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The Adoption of Sufficiency Practices in Sustainability‐Oriented Businesses: A Mixed‐Methods Study of Enablers, Challenges, and Benefits

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Sufficiency is increasingly seen as a necessary complement to efficiency and circularity strategies to help prevent the transgression of planetary boundaries. However, empirical evidence on their broader relevance in business remains limited.
Maike Gossen   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Digital‐Sustainability Disconnect: A Test of Strategic Alignment in the Circular Economy Transition

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study challenges the common assumption that digital and sustainability transformations are naturally synergistic. Integrating signaling theory and the dynamic capability view, we argue that for many firms, particularly traditional SMEs, these initiatives are pursued on separate, unaligned strategic tracks, creating a “signaling‐substance ...
Nicolas Depetris‐Chauvin   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Circular Economy in the Management of Wastewater Treatment Plant: A Business Model Approach

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The water and wastewater management sector faces many challenges related to the implementation of a circular economy (CE). To date, sectoral CE solutions have focused mainly on technological innovations, with limited attention paid to social and economic aspects.
Marzena Smol   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Discursive Governance and Development Goals: A Performative Theory of Corporate Purpose in Sustainability Discourse

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study theorises and empirically tests performative purpose alignment theory (PPAT), which conceptualises corporate purpose as a performative artefact materialised through discursive and multimodal signals. To operationalise this, we introduced the SDG–Purpose Alignment Index (SPAI), a computational construct that quantifies the thematic ...
Augustine Okeke, Ifeanyi Ugbebor
wiley   +1 more source

Examining ESG Performance Through TNFD‐Aligned Disclosure Practices

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines adherence to the Taskforce on Nature‐related Financial Disclosures (TNFD) framework in relation to the ESG performance of non‐financial and non‐utility S&P 500 firms. Drawing on legitimacy, stakeholder, and institutional monitoring theories, we construct measures of TNFD, nature‐related risk and opportunity indicators for ...
Dauda Bola Abdulsalam   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Do Banks in the Middle East and North Africa Region Price Carbon Exposure?

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines whether carbon exposure is incorporated into corporate borrowing costs within the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. Using a panel of 771 firm‐year observations from publicly listed non‐financial firms between 2016 and 2023, the analysis investigates the relationship between carbon intensity and firms' cost of debt
Yara Ibrahim   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

From Waste to Worth: The Case for Modular and Upgradable Electronics in a Sustainable Future

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The rapid obsolescence of electronic products poses a major challenge to sustainable development due to rising e‐waste. Modular and upgradable product (MUP) architectures offer a promising approach to extend product lifetimes and reduce environmental impact. This study investigates how consumer perceptions and behaviours affect the adoption of
Mees Groothuis, Negin Salimi
wiley   +1 more source

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