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Free Trade Zones and Corporate ESG: Evidence From a Quasi‐Natural Experiment in China

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines how China's Pilot Free Trade Zones (FTZs) influence corporate ESG performance. Using a staggered difference‐in‐differences model on Chinese listed firms from 2009 to 2024, we combine coarsened exact matching (CEM) and geography‐based instrumental variables to ensure robust identification.
Wen Li, Yinghan Zhao, Brian Lucey
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Digital Technology's Role in Circular Waste Management: A Systematic Review

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Combining circular economy ideas with digital tools offers a game‐changing way to tackle global sustainability problems. This paper focuses on how digital changes and circular economy models link up. A review has been conducted for 112 articles from 2021 to September 2025, using PRISMA‐2020 methodology. This study covered new tech like AI, IoT,
Reza Eslamipoor
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Too Complex to Control? How Firms Navigate Scope 3 Governance Under Institutional Uncertainty

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT As Scope 3 emissions make up the largest share of many firms' carbon footprints, firms face growing pressure to manage emissions beyond their direct control. Ongoing revisions of the CSRD, the GHG Protocol, and the SBTi Net‐Zero Standard further increase regulatory and methodological uncertainty.
Victoria Fohrer, Alexander Stierstorfer, Florian Gilljam   +2 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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Mapping the Global South Circular Economy: A Bibliometric‐Narrative Analysis

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Although the circular economy (CE) is gaining popularity because of its propensity to optimise the sustainability of resources, few scholars have examined how this field has evolved in the Global South. Using bibliometric‐narrative analysis, our paper maps general and thematic trends of CE in the Global South using micro, meso, and macro level
Dede Iskandar Siregar, Rory Padfield, Sally Russell, James van Alstine   +3 more
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Towards Strong Sustainability: Exploring Reconfigurations of Sufficiency‐Oriented and Regenerative Business Models

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Despite increasing adoption of sustainable business models, environmental decline and social disparities continue to accelerate. Strong sustainable business models offer an alternative by prioritizing ecological limits and systemic change. Drawing on an integrative literature review and business model modularization, this study examines how ...
Maike Gossen, Katrin Pakizer, Maren Kropfeld, Nancy Bocken   +3 more
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The Impact of Generative AI on the Perpetuation and Detection of Greenwashing in Sustainability Reports: Insights From an Experiment

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Our study, based around an experiment, examines the consequences when generative AI tools are used to create and assess sustainability disclosures. There are two key findings: (1) that generative AI greenwashes sustainability disclosures, with our study participants doing little to mitigate this, and (2) that our study participants viewed AI ...
Ruth Dimes, Charl de Villiers, Paul Denny, Juho Leinonen   +3 more
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Financing Climate Action Through Fair Taxation: How SDG Engagement Reduces Corporate Tax Avoidance

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The transition to a low‐carbon economy, central to achieving Paris Agreement targets and Sustainable Development Goal 13 (Climate Action), requires unprecedented public and private investment. A significant climate financing gap persists, however, exacerbated by corporate practices that erode the public revenue base.
Ahmed Aboud, Niccolò Nirino, Panagiota Papadimitri, Michael Christofi   +3 more
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Locked in Transition: Examining the Role of Paradoxical Tensions in the Transition From Industrial Cluster to Eco‐Clusters

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Industrial clusters are central to the circular economy transition, yet how they develop into eco‐clusters and the paradoxical tensions this transformation fuels remain underexplored. Drawing on 48 in‐depth interviews and secondary data from a Turkish textile‐recycling cluster, we develop an empirically grounded model of eco‐cluster transition
Tulin Dzhengiz, Leona A. Henry, Simon M. Smith   +2 more
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The Role of Supply Chain Capabilities in Linking Circular Economy Practices and Supply Chain Resilience

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines how circular economy (CE) practices relate to supply chain resilience (SCRES), focusing on the capability‐based mechanisms through which CE strategies may influence resilience outcomes. Drawing on survey data from 125 Italian firms engaged in CE initiatives, we employ partial least squares structural equation modelling (PLS‐
Roberta Pellegrino, Barbara Gaudenzi, Luca Fraccascia, Andrea Genovese, Luigi Jesus Basile   +4 more
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