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Do Corporate ESG Disclosures Drive Consumer Demand (Sales)? The Role of Environmental Sensitivity
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The question of whether strong environmental, social, and governance (ESG) disclosure largely benefits high‐demand customers or if it generates value across all sales levels is yet to be empirically verified. This study, therefore, examines how ESG performance influences consumer demand (sales outcomes) among listed firms across African ...
Idorenyin J. Okon +2 more
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The implementation of non-cash transactions to date still has obstacles that hinder spending treasurers from carrying out their duties. The application only supports Sulselbar bank accounts so that other bank accounts take a long time for the fund ...
Dedy Herianto +3 more
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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 +2 more
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Free Cash-Flow, Issuance Costs and Stock Price Volatility [PDF]
We study the issuance and payout policies that maximize the value of a firm facing both agency costs of free cash-flow and external financing costs. We find that the firm optimally issues equity.
Rochet, Jean-Charles +3 more
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Net‐Zero Investment Strategies Need an Absolute Emission Reduction Metric
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The climate crisis calls for rapid absolute reductions in greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, requiring significant capital reallocation. In the financial industry, net‐zero investment strategies are mostly guided by relative carbon intensity (CI) metrics rather than absolute GHG emissions.
Andreas G. F. Hoepner +4 more
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Do Banks in the Middle East and North Africa Region Price Carbon Exposure?
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study examines whether carbon exposure is incorporated into corporate borrowing costs within the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. Using a panel of 771 firm‐year observations from publicly listed non‐financial firms between 2016 and 2023, the analysis investigates the relationship between carbon intensity and firms' cost of debt
Yara Ibrahim +2 more
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Cash holdings, corporate governance and financial constraints. [PDF]
We examine the relation between cash holdings, quality of governance and financial constraints. We find that firms with strong shareholder rights hold more cash, contrary to the predictions of agency theory.
Saddour, Khaoula, Ginglinger, Edith
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Given the growing pressure for indigenous stakeholder engagement, this paper explores the extent and nature of indigenous stakeholder engagement disclosures in the sustainability reporting of Australian mining companies. Drawing on stakeholder theory and legitimacy theory, this study explores how large Australian mining companies disclose ...
Md. Moazzem Hossain +5 more
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT There is extensive literature on the relationship between corporate governance (CG) and firms' environmental performance (EP). However, the empirical findings remain somewhat equivocal. A variety of theoretical approaches have been utilised to provide a suitable basis for explaining the causal relationship, including legitimacy theory ...
Lukas Horner, Michael Grüning
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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 +3 more
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