Business Strategy and the Environment

Papers
(The TQCC of Business Strategy and the Environment is 24. 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)
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A cluster analysis of the global wind power industry: Insights for renewable energy business stakeholders and environmental policy decision makers455
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What are the factors that most influence the formation of workers' labor values in order to achieve sustainable development in Latin America?350
‘Do I share because I care?’: Investigating the factors influencing consumer's adoption of shared consumption315
Driving toward business sustainability: Empirical evidence from low‐carbon practices307
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Mitigating excessive financialization or promoting innovation? Productivity effects of China's carbon emission trading scheme287
Stemming the tide: Does climate risk affect M&A performance?266
Beyond external pressures: How work conditions harm employees' social and environmental responsibilities255
The effect of digitalization on sustainability reporting: The role of sustainability competence, green knowledge integration, and stakeholder pressure249
The formation of a sustainable organizational identity: Insights from Brazilian coffee producers239
Environmental, social, and governance reporting in family firms: The critical role of CEO attributes237
How the social dimension of ESG influences CEO compensation: Role of CEO and board characteristics233
Transparency or Map‐Washing? Digital Geospatial Visualisation Tools in the Palm Oil Industry207
Rethinking dynamic capabilities in light of sustainability: A bibliometric analysis200
Determinants of firms' initiative and inertia in pursuing climate neutrality strategies—Theoretical explanations and empirical evidence184
Degrowth attitudes among entrepreneurs hinder fast venture scaling179
Analyzing the integrated effect of circular economy, Lean Six Sigma, and Industry 4.0 on sustainable manufacturing performance from a practice‐based view perspective178
Big Data capability and sustainability oriented innovation: The mediating role of intellectual capital177
Executive compensation and sustainable business practices: The moderating role of sustainability‐based compensation172
Exploring antecedents of innovations for small‐ and medium‐sized enterprises' environmental sustainability: An interpretative framework165
The tone of buyer firms' annual reports and suppliers' green innovation: The spillover effects in the supply chain164
Greening the Pharmaceutical Supply Chain163
Blockchain‐based recycling and its impact on recycling performance: A network theory perspective160
Circular business model innovation and cognitive framing: Addressing the “missing micro”160
Open strategy and dynamic capabilities: A framework for circular economy business models research154
Does environmental sustainability attract foreign investment? Evidence from developing countries153
Connecting businesses and biodiversity conservation through community organizing: The case of babassu breaker women in Brazil150
Creating social and environmental value through integrated thinking: International evidence147
Role of supplier engagement to reduce Scope 3 emissions in circular supply chains142
Examining the interactions among smart supply chains and carbon reduction strategies: To attain carbon neutrality141
In the search for greener buildings: The role of green human resource management136
Digitalization and sustainable development: How could digital economy development improve green innovation in China?134
Navigating a net‐zero economy future: Antecedents and consequences of net‐zero economy‐based green innovation134
Towards sustainable development in the hospitality sector: Does green human resource management stimulate green creativity? A moderated mediation model129
Managing sustainability—Does the integration of environmental, social and governance key performance indicators in the internal management systems contribute to companies' environmental, social and go129
Social, environmental, and economic dimensions of innovation capabilities: Theorizing from sustainable business128
Sustainable competencies of social entrepreneurship for sustainable development: Exploratory analysis from a developing economy127
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Supply chain transformative capabilities and their microfoundations for circular economy transition: A qualitative study in Made in Italy sectors123
Sustainability trade‐offs in the circular economy: A maturity‐based framework123
The role of place in shaping responsibility logics: Revisiting the relation between place and business sustainability121
The impact of environmental investments on green innovation: An integration of factors that increase or decrease uncertainty121
Towards sustainability: An environmental strategy choice, environmental performance, and the moderating role of stakeholder pressure118
Corporate Anti‐Corruption Disclosure and Corporate Sustainability Performance in the United Kingdom: Does Sustainability Governance Matter?117
The relevance of non‐financial disclosure in influencing the cost of capital: Empirical evidence from the agri‐food sector116
The Impact of Family Determinants on the Media Coverage of Family Business Activism in Sustainability115
Applying circular business models in the Chilean construction sector: A system dynamics perspective115
Tracing the Paths to Sustainable Production and Consumption Through Indigenous Directors, Environmental Innovation, and Sustainability Committees114
Navigating value networks to co‐create sustainable business models: An actionable staging approach114
Advertising strategies and sustainable development: The effects of green advertising appeals and subjective busyness on green purchase intention111
Tensions in the strategic integration of corporate sustainability through global standards: Evidence from Japan and South Korea110
Interpreting stakeholder ecosystems through relational stakeholder theory: The case of a highly contested megaproject109
Does Older Mean Better? Analyses of Boards' Influence on Sustainability Performance108
Will more multinational corporations inflow approach closer toward carbon neutrality? Novel propensity score matching‐difference‐in‐difference evidence across 35 developing countries107
Essential innovation capability of producer‐service enterprises towards circular business model: Motivators and barriers105
Board Supervision Capability and Sustainability Report Disclosure Quality: Evidence From Small‐ and Medium‐Sized Enterprises in Taiwan's Construction Industry105
Circular economy business models as pillars of sustainability: Where are we now, and where are we heading?100
Reviewing the applications of artificial intelligence in sustainable supply chains: Exploring research propositions for future directions100
Carbon emissions, fracking, and firm value of U.S. oil and gas firms100
How does green human resource management contribute to saving the environment? Evidence of emerging market manufacturing firms98
The perfect combination to win the competition: Bringing sustainability and customer experience together96
A good name is rather to be chosen: The impact of CEO reputation incentives on corporate green innovation95
Framing the evolution of the “environmental strategy” concept: Exploring a key construct for the environmental policy agenda94
Does corruption sand the wheels of sustainable development? Evidence through green innovation94
A framework for digital supply chains in the era of circular economy: Implications on environmental sustainability94
Developing dynamic capabilities for the circular economy in the textile and clothing industry in Italy: A natural‐resource‐based view93
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Luxury hotels' green practices and consumer brand identification: The roles of perceived green service innovation and perceived values91
Entrepreneurial practices and the constitution of environmental value for sustainability90
Beyond technique: The role of the multidimensional nature of energy accounting in shaping a better world89
Corporate corruption, business strategy and sustainable environment88
The Role of Carbon Trading in Enhancing Enterprise Green Productivity and ESG Performance: A Quasi‐Natural Evidence From China87
When and How does in‐role pro‐environmental behavior spill over to extra‐role behavior: Two experimental studies in the retail and education industries87
Board competence and green innovation—Does external governance matter?86
Beyond Climate Targets: Exploring When and How Female Directors Influence Corporate Decarbonization Transparency85
Economic complexity and environmental degradation: Evidence from OECD countries84
Critical network factors for eco‐innovation in manufacturing: A Delphi study from a triple helix perspective84
Fostering circular economy in small and medium‐sized enterprises: The role of social capital, adaptive capacity, entrepreneurial orientation and a pro‐sustainable environment83
Green innovation in emerging economies: The role of managerial ties and market learning83
Board gender diversity and ESG decoupling: Does religiosity matter?83
Emission targeting and carbon emissions: The moderating effect of female directors81
Carbon emissions trading and corporate green investment: The perspective of external pressure and internal incentive79
Carbon disclosure policy, external financing needs and the cost of capital: Does financial market quality matter?77
How can firms access bank finance for circular business model innovation?77
A matter of alignment? Effects of product types and environmental claim framing on consumer evaluation of sustainable foods76
Measuring corporate sustainability in its multidimensionality: A formative approach to integrate ESG and triple bottom line approaches76
The climate resilience cycle: Using scenario analysis to inform climate‐resilient business strategies76
Effective environmental strategy or illusory tactics? Corporate greenwashing and innovation willingness75
Aligning incentives for implementing reversible bonding as a circular economy innovation75
Top‐management compensation and environmental innovation strategy75
Circular economy and environmental disclosure in sustainability reports: Empirical evidence in cosmetic companies75
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Beyond ethics: The transformational power of overlapping motivations in implementing strategic sustainability actions73
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Carbon Emissions, Firm‐Level Climate Change Exposure, and Corporate Cash Reserves72
Sustainable by Ideology? The Influence of CEO Political Ideology and Ivy League Education on ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance) Performance72
What motivates environmental and social sustainability in family firms? A cross‐cultural survey71
The Dual Growth‐Value Transfer Nexus: Sustaining Corporate Performance Among Hidden Champions to Achieve Sustainable Growth71
Sustainability Reporting Assurance in Italian Listed Companies: Understanding the Role of CEO Characteristics70
Harmony in flux: Unraveling the green innovation with organizational forgetting, absorptive capacity, and the jazz of organizational improvisation69
Are Environmentally Sensitive Firms More Likely to Release Corporate Environmental Disclosures? Evidence From Environmental Risk Management68
Sustainable HRM Impact on Employees' Behaviors Through Workplace Spirituality68
Circular Economy Outcomes in Banks: The Role of Environmental Strategy, Women, and the Sustainability Committee68
CEO Power and Carbon Emissions Management: Australian Evidence67
From Niches to Global Value Chains: The Role of Firms' Collaborative Strategies in the Bioeconomy67
Biodiversity reporting by United Kingdom (UK)‐listed companies: A review of extent, content and readability of disclosures66
Predicting the value‐based determinants of sustainable luxury consumption: A multi‐analytical approach and pathway to sustainable development in the luxury industry66
Industry 4.0, innovation, and sustainable development: A systematic review and a roadmap to sustainable innovation64
Does green brand positioning translate into green purchase intention?: A mediation–moderation model64
Does mandating ESG reporting reduce ESG decoupling? Evidence from the European Union's Directive 2014/9564
Analysing corporate forest disclosure: How does business value biodiversity?63
Exploring potential diffusion pathways of biorefinery innovations—An agent‐based simulation approach for facilitating shared value creation63
Can proactive boundary‐spanning search enhance green innovation? The mediating role of organizational resilience63
Analysis of barriers affecting circular economy adoption in food supply chain: A strategic perspective63
A review of entrepreneurship and circular economy research: State of the art and future directions63
Does intrinsic motivation or extrinsic pressure matter more? An exploratory study of small businesses going green and innovation62
Internationalisation, Waste Management and Board Attributes62
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Correction to “Determinants of Firms' Initiative and Inertia in Pursuing Climate Neutrality Strategies—Theoretical Explanations and Empirical Evidence”62
Climate change commitment, credit risk and the country's environmental performance: Empirical evidence from a sample of international banks62
Sustainable business models and organizational boundaries—A literature review62
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Knowledge and innovation management in agribusiness: A study in the Dominican Republic61
The Generativity Mindsets of Corporations: A New Perspective on Ecological Responsiveness61
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Circular business model experimentation capabilities—A case study approach61
Circular Economy Adoption in Manufacturing Firms: Evidence From Germany60
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Mainstreaming innovative circular economy solutions—A comparative study between entrepreneurs in developed versus emerging markets and developing economies60
Carbon reporting regulation: Real effects, external pressures, and internal policies59
Do financial constraints lead to environmental, social and governance controversies? The role of country context59
Pursuing sustainable development through green entrepreneurship: An institutional perspective58
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Sharing is caring for the environment: But why would managers resist shared mobility?58
Climate Change, Innovation Efficiency, and Shareholder Wealth: Insights From the Paris Agreement57
Smart, sustainable, and resilient food supply chains in disruptive events context57
The role of social capital, resilience, and network complexity in attaining supply chain sustainability57
Examining the interaction of sustainable innovation activity and the life cycle of small high‐tech enterprises57
Gender Diversity Leadership and ESG Performance: The Influence of Women on Boards and in Management57
Executive Green Cognition on Corporate Greenwashing Behavior: Evidence From A‐Share Listed Companies in China56
Measuring sustainable transformation of small and medium‐sized enterprises using management systems standards56
Enhancing entrepreneurial opportunity recognition: Relationships among green innovative capability, green relational capability, and co‐innovation behavior56
Corporate business strategy, CEO's managerial ability, and environmental disclosure: The perspective of stakeholder theory55
Utilising Artificial Intelligence to Enhance Firm Circular Economy Maturity: A Thematic Review via Machine Learning55
Building blockchain‐driven dynamic capabilities for developing circular supply chain: Rethinking the role of sensing, seizing, and reconfiguring54
Evaluation of strategies to manage risks in smart, sustainable agri‐logistics sector: A Bayesian‐based group decision‐making approach54
Circular economy, the transition of an incumbent focal firm: How to successfully reconcile environmental and economic sustainability?54
Capabilities and organisational dimensions conducive to green product innovation: Evidence from Croatian and Spanish manufacturing firms54
Closing the loop through eco‐innovation by European firms: Circular economy for sustainable development54
How does green intellectual capital boost performance? The mediating role of environmental performance measurement systems53
Informing or obfuscating stakeholders: Integrated reporting and the information environment53
Towards a circular economy: Implications for emission reduction and environmental sustainability52
Business research for sustainable development: How does sustainable business model research reflect doughnut economics?52
Sustainability frontiers of strategic risk management and firm survival: The Altman score effectiveness. A bibliometric analysis52
Does resource bricolage foster SMEs' competitive advantage and financial performance? A resource‐based perspective52
Determinants of firms' greenness towards sustainable development: A multi‐country analysis52
Environmental collaboration, responsible innovation, and firm performance: The moderating role of stakeholder pressure51
Stock market reaction to mandatory sustainability reporting: Does carbon‐intensity and environmental, social, and governance reputation matter?50
The real effects of ESG reporting and GRI standards on carbon mitigation: International evidence50
Digitalization transformation and ESG performance: Evidence from China50
Digitalization and prevention of corruption: Opportunities and risks—Some evidence from the Italian university system50
Virtuous circles: Transformative impact and challenges of the social and solidarity circular economy50
Do corporate sustainability initiatives improve corporate carbon performance? Evidence from European firms50
Green consumerism, green perceived value, and restaurant revisit intention: Millennials' sustainable consumption with moderating effect of green perceived quality50
Will China's Carbon Emission Trading Regulation Really Decrease the Green Investment of Firms? A Microperspective on Corporate Governance49
Business, biodiversity and ecosystem services: Evidence from large‐scale survey data49
Advancing Sustainable Development Through Environmental Performance Monitoring: The Organisational Life Cycle Assessment49
Food supplier sorting model for strategic supply chain sustainable development48
An examination of UK companies' modern slavery disclosure practices: Does board gender diversity matter?48
Sustainable entrepreneurship support programs in nature‐protected areas: How universities third mission aids sustainability transitions48
Employee Organisational Commitment and Corporate Environmental Sustainability Practices: Mediating Role of Organisation Innovation Culture48
Identification of Barriers and Driving Forces for Circular Economy (CE) Implementation in Water and Wastewater Companies48
Industry 4.0 adoption and eco‐product innovation capability—Understanding the role of supply chain integration47
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Enhancing Technological and Green Innovation Through Digital Leapfrogging in Manufacturing46
Heterogeneity in corporate green supply chain practice adoption: Insights from institutional fields46
Optimizing Sustainable Resource Efficiency: A Fuzzy‐Set Qualitative Comparative Analysis of Sustainable Practices in SMEs46
Dynamic Capabilities and Microfoundations to Overcome Barriers to Circular Economy Implementation46
Blockchain technology enabled critical success factors for supply chain resilience and sustainability46
Trends in the dynamic evolution of blockchain and circular economy: A literature review and bibliometric analysis45
The influence of governance structure on the relationship between pay ratio and environmental and social performance45
Stakeholder attention and ambidextrous green innovation: Evidence from China45
Sustainable production: The economic returns of circular economy practices45
‘I wanna be sustainable, but I don't wanna show it!’: The effect of sustainability cues on young adult consumers' preferences45
Fostering firm value: Unpacking the effect of circular economy disclosure via social media45
Power of sustainable development: Does environmental management system certification affect a firm's access to finance?45
Can innovation affect the relationship between Environmental, Social, and Governance issues and financial performance? Empirical evidence from the STOXX200 index44
Credit Risk Assessment From a Strategic Sustainability Perspective: The Case of the Nordic Banking Sector44
Sustainable Energy Provision at the Bottom of the Pyramid: Blueprint for Early Repurposing Business Models Using Second‐Life Batteries44
CEO foreign experience and corporate environmental, social, and governance (ESG) performance44
Strategic orientations and responsible innovation in SMEs: The moderating effects of environmental turbulence43
Conceptualising active management of paradoxical tensions in corporate sustainability: A systematic literature review43
Circular business model implementation: A capability development case study from the manufacturing industry43
Digitalization for circular economy and operational excellence practices: A paradox theory perspective on performance improvement in manufacturing firms43
Open Innovation for sustainable transition: The case of Enel “Open Power”42
Dynamic capabilities for sustainability: Toward a typology based on dimensions of sustainability‐oriented innovation and stakeholder integration42
Do fast fashion sustainable business strategies influence attitude, awareness and behaviours of female consumers?42
The added value and differentiation among ESG investment strategies in stock markets42
Impacts of industrialization, renewable energy and urbanization on the global ecological footprint: A quantile regression approach42
Opportunity identification for sustainable entrepreneurship: Exploring the interplay of individual and context level factors in India42
How emotions and green altruism explain consumer purchase intention toward circular economy products: A multi‐group analysis on willingness to be environmentally friendly42
A framework of digital technologies for the circular economy: Digital functions and mechanisms41
Achieving sustainable development with sustainable packaging: A natural‐resource‐based view perspective41
Does air pollution change a firm's business strategy for employing capital and labor?41
Interactive effects of brand reputation and ESG on green bond issues: A sustainable development perspective41
Green human resource management and environmental performance: The role of green innovation and environmental strategy in a developing country40
What drives and curbs brownwashing?40
The impact of internal company dynamics on sustainable circular business development: Insights from circular startups40
Sustainable development and environmental ingenuities: The influence of collaborative arrangements on environmental performance40
The impact of chief executive officer narcissism on environmental, social, and governance reporting40
Circular economy‐based new products and company performance: The role of stakeholders and Industry 4.0 technologies40
Analyzing coordination strategy of circular supply chain in re‐commerce industry: A game theoretic approach40
Accounting for Renewable Energy: Investigating Emerging Topics and Research Pathways39
Stakeholder Green Pressure and Enviropreneurial Marketing: Insights From Japanese SMEs39
Innovation and the circular economy: A systematic literature review39
Green manufacturing for sustainable development: The positive effects of green activities, green investments, and non‐green products on economic performance39
Why corporate sustainability initiatives fail to reduce deforestation and what to do about it39
The Impact of Blockchain Technology on Firms' Environmental Innovation: A Technological Push Perspective39
Diversity Breeds Strength: CEO Functional Experience Diversity and Corporate ESG Performance39
Accomplishing sustainable performance through leaders' competencies, green entrepreneurial orientation, and innovation in an emerging economy: Moderating role of institutional support39
Stakeholder pressure, green innovation, and performance in small and medium‐sized enterprises: The role of green dynamic capabilities39
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Untangling business model outcomes, impacts and value39
Can low‐carbon development force enterprises to make digital transformation?39
Motivations and identities of “grassroots” circular entrepreneurs: An initial exploration39
Digitalisation and environmental management activities: The effects of family ownership`39
Navigating the Green Path: Strategies for Enhancing Organizational Citizenship Behavior for the Environment Through Green HRM Practices38
Positive, negative or graded sustainability labelling? Which is most effective at promoting a shift towards more sustainable product choices?38
A PRISMA‐Based Systematic Review on Economic, Social, and Governance Practices: Insights and Research Agenda38
Socially responsible investments: A retrospective review and future research agenda38
Assessing sustainability opportunities for circular business models37
Does green imprinting affect green entrepreneurial behaviors? The application of imprinting theory and stimulus‐organism‐response theory37
Circular economy business models as progressive business models: Evidence from circular start‐ups37
Boosting green innovation on corporate performance: Managerial environmental concern's moderating role37
Net‐zero policy and forward default risk in the energy sector: Evidence of corporate environmentalism using (a)symmetric models37
Business strategy and environmental information disclosure from a Confucian cultural perspective: Evidence from China37
Blockchain technology and environmental efficiency: Evidence from US‐listed firms37
Collaboration among circular start‐ups and incumbents in the circular economy context37
Determining paths of innovation: The role of culture on the adoption on organic farming management37
The nexus between electronic commerce and environmental pollution: The roles of energy efficiency and resource consumption37
Corporate sustainability and performance: An efficiency perspective36
Contractual Mechanisms for Coordinating a Sustainable Supply Chain With Carbon Emission Reduction36
Antecedents of absorptive capacity in the development of circular economy business models of small and medium enterprises36
Revolutionizing green business: The power of academic directors in accelerating eco‐innovation and sustainable transformation in China36
Understanding whether, how and when circular supply chain management influences firm performance36
Stakeholder and customer engagement in circular economy ecosystems: A systematic literature review and research agenda36
Linkage of blockchain to enterprise resource planning systems for improving sustainable performance36
Does firms' carbon disclosure increase consumers' recycling willingness and firms' recycling performance?35
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