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Consumer behavioral intention toward sustainable biscuits: An extension of the theory of planned behavior with product familiarity and perceived value Bus. Strategy Environ. (IF 13.4) Pub Date : 2024-04-21 Rosa Maria Dangelico, Gaia Ceccarelli, Luca Fraccascia
Sustainable food consumption may help mitigate the impact that the food industry exerts on the natural environment. To foster sustainable food consumption, it is essential to understand consumers' perceptions related to sustainable food as well as the determinants of the intention to purchase sustainable food. Through an extension of the theory of planned behavior (TPB) with product familiarity (direct
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Environmental sustainability and customer experience in emerging markets Bus. Strategy Environ. (IF 13.4) Pub Date : 2024-04-19 Ernest Kafui Kwasi Tsetse, Russell Adams, Esi A. Elliot, Clara Downey
Increasingly, environmental sustainability becomes an important consideration for customer engagement (CE). The globalization of the marketplace has led to a marketing renaissance focused on environmental sustainability, which highlights the importance of our study. Our research question is, therefore, “How does environmental sustainability enhance customer engagement?” We argue that attention to environmental
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Meeting the closed‐loop challenge: The “Who‐What‐How” strategic choices for a successful remanufacturing approach Bus. Strategy Environ. (IF 13.4) Pub Date : 2024-04-19 Danilo Pesce, Claudia Franzè, Emilio Paolucci
Remanufacturing is a life‐cycle renewal process recognised as one of the most effective circular strategies that can be adopted to achieve sustainable production. However, its potential has been hindered by the absence of an integrated perspective across various business domains to catalyse successful remanufacturing efforts. This paper aims to explore how such an integrated perspective can facilitate
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Sustainability competence in small and medium exporters: Determinant and outcomes Bus. Strategy Environ. (IF 13.4) Pub Date : 2024-04-18 Hsing‐Hua Stella Chang
The pursuit of sustainability has become critical for exporting small and medium enterprises (SMEs), driven by stakeholder pressure and international buyer requirements. This poses challenges to their survival and performance in international markets. Drawing on the capabilities perspective, the present research pioneers the study of this issue by proposing and empirically validating a theoretical
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Evolution of dynamic capabilities for business sustainability performance: Evidence from the Indian manufacturing sector Bus. Strategy Environ. (IF 13.4) Pub Date : 2024-04-17 K. V. Bhadra, T. J. Kamalanabhan, Sanjay Kumar Singh
Firms can achieve trinomial sustainability goals if they can constantly build and rejuvenate their capabilities to adapt to new situations. However, few studies consider the interrelationships between the distinct capabilities pertinent to sustainable development and the impact of these capabilities on firm performance under diverse contexts, especially in emerging economies. Drawing on dynamic capability
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Digital data‐driven technologies and the environmental sustainability of micro, small, and medium enterprises: Does size matter? Bus. Strategy Environ. (IF 13.4) Pub Date : 2024-04-15 Virginia Hernández, Antonio Revilla, Alicia Rodríguez
Despite the increasing interest in understanding the relations between firms' digitalization and their environmental sustainability, they are still poorly understood as research on this hot topic is nascent and empirical evidence is sparse and fragmented. In this study, we delve into the relations between different digital data‐driven technologies (DTs) used for gathering and storing (smart devices
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Climate risk and opportunity exposure and firm value: An international investigation Bus. Strategy Environ. (IF 13.4) Pub Date : 2024-04-12 Xuefeng Li, Le Luo, Qingliang Tang
While previous studies mainly focus on the valuation of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and climate risk exposure, climate opportunity exposure is less frequently visited in the current literature. We use an international sample from 23 countries that have participated in the CDP. By categorizing climate risks/opportunities into physical, regulatory and other, the study suggests that investors have
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Regulatory distance and firms' environmental innovation: The role of environmental information disclosure and social trust Bus. Strategy Environ. (IF 13.4) Pub Date : 2024-04-10 Zhongju Liao, Mengnan Zhang
Environmental innovation is an important force driving the development of a green and low‐carbon economy, and close supervision can assist the government in guiding firms' environmental innovation behavior. Based on institutional theory, we construct a model of the relationship between regulatory distance, environmental information disclosure, social trust, and firms' environmental innovation. We analyze
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Corporate governance structure and climate‐related financial disclosure: Conventional banks versus Islamic banks Bus. Strategy Environ. (IF 13.4) Pub Date : 2024-04-10 Rasim Simsek, Sabur Mollah, Abongeh Tunyi
This paper examines whether the different corporate governance structures of conventional banks (CBs) and Islamic banks (IBs) have varying effects on their respective climate‐related disclosure (CRD). Employing a unique dataset of CBs and IBs' CRD and corporate governance structures for the period of 2016–2019, we found that their respective corporate governance structures did indeed affect their CRD
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Mapping the signaling environment between sustainability-focused entrepreneurship and investment inputs: A topic modeling approach Bus. Strategy Environ. (IF 13.4) Pub Date : 2024-04-08 Nan Yang, Dimitrios Dousios, Nikolaos Korfiatis, Konstantinos Chalvatzis
The need for climate action has increased attention to sustainability-focused entrepreneurship. In this context, entrepreneurial firms play a fundamental role in developing high-technology solutions for decarbonization but face funding gaps due to the liabilities of newness and smallness. Despite the importance of signaling in entrepreneurship, little is known about what and how to effectively signal
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Do corporate sustainability practices mitigate earnings management? The moderating role of firm size Bus. Strategy Environ. (IF 13.4) Pub Date : 2024-04-08 Haseeb Ur Rahman, Muhammad Zahid, Parvez Alam Khan, Mamdouh Abdulaziz Saleh Al-Faryan, Khaled Hussainey
The majority of the prior empirical literature that inquired about the direct role of corporate sustainability practices (CSP) as a composite construct in mitigating earnings management (EM) has produced equivocal outcomes. Therefore, this study examines the role of CSP not only as a combined construct but also as its three separate dimensions—social, economic, and environmental sustainability in restricting
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Women green entrepreneurship: Conceptualisation and use of bricolage for policy recommendations Bus. Strategy Environ. (IF 13.4) Pub Date : 2024-04-08 Seema Potluri, Subramaniam Ananthram, Bollempalli Venkata Phani
In the context of global concerns such as environmental degradation and gender inequality, international and national agencies and academicians have recognised the curative potential of green entrepreneurship and women entrepreneurship. Furthering these concepts, this paper draws from extant literature on green entrepreneurship (GE) and women entrepreneurship and supplements it with ecofeminism (a
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Blockchain technology in circular economy: Unpacking the potential issues and critical echoes through data triangulation and natural language processing Bus. Strategy Environ. (IF 13.4) Pub Date : 2024-04-09 Santosh Kumar Shrivastav, Surajit Bag
This study aims to identify the current status, potential issues and critical echoes in the integration of blockchain within circular economy (CE) practices. This study utilizes multiple data sources and synthesizes 91 published articles, and over 11,182 social media documents. Word‐embedding‐based clustering technique is employed to derive topics and themes on the use of blockchain in CE. The result
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Business reporting of Sustainable Development Goals: Global trends and implications Bus. Strategy Environ. (IF 13.4) Pub Date : 2024-04-08 Chonlawan Thammaraksa, Caroline Herlev Gebara, Michael Zwicky Hauschild, Caroline Aggestam Pontoppidan, Alexis Laurent
With a reported insufficient progress toward achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), improving knowledge on the uptake and use of SDGs within the private sector is imperative. To address this need, we examine the SDG reporting characteristics of 8500 companies using a global business and governance database. Our results show no correlation in reporting specific goals, which could impede
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Sustainable business model innovation, dynamic capabilities, and organizational design: Insights from Norwegian aquaculture Bus. Strategy Environ. (IF 13.4) Pub Date : 2024-04-05 Matthew Coffay, Ragnar Tveterås, Nancy Bocken, Marcel Bogers
Firms must increasingly grapple with complex sustainability challenges. Business model innovation is needed to achieve radical sustainability improvements. Recent research highlights the interrelatedness between business model innovation, dynamic capabilities, and organizational design, calling for empirical work to better illuminate these relationships. These connections are relevant in sustainability
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Business model innovation through the design of circular product-service system value propositions: A method proposal Bus. Strategy Environ. (IF 13.4) Pub Date : 2024-04-01 Sânia da Costa Fernandes, Henrique Rozenfeld
Circular economy requires rethinking the foundations of business strategy and innovating the business model to incorporate sustainability-driven capabilities. Value propositions rooted in product-service system (PSS) holds promise for leading manufacturing companies to circularity. However, an integrated and practical approach crafting circular and service-based value propositions (herein called as
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Stock price reactions to climate science information from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change: A mitigation function of corporate and sector emissions responsibility? Bus. Strategy Environ. (IF 13.4) Pub Date : 2024-04-01 Constanze Teutrine, Mario Schuster, Sophie Constance Bornhöft, Rainer Lueg, Yassin Denis Bouzzine
This research investigates the influence of climate science information released by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) on the European stock market, with a particular emphasis on differentiating the stock price reactions based on sector climate sensitivity and corporate emissions responsibility. Performing an event study on Stoxx Europe 600 constituents, we analyse stock price reactions
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What are the factors that most influence the formation of workers' labor values in order to achieve sustainable development in Latin America? Bus. Strategy Environ. (IF 13.4) Pub Date : 2024-04-01 Arelys López-Concepción, Ana I. Gil-Lacruz, Isabel Saz-Gil, Miguel-Ángel Garcia-Madurga, Ignacio Sánchez-Medalón
This research delves into the formation of labor values in Latin America, exploring the complex interaction between socio-demographic characteristics (gender, age, and educational level), well-being (happiness, health, and life satisfaction), and macroeconomic factors (wealth, equity, and labor market stability). With microdata drawn from the World Values Survey, the study employs Logit and Blinder–Oaxaca
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Competitive strategy and circular economy practice implementation toward corporate sustainability performance Bus. Strategy Environ. (IF 13.4) Pub Date : 2024-04-02 Vivian Osei, Chunguang Bai, Disraeli Asante‐Darko, Amoako Kwarteng
The impact of competitive strategy on corporate sustainability and the role of circular economy (CE) practices remains scanty in the extant literature. This study therefore examines the mediating role of CE practices on the relationship between competitive strategy and sustainability performance. Drawing on the natural resource‐based view (NRBV) theory and institutional logics (IL) theory, this study
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Policy stimulation for the electric vehicle industry: An analysis of mainstream media discourse Bus. Strategy Environ. (IF 13.4) Pub Date : 2024-04-01 Monika Jain, Shalini Talwar, Rashmi Rastogi, Puneet Kaur, Amandeep Dhir
Motivated by the indisputable relevance of comprehensively understanding and portraying multiple facets of ongoing conversations on electric vehicles (EVs), we employ critical discourse analysis (CDA) to go beyond the how and why of these discussions and fathom the complex interplays and subtleties. Operationally, we inductively analyze 718 popular media articles published from 2020 through 2023 to
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Friends and foes: Embracing coopetition for sustainability in the New Zealand alternative protein industry Bus. Strategy Environ. (IF 13.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-30 Viet Vu, Benjamin Fath
Developing solutions to sustainability challenges requires cooperation among various stakeholders, including organizations that compete at the same time. Prior studies investigate the barriers, drivers, outcomes and tensions of coopetition among sustainable entrepreneurs. In this paper, we consider the coopetition both among sustainable entrepreneurs and between sustainable entrepreneurs and incumbents
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Accomplishing sustainable development goals through international management system standards and multinational supply chains Bus. Strategy Environ. (IF 13.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-28 Pantri Heriyati, Neeraj Yadav, Dewi Tamara
The United Nations has set up 17 sustainable development goals (SDGs) to be achieved by 2030. This research investigates the role of management system standards and multinational supply chains in achieving SDGs and targets, as well as whether these two paths produce varying degrees of effectiveness in achieving these goals. Questionnaire‐based research is conducted among 264 Indian manufacturing organisations
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Gender diversity and environmental activism: Gender discrimination or socialisation? Bus. Strategy Environ. (IF 13.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-27 Jialing Yu, Yang Stephanie Liu
This paper empirically investigates the association between different executive roles taken by women and environmental shareholder activism at the shareholder proposal filing stage and the withdrawal stage. Building on gender socialisation theory and the managerial power perspective, and with 2350 firm‐year observations from Standard and Poor's (S&P) 1500 companies in the United States for the years
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Advancing the understanding of sustainable business models through organizational learning Bus. Strategy Environ. (IF 13.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-27 Bejtush Ademi, Alf Steinar Sætre, Nora Johanne Klungseth
Increased regulations and shifting consumer priorities are driving businesses to become more sustainable and to develop more sustainable business models. To achieve this, businesses must have a solid understanding of sustainability. Organizational learning (OL) is a key capability that helps firms understand and adapt to new phenomena such as sustainability. We explore the nexus between OL and sustainability
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Investing in our planet: Examining retail investors' preference for green bond investment Bus. Strategy Environ. (IF 13.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-22 Shivam Azad, S L Tulasi Devi, Anand Kumar Mishra
The green bond has emerged as an important financial instrument to advance environmentally friendly projects. While institutional investors have shown ample interest in green bonds, retail investors have lagged in their adoption. This study intends to examine the determinants of retail investors' attitude and intention toward green bond investment, utilizing the theory of planned behavior as the fundamental
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Big data driven supply chain innovative capability for sustainable competitive advantage in the food supply chain: Resource‐based view perspective Bus. Strategy Environ. (IF 13.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-22 Mukesh Kumar, Rakesh D. Raut, Sachin Kumar Mangla, Jonathan Moizer, Jonathan Lean
The food supply chain (FSC) is becoming more sustainable as companies aim to meet demand with lower waste and emissions. Big data analytics (BDA) can help achieve sustainability goals by extracting meaningful information from past data to help create sustainable strategies. However, in the sustainability literature, BDA's role in enabling sustainable FSC innovations is not explored. Thus, this study
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Sustainability‐oriented innovation in manufacturing firms: Implementation and evaluation framework Bus. Strategy Environ. (IF 13.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-21 Budi Harsanto, Niraj Kumar, Roula Michaelides
In this paper, complementary perspectives from innovation management capabilities (IMC), the natural resource‐based view (NRBV) and the social resource‐based view (SRBV) are revisited in order to lay the theoretical foundation for developing evaluation framework for sustainability‐oriented innovation (SOI). Six dimensions of SOI are identified, as innovation focus, sustainability focus, integration
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Measuring the impact of circular economy performance on financial performance: The moderating role of stakeholder engagement Bus. Strategy Environ. (IF 13.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-21 Benedetta Esposito, Daniela Sica, Stefania Supino, Ornella Malandrino
This paper investigates whether and to what extent circular economy performance affects the financial performance of a global sample of listed agri‐food firms. Furthermore, the potential moderating role of stakeholder engagement in empowering this relationship has been tested. A circular economy performance index has been developed based on Environmental Social and Governance scores reclassified in
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Business strategies towards climate‐smart agriculture in Europe: A literature review Bus. Strategy Environ. (IF 13.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-19 Gohar Isakhanyan, Christopher Junior Galgo, Marilena Gemtou, Søren Marcus Pedersen
In response to increasing demands for sustainability, the entire agri‐food sector is in transition towards climate‐smart agriculture (CSA). The academic discourse on CSA has substantially expanded, including a large number of empirical studies, quite often case studies. There is a strong need to take stock of research, both from an academic and from a managerial point of view. This article integrates
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Toward sustainable automobility: Insights from a stewardship literature review of the industry Bus. Strategy Environ. (IF 13.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-19 Tracey Dodd, Chee Cheong, Arvid Hoffmann, Ralf‐Yves Zurbrugg
The automotive industry is actively pursuing a course of sustainable development; however, to date, progress has been limited. This is because a truly sustainable future requires a substantial and transformative approach to automobility. Some scholars argue that this transformative approach might be found by exploring an industry transition based on stewardship rather than the current status quo of
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Do firms' sustainability practices pay off during global crises? Evidence from Asia and the Pacific Bus. Strategy Environ. (IF 13.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-19 Md Lutfur Rahman, Gazi Salah Uddin, Donghyun Park
This paper examines the relationship between firms' sustainability practices and their value during a crisis when overall trust and support are lacking in the economy. While a handful of studies explore this research agenda concentrating on the US context and a standalone crisis, we provide novel evidence on the Asia Pacific region considering three global crises. Applying difference‐in‐differences
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Does combining analytical and synthetic knowledge benefit eco‐innovation? Evidence from Norway Bus. Strategy Environ. (IF 13.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-16 Faraimo Jay Vai
Analytical or synthetic knowledge is widely considered beneficial for eco‐innovation (EI). For a firm, analytical and synthetic knowledge can be acquired externally through collaboration with various partners or generated internally through R&D and other internal firm activities. However, evidence supporting the assumption that both forms of knowledge are complementary and that “doing more of all”
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Degrowth attitudes among entrepreneurs hinder fast venture scaling Bus. Strategy Environ. (IF 13.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-16 Sebastian Hinderer, Andreas Kuckertz
The degrowth paradigm has gained popularity in the sustainability discourse in recent years. Questioning the absolute decoupling of economic growth from environmental degradation, degrowth proponents suggest downscaling production and consumption to reduce resource extraction and energy consumption. However, this seems to be at odds with conventional wisdom about entrepreneurship. Thus, our research
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Marketing plant‐based versus animal‐sourced foods in online grocery stores: A comparative content analysis of sustainability and other product claims in the United States Bus. Strategy Environ. (IF 13.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-14 Suzannah Gerber, Sadie R. Dix, Sean B. Cash
The market share of e‐commerce grocery is swiftly rising, but online product listings may present different environmental sustainability and public health information. We analyzed product marketing content available on retailer websites and product images, comparing plant‐based (PBFs) and animal‐sourced foods (ASFs). Over sixteen thousand marketing and labeling content observations were gathered from
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Renewable energy use, slack financial resources, and board attributes: Does energy efficiency policy matter? Bus. Strategy Environ. (IF 13.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Ali Uyar, Ali Meftah Gerged, Cemil Kuzey, Abdullah S. Karaman
This study examined the impact of slack financial resources, board characteristics (such as gender diversity, tenure, and skill/expertise), and energy efficiency policies on firms' consumption of renewable energy. Using a dataset of 17,753 observations from 2002 to 2019, we primarily utilized fixed‐effects regression, among other methods, for robustness analysis. We find that while slack financial
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Carbon reporting regulation: Real effects, external pressures, and internal policies Bus. Strategy Environ. (IF 13.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-06 Diogenis Baboukardos, Anastasia Kopita, Charlotte Ranegaard, Elias Demetriades
Mandatory climate change reporting is suggested as a mechanism for mitigating firms' climate change impact and, in particular, their carbon emissions. Although extant literature provides evidence of a negative association between the introduction of carbon reporting regulation and firms' carbon emissions, the literature on real effects of climate change reporting regulation is still in its infancy
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Risk management of green supply chains for agricultural products based on social network evaluation framework Bus. Strategy Environ. (IF 13.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-08 Wenke Wang, Qilin Cao, Yang Liu, Cheng Zhou, Qinghui Jiao, Sachin Kumar Mangla
The green supply chain of agricultural products (GSCAP) is a key link for rural revitalization and sustainable development in China. However, it faces various risks from internal and external environments that threaten its performance and stability. This paper proposes a novel framework and system for identifying and evaluating the main risks in the GSCAP from the perspective of agricultural enterprises
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Issue Information Bus. Strategy Environ. (IF 13.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-07
No abstract is available for this article.
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Issue Information Bus. Strategy Environ. (IF 13.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-07
No abstract is available for this article.
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Promoting green supply chain under carbon tax, carbon cap and carbon trading policies Bus. Strategy Environ. (IF 13.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-07 Reza Eslamipoor, Abbas Sepehriyar
This article examines a supply chain network that considers both economic and environmental factors. The network faces challenges related to multi‐item products and non‐homogenous vehicle types with different costs. Additionally, the production process involves multiple energy sources that emit different levels of air pollution. The main objective is to maximise profits while adhering to different
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Responsible entrepreneurship, social innovation, and entrepreneurial performance: Does commitment to SDGs matter? Bus. Strategy Environ. (IF 13.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-06 Samuel Adomako, Nguyen Phong Nguyen
In this study, we investigate the effect of responsible entrepreneurship on entrepreneurial performance through the mediating mechanism of social innovation. Further, we explore the moderating role of a firm's degree of sustainable development goals (SDGs) commitment on the relationship between social innovation and entrepreneurial performance. Data were collected from 220 firms in Ghana using a time‐lagged
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Circular economy startups and digital entrepreneurial ecosystems Bus. Strategy Environ. (IF 13.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-06 Ravi Roshan, Krishna Chandra Balodi, Sagnika Datta, Anil Kumar, Arvind Upadhyay
Circular economy (CE) is the way forward to protect an endangered environment, promote social justice, and advance sustainable and balanced regional economic development. The proliferation of the CE concept and the circular startup (CSU) boom coincides with digital transformation, a socioeconomic change propelled by the widespread adoption of digital technologies. This paper uses a systems theory perspective
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Circular economy principles as a basis for a sustainability management theory: A systems thinking and moral imagination approach Bus. Strategy Environ. (IF 13.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-06 Roberta De Angelis, Giancarlo Ianulardo
To enable corporations to bring about more responsible business practices, changes in the wider system within which businesses operate – including the mental models through which sustainability is understood in the management field – are necessary. Drawing on functioning principles in natural ecosystems – as embodied in circular economy thinking – this conceptual article proposes some constructs to
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The perfect combination to win the competition: Bringing sustainability and customer experience together Bus. Strategy Environ. (IF 13.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-05 Umut Ünal, Rıfgı Buğra Bağcı, Mertcan Taşçıoğlu
Understanding the connection between how consumers perceive sustainability and how they experience the offered products or services can make a big difference for companies to stay ahead of the competition. When companies work to make their products and services align with what their customers value, like being eco‐friendly and socially responsible, it may not only draw in new customers but also make
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Circular product design challenges: An exploratory study on critical barriers Bus. Strategy Environ. (IF 13.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-05 Daniel Jugend, Hugo Henrique dos Santos, Susana Garrido, Regiane Máximo Siqueira, Jaime A. Mesa
Despite the recognition that the adoption of the circular economy depends on aligning the new product development process with the principles of circularity, there are still few studies on the barriers to circular product design. This article aims to contribute to this topic by developing an exploratory study to identify and analyze these barriers in the Brazilian context. In addition to a theoretical
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Achieving sustainable development with sustainable packaging: A natural‐resource‐based view perspective Bus. Strategy Environ. (IF 13.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-04 Cherry C. I. Lau, Christina W. Y. Wong
Sustainable packaging is a pivotal aspect of sustainable development, involving multi‐faceted issues such as stakeholder management and environmental policy compliance. Despite the efforts to find packaging solutions, the extant literature is largely fragmented, featuring a high level of heterogeneity among studies that spread across different disciplines, with the majority examining important packaging
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Biodiversity management and stock price crash risk Bus. Strategy Environ. (IF 13.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-04 Alexander Bassen, Daniel Buchholz, Kerstin Lopatta, Anna R. Rudolf
This study explores the link between corporate biodiversity management and the risk of sudden declines in future stock prices, an area largely overlooked in empirical research despite the societal significance of biodiversity loss. We posit that robust corporate biodiversity efforts mitigate the suppression of negative information, consequently reducing the risk of abrupt stock price declines. Leveraging
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Business strategies for achieving carbon neutrality goals in collaborative ecosystems: Bridging gaps in achieving operational status Bus. Strategy Environ. (IF 13.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-02 Adeel Luqman, Qingyu Zhang, Veenu Sharma, Ritika Gugnani, Steven T. Walsh
This study delves into the pressing challenge of achieving carbon neutrality (CN) operational status among firms, with a specific focus on the moderating impact of emission scopes. We use mixed methods and ambidexterity and resource dependence theories to examine the relationships between four cooperation kinds (exploration‐focused, exploitation‐focused, resonance‐based, and governance‐centric) and
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Corporate sustainability strategy: From definitional ambiguity toward conceptual clarification Bus. Strategy Environ. (IF 13.4) Pub Date : 2024-02-27 Jennifer Adolph, Markus Beckmann
The concept of corporate sustainability strategy (CSS) suffers from considerable definitional ambiguity. Rather than attempting to create a universally acceptable CSS definition, this study scrutinizes the various uses of different existing definitions. Our two-step methodology began with a systematic literature review to identify different topical perspectives on CSS. Next, a purposeful sampling approach
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Business strategy and innovative models in the fashion industry: Clothing leasing as a driver of sustainability Bus. Strategy Environ. (IF 13.4) Pub Date : 2024-02-27 Micol Barletta, Idiano D'Adamo, Jose Arturo Garza-Reyes, Massimo Gastaldi
The fashion industry is ranked as the second largest cause of environmental pollution. In this context, circular business models emerge as key tools to address the negative impacts of the textile industry. The aim of this work is to identify alternatives to the currently dominant model followed by fast fashion, through the proposal of a circular business model based on leasing. The methodology of the
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Using green human resource management practices to achieve green performance: Evidence from Italian manufacturing context Bus. Strategy Environ. (IF 13.4) Pub Date : 2024-02-24 Andrea Chiarini, Surajit Bag
The effect of green human resource management (GHRM) practices on employees' environmental engagement, attitudes, and behaviors is well‐known. What is less known is which GHRM practices can have a positive influence on achieving green performance through the mediating role played by people's engagement. To address the research gaps, this study used mixed‐method research design. In Phase 1, this study
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Exploring potential diffusion pathways of biorefinery innovations—An agent‐based simulation approach for facilitating shared value creation Bus. Strategy Environ. (IF 13.4) Pub Date : 2024-02-22 Julia Wenger, Georg Jäger, Annukka Näyhä, Simon Plakolb, Paul Erich Krassnitzer, Tobias Stern
In many European countries with plentiful forest resources, novel forest‐based businesses play a key role in the transition from our current fossil‐based economy towards a circular bioeconomy. For example, kraft lignin, a by‐product from the pulping industry, is produced in large amounts globally. To date, however, it is still only offered on the market by a small number of pulping companies. The successful
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Do boards care about planetary boundaries? A gender perspective on circular economy disclosures Bus. Strategy Environ. (IF 13.4) Pub Date : 2024-02-18 Saudi-Yulieth Enciso-Alfaro, Isabel-María García-Sánchez
The need to develop environmentally respectful business activities has led academics to propose the circular economy (CE) as a more sustainable production and consumption model than the linear model, where interest groups demand greater disclosure of information that makes it possible to evaluate the business transition towards the CE. Also, the planetary boundaries framework provides thresholds for
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Corporate purpose and early disaster response: Providing evidence of dynamic materiality? Bus. Strategy Environ. (IF 13.4) Pub Date : 2024-02-19 Diego Arias, Xabier Barriola, Cristian R. Loza Adaui
This paper examines the relationship between corporate purpose and disaster response. To that aim, we use a unique dataset generated by Just Capital's COVID‐19 response tracker that characterizes the early responses of 928 companies included in the Russell 1000 Index generated by the COVID‐19 pandemic. We marry this data to the Business Roundtable Statement on the Purpose of a Corporation (BRT‐CPS)
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The role of business and management in driving the sustainable development goals (SDGs): Current insights and future directions from a systematic review Bus. Strategy Environ. (IF 13.4) Pub Date : 2024-02-15 Ritika Mahajan, Satish Kumar, Weng Marc Lim, Monica Sareen
The pursuit of sustainable development goals (SDGs) extends beyond governmental responsibility, demanding active engagement from businesses and managers. This study systematically reviews SDG-related research within the fields of business and management to elucidate their roles in advancing this global agenda. By analyzing a corpus of pertinent studies from Scopus and Web of Science through bibliometric–content
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Digital transformation, ESG practice, and total factor productivity Bus. Strategy Environ. (IF 13.4) Pub Date : 2024-02-15 Xiangan Ding, Zhonglin Sheng, Andrea Appolloni, Mohsin Shahzad, Shaojie Han
Recent research provides limited knowledge about how and whether digital transformation related to environmental, social, and governance (ESG) affects the total factor productivity (TFP). To fill the gap, this study explores the impact of digital transformation on TFP based on a fixed-effect model and the staggered difference-in-differences method and reveals that digital transformation can boost corporate
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A system dynamics approach to modelling eco-innovation drivers in companies: Understanding complex interactions using machine learning Bus. Strategy Environ. (IF 13.4) Pub Date : 2024-02-14 Carlos F. A. Arranz
This paper examines the effect of drivers in the development of eco-innovation from a system dynamics perspective. While previous literature has made important contributions in identifying factors that influence the development of eco-innovations, there remains limited understanding of how these drivers act and interact in promoting its development. Therefore, there is a need to develop a framework
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Climate-neutral labeling for climate-friendly vs. climate-harmful food products: Consumer perceptions and implications Bus. Strategy Environ. (IF 13.4) Pub Date : 2024-02-13 Gesa Stremmel, Ossama Elshiewy, Yasemin Boztug
Given the increasing prevalence of climate-neutral labeled products in the actual marketplace, this study analyzes the impact of climate-neutral labeling on consumer perceptions and purchase propensity. Only for climate-harmful products we found that climate-neutral labeling alters product perceptions and purchase propensity (while not for climate-friendly products). For climate-harmful products, a
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Does entrepreneurship hold the key? Steering through income inequality towards happiness Bus. Strategy Environ. (IF 13.4) Pub Date : 2024-02-12 Amirmahmood Amini Sedeh, Rosa Caiazza
In accordance with the theoretical underpinning that subjective well-being (SWB) is influenced by a multifaceted array of contextual determinants, this study aims to dissect these intricate connections. Utilizing national business system (NBS) framework and implementing fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis (fsQCA), we scrutinize the collective impact of entrepreneurial endeavors, institutional
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Circular supply chains in manufacturing—Quo vadis? Accomplishments, challenges and future opportunities Bus. Strategy Environ. (IF 13.4) Pub Date : 2024-02-08 Arijit Bhattacharya, Shefali Srivastava, Abhijit Majumdar
Circular approach in manufacturing supply chain (SC) operations yields multiple benefits through optimal utilisation and consumption of resources. This study maps the scope and structure of circularity in the manufacturing SC discipline and explores the evolution of the domain over time. We review 946 journal articles published between 2013 and September 2023. Our study identifies key drivers and barriers