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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study investigates the impact of digital finance and financial inclusion on carbon emissions within a multi‐country panel framework, contributing to the emerging Finance 5.0 literature that links digital transformation with environmental sustainability.
Utku Altunöz
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Costly Signals and Cheap Talk: Measuring the Decoupling of ESG Routinisation and Greenwashing Risk
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Greenwashing is a systemic challenge to sustainable finance, yet prevailing ESG metrics still tend to equate more disclosure with more sustainability. We develop a dual‐index framework to compare firms' ESG ‘talk’ and ‘walk’ using hard data. An ESG Routinisation Index approximates the costly integration of sustainability into emissions, safety
Giacomo Zatini +2 more
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This research develops an integrated mixed‐integer linear programming (MILP) model for closed‐loop supply chain network design that optimises competing economic and environmental objectives including profit maximisation, supplier quality improvement and CO2 emission reduction.
Reza Eslamipoor
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Beyond Carbon: Corporate Environmental Performance Across Multiple Domains
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We examine corporate environmental performance (CEP) as a multidimensional system rather than isolated outcomes. Combining institutional and behavioral perspectives, we analyze four domains—CO2 emissions, waste, energy, and water—using S&P 500 firms that disclosed data on all four domains (2006–2024).
Rei Uchida, Murali Chari
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Agentic AI and Circular Procurement Performance: An Empirical Study
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Organizations that practice circular procurement in this rapidly changing world face many uncertainties. However, emerging digital technologies, such as agentic AI, can help manage resources and improve responsiveness to better serve both internal and external customers.
Surajit Bag +3 more
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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 +2 more
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The intersection between corporate entities and political institutions—commonly referred to as corporate political connections (CPCs)—significantly influences firms' strategic conduct and their environmental obligations. Although academic interest in this area has grown, the ethical dimensions of CPCs in relation to environmental ...
Ahmed A. Elamer +2 more
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Given the critical role that banks play in sustainable development through their financial intermediation and capital allocation functions, assessing their sustainability performance has become an increasingly important research issue.
Özcan Işık +3 more
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Corporate sustainability research is rich but fragmented where influential frameworks illuminate important aspects of sustainability dynamics, yet they are often used in parallel rather than connected through a shared explanatory logic of change. This paper addresses that corporate sustainability puzzle through a targeted literature review and
Omaima A. G. Hassan
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper investigates whether firms' sustainability actions aimed at serving multiple stakeholders lead to similar or differing sustainability outcomes depending on the manager's stakeholder focus. It proposes a conceptual framework distinguishing between primary and secondary stakeholders, wherein managers can face conflicts of interest ...
Felix B. Fischer +2 more
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