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Turning Mental Models Around: Boundary Objects as Enablers of Sustainable Business Model Innovation
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Organizations increasingly innovate their business models (BMs) toward sustainability to maintain competitiveness and comply with regulations. Sustainable business model innovation (SBMI) requires decision‐makers to identify ecological and social opportunities while balancing economic goals.
Laura Hartung‐Geyer +2 more
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Globalisation has deepened the integration of international production within global value chains (GVCs), where the various stages of the manufacturing process are dispersed across countries. In today's volatile business environment, characterised by rapid technological advances (Industry 4.0) and evolving consumer preferences towards use ...
Javier Bilbao‐Ubillos +3 more
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Digital Transformation for Eco‐Innovation: Evidence From Agriculture 4.0 Adoption in Wine Firms
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Firms face a fundamental strategic dilemma: how to align digital transformation with environmental sustainability while maintaining competitive advantage. Drawing on the eco‐innovation and green business strategy literature, this paper investigates how Agriculture 4.0 technologies act as enablers of sustainability strategies.
Alessandro Muscio +2 more
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Harnessing Generative AI for Sustainable Supply Chains: Lean, Circular and Green Perspectives
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Generative artificial intelligence is playing a significant role in the transformation of digital ecosystems by reinventing the processes of content generation, process automation, product innovation and customer experience. At the same time that these technologies are becoming more integrated into routine operations, the focus has shifted to ...
Ashutosh Singh +3 more
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Collaborations with nonprofits can enhance firms' legitimacy, yet the relationship between their communication and corporate environmental legitimacy remains poorly understood. Furthermore, research lacks an analysis of the communication of business‐nonprofit collaborations through multiple actors' perspectives.
Andrea Rizzuni +3 more
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ESG Assurance and Dividends: Evidence From 18 Countries in Africa
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study examines the impact of environmental, social and governance (ESG) assurance on a firm's dividend payout policies within the unique African context. Using a staggered difference‐in‐differences (DiD) model, this study examines how voluntary third‐party assurance of ESG reports influences firms' dividend payout policies compared to ...
Samuel Karanja Kogi, June Cao
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Environmental protection has emerged as a global priority in the contemporary context. As pivotal actors in the transition towards sustainable development, companies play a crucial role through the adoption of environmental innovations. This study investigates how organisational characteristics—specifically geographical location, business ...
Carlos de las Heras‐Rosas +3 more
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Given the growing pressure on companies to achieve high ESG performance while minimising ESG controversies, this study investigates how ESG performance and ESG controversies jointly affect firm financial performance (measured as ROA and ROE), considering the effect of the presence of women directors and of operating in controversial versus non‐
Alice Alosi, Emilia Filippi
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Circular Economy Pathways for Airport Climate Change Mitigation
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Airport operators face growing climate‐change pressures; the circular economy offers pathways to reduce impacts and recover resources. We examine how airport operators apply the circular economy in practice. We use an exploratory qualitative multicase design based on practitioner‐generated documents (e.g., press releases and sustainability ...
Michele Oppioli +3 more
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study analyzed Industry 4.0 (I4.0) technology applications in agribusiness and the role of strategic stakeholders, engagement methods, and other critical aspects data sharing, confidentiality, integrity, decision‐making, and sector‐specific requirements in promoting circularity.
Simone Sehnem +3 more
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