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Corporate ESG Greenwashing: Does Regulatory Proximity Matter?

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Environmental, social, and governance (ESG) greenwashing undermines sustainable development, yet the influence of regulatory proximity on oversight is understudied. By introducing the “distance decay effect” from geoeconomics into ESG misconduct research and using a sample of Chinese listed firms from 2009 to 2022, this study reveals a ...
Weiqi Zhao, Zhichao Chen, Muhammad Nadeem, Guanghua Xu, Nader Atawnah   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Beyond the ESG Facade: Measuring and Addressing Corporate ‘Lip Service’

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Amid growing global attention to environmental, social and governance (ESG), this study examines the misalignment between ESG disclosures and actual practices—termed ‘lip service’—using data from Chinese firms from 2006 to 2022, constructing an index to quantify it.
Jia Xu, Mingwei Liu, Helen X. H. Bao
wiley   +1 more source

Emotion matters: The pathways and the consequence of third-party intervention triggered by unfairness perception

Acta Psychologica
Third-party intervention is an altruistic behavior of maintaining fairness at personal costs in a self-irrelevant situation. Though prosocial emotion has been considered an important trigger of altruistic behavior, how emotional involvement is related to
Jiachen Qu, Jan Drewes, Yunfeng He, Jiajin Yuan   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Can Carbon Strategy Enhance Corporate Productivity? Evidence From Carbon Risk and Opportunity Management

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Whether corporate carbon management can enhance productive efficiency is central to firms' long‐term competitiveness and determines whether carbon reduction efforts can be sustained beyond regulatory compliance. This study examines how corporate carbon risk and opportunity management affects firm productivity (measured by total factor ...
Nan Huang, Hanlu Fan, Ruoxin Zhu
wiley   +1 more source

Coevolution of Third-Party Punishment and Punishment Reputation Dependency

Letters on Evolutionary Behavioral Science
An obstacle in explaining the evolution of cooperation through third-party punishment is the second-order free rider problem, that is, if punishing others is costly, it is adaptive for any individual not to punish. One hypothesis to resolve the issue states that third-party punishment is advantageous for the punisher, because it is evaluated as ...
Taisho Ozaki, Yasuo Ihara
openaire   +1 more source

Unpacking ESG Controversies: A Proposed Integrated Framework of Organizational Frictions and Fallout From a Systematic Literature Review

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Research on ESG controversies has expanded rapidly, but findings remain fragmented and lack a unifying perspective. This study conducts a PRISMA‐guided, framework‐based systematic review of 68 empirical articles published between 2018 and 2025 (May) to synthesize the main determinants and consequences of ESG controversies.
Cristina Alexandrina Ştefănescu, Andra Larisa Suciu   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Evaluation of third-party punishment depends on its type and severity

Judgment and Decision Making
Sacrificing own resources to punish norm violators is often regarded an altruistic act, promoting cooperation and fairness within social groups. However, recent studies highlight difficulties in interpreting third-party punishment as a prosocial and ...
Olivia Seubert, Anne Böckler
doaj   +1 more source

Leading the Loop: Anchor‐Led Orchestration in Nascent Circular Ecosystems—A Qualitative Case Study

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The transition towards a circular economy necessitates coordinated, systemic change across value chains. Yet the role of anchor firms in initiating and orchestrating nascent circular ecosystems remains underexplored. Using an inductive, qualitative single‐case design, we analyse a German mid‐sized entrepreneurial firm, drawing on 21 interviews
Johann Felix Mader, Patrick Spieth
wiley   +1 more source

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

Target Firm's ESG Engagement and Post–M&A Performance: The Mediating Role of Acquirer's CSR Strategy

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The paper examines whether the environmental, social and governance (ESG) performance of target firms influences both accounting‐based and market‐based corporate financial performance (CFP) within the merger and acquisition (M&A) context and whether this relationship is mediated by the acquirer's corporate social responsibility (CSR) strategy.
Francesco Gangi, Nicola Varrone, Mario Ossorio, Lucia Michela Daniele, Maria Coscia   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source