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Addressing the Energy Trilemma: The Role of Entrepreneurship, Regulation, and Climate Finance
ABSTRACT Balancing energy security, energy equity, and environmental sustainability has become increasingly challenging as economies pursue low‐carbon growth amid climate risk and persistent disparities in access to modern energy. Although entrepreneurship is widely recognized as a driver of innovation, its role in addressing the energy trilemma ...
Kingsley Imandojemu +3 more
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Corporate ESG Greenwashing: Does Regulatory Proximity Matter?
ABSTRACT Environmental, social, and governance (ESG) greenwashing undermines sustainable development, yet the influence of regulatory proximity on oversight is understudied. By introducing the “distance decay effect” from geoeconomics into ESG misconduct research and using a sample of Chinese listed firms from 2009 to 2022, this study reveals a ...
Weiqi Zhao +4 more
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Beyond the ESG Facade: Measuring and Addressing Corporate ‘Lip Service’
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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ABSTRACT Whether corporate carbon management can enhance productive efficiency is central to firms' long‐term competitiveness and determines whether carbon reduction efforts can be sustained beyond regulatory compliance. This study examines how corporate carbon risk and opportunity management affects firm productivity (measured by total factor ...
Nan Huang, Hanlu Fan, Ruoxin Zhu
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Connecting Thoughts and Actions: A Managerial Process Model on Circular Business Model Innovation
ABSTRACT Addressing environmental grand challenges such as resource scarcity requires circular business model innovation (CBMI) that enables firms to efficiently close and slow resource cycles through novel activity systems. Drawing on a grounded theory approach based on 59 in‐depth interviews with top managers from Swiss SMEs, we developed a process ...
Fabian Takacs, Karolin Frankenberger
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ABSTRACT This study examines sectoral heterogeneity in corporate biodiversity disclosure (CBD) among Chinese listed firms over the period 2001–2023. Drawing on stakeholder, institutional, and resource dependency theories, it investigates how environmental exposure, ownership structures, and market dynamics influence biodiversity risk recognition and ...
Orkun Bayram +2 more
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Climate Stress Testing on European SME Securitised Loans Under Climate Mitigation Scenarios
ABSTRACT Assessing the future impact of climate risks on the probability of default (PD) of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) is challenging due to limited disclosure, policy uncertainty and exposure to physical risks. This paper addresses this gap by integrating macroeconomic variables from the Network for Greening the Financial System (NGFS ...
Luca Zanin, Raffaella Calabrese
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ABSTRACT This study investigates the way sustainable innovation, conceptualized as a second‐order construct integrating sustainable orientation and innovation culture, impacts triple bottom line (TBL) performance. It also examines the mediating roles of product, process, organizational, and marketing innovations.
Nuno Fernandes Crespo +1 more
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ABSTRACT Focusing on firm‐size heterogeneity, this study examines how institutional reform reshapes the effects of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) disclosure on firm value. Using 2019–2023 panel data on 1427 Japanese listed firms (before and after the 2022 Tokyo Stock Exchange reorganization and Corporate Governance Code revision), this ...
Akio Nakashima, Kimitaka Nishitani
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Shadow economy in agriculture and specifics of its measurement
Despite the extensive list of works devoted to the analysis of the shadow economy, the issue of determining its scale at the regional level and a separate type of activity (according to the All-Russian Classifier OKVED 2. has not been resolved. This work
S. V. Kiselev +3 more
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