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Target Firm's ESG Engagement and Post–M&A Performance: The Mediating Role of Acquirer's CSR Strategy

open access: yesBusiness 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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Emission Reduction Targets Between Strategy and Executive Compensation: Evidence on Symbolic and Substantive Adoption From German Listed Firms

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ABSTRACT Firms increasingly commit to climate targets yet doubts remain about whether such pledges translate into substantive corporate governance or remain symbolic. The study examines how emission reduction targets (ERTs) in sustainability strategies are reflected in compensation among German listed firms.
Victoria Fohrer, Anna‐Sofia Grabowski
wiley   +1 more source

Clusters, Global Value Chains, and the Business Environment: A Hierarchy of Institutional Influence on Small and Medium Enterprise Sustainability

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ABSTRACT Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) dominate the global business landscape, making their sustainability efforts crucial. Yet little is known about how institutional contexts shape these practices. Using Institutional Theory, we compare the influence of cluster membership (CM), global value chain (GVC) membership, and the organizational ...
Barbara Caemmerer   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Formalising Sustainability Management as a Core Process Group in Project Management

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ABSTRACT Sustainability has become a strategic imperative for organisations, yet widely used project management standards such as the PMBoK sixth and seventh editions still do not formalise how sustainability should be embedded across project work. This gap matters because PMBoK‐based processes shape governance, roles, documentation and performance ...
Cinzia Dessi   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

ESG Uncertainty in Supply Chains: How Rating Divergence Shapes Buyer–Supplier Trade Credit

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ABSTRACT Uncertainty in environmental, social, and governance (ESG) ratings has raised concerns about the reliability of sustainability evaluations and their consequences for interfirm relationships. Although prior research has highlighted firm‐level financial outcomes of ESG rating divergence, little is known about its implications for buyer–supplier ...
Liukai Wang, Na A., Yu Gong, Steve Brown
wiley   +1 more source

Innovative Minds, Sharing Hesitations: Open Innovation Meets Green Entrepreneurship

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ABSTRACT This study examines the relationships between innovative thinking tendency, knowledge hiding behavior within organizations, open innovation, and green entrepreneurship among employees in technology firms. Data collected from 386 participants were analyzed using cluster analysis and structural equation modeling.
Ebru Polat
wiley   +1 more source

Role of Emotions in Sustainable Consumption Behaviour: A Systematic Review and Future Research Agenda

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The literature on emotions in sustainable consumption behaviour (SCB) is fragmented, making it difficult to envision the pathways to future sustainable consumption. As of now, scholars have made several attempts to understand sustainable consumption, but few have explicitly focussed on the role of emotions. Therefore, the current study aims to
Mohd Sadiq   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Beyond Structural Interventions: The Human Architecture Shaping ESG Integration in Corporate Systems

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ABSTRACT Despite the promotion of ESG in corporate discourse, substantive integration of ESG principles into business practices remains challenging. This study applies and extends Meadows' leverage framework to examine ESG integration in UAE‐listed firms.
M. Schulte, Dimitris Christopoulos
wiley   +1 more source

Free Trade Zones and Corporate ESG: Evidence From a Quasi‐Natural Experiment in China

open access: yesBusiness 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
wiley   +1 more source

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