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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Corporate sustainability research is rich but fragmented where influential frameworks illuminate important aspects of sustainability dynamics, yet they are often used in parallel rather than connected through a shared explanatory logic of change. This paper addresses that corporate sustainability puzzle through a targeted literature review and
Omaima A. G. Hassan
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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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Who Cares About Carbon Performance Strategy? Ownership Structure as a Driver for Carbon Performance
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This research aims to highlight the empirical, theoretical, and corporate governance arguments employed in the academic literature that examines ownership structure as a determinant of carbon performance—a key element in contemporary climate governance frameworks.
Thicia Stela Lima Sampaio +2 more
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Semicontinuous endowment insurance premium valuation using quadratic fractional age assumptions
DesimalThe classic assumptions used to calculate fractional ages in valuing insurance premiums with payouts made immediately after death result in discontinuous probabilities of immediate death at integer ages because the assumption only applies to a 1-year ...
Irma Fauziah, Ayu Amalia
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Sustainability as a Defensive Strategy: ESG, Risk Exposure, and Returns in US Stocks
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We analyzed the relationship between environmental, social, and governance (ESG) metrics, financial risk, and expected returns in the US stock market, using data from S&P 500 companies over the period from 2007 to 2022 using aggregate ESG scores from Refinitiv (LSEG).
Gabriel da Rosa Janone +2 more
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Exploration of Risk Oriented Fund Performance Audit—Take Rural Endowment Insurance as an Example
Journal of Risk Analysis and Crisis Response (JRACR), 2019 The performance audit risk of rural pension fund is worth studying deeply. Based on the cost-benefit principle and the public fiduciary economic responsibility theory, this paper analyzes the current situation and causes of the performance audit of rural
Ronggang Zhang, Lanzhihao Liu
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study examines whether ESG‐related profitability differences arise from observable firm characteristics or from structural differences in how firms convert those characteristics into performance outcomes. Using an unbalanced panel data design, the final sample comprises 727 firm‐year observations from 178 publicly listed non‐financial ...
Yara Ibrahim +2 more
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Measuring Corporate Energy Transition Through Web‐Based Evidence and Large Language Models
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper proposes a scalable method to measure firm‐level engagement with the energy transition using corporate website disclosures and large language models (LLMs). We construct a restrictive, policy‐aligned rubric that codes evidence of (i) energy efficiency improvements, (ii) decarbonization and emissions‐reduction strategies, and (iii ...
Xavier Martínez‐Barbero +2 more
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Extreme heat has become a recurring operational challenge that disrupts production, raises energy and maintenance needs, and makes it harder for firms to sustain environmental performance. However, it remains less clear whether AI‐related capability is associated with firms' ability to maintain environmental performance under recurring extreme‐
Shangze Dai, Xinde James Ji, Kai Huang
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Amid growing environmental pressures and sustainability challenges, understanding how institutional reforms enhance firms' ability to cope with green‐related disruptions is of substantial importance. Exploiting China's Supply Chain Innovation and Application Pilot Cities as a quasi‐natural experiment, this study investigates the impact of ...
Jiaxin Wang, Jiacheng Liu
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