Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Global climate change has elevated the strategic importance of corporate climate risk disclosure, yet the role of industry peer effects in shaping such disclosure remains underexplored. Grounded in social learning theory, this study proposes an “observation–imitation–reinforcement” framework and empirically tests it using panel data on Chinese
Huer Shuang +3 more
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Examining ESG Performance Through TNFD‐Aligned Disclosure Practices
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study examines adherence to the Taskforce on Nature‐related Financial Disclosures (TNFD) framework in relation to the ESG performance of non‐financial and non‐utility S&P 500 firms. Drawing on legitimacy, stakeholder, and institutional monitoring theories, we construct measures of TNFD, nature‐related risk and opportunity indicators for ...
Dauda Bola Abdulsalam +2 more
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Comparative Transcriptome and Weighted Gene Co-Expression Network Analyses Reveal a Shared Core Response and Quantitatively Divergent Regulatory Modules Between Drought-Tolerant and Drought-Sensitive Foxtail Millet. [PDF]
Biology (Basel)Wang HJ +5 more
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Firms increasingly face political and societal pressures to pursue green strategies and sustainable innovation amid escalating climate change disruptions. Drawing upon contingency theory, institutional theory, and the natural resource‐based view, this article examines external (stakeholder pressures) and internal (environmental culture ...
Maria Vincenza Ciasullo +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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Unravelling Mechanisms of Acquired Drought Tolerance by Priming in Tomato Using Integrative Multi-Omics Phenotypic Analysis. [PDF]
Plant Biotechnol JZhou R +14 more
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The Heat Is On: Climate Change–Related Challenges and SMEs' R&D Activities
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Investing in R&D is a key way for small‐ and medium‐sized enterprises (SMEs) to develop capabilities that are required to respond to climate change–related challenges. However, the extent to which such challenges affect SMEs' R&D activities remains a critical gap in the literature.
Gráinne Gibson +3 more
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Renewable Energy, Climate Risk, and the Cost of External Assurance: International Evidence
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Corporate shifts from fossil fuels to renewable energy are central to climate‐transition strategies, but their effects on external assurance have not been well understood. This study examines whether, how and where corporate renewable energy consumption affects the cost of external assurance, proxied by statutory audit fees.
Rashid Zaman +2 more
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Genotypic variation in water-use traits and drought response of Rwandan common bean cultivars. [PDF]
Ann BotLabastida Jaimes DL +5 more
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