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Renewable Energy, Climate Risk, and the Cost of External Assurance: International Evidence

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Corporate shifts from fossil fuels to renewable energy are central to climate‐transition strategies, but their effects on external assurance have not been well understood. This study examines whether, how and where corporate renewable energy consumption affects the cost of external assurance, proxied by statutory audit fees.
Rashid Zaman, Terri Trireksani, Hadrian Geri Djajadikerta   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Who Cares About Carbon Performance Strategy? Ownership Structure as a Driver for Carbon Performance

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This research aims to highlight the empirical, theoretical, and corporate governance arguments employed in the academic literature that examines ownership structure as a determinant of carbon performance—a key element in contemporary climate governance frameworks.
Thicia Stela Lima Sampaio, M. Belén Lozano, Marcelle Colares Oliveira   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Global Supply Chain Resilience Paradox as an Ethical Dilemma: Trade‐offs, Tensions, and Multilevel Strategies in Times of Crisis and Disruption

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This research examines the resilience paradox in global supply chains, exploring how trade‐offs between economic and social‐ecological resilience escalate into managerial dilemmas under high environmental uncertainty. Using an abductive theory extension approach, we analyse a multinational automotive supply chain case during the Covid‐19 ...
Piotr Warmbier, Aseem Kinra, Dmitry Ivanov, Martin Müller   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Orchestration Up Close: Sustainable Business Model Innovation Through the Experiences and Activity Patterns of Secondary Stakeholders

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT While much research stresses the importance of stakeholder involvement and inter‐organizational collaboration in sustainable business model innovation, less is known about the dynamics and actor roles of these collaborative processes. This article investigates one particular role in the process: the orchestrator, a role taken by secondary ...
Leonie Schlüter
wiley   +1 more source

How Do Global Fashion Supply Chains Respond to Structural Pressures? Examining Sustainability Conduct Through a Spatial–Temporal–Functional Lens

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The fashion industry is facing unprecedented structural pressures, including increasing regulatory demands and rising expectations for social accountability. This study examines how global fashion supply chains respond to such pressures to advance sustainability.
Diletta Tosetto, Laura Macchion, Rosanna Fornasiero   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

How B Corp Leaders Engage Stakeholders in the Development of B Corp Strategies: Evidence From the Italian Context

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT As companies increasingly define success by measures beyond financial returns, leaders in recent decades have faced a pressing challenge: translating stakeholder‐driven purpose into sustainability strategies that employees genuinely understand and enact.
Lucia Gatti, Dario Risso, Ralf Wagner
wiley   +1 more source

Eyes on the Ground: Can Institutional Investor Site Visits Discipline Corporate ESG Hypocrisy?

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper investigates whether institutional investor site visits serve as an effective external governance mechanism for curbing environmental, social and governance (ESG) hypocrisy. Using panel data on Chinese A‐share listed firms from 2012 to 2021, we find that site visits significantly reduce ESG hypocrisy by improving internal control ...
Lichun Zheng, Wenjia Tang, Liang Zhao, Salwa Saleh Almasabi, David Kalisz   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Buyer–Supplier Relationships in the Modern Supply Chain: Exploring Professionals' Perspectives on Power Balance in Pursuit of Decarbonization

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Decarbonization is a contemporary and critical organizational agenda for meeting climate change goals, but little is known about how strategies deployed to meet decarbonization goals interact with employees' agentic capacities and coping strategies, particularly in the context of supply chain pressures and power dynamics.
Anushree Tandon, Rsha Alghafes, Muhammad Zafar Yaqub, Attila Kurucz   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Disclosure, Verification, and Value: The Impact of Climate Risk Disclosure on Institutional On‐Site Research and Economic Consequences

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Based on signaling theory and information asymmetry theory, this study uses a sample of Chinese A share listed firms from 2012 to 2023 to examine the effect of climate risk disclosure (CRD) on institutional on‐site research and its economic consequences.
Sha Tang, Chante Jian Ding, Abdullahi D. Ahmed   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

From Global Standards to Local Compliance: Implementation Heterogeneity in Cocoa Certification in Indonesia

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Certified companies translate voluntary sustainability standards (VSS) into local practice, yet little is known about how company‐level implementation of VSS relates to farmer compliance. This paper examines Rainforest Alliance (RA) implementation by three certified companies in the Indonesian cocoa sector. Drawing on compliance and regulatory
Charline Depoorter, Janne Bemelmans, Eva Boonaert, Axel Marx, Miet Maertens   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source