OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Business Strategy and the Environment is 76. 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Industry 4.0 and the circular economy: A literature review and recommendations for future research	308
Digitalization and sustainable development: How could digital economy development improve green innovation in China?	301
Retracted: Industry 4.0 and circular economy practices: A new era business strategies for environmental sustainability	269
Stakeholder pressure, green innovation, and performance in small and medium‐sized enterprises: The role of green dynamic capabilities	263
Sustainable development, ESG performance and company market value: Mediating effect of financial performance	261
Consumption‐based carbon emissions, renewable energy consumption, financial development and economic growth in Chile	234
Enhancing green product and process innovation: Towards an integrative framework of knowledge acquisition and environmental investment	231
Innovation and the circular economy: A systematic literature review	227
Integrating sustainability and resilience in the supply chain: A systematic literature review and a research agenda	214
Environmental performance, sustainability, governance and financial performance: Evidence from heavily polluting industries in China	203
Corporate ESG reporting quantity, quality and performance: Where to now for environmental policy and practice?	197
Is blockchain able to enhance environmental sustainability? A systematic review and research agenda from the perspective of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)	188
How do green knowledge management and green technology innovation impact corporate environmental performance? Understanding the role of green knowledge acquisition	175
Does green transformational leadership lead to green innovation? The role of green thinking and creative process engagement	174
The emerging driving force of inclusive green growth: Does digital economy agglomeration work?	174
Industry 4.0, innovation, and sustainable development: A systematic review and a roadmap to sustainable innovation	162
Green bonds as a tool against climate change?	161
A resource‐based view of green innovation as a strategic firm resource: Present status and future directions	159
CEO hometown identity and firm green innovation	155
Green growth versus economic growth: Do sustainable technology transfer and innovations lead to an imperfect choice?	151
Board gender diversity and carbon emissions: European evidence on curvilinear relationships and critical mass	149
Circular economy practices and industry 4.0 technologies: A strategic move of automobile industry	144
Does the interaction between the knowledge management process and sustainable development practices boost corporate green innovation?	140
The role of information and communication technology on green total factor energy efficiency: Does environmental regulation work?	140
Green human resource management and environmental performance: The role of green innovation and environmental strategy in a developing country	130

Industry 4.0 and circular economy: An exploratory analysis of academic and practitioners' perspectives	127
An environmental policy of green intellectual capital: Green innovation strategy for performance sustainability	125
Does environmental, social, and governance performance move together with corporate green innovation in China?	119
Enabling the Circular Economy transition: a sustainable lean manufacturing recipe for Industry 4.0	117
A framework of digital technologies for the circular economy: Digital functions and mechanisms	117
Environmental, social and governance disclosure and default risk	116
Application of digital technologies for sustainable product management in a circular economy: A review	116
Impact of green entrepreneurship orientation on environmental performance: The natural resource‐based view and environmental policy perspective	115
The transition from linear economy to circular economy for sustainability among SMEs: A study on prospects, impediments, and prerequisites	115
From circular business models to circular business ecosystems	114
Implementing circular economy in the textile and clothing industry	114
Green intellectual capital and environmental management accounting: Natural resource orchestration in favor of environmental performance	111
RETRACTED: The impact of sustainable development strategy on sustainable supply chain firm performance in the digital transformation era	107
What do we know about business strategy and environmental research? Insights from Business Strategy and the Environment	105
Improving companies' impacts on sustainable development: A nexus approach to the SDGS	104
How do incumbent firms innovate their business models for the circular economy? Identifying micro‐foundations of dynamic capabilities	103
Green capabilities, green purchasing, and triple bottom line performance: Leading toward environmental sustainability	101
Does adoption of ISO 56002‐2019 and green innovation reporting enhance the firm sustainable development goal performance? An emerging paradigm	100
Strategic sustainable development of Industry 4.0 through the lens of social responsibility: The role of human resource practices	99
Effects of greenwashing on financial performance: Moderation through local environmental regulation and media coverage	98
Blockchain technologies as enablers of supply chain mapping for sustainable supply chains	97
Sustaining the sustainable development: How do firms turn government green subsidies into financial performance through green innovation?	97
Sustainable finance and investment: Review and research agenda	97
Industry 4.0 technologies in the manufacturing sector: Are we sure they are all relevant for environmental performance?	95
Digital finance and sustainable development: Evidence from environmental inequality in China	95
Toward sustainable development: Board characteristics, country governance quality, and environmental performance	93
Internal green integration and environmental performance: The predictive power of proactive environmental strategy, greening the supplier, and environmental collaboration with the supplier	92
Supply chain firm performance in circular economy and digital era to achieve sustainable development goals	91
How to innovate business models for a circular bio‐economy?	90
Dynamic capabilities for circular manufacturing supply chains—Exploring the role of Industry 4.0 and resilience	90
Circular economy‐based new products and company performance: The role of stakeholders and Industry 4.0 technologies	89
Do constraints created by economic growth targets benefit sustainable development? Evidence from China	89
Enhancing environmental information transparency through corporate social responsibility reporting regulation	87
Industry 4.0 technologies and circular economy: The mediating role of supply chain integration	86
What motivates the adoption of green restaurant products and services? A systematic review and future research agenda	86
Does green innovation increase enterprise value?	86
Green marketing as an environmental practice: The impact on green satisfaction and green loyalty in a business‐to‐business context	86
Circular economy and resilience: A research agenda	86
Toward sustainable corporate behavior: The effect of the critical mass of female directors on environmental, social, and governance disclosure	85
A systematic literature review to integrate lean, agile, resilient, green and sustainable paradigms in the supply chain management	83
Green process innovation: Where we are and where we are going	83
How environmental innovation influences firm performance: A meta‐analytic review	83
Circular economy and innovation: A look from the perspective of organizational capabilities	83
The resource‐based view, stakeholder capitalism, ESG, and sustainable competitive advantage: The firm's embeddedness into ecology, society, and governance	83
Green process innovation and operational performance: The role of proactive environment strategy, technological capabilities, and organizational learning	83
Green intellectual capital and ambidextrous green innovation: The impact on environmental performance	81
Which are the determinants of green purchase behaviour? A study of Italian consumers	80
Green consumerism, green perceived value, and restaurant revisit intention: Millennials' sustainable consumption with moderating effect of green perceived quality	79
Past, present, and future of green product innovation	79
Towards a collaboration framework for circular economy: The role of dynamic capabilities and open innovation	79

Leveraging STARA competencies and green creativity to boost green organisational innovative evidence: A praxis for sustainable development	76
The impact of environmental dynamism on low‐carbon practices and digital supply chain networks to enhance sustainable performance: An empirical analysis	76
Investigating the link between managers' green knowledge and leadership style, and their firms' environmental performance: The mediation role of green creativity	76
Environmental management practices and financial performance using data envelopment analysis in Japan: The mediating role of environmental performance	76