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Asymmetric Relationships Between Sustainability Performance, Disclosure, and Market Value Under Isomorphic Disclosure Pressures: Evidence From Japan

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines how sustainability performance is translated into sustainability disclosure under peer‐based isomorphic pressures and how such disclosures are valued in capital markets. Using 2016–2023 panel data from 647 Japanese‐listed firms, we analyze the triadic relationship between sustainability performance, sustainability ...
Kimitaka Nishitani, Eri Nakamura, Qi Sun, Hisayuki Kosaka, Tsugio Watanabe, Daisuke Furuta   +5 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

Do High Temperatures Affect Firm Demography? Evidence From Italy

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study analyses the impact of high temperatures and heat stress on Italian firm demography during 2009–2022. Combining provincial‐firm‐level data with a high‐resolution multidecadal meteorological dataset, we investigate whether high temperatures—absolute and anomalous—affect firm entry and exit rates.
Concetta Carnevale, Danilo Drago, Francesco Trivieri, Francesco De Simone   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Sustainability Reporting Quality, Ethical Leadership, and Earnings Management: Evidence From an Emerging Economy

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study analyzes the relationship between sustainability reporting quality (SRQ) and earnings management (EM) in an emerging economy and investigates the moderating role of ethical leadership. Analyzing 531 firm‐year observations from mandatory reports (2022–2024), SRQ is measured via a 51‐indicator index, while EM is proxied by the ...
Taghred Mokhtar Sayed Moawad, Khaled Hussainey, Yara Ibrahim   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Journey to Net‐Zero and Investment in Renewable Energy: Evidence From Developed and Developing Countries

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines how geopolitical risk, high‐technology exports and the Paris Agreement shape investment in renewable energy across developed and developing economies. Drawing on structural contingency theory, we conceptualise renewable energy investment as a country‐level response to external contingencies and analyse a global panel of 100
Tianqi Luo, Konstantinos Baltas, Ranadeva Jayasekera, Thanos Papadopoulos, Gazi Salah Uddin, Donghyun Park   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Validated Signalling: How Ownership Structure Enhances ESG Disclosure Credibility in an Emerging Market

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT While signalling theory predicts that ESG disclosure reduces information asymmetry and supports forward‐looking firm valuation, this relationship remains contested in emerging markets with concentrated ownership. Using a panel of 84 Turkish listed firms over 2014–2024 (924 firm‐years) and two‐step system GMM, we examine whether business groups,
Ajab Khan, Alhashmi Aboubaker Lasyoud, Mariam Abbas   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Leveraging Double Materiality as a Decision‐Making Tool for ESG Management and Reporting in Hydroponics

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines how the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) and double materiality can be integrated within the agri‐food sector, with a particular focus on a company operating in hydroponic agriculture. This study conducts a comprehensive double materiality assessment to evaluate the organization's socio‐environmental ...
Christian Bux, Pasquale Giungato, Serena Sebastiani, Angela Tarabella   +3 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

Diversity, Inclusion, and Firm Performance: The Corporate Innovation Channel

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper examines whether corporate innovation—measured both as general innovative output and as environmental innovation—mediates the relationship between diversity and inclusion (D&I) and corporate financial performance (CFP). Prior research has documented positive, negative, and null associations between D&I and financial outcomes, but ...
Eleonora Monaco, Luca Galati, Lorenzo Dal Maso, Marco Maria Mattei   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Heat Is On: Climate Change–Related Challenges and SMEs' R&D Activities

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Investing in R&D is a key way for small‐ and medium‐sized enterprises (SMEs) to develop capabilities that are required to respond to climate change–related challenges. However, the extent to which such challenges affect SMEs' R&D activities remains a critical gap in the literature.
Gráinne Gibson, Helena Lenihan, Mauricio Perez‐Alaniz, Christian Rammer   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source