exposure affects corporate financing behaviour through the lens of managerial leverage distortion (MLD), defined as the absolute deviation of observed leverage from a benchmark implied by firm fundamentals.
Post Raj Pokharel
wiley   +1 more source

The Impact of Sustainability Audit Quality on Corporate Climate Change Performance: The Role of Governance Quality and Greenwashing

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigates how sustainability audit quality influences corporate climate change performance and examines the moderating roles of governance quality and greenwashing. Using panel regressions on 6140 firm‐year observations from 39 countries between 2008 and 2023, the findings reveal that higher sustainability audit quality is ...
Muhammed Belly Ibrahim, Ishmael Tingbani, Hesham Bassyouny   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source