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Innovation‐Led Sustainability in the Agri‐Food Sector: Evidence From the Global Food and Beverage Industry

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The agri‐food sector is vital to economic development, but it exerts significant environmental and social pressures. This study draws on the natural resource‐based view. It investigates the strategic sustainability‐performance nexus in the global food and beverage industry using a longitudinal dataset (2013–2023) of 633 firms across the EU ...
Alessandro Bernardo   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Corporate ESG Greenwashing: Does Regulatory Proximity Matter?

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Environmental, social, and governance (ESG) greenwashing undermines sustainable development, yet the influence of regulatory proximity on oversight is understudied. By introducing the “distance decay effect” from geoeconomics into ESG misconduct research and using a sample of Chinese listed firms from 2009 to 2022, this study reveals a ...
Weiqi Zhao   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Perils of Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) Controversies: Implications for a Firm's Financial and Nonfinancial Performance

open access: yesBusiness 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
wiley   +1 more source

Traditional online and live-streaming dual-channel strategies and pricing policies.

open access: yesPLoS ONE
This study examines the pricing policies and the dual-channel strategies in a two-tier supply chain where a manufacturer distributes products through a retailer and considers the opening of a traditional direct online channel or a live-streaming sales ...
Yue Yu   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Tensions of Sustainability Logics: Performance of a Company Utilizing a Sustainable Business Model

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In recent years, companies have used sustainable business models to gain a competitive advantage. However, there are tensions due to the inconsistency between social, environmental, and economic logic in sustainable business models, making it difficult for companies to change. To understand the existing tensions and interactions between logics,
Ann‐Kristin Thienemann
wiley   +1 more source

Operations Research‐Based Formalisation and Design of Sustainable Reverse Logistics for E‐Waste Supply Chains

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study demonstrates how a profitable, lean, and environmentally responsible e‐waste reverse logistics system can be designed using integrated Operations Research (OR) techniques. Addressing the growing urgency of responsible consumption (UN SDG 12) and the projected rise of the e‐waste sector to USD 137.60 billion by 2029, the research ...
Sheeba Pathak, Hajar Fatorachian
wiley   +1 more source

Spatiotemporal heterogeneity of online HIV self-testing sales and its potential driving factors in China, 2015–2020: a retrospective nationwide study

open access: yesBMC Public Health
Background Since the UNAIDS introduced HIV self-testing in 2014, its application has been widely adopted globally. Developed in China approximately 2015, HIV self-testing (HIVST), which involves the online purchase of testing kits via e-commerce ...
Yi Lv   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

Cluster Analysis of Circular Economy and Industrial Symbiosis Practices and Their Impact on Sustainability Performance in the Plastics Industry

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines how plastics manufacturing firms can be classified according to their level of implementation of circular economy (CE) and industrial symbiosis (IS) practices and how such adoption influences sustainability performance. Using data from plastics manufacturing firms, we integrate cluster analysis with partial least squares ...
Laura Cristina Ramírez‐Rodríguez   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Sales prediction in online banking

open access: yes, 2018
This master thesis seeks to explore how machine learning methods can be applied to predict the customers that are likely to purchase a credit card in Sparebank 1 SMN. The sales prediction problem has many similarities with customer churn prediction problems.
S. Stenberg, Erlend, Iden, Mathias
openaire   +1 more source

Price Discrimination and Online Sales in the Automobile Industry

open access: yesSSRN Electronic Journal
We investigate the welfare consequences of introducing an online distribution channel in the French car industry, where most sales take place in person through car dealers relying on third-degree price discrimination. We estimate a structural model of demand with unobserved third-degree price discrimination and transportation costs related to visiting ...
d'Haultfoeuille, Xavier   +3 more
openaire   +2 more sources

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