Identifying Corporate Innovative Sustainability Strategies in Consultancy Reports: A Systematic (Grey) Literature Review

IF 12.5 1区管理学 Q1 BUSINESS

Business Strategy and The Environment Pub Date : 2025-05-01 DOI:10.1002/bse.4323

Robin Strueber, Dev K. (Roshan) Boojihawon, John R. Bryson

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Abstract

Decarbonisation requires firms to rethink and redefine growth, informed by strong sustainability principles. Management consultants are important enablers for clients to strategically manage resource constraints, given their limited capabilities in this transition. Consultancy institutional logics play an important role in inducing new knowledge cooperative processes in consultant and client cognitive structures. This paper systematically reviews client‐facing reports generated during this process to identify emerging sustainability strategy issues and future theoretical applications. This is a novel way to apply a systematic literature review (SLR) to identify tacit knowledge outcomes in meta‐consulting knowledge creation pathways. The findings indicate that accessing consultancy institutional logic provides firms with intellectual resources to organise sustainability into manageable challenges to address legislative and competitive demands. A knowledge exchange gap between academia and the consulting industry is identified, and a framework is developed for practice‐oriented sustainability research by expanding the existing research on knowledge exchange loops between management and external knowledge providers.

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在咨询报告中识别企业创新可持续发展战略：系统（灰色）文献综述

脱碳要求企业根据强有力的可持续性原则重新思考和重新定义增长。管理顾问是客户战略性地管理资源约束的重要推动者，因为他们在这一转变中的能力有限。咨询制度逻辑在诱导咨询师和客户认知结构中的新知识合作过程中起着重要作用。本文系统地回顾了在此过程中产生的面向客户的报告，以确定新兴的可持续发展战略问题和未来的理论应用。这是一种应用系统文献综述（SLR）来识别元咨询知识创造途径中的隐性知识结果的新方法。研究结果表明，获取咨询机构的制度逻辑为企业提供了智力资源，将可持续性组织成可管理的挑战，以应对立法和竞争需求。本文确定了学术界与咨询业之间的知识交换差距，并通过扩展现有的关于管理层与外部知识提供者之间的知识交换循环的研究，为实践导向的可持续性研究开发了一个框架。

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Business Strategy and The Environment Multiple-

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22.50

自引率

19.40%

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336

期刊介绍： Business Strategy and the Environment (BSE) is a leading academic journal focused on business strategies for improving the natural environment. It publishes peer-reviewed research on various topics such as systems and standards, environmental performance, disclosure, eco-innovation, corporate environmental management tools, organizations and management, supply chains, circular economy, governance, green finance, industry sectors, and responses to climate change and other contemporary environmental issues. The journal aims to provide original contributions that enhance the understanding of sustainability in business. Its target audience includes academics, practitioners, business managers, and consultants. However, BSE does not accept papers on corporate social responsibility (CSR), as this topic is covered by its sibling journal Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management. The journal is indexed in several databases and collections such as ABI/INFORM Collection, Agricultural & Environmental Science Database, BIOBASE, Emerald Management Reviews, GeoArchive, Environment Index, GEOBASE, INSPEC, Technology Collection, and Web of Science.