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Navigating the ESG Paradox: Strategic Pathways Between Innovation and Washing Under Stakeholder Scrutiny

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT As firms increasingly incorporate environmental, social, and governance (ESG) concerns into their strategic agendas, stakeholder legitimacy—an audience‐conferred judgment of organizational appropriateness—has become pivotal. We theorize legitimacy as expanding a hybrid response portfolio in which firms may pursue substantive change (business ...
Min‐Jae Lee, Anna Pak, Donghwi (Josh) Seo, Taewoo Roh   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Leveraging Industry 4.0 technologies for organizational sustainability performance in Chinese firms: an NRBV-mediated model advancing UN SDGs 9 and 12. [PDF]

Sci Rep
Gao Y, Wang J, Chen X, Peng S, Mustafa S.   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Venture Funding: Signals of Environmental Orientation and Their Interplay With Investor‐ and Country‐Level Characteristics

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Environmentally oriented ventures pursue a dual mission: to create both environmental and financial value. This dual mission adds complexity and can influence ventures' funding prospects, as investors mostly pursue financial motivations.
David Flore, Corinna Vera Hedwig Schmidt, Steffen Strese   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Risk-Sensitive Machine Learning for Financial Decision Modeling Under Imbalanced Data: Evidence from Bank Telemarketing. [PDF]

Entropy (Basel)
Dong B, Zhang X, Liu Y, Zhang T, Liu X, Hou L, Meng L, Guo Z, Mulati A.   +8 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Beyond Profit: Do Mergers and Acquisitions and the Board of Directors Increase the Environmental, Social, and Governance?

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines the relationship between mergers and acquisitions (M&A), board characteristics, and ESG performance in BRICS companies, considering the moderating role of sectoral sensitivity. The study analyzes 11,402 observations from 2293 BRICS companies, employing Two‐Stage Least Squares (2SLS) to address endogeneity and logistic ...
Geovane Camilo dos Santos, Camila Lima Bazani, Pablo Zambra   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Business Intelligence and the export competitiveness of lambayecan SMEs in the north of Peru. [PDF]

F1000Res
Morán-Santamaría RO, Llonto-Caicedo Y, Choque-Yarasca CL, Barrutia-Montoya NR, Bardales-Torres LJ, Gil-Contreras LI, Chavesta-Paico SJ, Marchena-Chanduvi RI, Sánchez-Alamo DM, Ruiz-Díaz IG, Lizana-Guevara NP.   +10 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Resource‐Centered Transformation Paths: The Role of Digital Transformation in Optimizing SME Resources for Sustainable Entrepreneurship

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The critical role of small and medium‐sized enterprises (SMEs) in driving economic growth through employment generation and innovation cannot go unseen, especially the efforts of small firms in promoting sustainable entrepreneurship. With more market and consumer focus on sustainability and the shift toward eco‐friendly products, SMEs can ...
Nasser Hadi Alajmi
wiley   +1 more source

Internalization of Management Systems and Eco‐Product Innovation: The More the Better?

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Environmental challenges demand urgent and strategic responses from firms. Eco‐product innovation (EPI) is a key approach to reducing environmental impact while preserving competitiveness. This research analyses the relationship between EPI and the internalization of management system (MS) certifications, focusing on ISO 9001, ISO 14001, and ...
Alfonso Hernandez‐Vivanco, Jonathan Calleja‐Blanco, Merce Bernardo   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source