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Green Ambiguity Shapes Sustainable Investing
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Green Exchange‐Traded Funds (ETFs) have experienced strong growth in recent years, reflecting increasing investor attention toward sustainability. However, these funds rely on a wide range of environmental metrics that are often weakly aligned, raising concerns about the meaning of greenness in sustainable investing.
Rita Laura D'Ecclesia +2 more
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Energy is a fundamental driver of economic growth, shaping productivity, industrialization, and long‐term economic resilience. In sub‐Saharan Africa (SSA), where energy access remains uneven and infrastructure is underdeveloped, understanding sector‐specific energy demand is essential for designing sustainable energy strategies.
Michael Appiah +3 more
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Board Gender Diversity and Environmental Credit Risk in Banking: A Global Study of Bank Governance
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study investigates the relationship between board gender diversity and environmental credit risk in the global banking sector. Using a panel dataset of 345 publicly listed banks from 75 countries over the period 2018–2022, we find that greater female representation on bank boards is significantly associated with lower environmental credit
Kenza Mouti +2 more
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Although ESG controversies are on the rise, research investigating them yields contradictory findings. The paper provides resolutions to the debate through investigating (a) how ESG controversies influence firms' short‐term and long‐term financial performance; (b) how firms navigate ESG controversies' effect; and (c) how ESG controversies ...
Amalesh Sharma +3 more
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Stock Market Reactions to Climate Risk Events: A Systematic Literature Review and Research Agenda
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT As global warming intensifies, climate risks' impact on firm value has become a critical concern for academia and investors. This systematic literature review analyzes 50 event studies in this research field, classifying them by climate risk type.
Mario Schuster, Rainer Lueg
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The Fast, the Steady and the Tenacious: Funding Pathways for Circular Start‐Ups
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Circular start‐ups (CSUs) are critical for unlocking the circular economy, yet they face persistent barriers in accessing finance. Despite growing interest from policymakers and financing institutions, little empirical evidence explains how these ventures pursue and secure funding.
Pilar Mejía‐Vélez +4 more
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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
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The emerging concept of Hubs for Circularity (H4Cs) presents an opportunity to create collaborative, self‐sustaining regional industrial ecosystems that drive circular economy transitions at scale. However, the operationalisation of H4Cs faces financial, organisational and data‐driven challenges.
Aditya Tripathi +3 more
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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 +3 more
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Board Networks and Corporate Carbon Emissions: A Cross‐Country Analysis of Causal Effects
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study examines whether board networks influence corporate carbon emissions and the strategic pathways through which firms decarbonize. Using a sample of 1952 firms across 48 countries from 2003 to 2020, we employ dynamic stacked regressions that exploit exogenous carbon‐regulation shocks affecting firms connected through shared third ...
Katarzyna Burzynska +3 more
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