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Climate Risk and Real Estate Markets in the EU: Institutional Control Through Regulation

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Climate change is increasingly reshaping the economic foundations of asset markets, yet its implications for the estate sector remain unevenly understood, particularly when institutional and financial mechanisms mediate risk transmission. While a growing body of evidence links climate vulnerability to property valuation and market behaviour ...
Qiulin Yang, Xin Xu, Kingsley Imandojemu, Felix Orole, Romanus Osabohien   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Sustainable and Resilient Supply Networks: Digitalisation, Regulation and Climate Vulnerability in a Global Context

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The growing frequency of global crises has intensified concerns regarding climate vulnerability and the resilience of global production systems. This study examines the heterogeneous effects of supply chain development and supply chain digitalisation on climate vulnerability across countries, while accounting for institutional and investment ...
Ziwei Li, Zhi Zhan, Kingsley Imandojemu, Romanus Osabohien, Damilola Felix Eluyela   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Do Corporate ESG Disclosures Drive Consumer Demand (Sales)? The Role of Environmental Sensitivity

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The question of whether strong environmental, social, and governance (ESG) disclosure largely benefits high‐demand customers or if it generates value across all sales levels is yet to be empirically verified. This study, therefore, examines how ESG performance influences consumer demand (sales outcomes) among listed firms across African ...
Idorenyin J. Okon, Adeolu O. Adewuyi, Alex O. Acheampong   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Supply Chain Sustainability and Human Capital: A Multilevel Analysis

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines how corporate sustainability practices diffuse across global supply chains and how national contextual capacity shapes this process. Drawing on stakeholder and institutional perspectives, we conceptualize ESG transmission as relational and potentially asymmetric between customers and suppliers.
Jun Xie, Seifu Okumoto, Kenichi Yoshida, Shuning Chen, Alexander Ryota Keeley, Shunsuke Managi   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Do Banks in the Middle East and North Africa Region Price Carbon Exposure?

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines whether carbon exposure is incorporated into corporate borrowing costs within the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. Using a panel of 771 firm‐year observations from publicly listed non‐financial firms between 2016 and 2023, the analysis investigates the relationship between carbon intensity and firms' cost of debt
Yara Ibrahim, Khaled Hussainey, Taghred Mokhtar Sayed Moawad   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Do Commodity Prices and Energy Markets Drive Asymmetric Volatility in Biodiversity Finance?

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines symmetric and asymmetric volatility spillovers among biodiversity finance, commodity prices, and energy markets using daily data from 2019 to 2025. We apply the Diebold–Yilmaz time–domain connectedness model, Baruník–Křehlík frequency–domain decomposition, and an asymmetric spillover framework.
Ijaz Younis, Maqsood Ahmad, Himani Gupta, Kun Su, Waheed Ullah Shah   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Climate Adequacy and Market Risk: Are They Related? Empirical Evidence From the European Equity Market Before and After the Adoption of the Paris Agreement

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT ESG ratings, and in particular environmental scores (E‐scores), are becoming increasingly relevant for financial stability and capital allocation decisions. This paper investigates the relationship between corporate environmental performance and market risk, as measured through value at risk (VaR) and expected shortfall (ES), the key metrics ...
Matilda Shini, Igor Gianfrancesco, Antonia Patrizia Iannuzzi, Vittorio Dell'Atti   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

How National Culture Shapes the Relationship Between Board Gender Diversity and Environmental Performance: Evidence From Developed Economies

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigates the moderating role of Hofstede's cultural dimensions on the relationship between board gender diversity and corporate environmental performance, including its components (resource use, emissions management, environmental innovations), across publicly listed companies headquartered in 32 developed economies.
Filip Hampl, Dagmar Vágnerová Linnertová   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Drivers of Scope 3 Emissions Disclosure Quality—CDP Analysis

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Scope 3 emissions account for a significant portion of a supply chain's carbon footprint, yet very little research explores the key drivers of high‐quality Scope 3 disclosures. Additionally, while climate governance is a vital part of both improving carbon performance and ensuring corporate accountability, its broader impact on disclosure ...
Xintao Li, Binh Bui, Thanh Phan
wiley   +1 more source

AI Chatbots Versus Human Agents for Customer Service: A Social Belonging Perspective

Journal of Consumer Behaviour, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Artificial intelligence (AI) has rapidly transformed customer service, leading to the widespread adoption of AI‐driven chatbots. Despite these advances, consumers consistently prefer human agents over AI chatbots, as documented in both academic research and industry reports. This research proposes a Social Belonging Perspective to explain this
Linwan Wu, Chi Zhang, Kai Tian
wiley   +1 more source