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Beyond Reporting: The Integration of Climate Change and Biodiversity Into Business Strategies and Governance Structures of Swedish Firms and Financial Institutions

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper analyses how large Swedish firms and financial institutions integrate climate change and biodiversity into their business strategies and governance structures. Using unique 2022 and 2023 survey data and logistic probability models, we examine how internal and external factors shape early responses to the EU Taxonomy and the CSRD ...
Fredrik N. G. Andersson, Susanne Arvidsson   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Initiating Market Formation Through Local Policy Innovation: Plot Handover as a Driver for Circular Construction

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The transition to circular construction suffers from uncertainties related to costs, market realities, supply, regulations and expertise using secondary materials in building projects. Uncertainties are large, and resolving them needs policy interventions.
Erkki‐Jussi Nylén, Tommi Halonen
wiley   +1 more source

From Material Tensions to Organizational Paradoxes: How Manufacturers Cope With the Limits of Circular Product Design

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Circular product design (CPD) is central to advancing the circular economy by enabling the narrowing, slowing, and closing of resource flows. Yet, its implementation remains persistently challenging for firms. Prior research has largely framed these challenges as discrete barriers, overlooking the structural contradictions embedded in CPD ...
Vanessa Robertson, Nelly Rahimy, Suleika Bort   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Force Alignment of the Ends of Two-Tiered Package Rafting Units during their Formation in Water

Лесной журнал
Promising technologies for transporting round timber from remote areas involve, after passing through shallow water areas, forming small-sized packages into two-tiered package units without violating their integrity. The devices designed for this purpose
Sergey V. Posypanov, Sergey P. Karpachev
doaj   +1 more source

Nut Production in Bertholletia excelsa across a Logged Forest Mosaic: Implications for Multiple Forest Use. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2015
Although many examples of multiple-use forest management may be found in tropical smallholder systems, few studies provide empirical support for the integration of selective timber harvesting with non-timber forest product (NTFP) extraction.
Cara A Rockwell, Manuel R Guariguata, Mary Menton, Eriks Arroyo Quispe, Julia Quaedvlieg, Eleanor Warren-Thomas, Harol Fernandez Silva, Edwin Eduardo Jurado Rojas, José Andrés Hideki Kohagura Arrunátegui, Luis Alberto Meza Vega, Olivia Revilla Vera, Roger Quenta Hancco, Jonatan Frank Valera Tito, Betxy Tabita Villarroel Panduro, Juan José Yucra Salas   +14 more
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When Nature Counts: Corporate Biodiversity Attention and Access to Bank Finance

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper investigates whether corporate attention to biodiversity influences firms' access to bank loans, an overlooked question in the emerging biodiversity–finance literature. Using a novel, text‐based measure constructed from 446 biodiversity‐related keywords and applied to Chinese A‐share listed firms from 2000 to 2023, we show that ...
Ruxiao Li, Bo Zhang, Zhang‐Hangjian Chen, Hafiz Hoque   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Shear and longitudinal modulus of elasticity in Corymbia citriodora round timber beams

Vértices, 2013
This study aimed to evaluate, with the support of the three points static bending test, led nondestructively, the values of the shear (G) and longitudinal (E) modulus of elasticity in Corymbia citriodora structural round timber beams in order to verify ...
André Luiz Zangiácomo, André Luis Christoforo, Francisco Antonio Rocco Lahr   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Business and Governance Strategies for Circular Economy Valorization of Construction Timber: A Systematic Review

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The valorization of construction and demolition timber is essential to advancing circular economy objectives but remains constrained by fragmented organizational, network, and institutional practices. For firms in the construction sector, this represents a critical strategic adaptation challenge.
Reeko Watanabe, Martin Skitmore, Patrick S. W. Fong, Tingting Liu, Hong Guan, Benoit P. Gilbert, William Leggate   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

What Do We Know About Scope 3 Emissions in Small‐ and Medium‐Sized Enterprises? Mapping Current Knowledge and Advancing a Theory–Practice‐Oriented Framework

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Although SMEs comprise over 90% of firms globally, research on their engagement with Scope 3 (value‐chain) greenhouse gas emissions remains limited. This PRISMA‐guided systematic review synthesises 49 SME‐relevant studies to develop a theory‐informed, practice‐oriented framework for more credible and sustained Scope 3 engagement.
Chidinma Uchendu, Okechukwu Okorie, Fatemeh Khosravi, Stuart Connop, Hebba Haddad, Mike Medas   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Integrating Products, Processes, and Sourcing for Eco‐Innovation

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Eco‐innovation research has often examined regulatory or technological drivers but has paid limited attention to how long‐term organizational change shapes eco‐innovation in mature, resource‐intensive industries. This study addresses that gap by investigating how two leading Finnish pulp and paper firms integrated product, process, and ...
Misa Bakajic, Anand Nair, Markku Kuula
wiley   +1 more source