Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Sustainability reports (SRs) are widely criticized for vague disclosures and selective emphasis on positive outcomes, yet systematic research on two core SR challenges remains limited: materiality (whether disclosed content is relevant) and balance (whether both achievements and challenges are reported).
Mahsa Mohammadrezaei +1 more
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"Your Thoughts are (were) Free!": Brain-Computer-Interfaces, Neurofeedback, Detection of Deception, and the Future of Mind-Reading. [PDF]
Appl Psychophysiol BiofeedbackBirbaumer N.
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A Critical Analysis of Microsoft's Rhetoric and Reality of Sustainability Engagement
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study critically examines Microsoft's environmental, social and governance (ESG) rhetoric and operational reality, to offer insights that extend beyond conventional greenwashing or bluewashing. Drawing on over 20 years of Microsoft's sustainability reports (2003–2024), third‐party ESG evaluations and media investigations, it employs ...
Omaima A. G. Hassan, Iqbal Khadaroo
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ESG Controversies in Global Firms: A Black Mark?
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Despite increasing attention paid by companies to sustainability, there is still evidence of environmental, social and governance (commonly referred to as ESG) scandals. As research on this topic is scant, this paper aims to analyse the impact of ESG controversies on firms' sustainability practices, that is, ESG policies, as well as ...
Beatrice Bais, Guido Orzes, Marco Sartor
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Integrating transformer-based credibility signals into neural collaborative filtering for fake review-aware recommendation. [PDF]
Sci RepAbdelmohsen Y, Wassif K, Ramadan N.
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Our study, based around an experiment, examines the consequences when generative AI tools are used to create and assess sustainability disclosures. There are two key findings: (1) that generative AI greenwashes sustainability disclosures, with our study participants doing little to mitigate this, and (2) that our study participants viewed AI ...
Ruth Dimes +3 more
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Deception in orbital games: simulation and dissimulation with a maneuverable decoy. [PDF]
Sci RepHan H, Dang Z.
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Board Ethnic Diversity and the Value Relevance of Antibribery and Corruption Disclosure
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Antibribery and corruption disclosure (ABCD) has traditionally been conceptualised as a compliance‐oriented reporting practice. However, whether and under what conditions such disclosure contributes to strategic value creation remains insufficiently understood.
Ali Meftah Gerged +1 more
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The Body Knows What the Mind Does Not: Uncertainty Affects Physiological Markers of Deception. [PDF]
PsychophysiologyRomano Cappi G +3 more
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Costly Signals and Cheap Talk: Measuring the Decoupling of ESG Routinisation and Greenwashing Risk
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Greenwashing is a systemic challenge to sustainable finance, yet prevailing ESG metrics still tend to equate more disclosure with more sustainability. We develop a dual‐index framework to compare firms' ESG ‘talk’ and ‘walk’ using hard data. An ESG Routinisation Index approximates the costly integration of sustainability into emissions, safety
Giacomo Zatini +2 more
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