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Tensions of Sustainability Logics: Performance of a Company Utilizing a Sustainable Business Model
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In recent years, companies have used sustainable business models to gain a competitive advantage. However, there are tensions due to the inconsistency between social, environmental, and economic logic in sustainable business models, making it difficult for companies to change. To understand the existing tensions and interactions between logics,
Ann‐Kristin Thienemann
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The Fast, the Steady and the Tenacious: Funding Pathways for Circular Start‐Ups
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Circular start‐ups (CSUs) are critical for unlocking the circular economy, yet they face persistent barriers in accessing finance. Despite growing interest from policymakers and financing institutions, little empirical evidence explains how these ventures pursue and secure funding.
Pilar Mejía‐Vélez +4 more
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The Global Hinterland of Social Democracy
Nordisk VälfärdsforskningEvery instantiation of decommodifying welfare capitalism relies on a global hinterland, an exterior space for which commodification still remains the rule and whose function is to service the national interior of a social democratic polity. Taking Norway
Victor L. Shammas
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Capital Markets, Ownership and Distance [PDF]
, 2006 This paper uses a new data-set to examine how internal capital markets and foreignownership affect investment. Our data allow us to compare investment behaviour of listedsubsidiaries with stand-alone firms while controlling for investment opportunities of parentand subsidiary firms. We evaluate how the size of ownership and the geographical proximityof
Carlin, Wendy +2 more
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A Critical Analysis of Microsoft's Rhetoric and Reality of Sustainability Engagement
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study critically examines Microsoft's environmental, social and governance (ESG) rhetoric and operational reality, to offer insights that extend beyond conventional greenwashing or bluewashing. Drawing on over 20 years of Microsoft's sustainability reports (2003–2024), third‐party ESG evaluations and media investigations, it employs ...
Omaima A. G. Hassan, Iqbal Khadaroo
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Beyond Structural Interventions: The Human Architecture Shaping ESG Integration in Corporate Systems
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.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
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Dependent versus state-permeated capitalism: two basic options for emerging markets
International Journal of Management and Economics, 2018 Can comparative capitalism (CC) assist us in understanding both the rise and the current challenges of emerging market capitalism? This article applies analytical instruments developed in CC scholarship on emerging markets to address this question ...
Nölke Andreas
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Environmental management accounting (EMA) is increasingly recognised as essential for carbon governance, accountability and net zero transitions, yet research has overlooked how sustainability is negotiated within mission‐driven but commercially exposed service organisations such as private hospitals in developing economies, a sector often ...
M. M. Swalih, Ronita Ram, Edward Tew
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CAPITAL INVESTMENTS AND CAPITAL MARKET
This article examines the role of capital investments and the capital market in the economic system, their interrelationship, and their impact on the country's economic development. Capital investments are analyzed as a key factor in expanding the production process, accelerating technological innovation, and enhancing the competitiveness of the ...
Toshtemirova, Ezoza, Egamova, Durdona
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study examines the drivers of biodiversity disclosure and the interplay between firm strategies and national institutions in shaping transparency. Using a global panel of 4703 firms across 40 economies from 2013 to 2022, we integrate differentiation, signalling and institutional perspectives to explain variation in reporting behaviour ...
Chi Chen +2 more
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