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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper investigates innovative financing strategies to mobilise private capital for climate adaptation, emphasising Hong Kong's role in advancing efforts across Southeast Asia. Using expert interviews and case studies, it addresses two key questions: which financial instruments can strengthen public–private collaboration, and what best ...
Laurence L. Delina +5 more
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Turning Carbon Into Cash? Cross‐Country Evidence on the Profitability of Emission Reductions
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Does corporate CO2 abatement pay? We assembled an international panel of listed firms (2019–2023), linking Scope 1–2 emissions to institutional (G7, CCPI) and search‐based attention measures. The dataset consists of an unbalanced panel of 1724 multinational firms, together with a sub‐sample of 922 firms operating in G7 economies. Firm and time
Mauro Aliano +3 more
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study assesses the degree of alignment with and eligibility to the EU Taxonomy of non‐financial firms and investigates its relationship with their Cost of Debt (CoD). The empirical analysis is based on a sample of 306 non‐financial firms listed on the Stoxx Europe 600 Index across 15 European countries. Taxonomy‐related data were manually
Fabio Rizzato +3 more
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Climate Change Risks and Customer Concentration: Evidence From US‐Listed Firms
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT While prior studies have investigated climate risks in supply chains, customer ESG pressures, and shared climate exposure, this paper is, to the best of our knowledge, the first to provide direct empirical evidence on the relationship between climate change risks and firms' customer concentration.
Thi Thuy Trang Nguyen +2 more
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ESG Assurance and Dividends: Evidence From 18 Countries in Africa
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study examines the impact of environmental, social and governance (ESG) assurance on a firm's dividend payout policies within the unique African context. Using a staggered difference‐in‐differences (DiD) model, this study examines how voluntary third‐party assurance of ESG reports influences firms' dividend payout policies compared to ...
Samuel Karanja Kogi, June Cao
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The aim of this research is to verify whether institutional quality affects the relationship between green innovation and firm efficiency within the high‐tech manufacturing sectors. To estimate jointly the parameters of a stochastic frontier and the coefficients of a model explaining technical inefficiency, we employed the one‐step estimation ...
Mariarosaria Agostino +2 more
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study examines the relationship between mergers and acquisitions (M&A), board characteristics, and ESG performance in BRICS companies, considering the moderating role of sectoral sensitivity. The study analyzes 11,402 observations from 2293 BRICS companies, employing Two‐Stage Least Squares (2SLS) to address endogeneity and logistic ...
Geovane Camilo dos Santos +2 more
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The critical role of small and medium‐sized enterprises (SMEs) in driving economic growth through employment generation and innovation cannot go unseen, especially the efforts of small firms in promoting sustainable entrepreneurship. With more market and consumer focus on sustainability and the shift toward eco‐friendly products, SMEs can ...
Nasser Hadi Alajmi
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study investigates how firms in emerging economies integrate artificial intelligence (AI) with environmental, social, and governance (ESG) practices to enhance biodiversity conservation and circular economy outcomes. It examines the mediating role of corporate social responsibility (CSR) governance and the moderating effect of ...
Suleman Bawa, Simplice A. Asongu
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Considering the growing attention to sustainability and the increasing regulatory pressure in the European landscape, this study evaluates whether greenhouse gas emissions affect firms' cost of debt. A panel regression was conducted from 2021 to 2024 on two samples of European firms.
Daniela Cicchini +3 more
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