Business Strategy and the Environment

Article	Citations
Modeling the dynamic linkage between financial development, energy innovation, and environmental quality: Does globalization matter?	334
Industry 4.0 and the circular economy: A literature review and recommendations for future research	284
Digitalization and sustainable development: How could digital economy development improve green innovation in China?	264
Retracted: Industry 4.0 and circular economy practices: A new era business strategies for environmental sustainability	247
Stakeholder pressure, green innovation, and performance in small and medium‐sized enterprises: The role of green dynamic capabilities	241
Consumption‐based carbon emissions, renewable energy consumption, financial development and economic growth in Chile	220
Enhancing green product and process innovation: Towards an integrative framework of knowledge acquisition and environmental investment	219
Sustainable development, ESG performance and company market value: Mediating effect of financial performance	217
Innovation and the circular economy: A systematic literature review	211
The determinants of business contribution to the 2030 Agenda: Introducing the SDG Reporting Score	203
Integrating sustainability and resilience in the supply chain: A systematic literature review and a research agenda	194
Environmental performance, sustainability, governance and financial performance: Evidence from heavily polluting industries in China	179
Corporate ESG reporting quantity, quality and performance: Where to now for environmental policy and practice?	171
The emerging driving force of inclusive green growth: Does digital economy agglomeration work?	166
Critical success factors for a circular economy: Implications for business strategy and the environment	162
Is blockchain able to enhance environmental sustainability? A systematic review and research agenda from the perspective of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)	162
Does green transformational leadership lead to green innovation? The role of green thinking and creative process engagement	161
Nudging toward diversity in the boardroom: A systematic literature review of board diversity of financial institutions	155
How do green knowledge management and green technology innovation impact corporate environmental performance? Understanding the role of green knowledge acquisition	153
Industry 4.0, innovation, and sustainable development: A systematic review and a roadmap to sustainable innovation	151
Green growth versus economic growth: Do sustainable technology transfer and innovations lead to an imperfect choice?	148
A resource‐based view of green innovation as a strategic firm resource: Present status and future directions	147
CEO hometown identity and firm green innovation	147
Green bonds as a tool against climate change?	146
Circular economy and the policy: A framework for improving the corporate environmental management in supply chains	144

Board gender diversity and carbon emissions: European evidence on curvilinear relationships and critical mass	139
Factors affecting corporate environmental disclosure in emerging markets: The role of corporate governance structures	139
Circular economy practices and industry 4.0 technologies: A strategic move of automobile industry	136
The role of information and communication technology on green total factor energy efficiency: Does environmental regulation work?	133
Does the interaction between the knowledge management process and sustainable development practices boost corporate green innovation?	129
Green human resource management and environmental performance: The role of green innovation and environmental strategy in a developing country	118
Industry 4.0 and circular economy: An exploratory analysis of academic and practitioners' perspectives	116
Achieving environmental sustainability through green transformational leadership policy: Can green team resilience help?	116
An environmental policy of green intellectual capital: Green innovation strategy for performance sustainability	115
Do audit committee attributes influence integrated reporting quality? An agency theory viewpoint	115
Does environmental, social, and governance performance move together with corporate green innovation in China?	111
Impact of green entrepreneurship orientation on environmental performance: The natural resource‐based view and environmental policy perspective	110
A framework of digital technologies for the circular economy: Digital functions and mechanisms	108
Environmental, social and governance disclosure and default risk	108
The transition from linear economy to circular economy for sustainability among SMEs: A study on prospects, impediments, and prerequisites	107
Enabling the Circular Economy transition: a sustainable lean manufacturing recipe for Industry 4.0	107
Implementing circular economy in the textile and clothing industry	105
Application of digital technologies for sustainable product management in a circular economy: A review	103
Green intellectual capital and environmental management accounting: Natural resource orchestration in favor of environmental performance	103
From circular business models to circular business ecosystems	103
What you see is meaningful: Does green advertising change the intentions of consumers to purchase eco‐labeled products?	102
What do we know about business strategy and environmental research? Insights from Business Strategy and the Environment	100
Improving companies' impacts on sustainable development: A nexus approach to the SDGS	99
Exploring the effect of buyer engagement on green product innovation: Empirical evidence from manufacturers	99
Does adoption of ISO 56002‐2019 and green innovation reporting enhance the firm sustainable development goal performance? An emerging paradigm	97
Green capabilities, green purchasing, and triple bottom line performance: Leading toward environmental sustainability	95
Blockchain technologies as enablers of supply chain mapping for sustainable supply chains	94
Sustaining the sustainable development: How do firms turn government green subsidies into financial performance through green innovation?	94
Institutional pressures, environmental management strategy, and organizational performance: The role of environmental management accounting	94
Sustainable finance and investment: Review and research agenda	93
How do incumbent firms innovate their business models for the circular economy? Identifying micro‐foundations of dynamic capabilities	93
The pathway toward pollution mitigation: Does institutional quality make a difference?	93
Strategic sustainable development of Industry 4.0 through the lens of social responsibility: The role of human resource practices	92
The impact of sustainable development strategy on sustainable supply chain firm performance in the digital transformation era	90
Internal green integration and environmental performance: The predictive power of proactive environmental strategy, greening the supplier, and environmental collaboration with the supplier	88
Organizational transition management of circular business model innovations	86
Toward sustainable development: Board characteristics, country governance quality, and environmental performance	85
Industry 4.0 technologies in the manufacturing sector: Are we sure they are all relevant for environmental performance?	85
Digital finance and sustainable development: Evidence from environmental inequality in China	84
How to innovate business models for a circular bio‐economy?	84
Circular economy and innovation: A look from the perspective of organizational capabilities	83
Do constraints created by economic growth targets benefit sustainable development? Evidence from China	83
Supply chain firm performance in circular economy and digital era to achieve sustainable development goals	83
Effects of greenwashing on financial performance: Moderation through local environmental regulation and media coverage	83
Circular economy‐based new products and company performance: The role of stakeholders and Industry 4.0 technologies	82
What motivates the adoption of green restaurant products and services? A systematic review and future research agenda	82
Green marketing as an environmental practice: The impact on green satisfaction and green loyalty in a business‐to‐business context	81
Performance evaluation of reverse logistics in food supply chains in a circular economy using system dynamics	81
Dynamic capabilities for circular manufacturing supply chains—Exploring the role of Industry 4.0 and resilience	81
On the conceptualization and measurement of dynamic capabilities for sustainability: Building theory through a systematic literature review	81

How environmental innovation influences firm performance: A meta‐analytic review	80
Industry 4.0 technologies and circular economy: The mediating role of supply chain integration	80
Circular economy and resilience: A research agenda	80
Toward sustainable corporate behavior: The effect of the critical mass of female directors on environmental, social, and governance disclosure	79
A systematic literature review to integrate lean, agile, resilient, green and sustainable paradigms in the supply chain management	79
Enhancing environmental information transparency through corporate social responsibility reporting regulation	79
Green process innovation and operational performance: The role of proactive environment strategy, technological capabilities, and organizational learning	78
The effects of environmental, social and governance disclosure on the cost of capital in small and medium enterprises: The role of family business status	78
Does green innovation increase enterprise value?	76
Sustainable Supplier Selection in Megaprojects: Grey Ordinal Priority Approach	76
Which are the determinants of green purchase behaviour? A study of Italian consumers	76
The resource‐based view, stakeholder capitalism, ESG, and sustainable competitive advantage: The firm's embeddedness into ecology, society, and governance	75
Green process innovation: Where we are and where we are going	75
Leveraging STARA competencies and green creativity to boost green organisational innovative evidence: A praxis for sustainable development	74
Past, present, and future of green product innovation	73
Close the loop: Evidence on the implementation of the circular economy from the Italian fashion industry	73
Green consumerism, green perceived value, and restaurant revisit intention: Millennials' sustainable consumption with moderating effect of green perceived quality	71
Investigating the link between managers' green knowledge and leadership style, and their firms' environmental performance: The mediation role of green creativity	71
The impact of direct environmental, social, and governance reporting: Empirical evidence in European‐listed companies in the agri‐food sector	70
Green intellectual capital and ambidextrous green innovation: The impact on environmental performance	70
Traders as sustainability governance actors in global food supply chains: A research agenda	70
Analysing the risks of adopting circular economy initiatives in manufacturing supply chains	70
Is corporate environmental disclosure associated with firm value? A multicountry study of Gulf Cooperation Council firms	69
The impact of environmental dynamism on low‐carbon practices and digital supply chain networks to enhance sustainable performance: An empirical analysis	68
Towards a collaboration framework for circular economy: The role of dynamic capabilities and open innovation	68
Circular economy in corporate sustainability reporting: A review of organisational approaches	68
Green apparel buying behaviour: A Stimulus–Organism–Behaviour–Consequence (SOBC) perspective on sustainability‐oriented consumption in Japan	68
Progress and trends in integrating Industry 4.0 within Circular Economy: A comprehensive literature review and future research propositions	67
Business environmental innovation and CO2 emissions: The moderating role of environmental governance	67
Net‐zero emission targets and the role of managerial environmental awareness, customer pressure, and regulatory control toward environmental performance	66
Green capabilities and green purchasing practices: A strategy striving towards sustainable operations	66
Circular economy and sustainability: The role of organizational behaviour in the transition journey	66
Sustainability and legitimacy theory: The case of sustainable social and environmental practices of small and medium‐sized enterprises	66
Sustainability strategies by companies in the global coffee sector	66
Exploring the determinants of green bond issuance: Going beyond the long‐lasting debate on performance consequences	65
Environmental management practices and financial performance using data envelopment analysis in Japan: The mediating role of environmental performance	64
Factors affecting green purchase behavior: A systematic literature review	63
Green bonds, sustainable development and environmental policy in the European Union carbon market	63
What drives the adoption and consumption of green hotel products and services? A systematic literature review of past achievement and future promises	63
Environmental, social, and governance ratings and financial performance: Evidence from the European food industry	63
Do independent, female and specialist directors promote eco‐innovation and eco‐design in agri‐food firms?	62
Bank green lending and credit risk: an empirical analysis of China's Green Credit Policy	61
Biodiversity and extinction accounting for sustainable development: A systematic literature review and future research directions	61
Closing the loop through eco‐innovation by European firms: Circular economy for sustainable development	60
The impact of motivation, intention, and contextual factors on green purchasing behavior: New energy vehicles as an example	60
A review of entrepreneurship and circular economy research: State of the art and future directions	60
The effects of regional trade integration and renewable energy transition on environmental quality: Evidence from South Asian neighbors	60
A conceptual framework for blockchain‐based sustainable supply chain and evaluating implementation barriers: A case of the tea supply chain	60
Mandatory disclosure, greenhouse gas emissions and the cost of equity capital: UK evidence of a U‐shaped relationship	59
An institutional perspective on consumers' environmental awareness and pro‐environmental behavioral intention: Evidence from 39 countries	59
Systemic circular business model application at the company, supply chain and society levels—A view into circular economy native and adopter companies	59
Value creation in circular economy business for sustainability: A stakeholder relationship perspective	59
Tunneling the barriers of blockchain technology in remanufacturing for achieving sustainable development goals: A circular manufacturing perspective	58
Financial materiality in the informativeness of sustainability reporting	58
Stakeholder engagement in business models for sustainability: The stakeholder value flow model for sustainable development	57
Citizens and cities: Leveraging citizen science and big data for sustainable urban development	57
Non‐financial strategy disclosure and environmental, social and governance score: Insight from a configurational approach	57
Proactive environmental strategy and firm performance at the bottom of the pyramid	57
The influence of managers' awareness of climate change, perceived climate risk exposure and risk tolerance on the adoption of corporate responses to climate change	56
Analysing the roadblocks of circular economy adoption in the automobile sector: Reducing waste and environmental perspectives	56
Attaining sustainable development goals (SDGs) through supply chain practices and business strategies: A systematic review with bibliometric and network analyses	56
Business strategy and sustainable development: Evidence from China	56
Business model innovation: Identifying foundations and trajectories	55
The nexuses between transformational leadership and employee green organisational citizenship behaviour: Role of environmental attitude and green dedication	55
The application of Green Lean Six Sigma	55
Do corporate sustainability initiatives improve corporate carbon performance? Evidence from European firms	54
Local government environmental regulatory pressures and corporate environmental strategies: Evidence from natural resource accountability audits in China	54
Do firm characteristics affect environmental sustainability? A literature review‐based assessment	53
Sustainability among Norwegian maritime firms: Green strategy and innovation as mediators of long‐term orientation and emission reduction	53
Advancing the circular economy through dynamic capabilities and extended customer engagement: Insights from small sustainable fashion enterprises in the UK	53
Analyzing companies' interactions with the Sustainable Development Goals through network analysis: Four corporate sustainability imperatives	53
Assessing people‐driven factors for circular economy practices in small and medium‐sized enterprise supply chains: Business strategies and environmental perspectives	52
The growth paradox, sustainable development, and business strategy	52
Circular disruption: Digitalisation as a driver of circular economy business models	52
Critical success factors for implementing blockchain‐based circular supply chain	51
Consumers' choice behavior: An interactive effect of expected eudaimonic well‐being and green altruism	51
The effect of environmental regulations, top management commitment, and organizational learning on green product innovation: Evidence from automobile industry	51
Socio‐emotional wealth and corporate responses to environmental hostility: Are family firms more stakeholder oriented?	50
Sustainable employee green behavior in the workplace: Integrating cognitive and non‐cognitive factors in corporate environmental policy	50
Determinants of consumer demand for circular economy products. A case for reuse and remanufacturing for sustainable development	49

Biodiversity disclosure, sustainable development and environmental initiatives: Does board gender diversity matter?	49
The link between sustainable business models and Blockchain: A multiple case study approach	48
Green supply chain integration and financial performance: A social contagion and information sharing perspective	48
A natural resource and institutional theory‐based view of green‐lean‐six sigma drivers for environmental management	48
Exploring business models for sustainability: A bibliographic investigation of the literature and future research directions	47
A framework for digital supply chains in the era of circular economy: Implications on environmental sustainability	47
Structural model for analysis of key performance indicators for sustainable manufacturer–supplier collaboration: A grey‐decision‐making trial and evaluation laboratory‐based approach	47
The impact of ISO 14001 on firm environmental and economic performance: The moderating role of size and environmental awareness	46
Managing sustainability in luxury industry to pursue circular economy strategies	46
Sustainable entrepreneurship and the Sustainable Development Goals: Community‐led initiatives, the social solidarity economy and commons ecologies	46
Toward a circular economy: Understanding consumers' moral stance on corporations' and individuals' responsibilities in creating a circular fashion economy	46
Circular economy adoption challenges in the food supply chain for sustainable development	46
Towards a circular economy: Implications for emission reduction and environmental sustainability	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
Antecedents of absorptive capacity in the development of circular economy business models of small and medium enterprises	45
The effect of corporate environmental, social and governance disclosure on cash holdings: Life‐cycle perspective	45
On the contribution of eco‐innovation features to a circular economy: A microlevel quantitative approach	45
Strategic ambidexterity in green product innovation: Obstacles and implications	45
Which institutional investors drive corporate sustainability? A systematic literature review	44
An empirical analysis: Did green supply chain management alleviate the effects of COVID‐19?	44
Sustainability in the digital age: Intended and unintended consequences of digital technologies for sustainable development	44
Circular economy adoption barriers: An extended fuzzy best–worst method using fuzzy DEMATEL and Supermatrix structure	44
How to convert green entrepreneurial orientation into green innovation: The role of knowledge creation process and green absorptive capacity	44
The nexus of business sustainability and organizational learning: A systematic literature review to identify key learning principles for business transformation	43
Carbon neutrality drivers and implications for firm performance and supply chain management	43
Harnessing digitalization for sustainable development: Understanding how interactions on sustainability‐oriented digital platforms manage tensions and paradoxes	43
Circular business model implementation: A capability development case study from the manufacturing industry	43
Green manufacturing for sustainable development: The positive effects of green activities, green investments, and non‐green products on economic performance	42
Stakeholder perception of reverse logistics practices on supply chain performance	42
Blockchain‐based recycling and its impact on recycling performance: A network theory perspective	42
Green innovation and enterprise reputation value	42
Environmental collaboration, responsible innovation, and firm performance: The moderating role of stakeholder pressure	42
Reviewing the applications of artificial intelligence in sustainable supply chains: Exploring research propositions for future directions	42
Small agricultural businesses' performance—What is the role of dynamic capabilities, entrepreneurial orientation, and environmental sustainability commitment?	42
Will financial development and clean energy utilization rejuvenate the environment in BRICS economies?	42
Strategic motives and performance implications of proactive versus reactive environmental strategies in corporate sustainable development	42
Environmental proactivity, competitive strategy, and market performance: The mediating role of environmental reputation	41
Corporate commitment to climate change action, carbon risk exposure, and a firm's debt financing policy	41
Environmental degradation, energy consumption and sustainable development: Accounting for the role of economic complexities with evidence from World Bank income clusters	41
Environmental attitude in the board. Who are the “green directors”? Evidences from Italy	41
External stakeholder engagement: Complementary and substitutive effects on firms' eco‐innovation	41
Are firms with better sustainability performance more resilient during crises?	41
Consumer adoption of access‐based product‐service systems: The influence of duration of use and type of product	41
COVID‐19, ESG investing, and the resilience of more sustainable stocks: Evidence from European firms	40
Building a data‐driven circular supply chain hierarchical structure: Resource recovery implementation drives circular business strategy	40
CEO foreign experience and corporate sustainable development: Evidence from China	40
Executive compensation and sustainable business practices: The moderating role of sustainability‐based compensation	40
Towards sustainable development: Coupling green marketing strategies and consumer perceptions in addressing greenwashing	40
Digitalization transformation and ESG performance: Evidence from China	40
Corporate environmental reporting: Are French firms compliant with the Task Force on Climate Financial Disclosures' recommendations?	39
Corporate climate‐related voluntary disclosures: Does potential greenwash exist among Australian high emitters reports?	39
Board gender diversity and ESG decoupling: Does religiosity matter?	39
The role of biomass energy consumption and economic complexity on environmental sustainability in G7 economies	39
Encouraging green product purchase: Green value and environmental knowledge as moderators of attitude and behavior relationship	39
Design for the environment: An ontology‐based knowledge management model for green product development	39
Transition towards and of sustainability—Understanding sustainability as performative	39
Which factors distinguish the different consumer segments of green fast‐moving consumer goods in Germany?	39
Linking sustainable business models and supply chains — Toward an integrated value creation framework	39
Managing healthcare waste for sustainable environmental development: A hybrid decision approach	39
Do dynamic capabilities matter? A study on environmental performance and the circular economy in European certified organisations	38
Outsourcing logistics operations in circular economy towards to sustainable development goals	38
Creating shared value through open innovation approaches: Opportunities and challenges for corporate sustainability	38
Circular business model evolution: Stakeholder matters for a self‐sufficient ecosystem	38
ESG controversies and bank risk taking	38
Analyzing the drivers of smart sustainable circular supply chain for sustainable development goals through stakeholder theory	38
Friends or foes? A systematic literature review and meta‐analysis of the relationship between eco‐innovation and firm performance	38
Green supply chain management in manufacturing firms: A resource‐based viewpoint	37
Environmental performance and bank lending: Evidence from unlisted firms	37
Advisory or monitoring role in ESG scenario: Which women directors are more influential in the Italian context?	37
Understanding the effect of market orientation on circular economy practices: The mediating role of closed‐loop orientation in German SMEs	37
Examining the extent of and determinants for sustainability assurance quality: The role of audit committees	37
Stakeholder management in sustainable supply chains: A case study of the bioenergy industry	37
Can low‐carbon development force enterprises to make digital transformation?	37
Blockchain for the circular economy: Theorizing blockchain's role in the transition to a circular economy through an empirical investigation	37
Board gender diversity and environmental emissions	36
Circular economy and environmental disclosure in sustainability reports: Empirical evidence in cosmetic companies	36
The environmental performance of UK‐based B Corp companies: An analysis based on the triple bottom line approach	36
What drives environmental innovation? A meta‐analysis	36
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	36
A systematic and major review of proactive environmental strategies in hospitality and tourism: Looking back for moving forward	36
Do major customers encourage innovative sustainable development? Empirical evidence from corporate green innovation in China	35
Inspiring employees' ecological behaviors: The roles of corporate environmental strategy, biospheric values, and eco‐centric leadership	35
How to embed environmental sustainability: The role of dynamic capabilities and managerial approaches in a life cycle management perspective	35
Supplier evaluation in the context of circular economy: A forward step for resilient business and environment concern	35
Relational capital, environmental knowledge integration, and environmental performance of small and medium enterprises in emerging markets	35
Sustainable management of electronic waste: Empirical evidences from a stakeholders' perspective	35
Hey, did you see that label? It's sustainable!: Understanding the role of sustainable labelling in shaping sustainable purchase behaviour for sustainable development	34
Does the legacy of state planning put pressure on ecological efficiency? Evidence from China	34
Linking stakeholder and competitive pressure to Industry 4.0 and performance: Mediating effect of environmental commitment and green process innovation	34
A resource orchestration view of supply chain traceability and transparency bundles for competitive advantage	34
ESG performance and green innovation: An investigation based on quantile regression	34
Are corporate climate efforts genuine? An empirical analysis of the climate ‘talk–walk’ hypothesis	33
Accentuating the interconnection between business sustainability and organizational performance in the context of the circular economy: The moderating role of organizational competitiveness	33
Are fiscal policy incentives effective in stimulating firms' eco‐product innovation? The moderating role of dynamic capabilities	33
Climate change mitigation: Carbon assurance and reporting integrity	33