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Reporting What Matters, or Reporting What Looks Good? Materiality and Balance in Post–Rana Plaza Apparel Sustainability Disclosure

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Sustainability reports (SRs) are widely criticized for vague disclosures and selective emphasis on positive outcomes, yet systematic research on two core SR challenges remains limited: materiality (whether disclosed content is relevant) and balance (whether both achievements and challenges are reported).
Mahsa Mohammadrezaei, José Carlos Marques   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Sustaining Circular Innovation Under Volatile Market Conditions: The Critical Role of Industry Platforms

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT While industry platforms are widely recognized as enablers of circular innovation, we still know little about how they evolve to scale and sustain innovation as economic conditions tighten and circular economy funding schemes become more selective.
Eva Qi Wang, Julia A. Fehrer, Jonathan J. Baker, Roderick J. Brodie   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

A Novel ROA-Optimized CNN-BiGRU Hybrid Network with an Attention Mechanism for Ship Fuel Consumption Prediction

Journal of Marine Science and Engineering
Optimizing ship energy efficiency and advancing the green transition of the shipping industry depend on an accurate model for predicting ship fuel consumption (FC). This study builds a hybrid prediction model that combines a Convolutional Neural Network (
Zifei Wang, Kai Wang, Zhongwei Li, Hongzhi Liang, Shuo Yin, Qitai Ma, Diankang Zhang, Weijie Xiong   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

An Indicator‐Based Decision Framework for Circular Bioeconomy Transition in the Steel Industry: Integrating Multiphase Learning and Cooperative Game Modelling

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Despite growing attention to the circular bioeconomy (CBE), the steel industry currently lacks a standardised, sectoral measurement framework to facilitate a low‐carbon transition. In this study, a decision‐support framework for evaluating CBE performance in the steel industry is proposed.
Ali Zamani Babgohari, Mohammadreza Sadeghi‐Moghadam, Hannan Amoozad Mahdiraji   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Exploring Supply Chain Visibility for Circularity: A Delphi Approach

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Circular supply chains (CSCs) depend on enhanced supply chain visibility (SCV) to track and manage resource flows and thereby enable efficient decision‐making. Despite confronting silo mentalities, fragmented information, technological barriers, resistance to change, and a lack of standardization, data sharing remains crucial for SCV and ...
Tarun Kumar Agrawal, Ravi Kalaiarasan, Sayyed Shoaib‐ul‐Hasan, Seyoum Eshetu Birkie, Sandeep Jagtap, Jan Olhager, Magnus Wiktorsson, Patrik Jonsson   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Grey Zone of Stakeholder Engagement: Misalignment as a Manifestation of Greyness in Stakeholder Collaboration

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study identifies and conceptualises the grey zone of stakeholder engagement and explores how it manifests in a collaborative context related to the promotion of a circular economy. While prior research on stakeholder engagement has highlighted the positive, value‐creating bright side or the harmful dark side of stakeholder engagement, we ...
Annika Blomberg, Anna Hannula, Johanna Kujala   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Firms' Green Responses to Environmental Regulations: A Three‐Dimensional Concurrent Engineering Perspective

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigates companies' responses to energy efficiency policies, focusing on mandatory and voluntary regulations that create a complex landscape for businesses to navigate. Using a sample of 1473 firms across 29 European countries (2002–2018), we explore the impact of legislation on green redesign—operationalized through ...
Thomas Alexopoulos, Dimitra Kalaitzi, Giorgos Papagiannakis, Konstantina Spanaki   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Supply Chain Network, ESG Scores and Financial Performance

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper provides novel evidence on the role of supply chain networks in influencing firms' environmental, social and governance (ESG) scores and financial performance. Our analysis employs financial, board, ESG and supply chain data, resulting in an unbalanced panel of over 16,000 firm‐year observations from 3028 publicly traded US firms ...
Michail Filippidis, Renatas Kizys, Panagiotis Tzouvanas   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Green Finance, Digitalization, and Banks' Sustainable Business Model Innovations Toward Net‐Zero Transitions

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Financial capital is widely recognized as having the potential to provide investments needed for net‐zero transitions. While recent empirical studies reveal that financial digitalization and fintech have changed Chinese banks' loan portfolios and business models, they stem from credit restrictions on heavily polluting enterprises and from ...
Akihisa Mori
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