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Voices From the Coast: Stakeholder Participation and Perception on Creating a Marine Protected Area
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study explores participatory processes in the context of marine conservation, with a specific focus on recent initiatives undertaken by the Apulia region in Italy to establish a new Marine Protected Area (MPA). Employing a qualitative cross‐sectional methodology, the study investigates how local communities perceive and engage with the ...
Giampiero Palazzo +3 more
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The circular economy (CE) has become a major focus in energy and environmental (E&E) research, as it helps advance sustainable development, improve resource efficiency and alleviate environmental pressure. Even so, the literature is still fragmented, particularly in the CE themes it explores, the levels of analysis it adopts and the methods ...
Jahira Debbarma +2 more
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The lag in embedding leaders' decarbonization competences into sunset industry businesses (oil, gas, and petroleum), particularly in Middle Eastern hydrocarbon economies, poses an existential environmental and institutional challenge. In many such contexts, leaders' decarbonization competences remain subordinated to resource utilization and ...
John Mendy +3 more
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Green human resource management is increasingly recognised as essential for integrating environmental concerns into organisational strategies. Drawing on qualitative data from 30 professionals in Nigeria's oil and gas industry, this study explores how inconsistencies between employees' environmental values and GHRM practices influence ...
Winifred Aina +2 more
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study theorises and empirically tests performative purpose alignment theory (PPAT), which conceptualises corporate purpose as a performative artefact materialised through discursive and multimodal signals. To operationalise this, we introduced the SDG–Purpose Alignment Index (SPAI), a computational construct that quantifies the thematic ...
Augustine Okeke, Ifeanyi Ugbebor
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Firms increasingly rely on ESG materiality assessments to prioritise sustainability issues under heightened stakeholder scrutiny. Yet the strategic consequences of materiality beyond firm‐level disclosure remain underexplored. This study examines how materiality assessments shape ESG prioritisation at the industry level using sustainability ...
Shiqi Mai +3 more
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Transformative change is required to address persistent and systemic drivers of biodiversity loss. There is an urgent need for innovative solutions that tackle root causes in place‐specific contexts. Evidence indicates that small, innovative, purpose‐driven businesses can serve as vehicles for developing place‐based solutions.
Shova Thapa Karki, Bradley D. Parrish
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study examines the drivers and barriers shaping the adoption of salvaged automotive components (‘green parts’) in the UK accident repair sector and evaluates the strategic implications for intermediary firms in fragmented service ecosystems.
Gu Pang +3 more
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Talking the Walk: ESG Discourse as Strategic Dynamic Capability
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Conventional wisdom suggests that firms must “walk the talk” on sustainability. In turbulent institutional environments, however, talking increasingly becomes part of the walk, as organizations use sustainability discourse to construct and maintain legitimacy.
Floriana Luisi +1 more
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The circular economy is a key paradigm for ecological and ethical transition, particularly in the manufacturing sector. Although small and medium‐sized enterprises are pivotal in advancing the circular economy, the implementation of circular economy practices remains limited, with a focus on less impactful practices such as recycling and ...
Marta Negri +4 more
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