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The bad-influencer effect: Indulgence undermines social connection J. Acad. Mark. Sci. (IF 18.2) Pub Date : 2024-05-09 Jessica Gamlin, Maferima Touré-Tillery
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Enabling organizations to strategically manage risks in circular supply chains Bus. Strategy Environ. (IF 13.4) Pub Date : 2024-05-09 Mladen Krstić, Leonardo Agnusdei, Pamela Palmi, Tomas Baležentis
Circular supply chains (CSCs) prioritize resource efficiency by reusing, remanufacturing, and recycling materials, offering environmental benefits and competitive advantages. However, they are facing various risks and organizational challenges that hinder their efficiency. To ensure long‐term sustainability, this study identifies the key risks and introduces a prioritization model for risk management
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EXPRESS: Spring Forward = Fall Back? the Effect of Daylight Saving Time Change on Consumers’ Unhealthy Behavior Journal of Marketing (IF 12.9) Pub Date : 2024-05-09 Ramkumar Janakiraman, Harsha Kamatham, Sven Feurer, Rishika Rishika, Bhavna Phogaat, Marina Girju
Prior research documents deleterious consequences of the annual clock change to daylight saving time in many contexts, but little is known about the effect the policy has on consumer behavior. While policy debates around ending seasonal clock changes continue, millions of consumers worldwide are potentially adversely affected by the time change. Drawing on the notions of sleepiness and self-control
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The evolution of craft work in the strategic development of a family enterprise Strateg. Entrep. J. (IF 5.761) Pub Date : 2024-05-09 Emanuela Rondi, Vittoria Magrelli, Francesco Debellis, Alfredo De Massis
Research SummaryCraft firms characterized by a humanistic approach to work face a tension between adhering to pure craft principles and embracing industrialization. This challenge is heightened in family‐controlled craft firms, striving to uphold tradition while adapting to change. This study examines how craft work evolves along the trajectory of entrepreneurial development through a case study of
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The show must go on: The role of contract frames in safeguarding relationship continuity J. Acad. Mark. Sci. (IF 18.2) Pub Date : 2024-05-07 Erik Mooi, Qiong Wang, Steven Seggie, Sandy D. Jap
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Relationship between recycling, circular economy and eco‐innovation in Europe. Application of a dynamic network data envelopment analysis model Bus. Strategy Environ. (IF 13.4) Pub Date : 2024-05-08 Teresa García‐Valderrama, Jaime Sánchez‐Ortiz, María Del Carmen Pérez‐González, María Del Carmen Puentes‐Graña
Monitoring of European‐level circular economy (CE) efficiency requires more research than does currently exists in the body of literature on CE. In this regard, this research aims to answer two research questions. Firstly, to be efficient in the implementation of CE at a macroeconomic level, should there be a relationship between the efficiency of the three phases of CE (efficiency in recycling, efficiency
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Evaluating the Credibility of Entrepreneurs’ Impact Promises in Early-Stage Impact Investing Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice (IF 10.5) Pub Date : 2024-05-08 Guillaume Dumont
This article investigates ethnographically how early-stage impact investors evaluate the credibility of the impact promises made by social entrepreneurs. Uncovering how investors carry out this task beyond observable characteristics and self-reported prosocial intentions, I propose that their evaluation of impact promises centers on four interrelated aspects of the entrepreneurs’ behavior: impact metrics
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Legitimate incongruity: Strategic positioning within hybrid categories J. Bus. Venturing (IF 13.139) Pub Date : 2024-05-07 Kostas Alexiou, Jennifer Wiggins, Md Fourkan
The primary purpose of this research is to examine the extent to which positioning hybrid ventures as more or less congruent with their category influences perceptions of their legitimacy. To do so, we first introduce and define the notion of a as an institutional context which combines two or more dominant institutional logics that both constrain and enable organizational action. We then construct
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Climate policy uncertainty and firm‐level carbon dioxide emissions: Assessing the impact in the U.S. market Bus. Strategy Environ. (IF 13.4) Pub Date : 2024-05-06 Djula Borozan, Burak Pirgaip
This paper examines the impact of climate policy uncertainty (CPU) on carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions of 1007 listed firms over 2003–2021. As the urgency to combat climate change and implement effective policies may create uncertainty, it focuses on the Unites States, a significant emitter with a complex policy landscape. Using the two‐step system generalized method of moments estimation, the analysis
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Impact of business strategy on carbon emissions: Empirical evidence from U.S. firms Bus. Strategy Environ. (IF 13.4) Pub Date : 2024-05-06 Muhammad Nurul Houqe, Tarek Abdelfattah, Muhammad Kaleem Zahir‐ul‐Hassan, Subhan Ullah
This study examines the nexus between business strategy and carbon emissions by utilising a dataset of U.S. firms from 2007 to 2020. It focuses on two broad types of firms, that is, prospectors and defenders. Regarding carbon emissions, we consider total emissions (Scope 1 & 2), direct emissions (Scope 1) and indirect emissions (Scope 2). The results reveal a significant association between business
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To profit or not to profit: Founder identity at the intersection of religion and entrepreneurship J. Bus. Venturing (IF 13.139) Pub Date : 2024-05-06 Jody Delichte, E. Erin Powell, Ralph Hamann, Ted Baker
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Doing good while making profits: A typology of business models for social ventures Strateg. Entrep. J. (IF 5.761) Pub Date : 2024-05-06 Lien De Cuyper, Bart Clarysse, Mike Wright
Research SummaryBuilding on business model research and the social entrepreneurship literature, we conceptually develop a set of business model choices for social ventures. These choices specify the scope of venture beneficiaries, the extent that customers and beneficiaries overlap, and how social meaning is attached to the venture's value proposition. Concurrent configurations of these choices give
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The productivity paradox in carbon‐intensive companies: How eco‐innovation affects corporate environmental and financial performance Bus. Strategy Environ. (IF 13.4) Pub Date : 2024-05-05 Albert Czerny, Peter Letmathe
Empirical studies analyzing the relationship between strategies to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and firms' environmental and financial performance often fail to find significant effects when firms invest in innovative green technologies. Indeed, as efficiency and productivity gains of new technologies can often be reaped only after a certain time gap, cross‐sectional studies are bound to ignore
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What gets measured well is managed well: Determining a hierarchy of interdependencies of environmental elements for effective environmental performance Bus. Strategy Environ. (IF 13.4) Pub Date : 2024-05-03 Shiri Vivek, Sufian Qrunfleh, Vivek Dalela
Climate effects of greenhouse gas emissions, land use, water use, energy use, and waste are a universal concern. With disparate reporting firms and a lack of universal measures of corporate sustainability, environmental sustainability for businesses is an afterthought, with minimal consequences for inaccurate reporting, or green washing and brown washing. This research explores four widely used reporting
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Peer effects on passion levels, passion trajectories, and outcomes for individuals and teams J. Bus. Venturing (IF 13.139) Pub Date : 2024-05-03 Simon Taggar, Anne Domurath, Nicole Coviello
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EXPRESS: Continued Use Trajectories: How Entropy Work Sustains Technology Assemblages Journal of Marketing (IF 12.9) Pub Date : 2024-05-03 Paolo Franco, Robin Canniford, Marcus Phipps, Amber M. Epp
Why do some technology products enjoy enduring continued use while others are quickly discarded? Existing marketing research explains that continued use is motivated by cost-benefit decisions over how useful a tech-product is and how easy it is to use. Yet the interconnected nature of contemporary technologies means that continued use can depend on tech-products’ capacities to interact with other devices
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Issue Information Bus. Strategy Environ. (IF 13.4) Pub Date : 2024-05-02
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Issue Information Bus. Strategy Environ. (IF 13.4) Pub Date : 2024-05-02
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Exploring the microfoundations of hybridity: A judgment-based approach J. Bus. Venturing (IF 13.139) Pub Date : 2024-05-02 Carmen-Elena Dorobat, Matthew McCaffrey, Mihai Vladimir Topan
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Strategic pathways to achieve Sustainable Development Goal 12 through Industry 4.0: Moderating role of institutional pressure Bus. Strategy Environ. (IF 13.4) Pub Date : 2024-04-29 Mahak Sharma, Pratibha Singh, Konstantinos Tsagarakis
Emerging economies, at the vanguard of extensive resource depletion and limited environmental stewardship, are worst‐hit by climate change events, necessitating an extensive investigation of the relevance of I4.0 in attaining sustainable consumption and production patterns. This study focuses on Sustainable Production and Consumption (SDG12) and investigates how the implementation of I4.0 can contribute
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Exploring the drivers of supply chain sustainability: An internal and external configuration perspective Bus. Strategy Environ. (IF 13.4) Pub Date : 2024-04-29 Weili Yin
The global supply chains sustainability and viability has been severely impacted due to the emergence of black swan events such as COVID‐19. Previous studies have examined how to enhance supply chain sustainability from a single internal capability perspective or an external relationship perspective, few studies have examined the combined effects of internal and external factors to enhance supply chain
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Do local government sustainability initiatives impact corporate social sustainability practices? Bus. Strategy Environ. (IF 13.4) Pub Date : 2024-04-29 Atsuhiro Ida, Kenichi Yoshida, Jun Xie, Yoshitaka Tanaka, Shunsuke Managi
This study quantifies the initiatives of local governments' Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and examines their impacts on regional corporate social sustainability practices. Our analysis reveals statistically significant results for corporate action on the following government initiatives on SDGs: BOD/COD effluent standard (6. clean water and sanitation and 14. life below water); number of students
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When and How does in‐role pro‐environmental behavior spill over to extra‐role behavior: Two experimental studies in the retail and education industries Bus. Strategy Environ. (IF 13.4) Pub Date : 2024-04-29 Wenjing Guo, Kerrie Unsworth, Christian Bretter, Matthew Davis
By integrating theories of goal proximity and crowding‐out, this research investigates how and when employees' performance of in‐role pro‐environmental behaviors will spill over to future engagement in extra‐role pro‐environmental behaviors. Using two experiments with employees from the retail (N = 338) and education (N = 448) industries, we found a conditional positive spillover effect, mediated by
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The Enactment of a Corporate Entrepreneurial Role: A Double-Edged Sword Forged by Heart and Context Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice (IF 10.5) Pub Date : 2024-04-29 Aracely Soto-Simeone, Marina G. Biniari
Enacting a corporate entrepreneurial role requires cognitive, behavioral, and emotional qualities. While scholarly work has focused on the cognitive and behavioral aspects of this role, its emotional aspect—how corporate entrepreneurs feel when enacting their role—remains relatively unexplored. Our qualitative study reveals the corporate entrepreneurial role as a source of liabilities and assets for
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Time Perspective and Entrepreneurs’ Alertness Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice (IF 10.5) Pub Date : 2024-04-27 Ludvig Levasseur, Stephen E. Lanivich, Sai Chittaranjan Kalubandi, Apurva Sanaria
Entrepreneurship scholars have much to gain from including time perspective in developing theory about entrepreneurs’ alertness. In this study, interviews with 22 French entrepreneurs revealed associations between their alertness and past-positive, present-hedonistic, and future time perspectives. Complementarily, a sample of 376 U.S. entrepreneurs provided evidence that their present-hedonistic and
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How sustainability shapes consumer preferences on special occasions Bus. Strategy Environ. (IF 13.4) Pub Date : 2024-04-26 Costanza Dasmi, Acuti Diletta, Valentina Mazzoli, Raffaele Donvito
With the aim to guide sustainability strategies of fashion companies, this study explores consumers' interest in sustainable alternatives on special occasions, which have been largely neglected by the literature. Drawing on 35 semistructured interviews and using weddings as the consumption setting, this study first identifies the meanings that are associated with special occasions and defines the role
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The impact of corporate social irresponsibility on prosocial consumer behavior J. Acad. Mark. Sci. (IF 18.2) Pub Date : 2024-04-25 Sumin Kim, Hongwei He, Anders Gustafsson
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The impact of Fintech on corporate carbon emissions: Towards green and sustainable development Bus. Strategy Environ. (IF 13.4) Pub Date : 2024-04-25 Chang'an Wang, Long Wang, Shikuan Zhao, Cunyi Yang, Khaldoon Albitar
Fintech, as the fusion of finance and technology, has not only transformed the traditional financial industry and contributed to reshaping the real economy. But also, it holds the potential to offer a feasible solution for achieving green and sustainable development. This paper investigates the impact of Fintech on corporate carbon emissions (CCEs) by using data from the National Tax Survey Database
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Do environmental regulations and technological innovation enhance environmental well‐being in sub‐Saharan Africa? Bus. Strategy Environ. (IF 13.4) Pub Date : 2024-04-25 Emmanuel Kwaku Manu, George S. Chen, Samuel Adomako
We investigate the regulation–technology–environment nexus in sub‐Saharan Africa (SSA), one of the world's most rapidly growing regions. Using a comprehensive panel dataset consisting of 32 countries from 2000 to 2022, we find that stronger environmental regulations and technological innovation enhance environmental well‐being. Moreover, we identify that stronger environmental regulations positively
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A framework for investigating new firm entry: The (limited) overlap between informal-formal and necessity-opportunity entrepreneurship J. Bus. Venturing (IF 13.139) Pub Date : 2024-04-24 Saul Estrin, Maribel Guerrero, Tomasz Mickiewicz
We analyse entrepreneurial entry along the dimensions of informal-formal and necessity-opportunity entrepreneurship, distinguishing between them yet considering them jointly. While the dominant view in the literature conflates necessity with informal entry, and opportunity with formal entry, we hypothesise that informal entrepreneurship may be attractive to higher-income individuals as a testing ground
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EXPRESS: Managing Brand Relationship Plurality: Insights from the Non-profit Sector Journal of Marketing (IF 12.9) Pub Date : 2024-04-24 Verena Gruber, Jonathan Deschênes
The non-profit sector is home to some of the most recognized and trustworthy brands, all competing for financial resources and volunteers. Akin to consumers, volunteers entertain relationships with non-profit brands. These relationships have recently become more diverse as individuals increasingly look for more ephemeral and distant forms of involvement. Drawing on an extensive qualitative dataset
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Stakeholder pressure and circular supply chain practices: Moderating roles of environmental information exchange capability and circular innovation orientation Bus. Strategy Environ. (IF 13.4) Pub Date : 2024-04-23 Yaw Agyabeng‐Mensah, Ebenezer Afum, Charles Baah
This study deploys institutional theory and Resource orchestration theory (ROT) to examine the roles supply chain stakeholder pressure, circular innovation orientation (CIO) and environmental information exchange capability (EIEC) play in adopting Circular supply chain (CSC) practices. This study uses a partial least square structural equation modelling (PLS‐SEM) to analyse survey data gathered from
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Asynchronicities of growth: a process extension to the Uppsala model of internationalisation J. Int. Bus. Stud. (IF 11.6) Pub Date : 2024-04-23 Peter W. Liesch, Catherine Welch
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The impact of sustainable development strategy on sustainable supply chain firm performance in the digital transformation era Bus. Strategy Environ. (IF 13.4) Pub Date : 2024-04-22 Kirti Nayal, Rakesh D. Raut, Vinay Surendra Yadav, Pragati Priyadarshinee, Balkrishna E. Narkhede
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EXPRESS: No Comments (from You): Understanding the Interpersonal and Professional Consequences of Disabling Social Media Comments Journal of Marketing (IF 12.9) Pub Date : 2024-04-22 Michelle E. Daniels, Freeman Wu
Presumably in an effort to reduce cyberbullying and promote mental health, online influencers often limit viewers’ ability to post comments. In this research, we find that influencers incur significant interpersonal and professional repercussions for doing so. Across a Twitter dataset and six experiments utilizing both consequential and hypothetical dependent measures, we find that consumers form more
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Consumer behavioral intention toward sustainable biscuits: An extension of the theory of planned behavior with product familiarity and perceived value Bus. Strategy Environ. (IF 13.4) Pub Date : 2024-04-21 Rosa Maria Dangelico, Gaia Ceccarelli, Luca Fraccascia
Sustainable food consumption may help mitigate the impact that the food industry exerts on the natural environment. To foster sustainable food consumption, it is essential to understand consumers' perceptions related to sustainable food as well as the determinants of the intention to purchase sustainable food. Through an extension of the theory of planned behavior (TPB) with product familiarity (direct
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Native advertising effectiveness: The role of congruence and consumer annoyance on clicks, bounces, and visits J. Acad. Mark. Sci. (IF 18.2) Pub Date : 2024-04-20 Alexander C. LaBrecque, Clay M. Voorhees, Farnoosh Khodakarami, Paul W. Fombelle
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Environmental sustainability and customer experience in emerging markets Bus. Strategy Environ. (IF 13.4) Pub Date : 2024-04-19 Ernest Kafui Kwasi Tsetse, Russell Adams, Esi A. Elliot, Clara Downey
Increasingly, environmental sustainability becomes an important consideration for customer engagement (CE). The globalization of the marketplace has led to a marketing renaissance focused on environmental sustainability, which highlights the importance of our study. Our research question is, therefore, “How does environmental sustainability enhance customer engagement?” We argue that attention to environmental
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Meeting the closed‐loop challenge: The “Who‐What‐How” strategic choices for a successful remanufacturing approach Bus. Strategy Environ. (IF 13.4) Pub Date : 2024-04-19 Danilo Pesce, Claudia Franzè, Emilio Paolucci
Remanufacturing is a life‐cycle renewal process recognised as one of the most effective circular strategies that can be adopted to achieve sustainable production. However, its potential has been hindered by the absence of an integrated perspective across various business domains to catalyse successful remanufacturing efforts. This paper aims to explore how such an integrated perspective can facilitate
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Do foreign institutional shareholders affect international debt contracting? Evidence from Yankee bond covenants J. Int. Bus. Stud. (IF 11.6) Pub Date : 2024-04-19 Paul Brockman, Wolfgang Drobetz, Sadok El Ghoul, Omrane Guedhami, Ying Zheng
The international bond market is the largest component of the international capital markets. Previous research shows that the liability of foreignness (LOF) imposes significant costs on international debt contracting. The purpose of this study is to examine the impact of foreign institutional shareholders (FISs) on the costs of international debt contracting. While the presence of FISs could lead to
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Sustainability competence in small and medium exporters: Determinant and outcomes Bus. Strategy Environ. (IF 13.4) Pub Date : 2024-04-18 Hsing‐Hua Stella Chang
The pursuit of sustainability has become critical for exporting small and medium enterprises (SMEs), driven by stakeholder pressure and international buyer requirements. This poses challenges to their survival and performance in international markets. Drawing on the capabilities perspective, the present research pioneers the study of this issue by proposing and empirically validating a theoretical
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Addressing grand challenges through the bottom-up marketing approach: Lessons from subsistence marketplaces and marketplace literacy J. Acad. Mark. Sci. (IF 18.2) Pub Date : 2024-04-17 Madhu Viswanathan, Arun Sreekumar, Srinivas Sridharan, Gaurav R. Sinha
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Evolution of dynamic capabilities for business sustainability performance: Evidence from the Indian manufacturing sector Bus. Strategy Environ. (IF 13.4) Pub Date : 2024-04-17 K. V. Bhadra, T. J. Kamalanabhan, Sanjay Kumar Singh
Firms can achieve trinomial sustainability goals if they can constantly build and rejuvenate their capabilities to adapt to new situations. However, few studies consider the interrelationships between the distinct capabilities pertinent to sustainable development and the impact of these capabilities on firm performance under diverse contexts, especially in emerging economies. Drawing on dynamic capability
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Language and identity: The dynamics of linguistic clustering in multinational enterprises Journal of World Business (IF 8.635) Pub Date : 2024-04-17 Komal Kalra, Wade Danis
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Digital data‐driven technologies and the environmental sustainability of micro, small, and medium enterprises: Does size matter? Bus. Strategy Environ. (IF 13.4) Pub Date : 2024-04-15 Virginia Hernández, Antonio Revilla, Alicia Rodríguez
Despite the increasing interest in understanding the relations between firms' digitalization and their environmental sustainability, they are still poorly understood as research on this hot topic is nascent and empirical evidence is sparse and fragmented. In this study, we delve into the relations between different digital data‐driven technologies (DTs) used for gathering and storing (smart devices
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Climate risk and opportunity exposure and firm value: An international investigation Bus. Strategy Environ. (IF 13.4) Pub Date : 2024-04-12 Xuefeng Li, Le Luo, Qingliang Tang
While previous studies mainly focus on the valuation of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and climate risk exposure, climate opportunity exposure is less frequently visited in the current literature. We use an international sample from 23 countries that have participated in the CDP. By categorizing climate risks/opportunities into physical, regulatory and other, the study suggests that investors have
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EXPRESS: Group or Individual Sales Incentives? What Is Best for Brand-Managed Retail Sales Operations? Journal of Marketing (IF 12.9) Pub Date : 2024-04-12 Wenshu Zhang, Jia Li, Subramanian Balachander
This research studies sales force incentive compensation in Brand-Managed Retail (BMR) operations, which are particularly prevalent in high-end department stores and vertically integrated retailers. In particular, the research explores how a brand’s strength may affect the relative benefit to a brand from using individual versus group incentives for motivating its salespeople in BMR settings. The authors
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Mitigating soft and hard infrastructure deficiencies in emerging markets Journal of World Business (IF 8.635) Pub Date : 2024-04-11 Juan Bu, Alvaro Cuervo-Cazurra, Yadong Luo, Stephanie Lu Wang
This study examines the impact of soft and hard infrastructure deficiencies on foreign firms’ investments in emerging markets and firm strategies to mitigate such impact. infrastructure refers to intangible components such as institutions and regulations, while infrastructure encompasses tangible physical components like transportation, energy systems, and water supply. Drawing on resource dependence
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Regulatory distance and firms' environmental innovation: The role of environmental information disclosure and social trust Bus. Strategy Environ. (IF 13.4) Pub Date : 2024-04-10 Zhongju Liao, Mengnan Zhang
Environmental innovation is an important force driving the development of a green and low‐carbon economy, and close supervision can assist the government in guiding firms' environmental innovation behavior. Based on institutional theory, we construct a model of the relationship between regulatory distance, environmental information disclosure, social trust, and firms' environmental innovation. We analyze
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Corporate governance structure and climate‐related financial disclosure: Conventional banks versus Islamic banks Bus. Strategy Environ. (IF 13.4) Pub Date : 2024-04-10 Rasim Simsek, Sabur Mollah, Abongeh Tunyi
This paper examines whether the different corporate governance structures of conventional banks (CBs) and Islamic banks (IBs) have varying effects on their respective climate‐related disclosure (CRD). Employing a unique dataset of CBs and IBs' CRD and corporate governance structures for the period of 2016–2019, we found that their respective corporate governance structures did indeed affect their CRD
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Ecosystem Orchestration: Unpacking the Leadership Capabilities of Anchor Organizations in Nascent Entrepreneurial Ecosystems Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice (IF 10.5) Pub Date : 2024-04-10 Aki Harima, Jan Harima, Jörg Freiling
Although prior research emphasizes the essential role of anchor organizations’ leadership in entrepreneurial ecosystem development in the early stages, their strategic functions are undertheorized. This study conducted a single case study with the entrepreneurial ecosystem of Santiago de Chile as a revelatory case by examining how anchor organizations catalyze the early evolution of the entrepreneurial
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Mapping the signaling environment between sustainability-focused entrepreneurship and investment inputs: A topic modeling approach Bus. Strategy Environ. (IF 13.4) Pub Date : 2024-04-08 Nan Yang, Dimitrios Dousios, Nikolaos Korfiatis, Konstantinos Chalvatzis
The need for climate action has increased attention to sustainability-focused entrepreneurship. In this context, entrepreneurial firms play a fundamental role in developing high-technology solutions for decarbonization but face funding gaps due to the liabilities of newness and smallness. Despite the importance of signaling in entrepreneurship, little is known about what and how to effectively signal
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Do corporate sustainability practices mitigate earnings management? The moderating role of firm size Bus. Strategy Environ. (IF 13.4) Pub Date : 2024-04-08 Haseeb Ur Rahman, Muhammad Zahid, Parvez Alam Khan, Mamdouh Abdulaziz Saleh Al-Faryan, Khaled Hussainey
The majority of the prior empirical literature that inquired about the direct role of corporate sustainability practices (CSP) as a composite construct in mitigating earnings management (EM) has produced equivocal outcomes. Therefore, this study examines the role of CSP not only as a combined construct but also as its three separate dimensions—social, economic, and environmental sustainability in restricting
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Women green entrepreneurship: Conceptualisation and use of bricolage for policy recommendations Bus. Strategy Environ. (IF 13.4) Pub Date : 2024-04-08 Seema Potluri, Subramaniam Ananthram, Bollempalli Venkata Phani
In the context of global concerns such as environmental degradation and gender inequality, international and national agencies and academicians have recognised the curative potential of green entrepreneurship and women entrepreneurship. Furthering these concepts, this paper draws from extant literature on green entrepreneurship (GE) and women entrepreneurship and supplements it with ecofeminism (a
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Blockchain technology in circular economy: Unpacking the potential issues and critical echoes through data triangulation and natural language processing Bus. Strategy Environ. (IF 13.4) Pub Date : 2024-04-09 Santosh Kumar Shrivastav, Surajit Bag
This study aims to identify the current status, potential issues and critical echoes in the integration of blockchain within circular economy (CE) practices. This study utilizes multiple data sources and synthesizes 91 published articles, and over 11,182 social media documents. Word‐embedding‐based clustering technique is employed to derive topics and themes on the use of blockchain in CE. The result
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“I can't get it out of my mind” - Why, how, and when crisis rumination leads entrepreneurs to act and pivot during crises J. Bus. Venturing (IF 13.139) Pub Date : 2024-04-09 Bach Nguyen, Hai-Anh Tran, Ute Stephan, Ha Nguyen Van, Pham Thi Hoang Anh
Why do some entrepreneurs pivot their business models in a crisis, while others are more passive? Integrating Conservation of Resources theory with work on crisis rumination, we developed a micro-level model to explain why entrepreneurs who are under strain due to a crisis, as indicated by experiencing crisis rumination, adopt an active approach – i.e., using active coping and engaging in pivoting
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Business reporting of Sustainable Development Goals: Global trends and implications Bus. Strategy Environ. (IF 13.4) Pub Date : 2024-04-08 Chonlawan Thammaraksa, Caroline Herlev Gebara, Michael Zwicky Hauschild, Caroline Aggestam Pontoppidan, Alexis Laurent
With a reported insufficient progress toward achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), improving knowledge on the uptake and use of SDGs within the private sector is imperative. To address this need, we examine the SDG reporting characteristics of 8500 companies using a global business and governance database. Our results show no correlation in reporting specific goals, which could impede
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Sustainable business model innovation, dynamic capabilities, and organizational design: Insights from Norwegian aquaculture Bus. Strategy Environ. (IF 13.4) Pub Date : 2024-04-05 Matthew Coffay, Ragnar Tveterås, Nancy Bocken, Marcel Bogers
Firms must increasingly grapple with complex sustainability challenges. Business model innovation is needed to achieve radical sustainability improvements. Recent research highlights the interrelatedness between business model innovation, dynamic capabilities, and organizational design, calling for empirical work to better illuminate these relationships. These connections are relevant in sustainability
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Pairing up with anthropomorphized artificial agents: Leveraging employee creativity in service encounters J. Acad. Mark. Sci. (IF 18.2) Pub Date : 2024-04-04 Lexie Lan Huang, Rocky Peng Chen, Kimmy Wa Chan
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The gendered effect of populism on innovation J. Bus. Venturing (IF 13.139) Pub Date : 2024-04-04 Jintong Tang, Wenping Ye, Mingzhi Hu, Stephen X. Zhang, Shaji A. Khan
This research addresses the impact of the remarkable rise in populism on innovative new ventures. Integrating institutional theory with gender role congruity theory, we reason that the surge of populist discourse by a nation's top political leaders decreases the innovativeness of new ventures, and this negative relationship is more pronounced for women entrepreneurs. We also consider two critical yet