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Broad Skills, Smaller Footprints? Generalist CEOs and Firm Biodiversity Exposure

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We examine whether CEO generalist skills predict firm‐level biodiversity risk exposure, an emerging strategic and financial concern. Using the biodiversity indicator developed based on textual analysis and the General Ability Index, we find that firms led by generalist CEOs are associated with significantly lower disclosed biodiversity risk ...
Hafiz Hoque, Saadia Irfan, Linh Thi Tue Tran   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Deforestation‐Free Cocoa: Implications for Organizational Adaptation and Compliance Costs

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Mandatory due diligence is an emerging policy instrument for addressing global environmental challenges, yet how such regulations reshape firm‐level organizational structures and generate compliance costs remains poorly understood. Drawing on organizational theory, this study examines how companies in the German cocoa and chocolate sector ...
Daniel Braun, Jan Börner, Daniel Hermann   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Current Market Landscape and Industry Voices in Key Timber Construction Markets

Buildings
The global timber construction market is experiencing steady growth, driven by increasing demand for sustainable building solutions, advancements in engineered timber technologies, and supportive policy frameworks.
Libo Yan, Raoul Klingner, Ahmad Al-Qudsi, Haoze Chen, Junaid Ajaz Dand   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Time Management in Circular Construction: A Systematic Review of Secondary Materials Integration

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The transition of the building and construction industry towards a circular economy (CE) increasingly relies on the integration of secondary materials. This integration can disrupt the traditional cost, time and quality metrics of project success.
Soheila Ghafoor, Salman Shooshtarian, Peter S. P. Wong, Tayyab Maqsood, André Stephan, Behzad Abbasnejad   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Strategic Adaptation or Strategic Confusion? Fashion Organisations' Engagement With Sustainability Certifications

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Despite considerable costs associated with environmental certifications, fashion organisations consistently adopt multiple schemes to address sustainability challenges. As key mechanisms of sustainability governance, certifications expand legitimacy signalling opportunities, yet questions remain about their practical implementation and ...
Josephine Alice Mckenzie, Sukhbir Sandhu, Carol T. Kulik   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The relationship between timber use in construction and property purchasing decisions in Australia: The mediating effects of environmental attitudes

Sustainable Futures
Timber is a renewable resource increasingly utilised in sustainable construction, including in Mass Timber Construction (MTC). Consumer demand is likely pivotal to the mainstream adoption of MTC, the influence of consumer attitudes and purchasing ...
Paul D. Kremer, Mark A. Symmons
doaj   +1 more source

Comparison of using two LCA software programs to assess the environmental impacts of two institutional buildings [PDF]

Sustainable Structures
The current trends in climate change have captured the attention of stakeholders across multiple industries, including the building sector. With the introduction of innovative building materials such as mass timber products (MTPs), it has become ...
Chang Gu, Homgmei Gu, Meng Gong, Janet Blackadar, Nadia Zahabi   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Mind the Gaps! Legitimacy and Expectation Misalignments in Sustainability Disclosure: Case Evidence From a Public Forestry Sector Organization

Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Sustainability disclosure by public sector organizations remains under‐examined, particularly in the forestry and natural resources sector, where organizations combine strong public accountability obligations with operations in environmentally sensitive ecosystems.
Dimitra Panori, Konstantinos G. Papaspyropoulos   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Translating Across Boundaries: The Process of Integrating Forestry Into the German National Water Strategy

Environmental Policy and Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Participatory processes are increasingly recognized as essential components of modern environmental governance. While much scholarly attention has been devoted to the design and implementation of such processes, less is known about the critical phase between participatory processes and final policy outputs.
Sabeth Häublein
wiley   +1 more source

Assessing Policy‐Oriented Learning About Climate‐Related Forest Disturbances in Europe

Environmental Policy and Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT European forests provide multiple ecosystem services but are increasingly under pressure from climate‐related disturbances such as droughts, storms and insect calamities. Forest policy is an important driver for the adaptation of forest management practices to climate change.
Pascal Renaud‐Bernath, Metodi Sotirov, Jens Nilsson, Annica Sandström, Karin Beland Lindahl, Marcin Mielewczyk, Krzysztof Niedziałkowski, Zala Uhan, Špela Pezdevšek Malovrh   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source