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Free Trade Zones and Corporate ESG: Evidence From a Quasi‐Natural Experiment in China
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study examines how China's Pilot Free Trade Zones (FTZs) influence corporate ESG performance. Using a staggered difference‐in‐differences model on Chinese listed firms from 2009 to 2024, we combine coarsened exact matching (CEM) and geography‐based instrumental variables to ensure robust identification.
Wen Li, Yinghan Zhao, Brian Lucey
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Digital Technology's Role in Circular Waste Management: A Systematic Review
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Combining circular economy ideas with digital tools offers a game‐changing way to tackle global sustainability problems. This paper focuses on how digital changes and circular economy models link up. A review has been conducted for 112 articles from 2021 to September 2025, using PRISMA‐2020 methodology. This study covered new tech like AI, IoT,
Reza Eslamipoor
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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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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper examines how organizations in the automotive sector respond to the internal communication challenges posed by the transition to electric vehicle production. Unlike typical organizational change, electrification is driven not only by market forces but also by sociopolitical and regulatory pressures to reduce carbon emissions and ...
Tobias Hein +2 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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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article explores the link between sustainable entrepreneurship and ethics. Based on a systematic literature review, the article analyzes 153 articles by adopting a content analysis approach. The article explores dominant theories, themes and key stakeholders impacted by sustainable entrepreneurship and ethics and focuses on novel ...
Melissa Demartini +2 more
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The Effect of Carbon Disclosure Quality on Green Bond Financing Cost
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Existing research on financing costs primarily focuses on traditional financial factors, such as credit ratings, and offers limited examination of non‐financial information. This study examines the impact of the quality of carbon information disclosure on financing costs using a fixed‐effects panel regression, based on data from 166 Chinese ...
Siying Wang, Chaminda Wijethilake
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Corporate Environmental Innovation and Environmental Decoupling: International Evidence
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study investigates whether environmental innovation reduces environmental decoupling, defined as the mismatch between a company's environmental disclosures and its actual environmental performance. Drawing on legitimacy theory, we argue that environmental innovation represents a substantive organizational response that reduces companies ...
Rasmi Meqbel +3 more
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Circling the Archetype: Tensions Limiting the Transformation to a Circular Economy
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This research examines key tensions and the archetypal paradox that prevent the transformation to a circular economy (CE) across individual, organizational, and systems levels, problematizing CE assumptions. Tension manifestations are analyzed using a qualitative case study across eight diverse industries and geographies.
Helleke Heikkinen +5 more
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study examines how sustainability performance is translated into sustainability disclosure under peer‐based isomorphic pressures and how such disclosures are valued in capital markets. Using 2016–2023 panel data from 647 Japanese‐listed firms, we analyze the triadic relationship between sustainability performance, sustainability ...
Kimitaka Nishitani +5 more
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