Business Strategy and the Environment

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
The emerging driving force of inclusive green growth: Does digital economy agglomeration work?	174
Does green transformational leadership lead to green innovation? The role of green thinking and creative process engagement	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
Sustainable finance and investment: Review and research agenda	97
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
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
Green process innovation and operational performance: The role of proactive environment strategy, technological capabilities, and organizational learning	83
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 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
Towards a collaboration framework for circular economy: The role of dynamic capabilities and open innovation	79
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

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
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
Business environmental innovation and CO2 emissions: The moderating role of environmental governance	75
Close the loop: Evidence on the implementation of the circular economy from the Italian fashion industry	75
Green apparel buying behaviour: A Stimulus–Organism–Behaviour–Consequence (SOBC) perspective on sustainability‐oriented consumption in Japan	74
Circular economy and sustainability: The role of organizational behaviour in the transition journey	74
Traders as sustainability governance actors in global food supply chains: A research agenda	73
Environmental, social, and governance ratings and financial performance: Evidence from the European food industry	72
Sustainability and legitimacy theory: The case of sustainable social and environmental practices of small and medium‐sized enterprises	72
The impact of direct environmental, social, and governance reporting: Empirical evidence in European‐listed companies in the agri‐food sector	72
Circular economy in corporate sustainability reporting: A review of organisational approaches	71
Green capabilities and green purchasing practices: A strategy striving towards sustainable operations	71
Progress and trends in integrating Industry 4.0 within Circular Economy: A comprehensive literature review and future research propositions	71
Tunneling the barriers of blockchain technology in remanufacturing for achieving sustainable development goals: A circular manufacturing perspective	69
Factors affecting green purchase behavior: A systematic literature review	68
A review of entrepreneurship and circular economy research: State of the art and future directions	68
Bank green lending and credit risk: an empirical analysis of China's Green Credit Policy	68
Do independent, female and specialist directors promote eco‐innovation and eco‐design in agri‐food firms?	67
Net‐zero emission targets and the role of managerial environmental awareness, customer pressure, and regulatory control toward environmental performance	66
What drives the adoption and consumption of green hotel products and services? A systematic literature review of past achievement and future promises	66
A conceptual framework for blockchain‐based sustainable supply chain and evaluating implementation barriers: A case of the tea supply chain	65
Stakeholder engagement in business models for sustainability: The stakeholder value flow model for sustainable development	64
Green bonds, sustainable development and environmental policy in the European Union carbon market	63
The impact of motivation, intention, and contextual factors on green purchasing behavior: New energy vehicles as an example	63
Non‐financial strategy disclosure and environmental, social and governance score: Insight from a configurational approach	63
Mandatory disclosure, greenhouse gas emissions and the cost of equity capital: UK evidence of a U‐shaped relationship	63
Value creation in circular economy business for sustainability: A stakeholder relationship perspective	63
Circular disruption: Digitalisation as a driver of circular economy business models	62
Critical success factors for implementing blockchain‐based circular supply chain	62
Closing the loop through eco‐innovation by European firms: Circular economy for sustainable development	62
Systemic circular business model application at the company, supply chain and society levels—A view into circular economy native and adopter companies	62
Attaining sustainable development goals (SDGs) through supply chain practices and business strategies: A systematic review with bibliometric and network analyses	61
The effects of regional trade integration and renewable energy transition on environmental quality: Evidence from South Asian neighbors	61
Financial materiality in the informativeness of sustainability reporting	60
The nexuses between transformational leadership and employee green organisational citizenship behaviour: Role of environmental attitude and green dedication	59
Business model innovation: Identifying foundations and trajectories	59
The influence of managers' awareness of climate change, perceived climate risk exposure and risk tolerance on the adoption of corporate responses to climate change	58
Socio‐emotional wealth and corporate responses to environmental hostility: Are family firms more stakeholder oriented?	58
Advancing the circular economy through dynamic capabilities and extended customer engagement: Insights from small sustainable fashion enterprises in the UK	58
Citizens and cities: Leveraging citizen science and big data for sustainable urban development	58
Circular economy adoption challenges in the food supply chain for sustainable development	57
The growth paradox, sustainable development, and business strategy	56
The application of Green Lean Six Sigma	56
Do firm characteristics affect environmental sustainability? A literature review‐based assessment	56
Assessing people‐driven factors for circular economy practices in small and medium‐sized enterprise supply chains: Business strategies and environmental perspectives	56
Do corporate sustainability initiatives improve corporate carbon performance? Evidence from European firms	56
A framework for digital supply chains in the era of circular economy: Implications on environmental sustainability	55
Sustainability among Norwegian maritime firms: Green strategy and innovation as mediators of long‐term orientation and emission reduction	55
Analyzing companies' interactions with the Sustainable Development Goals through network analysis: Four corporate sustainability imperatives	55
Local government environmental regulatory pressures and corporate environmental strategies: Evidence from natural resource accountability audits in China	55
Biodiversity disclosure, sustainable development and environmental initiatives: Does board gender diversity matter?	54
The effect of environmental regulations, top management commitment, and organizational learning on green product innovation: Evidence from automobile industry	54
Consumers' choice behavior: An interactive effect of expected eudaimonic well‐being and green altruism	53
The link between sustainable business models and Blockchain: A multiple case study approach	52
Harnessing digitalization for sustainable development: Understanding how interactions on sustainability‐oriented digital platforms manage tensions and paradoxes	52
Exploring business models for sustainability: A bibliographic investigation of the literature and future research directions	52
Sustainable employee green behavior in the workplace: Integrating cognitive and non‐cognitive factors in corporate environmental policy	52
Towards a circular economy: Implications for emission reduction and environmental sustainability	51
Sustainable entrepreneurship and the Sustainable Development Goals: Community‐led initiatives, the social solidarity economy and commons ecologies	51
Determinants of consumer demand for circular economy products. A case for reuse and remanufacturing for sustainable development	51
Which institutional investors drive corporate sustainability? A systematic literature review	51
Green manufacturing for sustainable development: The positive effects of green activities, green investments, and non‐green products on economic performance	51
Toward a circular economy: Understanding consumers' moral stance on corporations' and individuals' responsibilities in creating a circular fashion economy	51
A natural resource and institutional theory‐based view of green‐lean‐six sigma drivers for environmental management	51
Green supply chain integration and financial performance: A social contagion and information sharing perspective	50
Strategic ambidexterity in green product innovation: Obstacles and implications	50
Digitalization transformation and ESG performance: Evidence from China	49
Building a data‐driven circular supply chain hierarchical structure: Resource recovery implementation drives circular business strategy	49
Green innovation and enterprise reputation value	49
Sustainability in the digital age: Intended and unintended consequences of digital technologies for sustainable development	49
Structural model for analysis of key performance indicators for sustainable manufacturer–supplier collaboration: A grey‐decision‐making trial and evaluation laboratory‐based approach	49
How to convert green entrepreneurial orientation into green innovation: The role of knowledge creation process and green absorptive capacity	49
Board gender diversity and ESG decoupling: Does religiosity matter?	49
Managing sustainability in luxury industry to pursue circular economy strategies	48
Antecedents of absorptive capacity in the development of circular economy business models of small and medium enterprises	47
The effect of corporate environmental, social and governance disclosure on cash holdings: Life‐cycle perspective	47
An empirical analysis: Did green supply chain management alleviate the effects of COVID‐19?	47
ESG performance and green innovation: An investigation based on quantile regression	47

On the contribution of eco‐innovation features to a circular economy: A microlevel quantitative approach	47
Creating shared value through open innovation approaches: Opportunities and challenges for corporate sustainability	47
Circular economy adoption barriers: An extended fuzzy best–worst method using fuzzy DEMATEL and Supermatrix structure	46
Are firms with better sustainability performance more resilient during crises?	46
Environmental degradation, energy consumption and sustainable development: Accounting for the role of economic complexities with evidence from World Bank income clusters	46
Executive compensation and sustainable business practices: The moderating role of sustainability‐based compensation	46
CEO foreign experience and corporate sustainable development: Evidence from China	45
Will financial development and clean energy utilization rejuvenate the environment in BRICS economies?	45
Corporate social and environmental disclosure as a sustainable development tool provided by board sub‐committees: Do women directors play a relevant moderating role?	45
Small agricultural businesses' performance—What is the role of dynamic capabilities, entrepreneurial orientation, and environmental sustainability commitment?	45
Reviewing the applications of artificial intelligence in sustainable supply chains: Exploring research propositions for future directions	45
Blockchain‐based recycling and its impact on recycling performance: A network theory perspective	45
Circular business model implementation: A capability development case study from the manufacturing industry	45
The nexus of business sustainability and organizational learning: A systematic literature review to identify key learning principles for business transformation	45
Toward low‐carbon sustainable development: Exploring the impact of digital economy development and industrial restructuring	45
Carbon neutrality drivers and implications for firm performance and supply chain management	44
Encouraging green product purchase: Green value and environmental knowledge as moderators of attitude and behavior relationship	44
Advisory or monitoring role in ESG scenario: Which women directors are more influential in the Italian context?	44
Strategic motives and performance implications of proactive versus reactive environmental strategies in corporate sustainable development	44
Environmental collaboration, responsible innovation, and firm performance: The moderating role of stakeholder pressure	44
Consumer adoption of access‐based product‐service systems: The influence of duration of use and type of product	43
Analyzing the drivers of smart sustainable circular supply chain for sustainable development goals through stakeholder theory	43
Friends or foes? A systematic literature review and meta‐analysis of the relationship between eco‐innovation and firm performance	43
COVID‐19, ESG investing, and the resilience of more sustainable stocks: Evidence from European firms	43
Board gender diversity and environmental emissions	42
The environmental performance of UK‐based B Corp companies: An analysis based on the triple bottom line approach	42
Corporate climate‐related voluntary disclosures: Does potential greenwash exist among Australian high emitters reports?	42
Corporate commitment to climate change action, carbon risk exposure, and a firm's debt financing policy	42
Do dynamic capabilities matter? A study on environmental performance and the circular economy in European certified organisations	42
Green supply chain management in manufacturing firms: A resource‐based viewpoint	42
Environmental proactivity, competitive strategy, and market performance: The mediating role of environmental reputation	42
Towards sustainable development: Coupling green marketing strategies and consumer perceptions in addressing greenwashing	42
Which factors distinguish the different consumer segments of green fast‐moving consumer goods in Germany?	42
Environmental attitude in the board. Who are the “green directors”? Evidences from Italy	42
Circular business model evolution: Stakeholder matters for a self‐sufficient ecosystem	41
Corporate environmental reporting: Are French firms compliant with the Task Force on Climate Financial Disclosures' recommendations?	41
Linking sustainable business models and supply chains — Toward an integrated value creation framework	41
Outsourcing logistics operations in circular economy towards to sustainable development goals	41
External stakeholder engagement: Complementary and substitutive effects on firms' eco‐innovation	41
Blockchain for the circular economy: Theorizing blockchain's role in the transition to a circular economy through an empirical investigation	41
Do major customers encourage innovative sustainable development? Empirical evidence from corporate green innovation in China	40
The real effects of ESG reporting and GRI standards on carbon mitigation: International evidence	40
The role of biomass energy consumption and economic complexity on environmental sustainability in G7 economies	40
ESG controversies and bank risk taking	40
Can low‐carbon development force enterprises to make digital transformation?	40
Transition towards and of sustainability—Understanding sustainability as performative	40
Design for the environment: An ontology‐based knowledge management model for green product development	39
Environmental performance and bank lending: Evidence from unlisted firms	39
What drives environmental innovation? A meta‐analysis	39
Relational capital, environmental knowledge integration, and environmental performance of small and medium enterprises in emerging markets	39
Stakeholder management in sustainable supply chains: A case study of the bioenergy industry	38
Drivers and barriers for circular business model innovation	38
Hey, did you see that label? It's sustainable!: Understanding the role of sustainable labelling in shaping sustainable purchase behaviour for sustainable development	38
The impact of green finance on the level of decarbonization of the economies: An analysis of the United States', China's, and Russia's current agenda	38
Circular economy and environmental disclosure in sustainability reports: Empirical evidence in cosmetic companies	38
How to embed environmental sustainability: The role of dynamic capabilities and managerial approaches in a life cycle management perspective	38
Examining the extent of and determinants for sustainability assurance quality: The role of audit committees	38
Linking stakeholder and competitive pressure to Industry 4.0 and performance: Mediating effect of environmental commitment and green process innovation	37
Are fiscal policy incentives effective in stimulating firms' eco‐product innovation? The moderating role of dynamic capabilities	37
Climate change mitigation: Carbon assurance and reporting integrity	37
A systematic and major review of proactive environmental strategies in hospitality and tourism: Looking back for moving forward	37
Understanding the effect of market orientation on circular economy practices: The mediating role of closed‐loop orientation in German SMEs	37
Sustainable management of electronic waste: Empirical evidences from a stakeholders' perspective	37
Sustainable competencies of social entrepreneurship for sustainable development: Exploratory analysis from a developing economy	37
Impact of information technology and knowledge sharing on circular food supply chains for green business growth	36
Interactive effects of brand reputation and ESG on green bond issues: A sustainable development perspective	36
Inspiring employees' ecological behaviors: The roles of corporate environmental strategy, biospheric values, and eco‐centric leadership	36
Importance of green innovation for business sustainability: Identifying the key role of green intellectual capital and green SCM	36
Environmental investment decisions of family firms—An analysis of competitor and government influence	36
Supplier evaluation in the context of circular economy: A forward step for resilient business and environment concern	36
An interval‐valued composite indicator for energy efficiency and green entrepreneurship	36
Green innovation and SO2 emissions: Dynamic threshold effect of human capital	36
Are corporate climate efforts genuine? An empirical analysis of the climate ‘talk–walk’ hypothesis	35
Stakeholders' engagement in the business strategy as a key driver to increase companies' performance: Evidence from managerial and stakeholders' practices	35
Does the legacy of state planning put pressure on ecological efficiency? Evidence from China	35
Representative account or greenwashing? Voluntary sustainability reports in Australia's mining/metals and financial services industries	35
Towards sustainable development in the hospitality sector: Does green human resource management stimulate green creativity? A moderated mediation model	35
Unfolding the impact of leadership and management on sustainability performance: Green and lean practices and guanxi as the dual mediators	34
Sustainable development in small and medium enterprises: The role of entrepreneurial orientation in supply chain management	34
Board interlocks, absorptive capacity, and environmental performance	34
A resource orchestration view of supply chain traceability and transparency bundles for competitive advantage	34
Exploring sustainable logistics practices toward a circular economy: A value creation perspective	34
RETRACTED: Exploring the sustainable consumption behavior in emerging countries: The role of pro‐environmental self‐identity, attitude, and environmental protection emotion	33
Accentuating the interconnection between business sustainability and organizational performance in the context of the circular economy: The moderating role of organizational competitiveness	33
Integration of green and lean practices for sustainable business management	33
Sustainable production: The economic returns of circular economy practices	33
Does central environmental protection inspection improve corporate environmental, social, and governance performance? Evidence from China	33
The drivers of eco‐innovations in small and medium‐sized enterprises: A systematic literature review and research directions	32
Do financial penalties for environmental violations facilitate improvements in corporate environmental performance? An empirical investigation	32
The impact of air pollution on the cost of debt financing: Evidence from the bond market	32
Environmental sustainability engagement of firms: The roles of social capital, resources, and managerial entrepreneurial orientation of small and medium enterprises in Vietnam	32
Sustainable development and greenwashing: How blockchain technology information can empower green consumers	32
Does social influence turn pessimistic consumers green?	32
Circular economy practices and environmental performance: Analysing the role of big data analytics capability and responsible research and innovation	32
Circular business models in high value manufacturing: Five industry cases to bridge theory and practice	32