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Corporate Decarbonization: Understanding CO2 Emission Drivers Across High‐ and Low‐Polluting Firms in OECD Countries

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Decarbonization of the economy is a central challenge in the fight against climate change. Although most governments show clear commitment to limiting global warming, the drivers of corporate decarbonization remain underexplored. Using a dataset of 1052 firms from OECD, this article analyses how intangible assets and environmental innovation ...
Yanik Nimtz, Mercedes Teruel
wiley   +1 more source

Corporate Environmental Responsibility and Cost of Equity Capital: A Meta‐Analytical Review

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Despite extensive research on the relationship between corporate environmental responsibility (CER) and cost of equity capital (COEC), empirical evidence remains inconsistent. This study addresses these inconsistencies through a comprehensive meta‐analysis of 1139 effect sizes from 75 studies.
Robert Witte   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Strategic Shift: The Power of Green Strategy on Sustainability Performance

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Employing FTSE Russell's unique Green Revenues data on S&P 1500 firms from 2016 to 2024, this study examines the long‐term effects of a corporate strategic shift toward green strategy, proxied by green revenue reporting, on corporate sustainability performance.
Post Raj Pokharel
wiley   +1 more source

ESG Uncertainty in Supply Chains: How Rating Divergence Shapes Buyer–Supplier Trade Credit

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Uncertainty in environmental, social, and governance (ESG) ratings has raised concerns about the reliability of sustainability evaluations and their consequences for interfirm relationships. Although prior research has highlighted firm‐level financial outcomes of ESG rating divergence, little is known about its implications for buyer–supplier ...
Liukai Wang, Na A., Yu Gong, Steve Brown
wiley   +1 more source

Board Networks and Corporate Carbon Emissions: A Cross‐Country Analysis of Causal Effects

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines whether board networks influence corporate carbon emissions and the strategic pathways through which firms decarbonize. Using a sample of 1952 firms across 48 countries from 2003 to 2020, we employ dynamic stacked regressions that exploit exogenous carbon‐regulation shocks affecting firms connected through shared third ...
Katarzyna Burzynska   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Low‐Carbon Energy Transition and Corporate Carbon Emissions: The Critical Role of Climate Change Mitigation Policies and Institutional Context

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines the strategic efficacy of corporate low‐carbon energy transition, such as through nuclear energy adoption, as a response to decarbonization pressures. Analyzing an international sample of energy firms, we demonstrate that the relationship between this form of transition and emission reductions is not technologically ...
Bilal Ahmed Abbasi   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

From Text to Value: Measuring and Pricing Firm Climate Risk Exposure

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We examine how the prominence and tone of climate risk disclosures affect firm value and strategic climate positioning for large European nonfinancial companies. We developed a firm‐level climate risk exposure (CRE) index that assesses climate risks within corporate narratives across four EU categories: transition risk, physical risk ...
Stefano Dell'Atti   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Supply Chain Network, ESG Scores and Financial Performance

open access: yesBusiness 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   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

CEO Risk Orientation and Environmental Sustainability Disclosure: Managerial Discretion, Institutional Constraints, and Strategic Transparency

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines whether CEO risk orientation shapes environmental sustainability disclosure (ESD) and how institutional constraints condition this relationship. We argue that environmental disclosure constitutes a strategic exposure decision because greater transparency can increase regulatory scrutiny and stakeholder pressure.
Muhammad Jameel Hussain   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

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