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Paying for Privilege: How Political Contributions Undermine Environmental Sustainability—And How Executive Contracting Can Restore Balance

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We are interested in investigating whether firms use political donations as a license to neglect environmental sustainability. We further deepen the examination by exploring the role of executive contracting. Drawing on a wide range of data between 2002 and 2021 and a global sample, our findings confirm that firms use political contributions ...
Habiba Al‐Shaer, Ali Uyar, Cemil Kuzey, Abdullah S. Karaman   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Can Credit Rating Changes Affect Corporate Carbon Emissions? Some Evidence From the S&P 500

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Using panel data on US S&P 500 firms from 2012 to 2024, this study examines how credit rating changes affect corporate carbon performance. Drawing on the resource‐based view and prospect theory, we show that credit rating downgrades lead to a statistically and economically significant deterioration in emission reduction scores.
Michal Wojewodzki, Mohamad H. Shahrour, Alireza Rohani, Bradley R. Barnes, Chi Keung Marco Lau   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Whose Sustainability Counts? Board Governance, ESG Ratings, and Sustainable Development Goals: Evidence on the ESG–SDG Wedge

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Institutional investors increasingly rely on ESG ratings to evaluate financially material sustainability risks, while governments promote corporate alignment with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Because these frameworks differ substantially in capital market salience and monitoring intensity, board oversight may not ...
Mohamed Hegazy, Diego Prior, Mahmoud Zarea   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Consensus-based methods for distributed systems, blockchain, and voting: a survey

Journal of Information and Telecommunication
Condorcet and Borda first introduced the consensus theory in the eighteenth century when they studied voting systems. Consensus problems have been investigated for a long time in many fields such as economics, sociology, computer science, bioinformatics,
Dai Tho Dang, Dosam Hwang
doaj   +1 more source

Strategic Implications of Mandatory ESG Assurance and Its Impact on Competitive Advantage: Evidence From European Market Reactions

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The EU has recently introduced, for the first time, a market‐wide mandatory assurance requirement for sustainability reporting under the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD). The directive mandates that affected firms obtain independent third‐party assurance for their ESG reports. This study examines the equity market's reaction
Zelalem Abay
wiley   +1 more source

Clawback Policy Performance and Climate Change–Related Disclosures: Evidence From Australia

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines the association between the strength of remuneration clawback policies and climate change disclosure performance (CCDP) among Australian nonfinancial firms over the period 2008–2022. Grounded in agency theory, signalling theory and governance complementarity, the findings show that stronger clawback provisions are ...
Baban Eulaiwi, Ahmed Al‐Hadi, Iman Harymawan, Wisam Neema Hussein, Lien Duong, Grantley Taylor   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Impact of FinTech on the Achievement of the UN Sustainable Development Goals: A Hybrid Systematic Review

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Financial technology (FinTech) is recognized as an important enabler of sustainable development. However, it presents a fragmented and limited explanation of how FinTech may contribute to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Through this hybrid systematic review of 93 articles published between 2015 and May 2026, this study ...
Salman Bahoo, Galina Kondrateva, Ramil Khabirov, John W. Goodell, Justin Paul   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Multidimensional Sustainability Performance Measurement in the Banking Industry: A Data‐Driven Grey Decision‐Support Framework

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Given the critical role that banks play in sustainable development through their financial intermediation and capital allocation functions, assessing their sustainability performance has become an increasingly important research issue.
Özcan Işık, Mohsin Shabir, Alparslan Oğuz, Okan Alkan   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Managerial Conflicts of Interest: Heterogeneous Sustainability Outcomes Through Actions Directed at Primary and Secondary Stakeholders

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper investigates whether firms' sustainability actions aimed at serving multiple stakeholders lead to similar or differing sustainability outcomes depending on the manager's stakeholder focus. It proposes a conceptual framework distinguishing between primary and secondary stakeholders, wherein managers can face conflicts of interest ...
Felix B. Fischer, Paul A. Griffin, Florian Habermann   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Signalling ESG Misconduct: What Matters to Investors?

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We investigate what matters most to investors when environmental, social and governance (ESG)‐related corporate misconduct news is signalled and how these factors influence the magnitude of market value punishment. Using an event study on 44,859 corporate news items related to ESG incidents, we find that investors react negatively to such ...
Dewan Muktadir‐Al‐Mukit
wiley   +1 more source