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Navigating the Dichotomy of Uncertainty in Green Innovation and Digital Supply Chains

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Amid growing environmental pressures and rapid technological disruption, understanding how digitalization reshapes corporate sustainability strategies has become increasingly vital. Supply chain digitalization (SCD) plays a pivotal role in enhancing firms' adaptive capacity, operational transparency, and innovation efficiency.
Chengming Huang, Su Hanghang, Sultan Sikandar Mirza   +2 more
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Audit Committee and ESG Disclosure Quality: The Moderating Role of Female CEO Leadership

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT ESG reporting is widespread among large public firms, yet the extent and completeness of these disclosures vary widely, raising concerns about transparency and comparability. Drawing on Stakeholder Theory and Resource Dependency theory, this study examines how audit committee (AC) effectiveness influences ESG disclosure quality (ESGDQ) and ...
Mutalib Anifowose, Manirul Islam, Md Yousuf Ali, A. T. M. Enayet Karim   +3 more
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Beyond Linear ESG Effects: Configurational Pathways to Superior Profitability Among Environmental Proactive Firms

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study re‐examines the relationship between environmental, social, and governance (ESG) engagement and firm financial performance by moving beyond linear, net‐effect models toward a configurational perspective. Focusing on a global sample of 1380 non‐financial firms with high environmental maturity (CDP Climate Change score ≥ B), we ...
Daniel Yeung, Lingju Chen, Qingliang Tang   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Using Machine Learning to Predict Corporate Environmental Violation: A Stakeholder Pressure Perspective

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Predicting corporate environmental violations remains a key challenge in practice and in environmental governance research. However, existing studies have largely focused on ex post associations between stakeholder pressures and realized environmental violations, offering limited insight into whether stakeholder pressures can be used ex ante ...
Xiaolan Chen, Ning Ding, Haodong Jin, Rui Xue, Yuhao Yang   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Eyes on the Ground: Can Institutional Investor Site Visits Discipline Corporate ESG Hypocrisy?

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper investigates whether institutional investor site visits serve as an effective external governance mechanism for curbing environmental, social and governance (ESG) hypocrisy. Using panel data on Chinese A‐share listed firms from 2012 to 2021, we find that site visits significantly reduce ESG hypocrisy by improving internal control ...
Lichun Zheng, Wenjia Tang, Liang Zhao, Salwa Saleh Almasabi, David Kalisz   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Drivers of Scope 3 Emissions Disclosure Quality—CDP Analysis

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Scope 3 emissions account for a significant portion of a supply chain's carbon footprint, yet very little research explores the key drivers of high‐quality Scope 3 disclosures. Additionally, while climate governance is a vital part of both improving carbon performance and ensuring corporate accountability, its broader impact on disclosure ...
Xintao Li, Binh Bui, Thanh Phan
wiley   +1 more source

Exploring Sustainability Reporting Practices in an Emerging Market: Insights From Corporate Governance and Disclosure Tone

Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The study examines how narrative disclosure tones (NDTs) and corporate governance mechanisms (CGMs) affect sustainability reporting practices (SRP) in an emerging economy. Data from 125 non‐financial firms in Pakistan, spanning 2011–2022, are utilized. SRP is measured using both GRI and the novel IFRS S1 standards‐based indices. Three NDTs are
Arshad Hasan, Usman Sufi, Franklin Nakpodia   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

When ESG Becomes Value: Stock Market Rewards of Sustainable Banking in Europe

Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines the relationship between sustainable investing and stock performance in the European banking sector. Specifically, it investigates the impact of the overall ESG score as well as the individual ESG pillars on stock performance, with particular attention to differences across high‐capital‐buffer and large‐sized banks.
Antoine B. Awad
wiley   +1 more source

Breadth at the Helm: Generalist CEOs and Corporate ESG Performance‐Evidence From China

Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Drawing on the Upper Echelons Theory and the Imprinting Theory, this study conjectures that generalist CEOs may have a stronger tendency to pursue environmental, social and governance (ESG) goals. We perform multiple regression analyses with observations of Shanghai and Shenzhen A‐share listed companies from 2010 to 2023 in order to explore ...
Shanmei Luo, Chaofan Jin, Hongling Han, You Zhang, Yuqi Li   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

When Sustainability Reporting Becomes a Strategy: The Impact of Financial Performance and Institutional Pressures From EU Sustainability Reporting Regulations on ESG Decoupling

Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Mitigating environmental, social, and governance (ESG) decoupling is essential to advancing reliable sustainability disclosure and ensuring that ESG reporting fulfills its intended purpose. This study aims to provide critical insights into the organizational and contextual elements that could intensify or diminish ESG decoupling. Using a multi‐
Catarina Cepêda, Albertina Paula Monteiro, Cristina Aibar‐Guzmán   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source