Business Strategy and the Environment

Papers
(The median citation count of Business Strategy and the Environment is 8. 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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)
ArticleCitations
Modeling the dynamic linkage between financial development, energy innovation, and environmental quality: Does globalization matter?304
Circular economy business models: The state of research and avenues ahead240
Industry 4.0 and the circular economy: A literature review and recommendations for future research226
Retracted: Industry 4.0 and circular economy practices: A new era business strategies for environmental sustainability203
Consumption‐based carbon emissions, renewable energy consumption, financial development and economic growth in Chile196
Enhancing green product and process innovation: Towards an integrative framework of knowledge acquisition and environmental investment185
Sustainable development goals and the strategic role of business: A systematic literature review183
Digitalization and sustainable development: How could digital economy development improve green innovation in China?179
Innovation and the circular economy: A systematic literature review178
Stakeholder pressure, green innovation, and performance in small and medium‐sized enterprises: The role of green dynamic capabilities173
The determinants of business contribution to the 2030 Agenda: Introducing the SDG Reporting Score173
Circular economy to enhance sustainability of small and medium‐sized enterprises162
Theory of green purchase behavior (TGPB): A new theory for sustainable consumption of green hotel and green restaurant products148
Are women eco‐friendly? Board gender diversity and environmental innovation148
Integrating sustainability and resilience in the supply chain: A systematic literature review and a research agenda145
Environmental performance, sustainability, governance and financial performance: Evidence from heavily polluting industries in China144
Critical success factors for a circular economy: Implications for business strategy and the environment142
Barriers to the circular economy in European small and medium‐sized firms133
Sustainable development, ESG performance and company market value: Mediating effect of financial performance133
How circular is the circular economy? Analysing the implementation of circular economy in organisations132
The emerging driving force of inclusive green growth: Does digital economy agglomeration work?129
Nudging toward diversity in the boardroom: A systematic literature review of board diversity of financial institutions128
Circular economy and the policy: A framework for improving the corporate environmental management in supply chains119
Board gender diversity and carbon emissions: European evidence on curvilinear relationships and critical mass118
Is blockchain able to enhance environmental sustainability? A systematic review and research agenda from the perspective of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)117
The role of information and communication technology on green total factor energy efficiency: Does environmental regulation work?116
Industry 4.0, innovation, and sustainable development: A systematic review and a roadmap to sustainable innovation116
Green growth versus economic growth: Do sustainable technology transfer and innovations lead to an imperfect choice?115
Does green transformational leadership lead to green innovation? The role of green thinking and creative process engagement114
The circular economy and consumer behaviour: The mediating role of information seeking in buying circular packaging113
Board gender diversity, environmental committee and greenhouse gas voluntary disclosures112
How do firms achieve sustainability through green innovation under external pressures of environmental regulation and market turbulence?112
Factors affecting corporate environmental disclosure in emerging markets: The role of corporate governance structures111
CEO hometown identity and firm green innovation111
Green bonds as a tool against climate change?109
A resource‐based view of green innovation as a strategic firm resource: Present status and future directions106
Circular economy practices and industry 4.0 technologies: A strategic move of automobile industry105
Corporate ESG reporting quantity, quality and performance: Where to now for environmental policy and practice?103
Industry 4.0 and circular economy: An exploratory analysis of academic and practitioners' perspectives101
Perceived behavioral control as a mediator of hotels' green training, environmental commitment, and organizational citizenship behavior: A sustainable environmental practice100
Does the interaction between the knowledge management process and sustainable development practices boost corporate green innovation?98
How do green knowledge management and green technology innovation impact corporate environmental performance? Understanding the role of green knowledge acquisition97
Do audit committee attributes influence integrated reporting quality? An agency theory viewpoint96
Achieving environmental sustainability through green transformational leadership policy: Can green team resilience help?93
Environmental regulation, total factor productivity, and enterprise duration: Evidence from China93
What do we know about business strategy and environmental research? Insights from Business Strategy and the Environment92
An environmental policy of green intellectual capital: Green innovation strategy for performance sustainability89
Does green innovation affect the financial performance of Multilatinas? The moderating role of ISO 14001 and R&D investment87
Testing the institutional difference hypothesis: A study about environmental, social, governance, and financial performance86
Exploring the effect of buyer engagement on green product innovation: Empirical evidence from manufacturers86
Enabling the Circular Economy transition: a sustainable lean manufacturing recipe for Industry 4.085
Implementing circular economy in the textile and clothing industry84
The transition from linear economy to circular economy for sustainability among SMEs: A study on prospects, impediments, and prerequisites83
The role of ownership structure in integrated reporting policies82
A framework of digital technologies for the circular economy: Digital functions and mechanisms81
Nonfinancial reporting regulation and challenges in sustainability disclosure and corporate governance practices81
The pathway toward pollution mitigation: Does institutional quality make a difference?80
Does environmental, social, and governance performance move together with corporate green innovation in China?80
Improving companies' impacts on sustainable development: A nexus approach to the SDGS80
Environmental, social and governance disclosure and default risk78
Does adoption of ISO 56002‐2019 and green innovation reporting enhance the firm sustainable development goal performance? An emerging paradigm78
Impact of green entrepreneurship orientation on environmental performance: The natural resource‐based view and environmental policy perspective76
Institutional pressures, environmental management strategy, and organizational performance: The role of environmental management accounting76
Green intellectual capital and environmental management accounting: Natural resource orchestration in favor of environmental performance75
From circular business models to circular business ecosystems73
Sustaining the sustainable development: How do firms turn government green subsidies into financial performance through green innovation?73
Performance evaluation of reverse logistics in food supply chains in a circular economy using system dynamics72
A systematic literature review to integrate lean, agile, resilient, green and sustainable paradigms in the supply chain management72
Do constraints created by economic growth targets benefit sustainable development? Evidence from China71
Circular economy and innovation: A look from the perspective of organizational capabilities71
What you see is meaningful: Does green advertising change the intentions of consumers to purchase eco‐labeled products?71
Internal green integration and environmental performance: The predictive power of proactive environmental strategy, greening the supplier, and environmental collaboration with the supplier71
Sustainable Supplier Selection in Megaprojects: Grey Ordinal Priority Approach70
What motivates the adoption of green restaurant products and services? A systematic review and future research agenda70
Green human resource management and environmental performance: The role of green innovation and environmental strategy in a developing country69
The impact of sustainable development strategy on sustainable supply chain firm performance in the digital transformation era69
Carbon emissions and the cost of debt in the eurozone: The role of public policies, climate‐related disclosure and corporate governance68
Organizational transition management of circular business model innovations68
How do incumbent firms innovate their business models for the circular economy? Identifying micro‐foundations of dynamic capabilities68
Blockchain technologies as enablers of supply chain mapping for sustainable supply chains68
Enhancing corporate sustainable development: Proactive environmental strategy, stakeholder pressure and the moderating effect of firm size67
Leveraging STARA competencies and green creativity to boost green organisational innovative evidence: A praxis for sustainable development67
Supply chain collaboration and eco‐innovations: An institutional perspective from China67
Toward sustainable development: Board characteristics, country governance quality, and environmental performance67
Strategic sustainable development of Industry 4.0 through the lens of social responsibility: The role of human resource practices66
Green marketing as an environmental practice: The impact on green satisfaction and green loyalty in a business‐to‐business context66
Relating the role of green self‐concepts and identity on green purchasing behaviour: An empirical analysis65
Sustainable finance and investment: Review and research agenda65
On the conceptualization and measurement of dynamic capabilities for sustainability: Building theory through a systematic literature review64
Industry 4.0 technologies and circular economy: The mediating role of supply chain integration64
Which are the determinants of green purchase behaviour? A study of Italian consumers64
How to innovate business models for a circular bio‐economy?64
Industry 4.0 technologies in the manufacturing sector: Are we sure they are all relevant for environmental performance?63
How environmental innovation influences firm performance: A meta‐analytic review63
Digital finance and sustainable development: Evidence from environmental inequality in China63
Analysing the risks of adopting circular economy initiatives in manufacturing supply chains62
Green process innovation and operational performance: The role of proactive environment strategy, technological capabilities, and organizational learning62
Circular economy in Latin America: A systematic literature review61
The impacts of perceived moral obligation and sustainability self‐identity on sustainability development: A theory of planned behavior purchase intention model of sustainability‐labeled coffee and the61
The effects of environmental, social and governance disclosure on the cost of capital in small and medium enterprises: The role of family business status60
Application of digital technologies for sustainable product management in a circular economy: A review60
Traders as sustainability governance actors in global food supply chains: A research agenda60
Circular economy‐based new products and company performance: The role of stakeholders and Industry 4.0 technologies59
Supply chain firm performance in circular economy and digital era to achieve sustainable development goals59
Does the EU Directive on non‐financial information influence the value relevance of ESG disclosure? Italian evidence59
The impact of direct environmental, social, and governance reporting: Empirical evidence in European‐listed companies in the agri‐food sector59
Green process innovation: Where we are and where we are going59
The effects of regional trade integration and renewable energy transition on environmental quality: Evidence from South Asian neighbors59
Close the loop: Evidence on the implementation of the circular economy from the Italian fashion industry59
Green capabilities, green purchasing, and triple bottom line performance: Leading toward environmental sustainability58
Enhancing environmental information transparency through corporate social responsibility reporting regulation58
Past, present, and future of green product innovation58
Green capabilities and green purchasing practices: A strategy striving towards sustainable operations57
Environmental management certification and environmental performance: Greening or greenwashing?57
Toward sustainable corporate behavior: The effect of the critical mass of female directors on environmental, social, and governance disclosure56
Does green innovation increase enterprise value?56
Do independent, female and specialist directors promote eco‐innovation and eco‐design in agri‐food firms?56
Sustainability strategies by companies in the global coffee sector55
Green apparel buying behaviour: A Stimulus–Organism–Behaviour–Consequence (SOBC) perspective on sustainability‐oriented consumption in Japan55
Circular economy in corporate sustainability reporting: A review of organisational approaches55
Is corporate environmental disclosure associated with firm value? A multicountry study of Gulf Cooperation Council firms54
Dynamic capabilities for circular manufacturing supply chains—Exploring the role of Industry 4.0 and resilience54
Net‐zero emission targets and the role of managerial environmental awareness, customer pressure, and regulatory control toward environmental performance54
Circular economy and resilience: A research agenda54
Firm sustainable investment: Are female directors greener?53
The impact of environmental dynamism on low‐carbon practices and digital supply chain networks to enhance sustainable performance: An empirical analysis53
Exploring the determinants of green bond issuance: Going beyond the long‐lasting debate on performance consequences53
Sustainability reporting quality and post‐audit financial reporting quality: Empirical evidence from the UK53
Investigating the link between managers' green knowledge and leadership style, and their firms' environmental performance: The mediation role of green creativity52
Green bonds, sustainable development and environmental policy in the European Union carbon market52
Environmental management practices and financial performance using data envelopment analysis in Japan: The mediating role of environmental performance52
Green consumerism, green perceived value, and restaurant revisit intention: Millennials' sustainable consumption with moderating effect of green perceived quality51
Sustainability and legitimacy theory: The case of sustainable social and environmental practices of small and medium‐sized enterprises51
Mandatory disclosure, greenhouse gas emissions and the cost of equity capital: UK evidence of a U‐shaped relationship51
Proactive environmental strategy and firm performance at the bottom of the pyramid51
The resource‐based view, stakeholder capitalism, ESG, and sustainable competitive advantage: The firm's embeddedness into ecology, society, and governance50
Biodiversity and extinction accounting for sustainable development: A systematic literature review and future research directions50
An institutional perspective on consumers' environmental awareness and pro‐environmental behavioral intention: Evidence from 39 countries50
The revision of nonfinancial reporting directive: A critical lens on the comparability principle50
The application of Green Lean Six Sigma49
What drives the adoption and consumption of green hotel products and services? A systematic literature review of past achievement and future promises49
Progress and trends in integrating Industry 4.0 within Circular Economy: A comprehensive literature review and future research propositions49
CEOs' reputation, quality management and environmental innovation: The roles of stakeholder pressure and resource commitment49
Analysing the roadblocks of circular economy adoption in the automobile sector: Reducing waste and environmental perspectives49
Non‐financial strategy disclosure and environmental, social and governance score: Insight from a configurational approach49
A conceptual framework for blockchain‐based sustainable supply chain and evaluating implementation barriers: A case of the tea supply chain48
Towards a collaboration framework for circular economy: The role of dynamic capabilities and open innovation48
The impact of motivation, intention, and contextual factors on green purchasing behavior: New energy vehicles as an example48
Systemic circular business model application at the company, supply chain and society levels—A view into circular economy native and adopter companies48
Closing the loop through eco‐innovation by European firms: Circular economy for sustainable development48
Analyzing companies' interactions with the Sustainable Development Goals through network analysis: Four corporate sustainability imperatives48
Assessing people‐driven factors for circular economy practices in small and medium‐sized enterprise supply chains: Business strategies and environmental perspectives47
Financial materiality in the informativeness of sustainability reporting47
An environmental perspective extends market orientation: Green innovation sustainability46
Using reputation for corporate sustainability to tackle banks digitalization challenges46
Voluntary Adopters of Integrated Reporting – Evidence on Forecast Accuracy and Firm Value46
The influence of managers' awareness of climate change, perceived climate risk exposure and risk tolerance on the adoption of corporate responses to climate change46
Can entrepreneurial orientation improve sustainable development through leveraging internal lean practices?46
Business strategy and sustainable development: Evidence from China45
Effects of greenwashing on financial performance: Moderation through local environmental regulation and media coverage45
Twenty‐eight years of business strategy and the environment research: A bibliometric analysis45
Tunneling the barriers of blockchain technology in remanufacturing for achieving sustainable development goals: A circular manufacturing perspective45
Green supply chain integration and financial performance: A social contagion and information sharing perspective44
The effect of environmental regulations, top management commitment, and organizational learning on green product innovation: Evidence from automobile industry44
Circular economy and sustainability: The role of organizational behaviour in the transition journey44
Developing integrated management systems using an AHP‐Fuzzy VIKOR approach44
The nexuses between transformational leadership and employee green organisational citizenship behaviour: Role of environmental attitude and green dedication44
Business environmental innovation and CO2 emissions: The moderating role of environmental governance44
Institutional pressures and circular economy performance: The role of environmental management system and organizational flexibility in oil and gas sector44
Business model innovation: Identifying foundations and trajectories43
Value creation in circular economy business for sustainability: A stakeholder relationship perspective43
Bank green lending and credit risk: an empirical analysis of China's Green Credit Policy43
Citizens and cities: Leveraging citizen science and big data for sustainable urban development43
Do firm characteristics affect environmental sustainability? A literature review‐based assessment42
Consumers' choice behavior: An interactive effect of expected eudaimonic well‐being and green altruism42
Structural model for analysis of key performance indicators for sustainable manufacturer–supplier collaboration: A grey‐decision‐making trial and evaluation laboratory‐based approach42
The growth paradox, sustainable development, and business strategy42
Green intellectual capital and ambidextrous green innovation: The impact on environmental performance41
The management of sustainable development: A longitudinal analysis of the effects of environmental performance on economic performance41
Advancing the circular economy through dynamic capabilities and extended customer engagement: Insights from small sustainable fashion enterprises in the UK41
Socio‐emotional wealth and corporate responses to environmental hostility: Are family firms more stakeholder oriented?41
Environmental, social, and governance ratings and financial performance: Evidence from the European food industry41
Biodiversity disclosure, sustainable development and environmental initiatives: Does board gender diversity matter?41
Attaining sustainable development goals (SDGs) through supply chain practices and business strategies: A systematic review with bibliometric and network analyses40
Toward a circular economy: Understanding consumers' moral stance on corporations' and individuals' responsibilities in creating a circular fashion economy40
Determinants of consumer demand for circular economy products. A case for reuse and remanufacturing for sustainable development40
Can environmental investments benefit environmental performance? The moderating roles of institutional environment and foreign direct investment40
An investigation of key performance indicators for operational excellence towards sustainability in the leather products industry40
The contagion effect of environmental violations: The case of Dieselgate in Germany40
The nexus of business sustainability and organizational learning: A systematic literature review to identify key learning principles for business transformation39
Long‐term economic consequences of corporate environmental responsibility: Evidence from heavily polluting listed companies in China39
An empirical analysis: Did green supply chain management alleviate the effects of COVID‐19?39
Bringing sustainability to life: A framework to guide biodiversity indicator development for business performance management39
Sustainable development of small‐ and medium‐sized enterprises in the European Union: A taxonomy of circular economy practices39
Exploring an innovative pivot: How green training can spur corporate sustainability performance39
Critical success factors for implementing blockchain‐based circular supply chain39
Corporate social and environmental disclosure as a sustainable development tool provided by board sub‐committees: Do women directors play a relevant moderating role?39
Sustainability among Norwegian maritime firms: Green strategy and innovation as mediators of long‐term orientation and emission reduction39
On the contribution of eco‐innovation features to a circular economy: A microlevel quantitative approach38
Antecedents of absorptive capacity in the development of circular economy business models of small and medium enterprises38
Sustainable employee green behavior in the workplace: Integrating cognitive and non‐cognitive factors in corporate environmental policy38
Stakeholder engagement in business models for sustainability: The stakeholder value flow model for sustainable development38
Managing sustainability in luxury industry to pursue circular economy strategies37
Do corporate sustainability initiatives improve corporate carbon performance? Evidence from European firms37
Do investors value companies' mandatory nonfinancial risk disclosure? An empirical analysis of the Italian context after the EU Directive37
Sustainable environmental practices and financial performance: Evidence from listed small and medium‐sized enterprise in the United Kingdom37
Sustainable development and circular economy: The role of institutional promotion on circular consumption and market competitiveness from a multistakeholder engagement approach36
Will financial development and clean energy utilization rejuvenate the environment in BRICS economies?36
Stakeholder perception of reverse logistics practices on supply chain performance36
Environmental degradation, energy consumption and sustainable development: Accounting for the role of economic complexities with evidence from World Bank income clusters36
Learning strategic cooperative behavior in industrial symbiosis: A game‐theoretic approach integrated with agent‐based simulation36
A review of entrepreneurship and circular economy research: State of the art and future directions36
Exploring business models for sustainability: A bibliographic investigation of the literature and future research directions36
The impact of ISO 14001 on firm environmental and economic performance: The moderating role of size and environmental awareness36
From institutional pressure to the sustainable development of firm: Role of environmental management accounting implementation and environmental proactivity36
Addressing endogeneity by proposing novel instrumental variables in the nexus of sustainability reporting and firm financial performance: A step‐by‐step procedure for non‐experts35
Sustainable entrepreneurship and the Sustainable Development Goals: Community‐led initiatives, the social solidarity economy and commons ecologies35
Corporate carbon risk exposure, voluntary disclosure, and financial reporting quality35
Corporate commitment to climate change action, carbon risk exposure, and a firm's debt financing policy35
Stakeholder pressure for sustainability: Can ‘innovative capabilities’ explain the idiosyncratic response in the manufacturing firms?35
Strategic ambidexterity in green product innovation: Obstacles and implications35
External stakeholder engagement: Complementary and substitutive effects on firms' eco‐innovation34
Circular disruption: Digitalisation as a driver of circular economy business models34
Factors affecting green purchase behavior: A systematic literature review34
The link between sustainable business models and Blockchain: A multiple case study approach34
Linking sustainable business models and supply chains — Toward an integrated value creation framework34
A natural resource and institutional theory‐based view of green‐lean‐six sigma drivers for environmental management33
Circular business model implementation: A capability development case study from the manufacturing industry33
Design for the environment: An ontology‐based knowledge management model for green product development33
The effect of corporate environmental, social and governance disclosure on cash holdings: Life‐cycle perspective33
Environmental attitude in the board. Who are the “green directors”? Evidences from Italy33
The value relevance of corporate financial and nonfinancial information provided by the integrated report: A systematic review33
Environmental proactivity, competitive strategy, and market performance: The mediating role of environmental reputation33
Managing healthcare waste for sustainable environmental development: A hybrid decision approach33
Human resource slack, sustainable innovation, and environmental performance of small and medium‐sized enterprises in sub‐Saharan Africa33
Executive compensation and sustainable business practices: The moderating role of sustainability‐based compensation33
Circular business model evolution: Stakeholder matters for a self‐sufficient ecosystem33
Local government environmental regulatory pressures and corporate environmental strategies: Evidence from natural resource accountability audits in China33
A framework for digital supply chains in the era of circular economy: Implications on environmental sustainability33
Transition towards and of sustainability—Understanding sustainability as performative33
Do dynamic capabilities matter? A study on environmental performance and the circular economy in European certified organisations32
Supplier evaluation in the context of circular economy: A forward step for resilient business and environment concern32
Which factors distinguish the different consumer segments of green fast‐moving consumer goods in Germany?32
Eco‐innovation motivations and ecodesign tool implementation in companies in the Nordic textile and information technology sectors32
Circular economy adoption barriers: An extended fuzzy best–worst method using fuzzy DEMATEL and Supermatrix structure31
Corporate environmental reporting: Are French firms compliant with the Task Force on Climate Financial Disclosures' recommendations?31
Sustainability in the digital age: Intended and unintended consequences of digital technologies for sustainable development31
Towards a circular economy: Implications for emission reduction and environmental sustainability31
Which institutional investors drive corporate sustainability? A systematic literature review31
Building supply chain relational capital: The impact of supplier and customer leveraging on innovation performance30
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