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Barriers to the Adoption of Circular Economy Business Models in the Indian Textile Industry

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Indian textile industry has significant negative impacts on the environment. This industry needs to adopt a circular economy approach to become more sustainable; however, progress on this has been limited. In this study, we report on the barriers to adoption of Circular Economy Business Models (CEBMs) in the Indian textile industry.
Himanshu Chandra, Jerry Anthony, Aradhna Malik   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Sound Financial Practices and Entrepreneurs' Socio‐Environmental Commitment: Revealing the Role of Financial Barriers

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Small enterprises (SEs) constitute a major component of economic systems, and their socio‐environmental commitment is critical for promoting societal well‐being. This paper examines the direct effect of sound financial practices on socio‐environmental commitment and evaluates the mediating role of financial constraints—specifically debt and ...
Marcos Álvarez‐Espiño, Sara Fernández‐López, Lucía Rey‐Ares   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Dynamic Spillovers Between FinTech, Blockchain, and Green Finance: A Quantile Connectedness Approach

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper explores how financial innovation and environmental sustainability intersect by analyzing spillovers between FinTech, blockchain energy use, and green finance. Using a Quantile Vector Autoregression (QVAR) framework, we examine weekly data from 2018 to 2024 across 11 digital, environmental, and macro‐financial indices.
Mehmet Sahiner, Sisi Sung, James Devlin
wiley   +1 more source

Internationalization and ESG Controversies: Do Foreign Directors on Corporate Boards Matter?

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines the relationship between internationalization and environmental, social, and governance (ESG) controversies, focusing on whether foreign directors on corporate boards influence this relationship. Drawing on resource dependence theory, we argue that internationalization increases ESG controversies due to the complexity of ...
Mohamed Elsayed, Ali Meftah Gerged, Yousry Ahmed, Ali Uyar, Abdullah S. Karaman   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Are Governments Green Shareholders? The Impact of State Ownership on Environmental Performance at Home and Abroad

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Despite the critical role that state‐owned enterprises (SOEs) can play in the green transition, relatively little is known about governments' environmental behavior as foreign shareholders. This study examines the effect of state ownership on domestic and foreign environmental performance.
Pablo Torres, Germà Bel, Marc Esteve
wiley   +1 more source

Clusters, Global Value Chains, and the Business Environment: A Hierarchy of Institutional Influence on Small and Medium Enterprise Sustainability

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) dominate the global business landscape, making their sustainability efforts crucial. Yet little is known about how institutional contexts shape these practices. Using Institutional Theory, we compare the influence of cluster membership (CM), global value chain (GVC) membership, and the organizational ...
Barbara Caemmerer, Valentina Stan, Giorgio Russolillo   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Corporate Decarbonization: Understanding CO2 Emission Drivers Across High‐ and Low‐Polluting Firms in OECD Countries

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Decarbonization of the economy is a central challenge in the fight against climate change. Although most governments show clear commitment to limiting global warming, the drivers of corporate decarbonization remain underexplored. Using a dataset of 1052 firms from OECD, this article analyses how intangible assets and environmental innovation ...
Yanik Nimtz, Mercedes Teruel
wiley   +1 more source

Corporate Environmental Responsibility and Cost of Equity Capital: A Meta‐Analytical Review

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Despite extensive research on the relationship between corporate environmental responsibility (CER) and cost of equity capital (COEC), empirical evidence remains inconsistent. This study addresses these inconsistencies through a comprehensive meta‐analysis of 1139 effect sizes from 75 studies.
Robert Witte, Ewald Aschauer, Helmut Pernsteiner   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Investor Perceptions of Climate Policy: Insights From the US Inflation Reduction Act

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper provides the first event study evidence on how the Inflation Reduction Act's (IRA) dedicated climate provisions reshaped equity valuations in the US carbon‐intensive sectors. Focusing on environmentally sensitive industries (ESI), we analyze cumulative abnormal returns around the four key IRA milestones in 2022–2023.
Laura Ferraro, Arati Kale, Devendra Kale, Franco Ernesto Rubino   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Climate Change Risk and Financial Stability: Implications for European Banking Institutions

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines whether climate change risk weakens banking‐system stability in the European Union and assesses how renewable energy adoption and energy‐related taxation moderate this relationship. Using panel data for 27 EU countries from 2012 to 2022 and applying fixed‐effects OLS, two‐stage least squares (2SLS), and robust generalized ...
Md Yousuf Ali
wiley   +1 more source