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Confronting Biodiversity Risk: Its Role in Shaping Corporate External Financing Choice
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper investigates how biodiversity risk shapes corporate financing decisions. We propose a Financing Hierarchy Distortion framework, arguing that biodiversity risk amplifies information asymmetry and legitimacy costs, thereby pushing firms toward debt‐heavy adjustments.
Yang Zhou +3 more
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper investigates key barriers to the environmental, social, and economic sustainability of food quick commerce (Q‐commerce) logistics, using Iran as a representative emerging economy. This study is timely because it examines a rapidly evolving form of urban logistics in which speed, convenience, and sustainability are increasingly in ...
Seyed Hamid Hashemi Petrudi +3 more
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Riding on a Pegasus: Is ‘Sustainability’ Still a Myth in Bangladesh's RMG Sector?
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Although a growing number of studies explore sustainability, the role of stakeholders and institutions in shaping environmental sustainability initiatives remains overlooked particularly from the upstream fashion supply chain contexts. Drawing upon the framework proposed by Lee, our study aims to fill this gap by examining the interplay ...
Taposh Kumar Roy +3 more
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Although circular business models (CBMs) are central to the circular economy (CE) transition, their adoption among small and medium‐sized enterprises (SMEs) remains limited, and evidence on barrier variation across CBMs and sectors is scarce. This study examines barriers to engagement in five CBM activities, spanning secondary raw material use,
Gordon Sirr +3 more
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The Circular Economy—A New Resilience Paradigm?
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The circular economy (CE) has traditionally been positioned as a central instrument of the sustainability paradigm. Yet escalating geopolitical volatility and supply chain fragility have elevated resilience to a parallel strategic imperative, and the conceptual integration of CE and resilience remains underexplored.
Julian Kirchherr, Felix Carl Schultz
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Sustainable Corporate Loans: A Systematic Literature Review and Future Research Agenda
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper presents a systematic literature review of sustainable corporate loans (SCLs), including green loans and sustainability‐linked loans, to synthesise current academic knowledge and outline future research directions. Using a PRISMA protocol and a bibliometric analysis of 102 peer‐reviewed articles published in AJG‐ranked journals (3 ...
Md Nurul Islam Sohel +3 more
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When and How Do Women Directors Matter for Corporate Sustainability? The French Case
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study examines when and how board gender diversity matters for corporate sustainability. Using a sample of French listed firms over 2006–2024, we combine dynamic system GMM estimations with difference‐in‐differences tests around France's phased board gender quotas.
Amandeep Mattoo, Pascal Nguyen
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACTThis study examines whether and under what conditions Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) performance becomes financially meaningful in mature capital markets. Using a longitudinal transatlantic panel of large firms listed in the EURO STOXX 50 and S&P 100 over the period 2015–2024, we analyse the within‐firm association between lagged ...
Nicola Del Sarto
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Guided Toward Equity: Communities of Practice and Organizational Change in Community Colleges
New Directions for Community Colleges, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Although community colleges advance equity by providing opportunities for marginalized students to pursue higher education, barriers to earning credentials remain, particularly for students of color. Higher education stakeholders are investing in “equity work” as organizations take responsibility for ensuring equitable outcomes.
Karin Yndestad +2 more
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Techno‐Economic Assessment of Biomethane and Biohydrogen Production From Victorian Wheat Straw
Carbon Energy, EarlyView.Techno‐economic assessment of biomethane and biohydrogen production from Victorian wheat straw. Off‐grid renewable photovoltaic energy with a price down to 0.95 ¢/kWh was applied. Both approaches can make positive profits and negative carbon footprints.
Shuanglong Tan +7 more
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