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Beyond the ESG Facade: Measuring and Addressing Corporate ‘Lip Service’
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Amid growing global attention to environmental, social and governance (ESG), this study examines the misalignment between ESG disclosures and actual practices—termed ‘lip service’—using data from Chinese firms from 2006 to 2022, constructing an index to quantify it.
Jia Xu, Mingwei Liu, Helen X. H. Bao
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Although ESG controversies are on the rise, research investigating them yields contradictory findings. The paper provides resolutions to the debate through investigating (a) how ESG controversies influence firms' short‐term and long‐term financial performance; (b) how firms navigate ESG controversies' effect; and (c) how ESG controversies ...
Amalesh Sharma +3 more
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Research on ESG controversies has expanded rapidly, but findings remain fragmented and lack a unifying perspective. This study conducts a PRISMA‐guided, framework‐based systematic review of 68 empirical articles published between 2018 and 2025 (May) to synthesize the main determinants and consequences of ESG controversies.
Cristina Alexandrina Ştefănescu +1 more
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The Model of Fraud Detection in Financial Statements by Means of Financial Ratios
Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2015 AbstractAnalysis of financial ratios is one of those simple methods to identify frauds. Theoretical survey revealed that, in scientific literature, financial ratios are analysed in order to designate which ratios of the financial statements are the most sensitive in relation with the motifs of executive managers and employees of companies to commit ...
Kanapickienė, Rasa +1 more
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Small enterprises (SEs) constitute a major component of economic systems, and their socio‐environmental commitment is critical for promoting societal well‐being. This paper examines the direct effect of sound financial practices on socio‐environmental commitment and evaluates the mediating role of financial constraints—specifically debt and ...
Marcos Álvarez‐Espiño +2 more
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Dynamic Spillovers Between FinTech, Blockchain, and Green Finance: A Quantile Connectedness Approach
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper explores how financial innovation and environmental sustainability intersect by analyzing spillovers between FinTech, blockchain energy use, and green finance. Using a Quantile Vector Autoregression (QVAR) framework, we examine weekly data from 2018 to 2024 across 11 digital, environmental, and macro‐financial indices.
Mehmet Sahiner, Sisi Sung, James Devlin
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The Influence Of Fraud Hexagon On Financial Statement Fraud
Advances in Managerial Auditing ResearchThis study aims to examine the effect of fraud hexagon (pressure, opportunity, rationalization, capability, ego, and collusion) in detecting financial statement fraud. The fraud hexagon element is measured by the financial target variable of changing directors, political connections, industry characteristics, auditor changes, CEO concurrent positions ...
Rahmawati Rahmawati +2 more
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Internationalization and ESG Controversies: Do Foreign Directors on Corporate Boards Matter?
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study examines the relationship between internationalization and environmental, social, and governance (ESG) controversies, focusing on whether foreign directors on corporate boards influence this relationship. Drawing on resource dependence theory, we argue that internationalization increases ESG controversies due to the complexity of ...
Mohamed Elsayed +4 more
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South African Computer Journal, 2020 Financial statement fraud has been on the increase in the past two decades and includes prominent scandals such as Enron, WorldCom and more recently in South Africa, Steinhoff.
Wilson Tsakane Mongwe +1 more
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