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ABSTRACT Digital agriculture is expanding rapidly, yet research has only begun to examine how AgTech startups design and adapt their business models, through digital technologies, in response to technological change and rising sustainability expectations.
Mauro Florez +4 more
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Firm‐Level Climate Risk and Stock Price Crash: Does Investor Attention or Sentiment Matter?
ABSTRACT This study moves beyond traditional crash‐risk channels focused on managerial bad‐news hoarding to examine how firm‐level climate risk translates into stock price crashes through investor behaviour. Using a novel text‐based measure of climate exposure extracted from earnings call transcripts, we capture firm‐specific regulatory, physical and ...
Hoa Phan +4 more
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ABSTRACT Chief executive officers (CEOs) play a pivotal role in shaping public discourse on climate change through social media, yet how their language use affects the effectiveness of climate‐related posts remains unclear. Drawing on schema‐congruity theory and leader role expectations, we conceptualize certainty in language as congruent and anxiety ...
Ellen Weber +4 more
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Beyond the Board: Does CEO‐CFO Tenure Staggering Curb ESG Greenwashing?
ABSTRACT Greenwashing threatens the credibility of corporate environmental strategies and ESG disclosure by creating a disconnect between symbolic claims and substantive action. Existing research mainly focuses on external pressures and formal governance mechanisms, with limited attention to the relational structure of the top management team ...
Zhe Sun +4 more
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ABSTRACT Extreme heat has become a recurring operational challenge that disrupts production, raises energy and maintenance needs, and makes it harder for firms to sustain environmental performance. However, it remains less clear whether AI‐related capability is associated with firms' ability to maintain environmental performance under recurring extreme‐
Shangze Dai, Xinde James Ji, Kai Huang
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Symbolic Versus Substantive ESG Practices: A Systematic Review and Integrative Framework
ABSTRACT ESG reporting is widespread, but symbolic commitments do not always reflect substantive practices. This study conducts a systematic literature review of 62 empirical articles published between 2021 and 2025 to synthesize the main determinants and consequences of this disclosure–performance misalignment in ESG reporting (commonly referred to as
Cristina Alexandrina Ştefănescu +1 more
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A Survey of the European IPO Market. CEPS ECMI Research Reports No. 2, 18 August 2006 [PDF]
Based on a sample of 15 European countries, this survey analyses various features of the European IPO (Initial Public Offering) market over the period from 1995 to 2004: listing requirements, IPO-mechanism choices, performance and secondary market ...
Gajewski, Jean-Francois. +1 more
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ABSTRACT This study provides exploratory evidence on whether going public may act as a catalyst for corporate sustainability and examines whether board‐level governance arrangements shape post‐IPO sustainability trajectories. Drawing on a formal conceptual framework that integrates agency theory, legitimacy theory, and the resource‐based view as ...
Salvatore La Barbera
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Talk or Walk: Evidence on the Impact of Green Reporting on Corporate Green Growth
ABSTRACT This study presents novel insights on modeling whether green reporting is merely talk or effectively drives corporate green growth, which is an essential factor for sustainable development and addressing environmental and climate‐related challenges.
Shengying Shi, Hamdan Al‐Jaifi
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The Variability of IPO Initial Returns [PDF]
The monthly volatility of IPO initial returns is substantial, fluctuates dramatically over time, and is considerably larger during "hot" IPO markets. Consistent with IPO theory, the volatility of initial returns is higher among firms whose value is more ...
Michelle Lowry +2 more
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