Pandemic effect on corporate financial asset holdings: Precautionary or return-chasing? [PDF]
Res Int Bus Finance, 2022 Gao H, Wen H, Wang X.
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Do Corporate ESG Disclosures Drive Consumer Demand (Sales)? The Role of Environmental Sensitivity
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The question of whether strong environmental, social, and governance (ESG) disclosure largely benefits high‐demand customers or if it generates value across all sales levels is yet to be empirically verified. This study, therefore, examines how ESG performance influences consumer demand (sales outcomes) among listed firms across African ...
Idorenyin J. Okon +2 more
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Supply Chain Sustainability and Human Capital: A Multilevel Analysis
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study examines how corporate sustainability practices diffuse across global supply chains and how national contextual capacity shapes this process. Drawing on stakeholder and institutional perspectives, we conceptualize ESG transmission as relational and potentially asymmetric between customers and suppliers.
Jun Xie +5 more
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Combining self-regulation and poverty reduction to prevent depression and anxiety among adolescents experiencing multi-dimensional poverty in Colombia, Nepal and South Africa: study protocol of a pilot 4-arm cluster randomised controlled trial. [PDF]
Pilot Feasibility StudJordans MJD +26 more
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Broad Skills, Smaller Footprints? Generalist CEOs and Firm Biodiversity Exposure
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We examine whether CEO generalist skills predict firm‐level biodiversity risk exposure, an emerging strategic and financial concern. Using the biodiversity indicator developed based on textual analysis and the General Ability Index, we find that firms led by generalist CEOs are associated with significantly lower disclosed biodiversity risk ...
Hafiz Hoque +2 more
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Do Banks in the Middle East and North Africa Region Price Carbon Exposure?
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study examines whether carbon exposure is incorporated into corporate borrowing costs within the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. Using a panel of 771 firm‐year observations from publicly listed non‐financial firms between 2016 and 2023, the analysis investigates the relationship between carbon intensity and firms' cost of debt
Yara Ibrahim +2 more
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Intergenerational wealth transmission and homeownership in Europe-a comparative perspective. [PDF]
PLoS One, 2022 Cohen Raviv O, Hinz T.
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study aims to test the effectiveness of adopting Integrated Thinking and Reporting (ITR) in enhancing distinct but interconnected dimensions of corporate performance, namely, organizations' environmental, social, and financial performance, ultimately addressing their activities towards the achievement of sustainable development.
Maria Cleofe Giorgino +3 more
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT There is extensive literature on the relationship between corporate governance (CG) and firms' environmental performance (EP). However, the empirical findings remain somewhat equivocal. A variety of theoretical approaches have been utilised to provide a suitable basis for explaining the causal relationship, including legitimacy theory ...
Lukas Horner, Michael Grüning
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