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

Business 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, Sara Jonsson, Lu Liu, Michał Dzieliński   +3 more
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CEO Compensation and the ESG Activities of Compensation Peers

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigates the relationship between executive compensation at focal firms and the environmental, social, and governance (ESG) performance of compensation peer (CP) firms. Despite the growing integration of ESG metrics into executive compensation design, and the mandatory disclosure of CP groups, no prior research has examined ...
Jamshed Iqbal, Jukka Pellinen, Mohsin Riaz   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Analysis of the characteristics, efficiency, and influencing factors of third-party mediation mechanisms for resolving medical disputes in public hospitals in China

BMC Public Health
Background Medical disputes, which are prevalent in China, are a growing global public health problem. The Chinese government has proposed third-party mediation (TPM) to resolve this issue.
Yanfei Shen, Gaiyun Li, Zhiguo Tang, Qi Wang, Zurong Zhang, Xiangyong Hao, Xuemei Han   +6 more
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Too Complex to Control? How Firms Navigate Scope 3 Governance Under Institutional Uncertainty

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT As Scope 3 emissions make up the largest share of many firms' carbon footprints, firms face growing pressure to manage emissions beyond their direct control. Ongoing revisions of the CSRD, the GHG Protocol, and the SBTi Net‐Zero Standard further increase regulatory and methodological uncertainty.
Victoria Fohrer, Alexander Stierstorfer, Florian Gilljam   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Towards Strong Sustainability: Exploring Reconfigurations of Sufficiency‐Oriented and Regenerative Business Models

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Despite increasing adoption of sustainable business models, environmental decline and social disparities continue to accelerate. Strong sustainable business models offer an alternative by prioritizing ecological limits and systemic change. Drawing on an integrative literature review and business model modularization, this study examines how ...
Maike Gossen, Katrin Pakizer, Maren Kropfeld, Nancy Bocken   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

When Technology Signals Trust: Blockchain vs. Traditional Cues in Cross-Border Cosmetic E-Commerce

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Using platform self-operation, customer reviews, and compensation commitments as traditional benchmarks, this study foregrounds blockchain traceability as a technology-enabled authenticity signal in cross-border cosmetic e-commerce (CBEC).
Xiaoling Liu, Ahmad Yahya Dawod
doaj   +1 more source

Do Sustainability Committees Mitigate or Exacerbate ESG Decoupling?

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigates the impact of sustainability committees (SCs) on environmental, social, and governance (ESG) decoupling in US publicly listed firms. In particular, it examines their influence on overall and dimension‐specific (E, S, G) ESG decoupling and distinguishes their effects on internal versus external ESG actions.
Weite Qiu, Yuming Xuan, Maqsood Ahmad, Sunny Sun, Yang Jinghan   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Evaluating the Impact of Sustainability on the Financial Value of Brands: Activity‐Based or Customer Perception Metrics?

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Sustainability is widely framed as strategic, yet its relationship with financial brand value remains contested. We explain why prior research reports divergent results by distinguishing between activity‐based ESG metrics and customer perception‐based sustainability metrics and by theorising how each activates different value‐creation ...
Gabriela Salinas, Carmen Abril
wiley   +1 more source

Application of eco-compensation to control transboundary water pollution in water diversion projects: The case of the Heihe River transfer project in China

Ecological Indicators
Controlling transboundary water pollution is particularly crucial for the sustainable development of diversion basins, while eco-compensation is an essential incentive for multistakeholder transboundary water pollution control.
Nan Li, Changgao Cheng, Hanshu Mou, Mingjiang Deng, Deshan Tang, Dengyuan Yang   +5 more
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Exploring Sustainable Growth: Eco‐Innovation Among Small and Medium‐Sized Enterprises

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We examined how small and medium‐sized enterprises (SMEs) in the aerospace industry developed capabilities for eco‐innovation, specifically SMEs enrolled in a green transition mentorship programme. To this end, we conducted multiple case studies over 2 years (August 2022 to November 2024) to gather data through semi‐structured interviews with ...
Coralie Gagné, Sophie Veilleux, Fabiano Armellini, Carole Lalonde, Elicia Maine, Catherine Beaudry   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source