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From Demand Stability to Environmental Responsibility: How Ordered Backlogs Shape Firm Behaviour
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Ordered backlogs are the confirmed and yet to be delivered customer orders, which may have multiple advantages to firms. We investigate how ordered backlogs influence firms' future environmental misconduct. Drawing on organisational slack theory, we argue that ordered backlogs as a form of demand‐side slack can reduce environmental misconduct.
Ashutosh Singh +4 more
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Institutional investors increasingly rely on ESG ratings to evaluate financially material sustainability risks, while governments promote corporate alignment with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Because these frameworks differ substantially in capital market salience and monitoring intensity, board oversight may not ...
Mohamed Hegazy +2 more
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The EU has recently introduced, for the first time, a market‐wide mandatory assurance requirement for sustainability reporting under the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD). The directive mandates that affected firms obtain independent third‐party assurance for their ESG reports. This study examines the equity market's reaction
Zelalem Abay
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study examines the impact of EU Directive 2014/95/EU (NFRD) on the Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) performance of EU‐listed companies, focusing on variations across ESG dimensions and national institutional contexts. Using a dataset of 19,036 observations from 2010 to 2022, we apply a time‐varying Difference‐in‐Differences ...
Yuqing Xiao, Antonio Somoza
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In a macroeconomic environment characterised by systemic disruptions and global uncertainty, companies are forced to reconfigure their sustainability strategies. This study examines the combined impact of geopolitical and climate risks on corporate commitment to and actual progress toward the United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Goals ...
Isabel‐María García‐Sánchez
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Climate‐Related Disclosure and Bank Performance: Does Bank Type Matter?
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper investigates whether climate‐related disclosure (CRD) affects the financial performance of conventional banks (CBs) and Islamic banks (IBs) differently. Using a unique hand‐collected dataset on CRD for 591 banks (422 CBs and 169 IBs) from 24 countries over a 4‐year period, we examine how the relationship between CRD and financial ...
Rasim Simsek +2 more
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study analyzes the relationship between sustainability reporting quality (SRQ) and earnings management (EM) in an emerging economy and investigates the moderating role of ethical leadership. Analyzing 531 firm‐year observations from mandatory reports (2022–2024), SRQ is measured via a 51‐indicator index, while EM is proxied by the ...
Taghred Mokhtar Sayed Moawad +2 more
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From Centrality to Sustainability: How Connected Boards Shape Waste Management Outcomes
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The escalating climate crisis has elevated waste management from an operational concern to a critical issue of corporate governance. However, the role of board connectedness in shaping firms' waste practices remains largely unexplored. Drawing on resource dependency and social capital theories, this study examines how board network centrality ...
Irfan Haider Shakri +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 The agri‐food sector, most notably intensive livestock production, stands as a major driver of climate change, prompting a shift towards plant‐based alternative protein production and consumption. Such protein transition is widely recognised as central to the development of an environmentally sustainable food economy.
Francesca Monticone, Antonella Samoggia
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