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Corporate Waste Management and Investment Efficiency: Does the CSR Committee Matter? Evidence From France

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigates the relationship between waste management outcomes and corporate investment efficiency, as well as the moderating role of CSR committees, using a panel of 267 non‐financial French listed firms over the period 2011–2022.
Bilel Bzeouich, Nadia Ben Farhat, Khaled Hussainey   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Does Climate Risk Affect Employment Decisions? International Evidence

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigates the effect of climate risk on corporate employment decisions. Using a large sample from 41 countries, we find a positive association between climate risk and underinvestment in labor, notably manifesting as excessive employee layoffs.
Claude Francoeur, Faten Lakhal, Hamza Nizar, Zvi Singer   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Firms’ Investment Level and (In)Efficiency: The Role of Accounting Information System Quality

International Journal of Financial Studies
We investigate whether accounting information system quality has an impact on the level and efficiency of firms’ investments. While firms’ growth depends on investment and financing decisions, accounting information is fundamental for the decision-making
Cláudia Pereira, Beatriz Castro, Luís Gomes, Helena Canha   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Social capital and investment in R&D: new externalities

Journal of Business Economics and Management, 2013
We introduce social capital in an endogenous growth model with physical capital, human capital, and research and development (R&D), and we compare the market with the efficient solutions.
Tiago Neves Sequeira, Alexandra Ferreira-Lopes   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

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

Business 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, Mushtaq Hussain Khan, Ambreen Gul, Inam Ul Haq, Muhammad Umer Azeem   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Asset Redeployability and Biodiversity Risk

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We examine how asset redeployability influences a firm's exposure to biodiversity risk. Our empirical analysis provides robust evidence that firms possessing greater levels of redeployable assets exhibit significantly lower biodiversity risk.
Mostafa Monzur Hasan, Stewart Jones, Md Enayet Hossain   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Public Goods, Hysteresis, and Underinvestment in Food Safety

Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, 2009
Despite the economic damage inflicted by a foodborne disease outbreak, firms at all points in the supply chain appear to be reluctant to invest in the necessary food safety technologies and practices.
Timothy J. Richards, William E. Nganje, Ram N. Acharya   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Costly Signals and Cheap Talk: Measuring the Decoupling of ESG Routinisation and Greenwashing Risk

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Greenwashing is a systemic challenge to sustainable finance, yet prevailing ESG metrics still tend to equate more disclosure with more sustainability. We develop a dual‐index framework to compare firms' ESG ‘talk’ and ‘walk’ using hard data. An ESG Routinisation Index approximates the costly integration of sustainability into emissions, safety
Giacomo Zatini, Nicola Torricella, Armando della Porta   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

A NEW PERSPECTIVE ON UNDERINVESTMENT IN AGRICULTURAL R&D [PDF]

, 2017
During the past 40 years, the returns to agricultural R&D have been on average in the range of 40-60% (Alston, et al 2000, Evenson 2001). Many agricultural economists see this high average as convincing evidence that there is significant underinvestment ...
Roseboom, Johannes
core   +1 more source

Structural Constraints to Sustainable Supply Chain Diversification: Rare Earth Elements, Business Strategy and Resilience in the Energy Transition

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Rare earth elements (REEs) are critical inputs for low‐carbon technologies, yet their supply chains remain highly concentrated and vulnerable. Although diversification is widely promoted as a strategy to enhance supply chain resilience, its feasibility in strategic material systems remains limited.
Klavdij Logožar
wiley   +1 more source