Business Strategy and the Environment

Papers
(The TQCC of Business Strategy and the Environment is 25. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-05-01 to 2024-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Modeling the dynamic linkage between financial development, energy innovation, and environmental quality: Does globalization matter?315
Circular economy business models: The state of research and avenues ahead260
Industry 4.0 and the circular economy: A literature review and recommendations for future research248
Retracted: Industry 4.0 and circular economy practices: A new era business strategies for environmental sustainability223
Digitalization and sustainable development: How could digital economy development improve green innovation in China?210
Consumption‐based carbon emissions, renewable energy consumption, financial development and economic growth in Chile202
Stakeholder pressure, green innovation, and performance in small and medium‐sized enterprises: The role of green dynamic capabilities200
Enhancing green product and process innovation: Towards an integrative framework of knowledge acquisition and environmental investment198
Sustainable development goals and the strategic role of business: A systematic literature review196
The determinants of business contribution to the 2030 Agenda: Introducing the SDG Reporting Score188
Innovation and the circular economy: A systematic literature review187
Are women eco‐friendly? Board gender diversity and environmental innovation167
Integrating sustainability and resilience in the supply chain: A systematic literature review and a research agenda166
Sustainable development, ESG performance and company market value: Mediating effect of financial performance163
Environmental performance, sustainability, governance and financial performance: Evidence from heavily polluting industries in China160
Theory of green purchase behavior (TGPB): A new theory for sustainable consumption of green hotel and green restaurant products156
Critical success factors for a circular economy: Implications for business strategy and the environment152
How circular is the circular economy? Analysing the implementation of circular economy in organisations145
The emerging driving force of inclusive green growth: Does digital economy agglomeration work?144
Nudging toward diversity in the boardroom: A systematic literature review of board diversity of financial institutions141
Does green transformational leadership lead to green innovation? The role of green thinking and creative process engagement133
Is blockchain able to enhance environmental sustainability? A systematic review and research agenda from the perspective of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)131
Circular economy and the policy: A framework for improving the corporate environmental management in supply chains129
Industry 4.0, innovation, and sustainable development: A systematic review and a roadmap to sustainable innovation129
Corporate ESG reporting quantity, quality and performance: Where to now for environmental policy and practice?127
Board gender diversity and carbon emissions: European evidence on curvilinear relationships and critical mass126
CEO hometown identity and firm green innovation126
Green growth versus economic growth: Do sustainable technology transfer and innovations lead to an imperfect choice?126
The role of information and communication technology on green total factor energy efficiency: Does environmental regulation work?124
A resource‐based view of green innovation as a strategic firm resource: Present status and future directions124
How do firms achieve sustainability through green innovation under external pressures of environmental regulation and market turbulence?124
The circular economy and consumer behaviour: The mediating role of information seeking in buying circular packaging123
Factors affecting corporate environmental disclosure in emerging markets: The role of corporate governance structures121
Green bonds as a tool against climate change?120
Circular economy practices and industry 4.0 technologies: A strategic move of automobile industry116
How do green knowledge management and green technology innovation impact corporate environmental performance? Understanding the role of green knowledge acquisition115
Does the interaction between the knowledge management process and sustainable development practices boost corporate green innovation?110
Industry 4.0 and circular economy: An exploratory analysis of academic and practitioners' perspectives107
Perceived behavioral control as a mediator of hotels' green training, environmental commitment, and organizational citizenship behavior: A sustainable environmental practice106
Do audit committee attributes influence integrated reporting quality? An agency theory viewpoint103
Achieving environmental sustainability through green transformational leadership policy: Can green team resilience help?102
An environmental policy of green intellectual capital: Green innovation strategy for performance sustainability102
Testing the institutional difference hypothesis: A study about environmental, social, governance, and financial performance100
Does green innovation affect the financial performance of Multilatinas? The moderating role of ISO 14001 and R&D investment95
What do we know about business strategy and environmental research? Insights from Business Strategy and the Environment94
A framework of digital technologies for the circular economy: Digital functions and mechanisms94
Environmental, social and governance disclosure and default risk92
Exploring the effect of buyer engagement on green product innovation: Empirical evidence from manufacturers92
Implementing circular economy in the textile and clothing industry91
The transition from linear economy to circular economy for sustainability among SMEs: A study on prospects, impediments, and prerequisites91
Enabling the Circular Economy transition: a sustainable lean manufacturing recipe for Industry 4.088
Green intellectual capital and environmental management accounting: Natural resource orchestration in favor of environmental performance87
The pathway toward pollution mitigation: Does institutional quality make a difference?87
Improving companies' impacts on sustainable development: A nexus approach to the SDGS86
Impact of green entrepreneurship orientation on environmental performance: The natural resource‐based view and environmental policy perspective85
Does environmental, social, and governance performance move together with corporate green innovation in China?85
Does adoption of ISO 56002‐2019 and green innovation reporting enhance the firm sustainable development goal performance? An emerging paradigm85
Green human resource management and environmental performance: The role of green innovation and environmental strategy in a developing country84
Sustaining the sustainable development: How do firms turn government green subsidies into financial performance through green innovation?82
What you see is meaningful: Does green advertising change the intentions of consumers to purchase eco‐labeled products?81
From circular business models to circular business ecosystems81
Institutional pressures, environmental management strategy, and organizational performance: The role of environmental management accounting81
What motivates the adoption of green restaurant products and services? A systematic review and future research agenda79
Circular economy and innovation: A look from the perspective of organizational capabilities79
The impact of sustainable development strategy on sustainable supply chain firm performance in the digital transformation era78
Green capabilities, green purchasing, and triple bottom line performance: Leading toward environmental sustainability78
Sustainable finance and investment: Review and research agenda78
Organizational transition management of circular business model innovations78
How do incumbent firms innovate their business models for the circular economy? Identifying micro‐foundations of dynamic capabilities77
Internal green integration and environmental performance: The predictive power of proactive environmental strategy, greening the supplier, and environmental collaboration with the supplier77
Do constraints created by economic growth targets benefit sustainable development? Evidence from China77
Performance evaluation of reverse logistics in food supply chains in a circular economy using system dynamics75
Strategic sustainable development of Industry 4.0 through the lens of social responsibility: The role of human resource practices75
Blockchain technologies as enablers of supply chain mapping for sustainable supply chains75
Application of digital technologies for sustainable product management in a circular economy: A review75
A systematic literature review to integrate lean, agile, resilient, green and sustainable paradigms in the supply chain management74
Toward sustainable development: Board characteristics, country governance quality, and environmental performance74
How to innovate business models for a circular bio‐economy?74
Carbon emissions and the cost of debt in the eurozone: The role of public policies, climate‐related disclosure and corporate governance73
Green process innovation and operational performance: The role of proactive environment strategy, technological capabilities, and organizational learning72
Supply chain firm performance in circular economy and digital era to achieve sustainable development goals72
Leveraging STARA competencies and green creativity to boost green organisational innovative evidence: A praxis for sustainable development72
Sustainable Supplier Selection in Megaprojects: Grey Ordinal Priority Approach72
Relating the role of green self‐concepts and identity on green purchasing behaviour: An empirical analysis71
Circular economy‐based new products and company performance: The role of stakeholders and Industry 4.0 technologies71
Supply chain collaboration and eco‐innovations: An institutional perspective from China71
Industry 4.0 technologies in the manufacturing sector: Are we sure they are all relevant for environmental performance?70
How environmental innovation influences firm performance: A meta‐analytic review70
On the conceptualization and measurement of dynamic capabilities for sustainability: Building theory through a systematic literature review70
Green marketing as an environmental practice: The impact on green satisfaction and green loyalty in a business‐to‐business context69
Digital finance and sustainable development: Evidence from environmental inequality in China69
Industry 4.0 technologies and circular economy: The mediating role of supply chain integration68
The impact of direct environmental, social, and governance reporting: Empirical evidence in European‐listed companies in the agri‐food sector67
Which are the determinants of green purchase behaviour? A study of Italian consumers66
The effects of environmental, social and governance disclosure on the cost of capital in small and medium enterprises: The role of family business status66
Enhancing environmental information transparency through corporate social responsibility reporting regulation66
Dynamic capabilities for circular manufacturing supply chains—Exploring the role of Industry 4.0 and resilience66
Circular economy and resilience: A research agenda66
Green process innovation: Where we are and where we are going65
Analysing the risks of adopting circular economy initiatives in manufacturing supply chains64
Close the loop: Evidence on the implementation of the circular economy from the Italian fashion industry64
Traders as sustainability governance actors in global food supply chains: A research agenda64
Circular economy in Latin America: A systematic literature review63
Past, present, and future of green product innovation63
Does green innovation increase enterprise value?62
Does the EU Directive on non‐financial information influence the value relevance of ESG disclosure? Italian evidence61
Toward sustainable corporate behavior: The effect of the critical mass of female directors on environmental, social, and governance disclosure61
Green apparel buying behaviour: A Stimulus–Organism–Behaviour–Consequence (SOBC) perspective on sustainability‐oriented consumption in Japan60
Green capabilities and green purchasing practices: A strategy striving towards sustainable operations60
Do independent, female and specialist directors promote eco‐innovation and eco‐design in agri‐food firms?60
The effects of regional trade integration and renewable energy transition on environmental quality: Evidence from South Asian neighbors59
Is corporate environmental disclosure associated with firm value? A multicountry study of Gulf Cooperation Council firms59
Environmental management certification and environmental performance: Greening or greenwashing?59
Environmental management practices and financial performance using data envelopment analysis in Japan: The mediating role of environmental performance59
Green bonds, sustainable development and environmental policy in the European Union carbon market59
The impact of environmental dynamism on low‐carbon practices and digital supply chain networks to enhance sustainable performance: An empirical analysis59
Net‐zero emission targets and the role of managerial environmental awareness, customer pressure, and regulatory control toward environmental performance58
Circular economy in corporate sustainability reporting: A review of organisational approaches58
Green consumerism, green perceived value, and restaurant revisit intention: Millennials' sustainable consumption with moderating effect of green perceived quality58
Investigating the link between managers' green knowledge and leadership style, and their firms' environmental performance: The mediation role of green creativity57
Sustainability strategies by companies in the global coffee sector57
Firm sustainable investment: Are female directors greener?57
The resource‐based view, stakeholder capitalism, ESG, and sustainable competitive advantage: The firm's embeddedness into ecology, society, and governance57
Towards a collaboration framework for circular economy: The role of dynamic capabilities and open innovation56
What drives the adoption and consumption of green hotel products and services? A systematic literature review of past achievement and future promises56
Progress and trends in integrating Industry 4.0 within Circular Economy: A comprehensive literature review and future research propositions55
A conceptual framework for blockchain‐based sustainable supply chain and evaluating implementation barriers: A case of the tea supply chain55
Green intellectual capital and ambidextrous green innovation: The impact on environmental performance55
Effects of greenwashing on financial performance: Moderation through local environmental regulation and media coverage55
Sustainability and legitimacy theory: The case of sustainable social and environmental practices of small and medium‐sized enterprises55
The impact of motivation, intention, and contextual factors on green purchasing behavior: New energy vehicles as an example55
Exploring the determinants of green bond issuance: Going beyond the long‐lasting debate on performance consequences55
An institutional perspective on consumers' environmental awareness and pro‐environmental behavioral intention: Evidence from 39 countries55
Voluntary Adopters of Integrated Reporting – Evidence on Forecast Accuracy and Firm Value54
The revision of nonfinancial reporting directive: A critical lens on the comparability principle53
Business environmental innovation and CO2 emissions: The moderating role of environmental governance53
Closing the loop through eco‐innovation by European firms: Circular economy for sustainable development53
Non‐financial strategy disclosure and environmental, social and governance score: Insight from a configurational approach52
Mandatory disclosure, greenhouse gas emissions and the cost of equity capital: UK evidence of a U‐shaped relationship52
Proactive environmental strategy and firm performance at the bottom of the pyramid52
Analysing the roadblocks of circular economy adoption in the automobile sector: Reducing waste and environmental perspectives52
Circular economy and sustainability: The role of organizational behaviour in the transition journey52
Financial materiality in the informativeness of sustainability reporting51
Assessing people‐driven factors for circular economy practices in small and medium‐sized enterprise supply chains: Business strategies and environmental perspectives51
The application of Green Lean Six Sigma51
Bank green lending and credit risk: an empirical analysis of China's Green Credit Policy50
Systemic circular business model application at the company, supply chain and society levels—A view into circular economy native and adopter companies50
Value creation in circular economy business for sustainability: A stakeholder relationship perspective50
Biodiversity and extinction accounting for sustainable development: A systematic literature review and future research directions50
An environmental perspective extends market orientation: Green innovation sustainability50
The influence of managers' awareness of climate change, perceived climate risk exposure and risk tolerance on the adoption of corporate responses to climate change50
Twenty‐eight years of business strategy and the environment research: A bibliometric analysis50
Business strategy and sustainable development: Evidence from China49
The nexuses between transformational leadership and employee green organisational citizenship behaviour: Role of environmental attitude and green dedication49
Institutional pressures and circular economy performance: The role of environmental management system and organizational flexibility in oil and gas sector49
Tunneling the barriers of blockchain technology in remanufacturing for achieving sustainable development goals: A circular manufacturing perspective49
Analyzing companies' interactions with the Sustainable Development Goals through network analysis: Four corporate sustainability imperatives49
Attaining sustainable development goals (SDGs) through supply chain practices and business strategies: A systematic review with bibliometric and network analyses48
Citizens and cities: Leveraging citizen science and big data for sustainable urban development48
Business model innovation: Identifying foundations and trajectories47
The growth paradox, sustainable development, and business strategy47
The effect of environmental regulations, top management commitment, and organizational learning on green product innovation: Evidence from automobile industry47
Consumers' choice behavior: An interactive effect of expected eudaimonic well‐being and green altruism46
Can environmental investments benefit environmental performance? The moderating roles of institutional environment and foreign direct investment46
Green supply chain integration and financial performance: A social contagion and information sharing perspective46
Advancing the circular economy through dynamic capabilities and extended customer engagement: Insights from small sustainable fashion enterprises in the UK46
Stakeholder engagement in business models for sustainability: The stakeholder value flow model for sustainable development45
The management of sustainable development: A longitudinal analysis of the effects of environmental performance on economic performance45
Environmental, social, and governance ratings and financial performance: Evidence from the European food industry45
Structural model for analysis of key performance indicators for sustainable manufacturer–supplier collaboration: A grey‐decision‐making trial and evaluation laboratory‐based approach45
Do firm characteristics affect environmental sustainability? A literature review‐based assessment45
The contagion effect of environmental violations: The case of Dieselgate in Germany45
Sustainability among Norwegian maritime firms: Green strategy and innovation as mediators of long‐term orientation and emission reduction44
Factors affecting green purchase behavior: A systematic literature review44
A review of entrepreneurship and circular economy research: State of the art and future directions44
Determinants of consumer demand for circular economy products. A case for reuse and remanufacturing for sustainable development43
Critical success factors for implementing blockchain‐based circular supply chain43
An investigation of key performance indicators for operational excellence towards sustainability in the leather products industry43
Socio‐emotional wealth and corporate responses to environmental hostility: Are family firms more stakeholder oriented?43
Biodiversity disclosure, sustainable development and environmental initiatives: Does board gender diversity matter?43
Do corporate sustainability initiatives improve corporate carbon performance? Evidence from European firms43
Local government environmental regulatory pressures and corporate environmental strategies: Evidence from natural resource accountability audits in China43
Corporate social and environmental disclosure as a sustainable development tool provided by board sub‐committees: Do women directors play a relevant moderating role?43
The link between sustainable business models and Blockchain: A multiple case study approach42
The nexus of business sustainability and organizational learning: A systematic literature review to identify key learning principles for business transformation42
Circular disruption: Digitalisation as a driver of circular economy business models41
Toward a circular economy: Understanding consumers' moral stance on corporations' and individuals' responsibilities in creating a circular fashion economy41
Sustainable environmental practices and financial performance: Evidence from listed small and medium‐sized enterprise in the United Kingdom41
Sustainable development of small‐ and medium‐sized enterprises in the European Union: A taxonomy of circular economy practices41
Managing sustainability in luxury industry to pursue circular economy strategies41
Sustainable employee green behavior in the workplace: Integrating cognitive and non‐cognitive factors in corporate environmental policy41
From institutional pressure to the sustainable development of firm: Role of environmental management accounting implementation and environmental proactivity41
Addressing endogeneity by proposing novel instrumental variables in the nexus of sustainability reporting and firm financial performance: A step‐by‐step procedure for non‐experts40
Exploring an innovative pivot: How green training can spur corporate sustainability performance40
On the contribution of eco‐innovation features to a circular economy: A microlevel quantitative approach40
The effect of corporate environmental, social and governance disclosure on cash holdings: Life‐cycle perspective40
Sustainable development and circular economy: The role of institutional promotion on circular consumption and market competitiveness from a multistakeholder engagement approach40
Exploring business models for sustainability: A bibliographic investigation of the literature and future research directions40
An empirical analysis: Did green supply chain management alleviate the effects of COVID‐19?39
The impact of ISO 14001 on firm environmental and economic performance: The moderating role of size and environmental awareness39
A natural resource and institutional theory‐based view of green‐lean‐six sigma drivers for environmental management39
Antecedents of absorptive capacity in the development of circular economy business models of small and medium enterprises39
Stakeholder pressure for sustainability: Can ‘innovative capabilities’ explain the idiosyncratic response in the manufacturing firms?39
Bringing sustainability to life: A framework to guide biodiversity indicator development for business performance management39
The value relevance of corporate financial and nonfinancial information provided by the integrated report: A systematic review39
Will financial development and clean energy utilization rejuvenate the environment in BRICS economies?39
Sustainable entrepreneurship and the Sustainable Development Goals: Community‐led initiatives, the social solidarity economy and commons ecologies39
Sustainability in the digital age: Intended and unintended consequences of digital technologies for sustainable development38
Strategic ambidexterity in green product innovation: Obstacles and implications38
Stakeholder perception of reverse logistics practices on supply chain performance38
Environmental degradation, energy consumption and sustainable development: Accounting for the role of economic complexities with evidence from World Bank income clusters38
Which institutional investors drive corporate sustainability? A systematic literature review38
External stakeholder engagement: Complementary and substitutive effects on firms' eco‐innovation37
Linking sustainable business models and supply chains — Toward an integrated value creation framework37
Circular business model implementation: A capability development case study from the manufacturing industry37
Green manufacturing for sustainable development: The positive effects of green activities, green investments, and non‐green products on economic performance36
Human resource slack, sustainable innovation, and environmental performance of small and medium‐sized enterprises in sub‐Saharan Africa36
Environmental attitude in the board. Who are the “green directors”? Evidences from Italy36
Corporate commitment to climate change action, carbon risk exposure, and a firm's debt financing policy36
Transition towards and of sustainability—Understanding sustainability as performative36
Circular economy adoption barriers: An extended fuzzy best–worst method using fuzzy DEMATEL and Supermatrix structure35
Building a data‐driven circular supply chain hierarchical structure: Resource recovery implementation drives circular business strategy35
Circular business model evolution: Stakeholder matters for a self‐sufficient ecosystem35
Environmental proactivity, competitive strategy, and market performance: The mediating role of environmental reputation35
Executive compensation and sustainable business practices: The moderating role of sustainability‐based compensation35
Consumer adoption of access‐based product‐service systems: The influence of duration of use and type of product35
Design for the environment: An ontology‐based knowledge management model for green product development35
Harnessing digitalization for sustainable development: Understanding how interactions on sustainability‐oriented digital platforms manage tensions and paradoxes35
Reviewing the applications of artificial intelligence in sustainable supply chains: Exploring research propositions for future directions34
Carbon neutrality drivers and implications for firm performance and supply chain management34
Towards sustainable development: Coupling green marketing strategies and consumer perceptions in addressing greenwashing34
Small agricultural businesses' performance—What is the role of dynamic capabilities, entrepreneurial orientation, and environmental sustainability commitment?34
Corporate environmental reporting: Are French firms compliant with the Task Force on Climate Financial Disclosures' recommendations?34
Supplier evaluation in the context of circular economy: A forward step for resilient business and environment concern34
Do dynamic capabilities matter? A study on environmental performance and the circular economy in European certified organisations34
COVID‐19, ESG investing, and the resilience of more sustainable stocks: Evidence from European firms34
CEO foreign experience and corporate sustainable development: Evidence from China34
Eco‐innovation motivations and ecodesign tool implementation in companies in the Nordic textile and information technology sectors34
A framework for digital supply chains in the era of circular economy: Implications on environmental sustainability34
The role of biomass energy consumption and economic complexity on environmental sustainability in G7 economies34
Which factors distinguish the different consumer segments of green fast‐moving consumer goods in Germany?34
Environmental collaboration, responsible innovation, and firm performance: The moderating role of stakeholder pressure34
Managing healthcare waste for sustainable environmental development: A hybrid decision approach34
Inspiring employees' ecological behaviors: The roles of corporate environmental strategy, biospheric values, and eco‐centric leadership33
What drives environmental innovation? A meta‐analysis33
Towards a circular economy: Implications for emission reduction and environmental sustainability33
Building supply chain relational capital: The impact of supplier and customer leveraging on innovation performance33
Strategic motives and performance implications of proactive versus reactive environmental strategies in corporate sustainable development32
Friends or foes? A systematic literature review and meta‐analysis of the relationship between eco‐innovation and firm performance32
Outsourcing logistics operations in circular economy towards to sustainable development goals32
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