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Tensions of Sustainability Logics: Performance of a Company Utilizing a Sustainable Business Model
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In recent years, companies have used sustainable business models to gain a competitive advantage. However, there are tensions due to the inconsistency between social, environmental, and economic logic in sustainable business models, making it difficult for companies to change. To understand the existing tensions and interactions between logics,
Ann‐Kristin Thienemann
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The transition to a circular economy (CE) requires organizations to move beyond linear production systems toward regenerative, resource‐efficient models. For small and medium‐sized enterprises (SMEs), this transition is especially demanding due to constrained financial, technological, and human resources.
Hadi Zarea
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Connecting Thoughts and Actions: A Managerial Process Model on Circular Business Model Innovation
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.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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Target Firm's ESG Engagement and Post–M&A Performance: The Mediating Role of Acquirer's CSR Strategy
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The paper examines whether the environmental, social and governance (ESG) performance of target firms influences both accounting‐based and market‐based corporate financial performance (CFP) within the merger and acquisition (M&A) context and whether this relationship is mediated by the acquirer's corporate social responsibility (CSR) strategy.
Francesco Gangi +4 more
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Supply Chain Network, ESG Scores and Financial Performance
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper provides novel evidence on the role of supply chain networks in influencing firms' environmental, social and governance (ESG) scores and financial performance. Our analysis employs financial, board, ESG and supply chain data, resulting in an unbalanced panel of over 16,000 firm‐year observations from 3028 publicly traded US firms ...
Michail Filippidis +2 more
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT ESG ratings for the same firm‐year often diverge, shaping capital allocation and accountability. Drawing on a structured systematic‐narrative hybrid review, I synthesize evidence across the European Union, the United States, and China and develop a transnational accountability framework that traces divergence through the measurement pipeline ...
Gary Gang Tian
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The transition to net zero (NZ) faces challenges such as uneven institutional readiness, fragmented policy frameworks and rising energy demands from population growth, economic expansion and artificial intelligence (AI). These obstacles are intensified by technological, financial and regulatory uncertainties that impede coordinated efforts ...
Mohamed Shrief +3 more
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Sustainable governance depends on the joint functioning of institutional quality, fiscal discipline, environmental performance, and socioeconomic inclusion. However, many composite indicators rely on subjective weighting schemes and leave the structural role of governance underspecified.
Ömer Faruk Rençber +3 more
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When Nature Counts: Corporate Biodiversity Attention and Access to Bank Finance
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper investigates whether corporate attention to biodiversity influences firms' access to bank loans, an overlooked question in the emerging biodiversity–finance literature. Using a novel, text‐based measure constructed from 446 biodiversity‐related keywords and applied to Chinese A‐share listed firms from 2000 to 2023, we show that ...
Ruxiao Li +3 more
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Carbon Footprint of Bank Loans: Opportunities and Risk Implications in the Banking Industry
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study examines whether the carbon footprint of bank loan portfolios influences bank stability, profitability and cost efficiency and whether regulatory quality moderates these relationships. Using a balanced panel of 33 countries from 2005 to 2018, the analysis combines banking‐sector indicators from the World Bank Global Financial ...
Honglei Wang +5 more
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