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ESG Controversies in Global Firms: A Black Mark?

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Despite increasing attention paid by companies to sustainability, there is still evidence of environmental, social and governance (commonly referred to as ESG) scandals. As research on this topic is scant, this paper aims to analyse the impact of ESG controversies on firms' sustainability practices, that is, ESG policies, as well as ...
Beatrice Bais, Guido Orzes, Marco Sartor
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Reciprocity on the Edge of Distance Paradox: How Sustainability Motives and Hypocrisy Shape Consumer Responses to Nearshoring

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Despite growing interest in corporate relocation decisions and sustainability, the existing literature is limited in its consumer‐centric approach. Integrating social exchange theory and construal level theory, this research investigates how consumers perceive sustainability‐driven nearshoring motives (i.e., socio‐economic vs.
Cagla Dayangan, Nilay Bıçakcıoğlu‐Peynirci, Ozge Ozgen   +2 more
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Beyond Economic‐Environmental Dominance: Knowledge Management and Responsible Sustainability in Business Strategy Research

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study provides an exploratory, descriptive analysis of how knowledge management (KM) research engages with responsible sustainability from a strategic perspective. Using bibliometric science mapping, we analyse 97 Web of Science publications to identify dominant thematic patterns, relative emphases and conceptual blind spots shaping the ...
Jaime J. González‐Masip
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From Managerial Awareness to Behavior in the Circular Economy: The Role of Personality Traits and Organizational Support

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT As businesses are increasingly integrating circular economy (CE) principles to promote concrete sustainability actions, understanding which managerial aspects may align with this change becomes paramount. Employing a conceptual framework based on Cognitive‐Affective Personality System (CAPS) and Organizational Support theories, this study ...
Fiorenza Meucci, Flavio Spagnuolo, Annamaria Zampella, Marco Maffei   +3 more
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Political Appointment of Executives, Green Action and Firm Performance: Evidence From the World Bank Enterprise Survey

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Environmental sustainability and political influence increasingly shape corporate strategy, yet the link between politically appointed executives and firms' environmental actions remains underexplored. This study investigates whether political appointments to top executive positions influence the adoption of green action initiatives and how ...
Post Raj Pokharel, Munirah Sarhan AlQahtani, Suman Lodh, Monomita Nandy   +3 more
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Faith, Sustainability and Consumer Trust in Halal–Green Cosmetics: A Dual‐Trust Model Among Muslim Women

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines how firms secure legitimacy in markets where faith‐based expectations and environmental responsibility intersect, focusing on halal–green cosmetics among Muslim women. It conceptualises halal trust and green trust as parallel legitimacy pathways reflecting faith‐based legitimacy and environmental credibility, respectively ...
Dwi Suhartanto, Ani Kartikasari, Gundur Leo, Sitti Nur Azmi Fadhlurrahmah, Adelia Athifah Ambartola   +4 more
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When Nature Counts: Corporate Biodiversity Attention and Access to Bank Finance

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper investigates whether corporate attention to biodiversity influences firms' access to bank loans, an overlooked question in the emerging biodiversity–finance literature. Using a novel, text‐based measure constructed from 446 biodiversity‐related keywords and applied to Chinese A‐share listed firms from 2000 to 2023, we show that ...
Ruxiao Li, Bo Zhang, Zhang‐Hangjian Chen, Hafiz Hoque   +3 more
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Carbon Footprint of Bank Loans: Opportunities and Risk Implications in the Banking Industry

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines whether the carbon footprint of bank loan portfolios influences bank stability, profitability and cost efficiency and whether regulatory quality moderates these relationships. Using a balanced panel of 33 countries from 2005 to 2018, the analysis combines banking‐sector indicators from the World Bank Global Financial ...
Honglei Wang, Chen Lin, Kingsley Imandojemu, Omozele Lynda Showunmi, Romanus Osabohien, Felix Orole   +5 more
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A Green Consumer‐Based Approach to Advance Branding Strategies in Experiential Consumption Contexts. Insight From the Cruise Industry

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Growing environmental awareness has intensified demand for sustainability and transparency, especially in cruise tourism, a high‐impact and highly scrutinised service context. This study examines how green consumption values (GCV) shape passengers' perceptions of the credibility of green marketing claims (believability) and, in turn, influence
Marcello Risitano, Giuseppe La Ragione, Annarita Sorrentino, Francesco Parola   +3 more
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The Moral Manager in the Market: How CFOs' Ethical Intelligence Drives ESG Investment in Emerging Economies' Dual Markets

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT What propels a CFO in an emerging economy to champion ESG investments when formal regulations are weak? Moving beyond structural explanations, we provide a behavioural account arguing that a manager's internal ethical compass—moral intelligence (MI)—is a key driver.
AmirHossein ArminKia, Davood Askarany, Seyed Hamed Fahimifard, Seyedeh Kimia Shafahi Moghadam, Seyed Shayan Alavi   +4 more
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