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Greening the Bottom Line: Public Funding for Circular Economy Initiatives and Financial Stability
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Public funding for circular economy (CE) initiatives plays a crucial role in shaping corporate financial performance, yet its effects remain underexplored. Grounded in the resource‐based view (RBV) of the firm, this study investigates the financial impact of CE funding on private firms, using Portugal as a case study. It analyses the financial
Rui Cruz +3 more
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Ownership stability and executive pay gap: evidence from China
Humanities & Social Sciences CommunicationsIn recent years, the executive pay gap has become a topic of concern from both theoretical and practical perspectives. In the specific context of executive pay regulation in Chinese state-owned enterprises, strategies to effectively motivate Chinese ...
Yong Jiang +3 more
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Does Climate Risk Affect Employment Decisions? International Evidence
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study investigates the effect of climate risk on corporate employment decisions. Using a large sample from 41 countries, we find a positive association between climate risk and underinvestment in labor, notably manifesting as excessive employee layoffs.
Claude Francoeur +3 more
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Target Firm's ESG Engagement and Post–M&A Performance: The Mediating Role of Acquirer's CSR Strategy
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The paper examines whether the environmental, social and governance (ESG) performance of target firms influences both accounting‐based and market‐based corporate financial performance (CFP) within the merger and acquisition (M&A) context and whether this relationship is mediated by the acquirer's corporate social responsibility (CSR) strategy.
Francesco Gangi +4 more
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Institutions, Property Rights, and Growth [PDF]
This paper presents a growth model in which property rights are insecure and costly to enforce. Losses of property provide the impetus to establish institutions which seek to enforce property rights.
Paul Zak
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Internationalization and ESG Controversies: Do Foreign Directors on Corporate Boards Matter?
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study examines the relationship between internationalization and environmental, social, and governance (ESG) controversies, focusing on whether foreign directors on corporate boards influence this relationship. Drawing on resource dependence theory, we argue that internationalization increases ESG controversies due to the complexity of ...
Mohamed Elsayed +4 more
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Asymmetric property rights in China's economic growth: [PDF]
"This paper highlights the difference between secure investor property rights and loosely defined individual property rights. Globalization and fiscal decentralization have intensified this difference.
Zhang, Xiaobo
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Despite the critical role that state‐owned enterprises (SOEs) can play in the green transition, relatively little is known about governments' environmental behavior as foreign shareholders. This study examines the effect of state ownership on domestic and foreign environmental performance.
Pablo Torres, Germà Bel, Marc Esteve
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Amfiteatru Economic, 2015 Mature capitalism and market economy realities become intelligible also by scrutinizing their “prodigal children”: modern business corporations. But these are not some undivided entities.
Octavian-Dragomir Jora +3 more
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A Critical Analysis of Microsoft's Rhetoric and Reality of Sustainability Engagement
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study critically examines Microsoft's environmental, social and governance (ESG) rhetoric and operational reality, to offer insights that extend beyond conventional greenwashing or bluewashing. Drawing on over 20 years of Microsoft's sustainability reports (2003–2024), third‐party ESG evaluations and media investigations, it employs ...
Omaima A. G. Hassan, Iqbal Khadaroo
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