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{"title":"Circular Economy and Supply Chain Performance Under Geopolitical Tensions: The Roles of Recycling Efficiency and Logistics Infrastructure Capability","authors":"Sohail Tariq,&nbsp;Shahzad Ahmed Khan,&nbsp;Asad Javed,&nbsp;Adil Zareef Khan,&nbsp;Fahad Al Otaibi","doi":"10.1002/bsd2.70429","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/bsd2.70429","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>This study analyzed the effects of circular economy practices, resource self-sufficiency capability, and organizational resilience capability on supply chain distribution performance in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) region amid geopolitical tensions. The escalating geopolitical uncertainty, trade restrictions, and disrupted supply chains have illustrated the vulnerability of global supply chains, compelling organizations to implement measures that improve resource efficiency, resiliency, and sustainability over the long term. A quantitative cross-sectional survey was used in manufacturing and logistics firms, and data were collected from 320 manufacturing experts, supply chain managers, logistics experts, policy advisors, and sustainability officers across all six GCC countries. Smart PLS used partial least squares structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM) to analyze the data, including measurement model evaluation to assess reliability and validity and structural model evaluation to assess the effects of direct, mediating, and moderating variables. With the aid of dynamic capability theory and closed-loop supply chain theory, this study has come up with a synthesized model to describe the role of internal capabilities and circular practices in enhancing the outcomes of distribution. The study hypothesizes that recycling efficiency is a mediating factor that converts circular economy initiatives into actual operational advantages in terms of better material recovery, less reliance on external resources, and more predictable input flows. Moreover, logistics infrastructure capability is studied as a moderating factor reinforcing the relationship between recycling efficiency and distribution performance by making it able to revive efficient product returns, recovery, and reintegration processes. Based on empirical research data of companies that are working in GCC supply chains, the analysis aims to inform how companies can improve distribution efficiency and resilience and promote circular economy goals in a geopolitically uncertain context.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":36531,"journal":{"name":"Business Strategy and Development","volume":"9 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.7,"publicationDate":"2026-10-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149146086","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Perceived Equity: An Underlying Mechanism Between Sustainability Strategies Adopted by Businesses and Farmers' Well-Being in Agri-Food Value Chains","authors":"Javier G. Montoya-Zumaeta,&nbsp;Samuel Bruelisauer,&nbsp;Christoph Oberlack","doi":"10.1002/bsd2.70430","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/bsd2.70430","url":null,"abstract":"<p>To promote the well-being of farmers, businesses across coffee, cocoa, and other agri-food value chains are increasingly adopting sustainability strategies that go beyond classical certification schemes. Key strategies include corporate sustainability programs, social entrepreneurship, and farmer self-organization in cooperatives. However, the links between these strategies and farmer well-being vary considerably—and the mechanisms explaining these variations remain insufficiently understood, especially those operating in upstream links of agri-food chains. This paper investigates how perceived equity in farmer–buyer first-mile relationships and farmers' access to extension services differ across sustainability strategies, and to what extent these mechanisms explain well-being differences across Peruvian coffee and cocoa farmers. We rely on descriptive and multivariate statistical analyses performed on a cross-sectional dataset that compiles information on 623 farmers across three production areas. Our results demonstrate that equity as perceived by farmers from their first-mile relationships plays a greater role in explaining well-being differences than access to extension services. These well-being connections vary across demographic groups, decreasing significantly for older and female farmer groups. Furthermore, farmers engaged in social enterprises are more likely to report higher levels of perceived equity compared to those affiliated with corporate sustainability programs or cooperatives. Despite the correlational design of this analysis, its results unveil important implications for business practices: while extension services are relatively standard across all examined strategies, practices aimed at strengthening perceived equity are currently not. Discussing these findings, we examine the challenges of scaling up perceived equity through social enterprises.</p>","PeriodicalId":36531,"journal":{"name":"Business Strategy and Development","volume":"9 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.7,"publicationDate":"2026-10-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/bsd2.70430","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149146376","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Transparency-Capability Dilemma: Configuring Stakeholder-Engagement to Overcome Scope-3 Inertia in Net-Zero Supply Chains","authors":"Priyanka Kaushal,&nbsp;Shirish Sangle,&nbsp;Vidyadhar V. Gedam","doi":"10.1002/bsd2.70431","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/bsd2.70431","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Scope-3 decarbonisation is central to a credible net-zero strategy. However, firms face a difficult transparency-capability dilemma. They are under immense pressure to disclose supply chain emissions, while the collaborative capabilities needed to act are slow-building, relational, and unevenly distributed across supplier systems. This paper explains how firms can configure stakeholder engagement so that Scope-3 transparency supports collaborative decarbonisation rather than becoming a source of unmanaged exposure. Drawing on a structured conceptual review and interpretive synthesis, we develop a stakeholder engagement architecture comprising carbon-intelligence sourcing, collaborative carbon co-design, and carbon-governance commons. It theorises these as interdependent engagement configurations, explaining how supplier emission information becomes decision-useful carbon intelligence, how such intelligence supports collaborative implementation with suppliers, and how repeated collaboration can be stabilised through accountable governance. The paper develops propositions, diagnostic configurations, and boundary conditions explaining why Scope-3 engagement may become substantively coupled, weakly coupled, or symbolically claimed.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":36531,"journal":{"name":"Business Strategy and Development","volume":"9 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.7,"publicationDate":"2026-10-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149146224","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"From Green Skills to Sustainable Business Development: The Role of Vocational Education, Green Business Strategy and Environmental Innovation","authors":"Tran Van Khoi,&nbsp;Pham Xuan Khanh","doi":"10.1002/bsd2.70420","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/bsd2.70420","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Sustainable business development (SBD) has been the global requirement due to uncertainty of economic and environmental conditions around the globe. Thus, the present article investigates the green business strategies and environmental innovation role of the green dynamic capabilities (DC) and SBD in plastic waste recycling companies in Vietnam. The study also examines the mediating role of green DC among green business strategies, environmental innovation, and SBD as well as investigates the moderating role of vocational education among green business strategies, environmental innovation, and green DC. The study selected the employees of the waste recycling companies in Vietnam and collected the data from the respondents using survey questionnaires. The study also checks the data reliability using the measurement model and association among variables using the structural model through smart-PLS. The outcomes revealed that the green business strategies and environmental innovation have a positive association with green DC and SBD. The results also exposed that the green DC significantly mediates among green business strategies, environmental innovation, and SBD and that vocational education significantly moderates among green business strategies, environmental innovation, and green DC. The policymakers could get guidance from the study regarding the development of new policies related to enhancing the SBD.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":36531,"journal":{"name":"Business Strategy and Development","volume":"9 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.7,"publicationDate":"2026-10-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149145654","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Digital Transformation, Carbon Disclosure and Firm Performance: The Moderating Role of Green Innovation in European Listed Firms","authors":"Imen Khelil,&nbsp;Kaies Samet,&nbsp;Anis El Ammari","doi":"10.1002/bsd2.70428","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/bsd2.70428","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>In the context of accelerating digital and sustainability transitions, firms increasingly face the strategic challenge of simultaneously enhancing technological capabilities and environmental transparency. This study examines the associations of digital transformation and carbon disclosure with firm performance and investigates whether green innovation moderates these relationships in European listed firms. Using a panel dataset of 510 non-financial firms from the STOXX Europe 600 over the period 2015–2023, the study employs dynamic system GMM estimations complemented by extensive robustness analyses, including winsorized regressions, quantile regressions, nonlinear specifications, sub-sample analyses, cross-sectional dependence corrections, and alternative specifications. The findings reveal that digital transformation and carbon disclosure are positively associated with firm performance. The results further indicate that green innovation significantly strengthens these relationships, suggesting that environmentally oriented innovation capabilities enhance the value creation potential of digital and sustainability strategies. Additional evidence shows that the positive effects of digital transformation and carbon disclosure are more pronounced at higher levels of digital transformation, in carbon-intensive industries, and among firms in upper-performance quantiles. This study contributes to the emerging literature on digital sustainability by integrating digital transformation, carbon disclosure, and green innovation into a unified empirical framework. The findings highlight the strategic complementarities between technological and environmental capabilities and provide important implications for managers and policymakers seeking to align digital transition objectives with sustainable business development and long-term value creation.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":36531,"journal":{"name":"Business Strategy and Development","volume":"9 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.7,"publicationDate":"2026-10-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149145588","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Enablers of Green Logistics Adoption in Developing Versus Emerging Economies: An Integrated PLS-SEM and fsQCA Analysis","authors":"Mohit Gundwal,&nbsp;Nagendra Kumar Sharma,&nbsp;Vimal Kumar","doi":"10.1002/bsd2.70413","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/bsd2.70413","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Decarbonising freight transport and warehousing is now central to national climate commitments, yet the firm-level enablers that move green logistics from intention to reported performance remain unevenly understood across economic contexts. This study examines how seven enabler constructs influence green logistics performance and whether their effects and configurations differ between developing and emerging economies. Drawing on a survey of 220 logistics and supply chain managers in India and China, the study applies partial least squares structural equation modelling (PLS-SEM) with multi-group analysis (MGA) to estimate net effects, complemented by fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis (fsQCA) to surface equifinal configurations. The seven enabler constructs were operationalised by inverting the empirically validated barrier dimensions established in a companion Total Interpretive Structural Modelling (TISM) study, a grounding that the authors argue strengthens construct validity. Top management commitment and green supply chain integration emerge as the proximate drivers of performance, while knowledge and skill readiness unlock digital infrastructure readiness. MGA reveals that the digital-integration path is significantly stronger in emerging economies, whereas the regulatory-to-management path is stronger in developing economies. Endogeneity checks and comparisons against reversed specifications support the modelled directions. fsQCA identifies three sufficient configurations in developing economies and two in emerging economies, all built on a shared core of integration and managerial commitment, and demonstrates that no single enabler is necessary. The configurations diverge in what completes that core, with eased cost constraints and regulatory obligation forming substitutable routes in developing economies and cost ceasing to discriminate in emerging ones. By integrating a symmetric variance-based method with an asymmetric configurational method across two economy types, and by grounding the enabler set in a prior structural model of barriers, the study offers a context-sensitive account of how green logistics performance is achieved and provides differentiated guidance for policymakers and managers.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":36531,"journal":{"name":"Business Strategy and Development","volume":"9 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.7,"publicationDate":"2026-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149145707","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Artificial Intelligence and Green Business Performance: Novel Insights From Saudi Arabia's Manufacturing Sector","authors":"Sidley Madelein Acosta Escobar,&nbsp;Desmond Bayong,&nbsp;Ummar Faruk Saeed","doi":"10.1002/bsd2.70426","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/bsd2.70426","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>This study examines how artificial intelligence (AI), information and communication technologies (ICT), and sustainability innovation (SI) influence green business performance (GBP) in Saudi Arabia's manufacturing sector using panel data from 440 firms between 2017 and 2024. The research further evaluates the mediating role of sustainable supply chain (SSC) practices and the moderating effect of institutional quality (IQ) in shaping environmental performance. The study's core identification strategy relies on the System generalized method of moments (System GMM) estimator to address endogeneity, unobserved heterogeneity, and dynamic relationships within the panel data framework. The empirical results indicate that AI adoption, ICT investment, and sustainability innovation significantly improve green business performance among manufacturing firms. In addition, sustainable supply chain practices serve as a key mechanism through which digital technologies translate into improved environmental outcomes. The findings also show that stronger institutional quality, particularly regulatory effectiveness, governance standards, and transparency amplify the positive effects of technological adoption on sustainability performance. This study contributes to the growing literature on digital transformation and environmental sustainability in emerging economies by integrating technological capabilities, governance structures, and supply chain sustainability into a unified empirical framework. The results provide policy-relevant insights for governments and industry stakeholders seeking to accelerate sustainable industrial development and support Saudi Arabia's Vision 2030 sustainability agenda.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":36531,"journal":{"name":"Business Strategy and Development","volume":"9 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.7,"publicationDate":"2026-09-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149072688","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Supply Chain Governance and Labour Exploitation Risks: Sustainability Certification, Responsible Labour Practices and Buyer Pressure in Vietnam's Coffee Industry","authors":"Erkan Duzgun,&nbsp;Anh Thi Yen Trinh","doi":"10.1002/bsd2.70422","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/bsd2.70422","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>This study examines how external and internal supply chain governance mechanisms shape firms' responses to labour exploitation risks in Vietnam's coffee supply chains. Using survey data from 405 individuals involved in the sector and Partial Least Squares Structural Equation Modelling (PLS-SEM), the study finds that sustainability certification is negatively associated with responsible labour practices but has no significant direct association with labour exploitation risk or worker well-being. In contrast, global buyer pressure positively strengthens responsible labour practices, which subsequently improve worker well-being. Responsible labour practices and worker well-being are also positively associated with reported exploitation-related indicators. Rather than indicating higher exploitation prevalence, this finding suggests that stronger internal governance may improve the visibility and detection of previously hidden vulnerabilities. The results further show that sustainability certification can influence labour outcomes indirectly through responsible labour practices and worker well-being, indicating that certification alone is insufficient to generate substantive social improvements. The study therefore challenges compliance-centred approaches to supply chain governance and highlights the importance of organisational capabilities and buyer–supplier relationships in translating external sustainability requirements into effective labour protections. The findings contribute to research on responsible business and sustainable supply chain governance in emerging markets and provide implications for ethical recruitment, worker protection, responsible sourcing and Sustainable Development Goal 8.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":36531,"journal":{"name":"Business Strategy and Development","volume":"9 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.7,"publicationDate":"2026-09-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149072576","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Correction to “ESG Performance and Financial Stability: The Moderating Role of Gender Diversity in MENA Banks”","authors":"","doi":"10.1002/bsd2.70424","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/bsd2.70424","url":null,"abstract":"<p>\u0000 <span>Khemiri, M.</span>, <span>M. Baccouri</span>, <span>N. Badwan</span>, and <span>R. Darwazeh</span>. <span>2026</span>. “ <span>ESG Performance and Financial Stability: The Moderating Role of Gender Diversity in MENA Banks</span>.” <i>Business Strategy &amp; Development</i> <span>9</span>, no. <span>3</span>: e70411. https://doi.org/10.1002/bsd2.70411.\u0000 </p><p>The first author's name was updated to “Mohamed Ali Khemiri.”</p><p>The online version of this article has been corrected accordingly.</p><p>We apologize for this error.</p>","PeriodicalId":36531,"journal":{"name":"Business Strategy and Development","volume":"9 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.7,"publicationDate":"2026-09-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/bsd2.70424","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149072664","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Board Gender Diversity and ESG Performance: A Systematic Literature Review and Meta-Analysis","authors":"Sattar Khan,&nbsp;Muhammad Sualeh Khattak,&nbsp;Yasir Aziz","doi":"10.1002/bsd2.70425","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/bsd2.70425","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>The relationship between board gender diversity (BGD) and environmental, social, and governance (ESG) performance remains inconclusive, yielding conflicting paradoxes and unresolved theoretical tensions. To address this theoretical and empirical vagueness, this study provides a comprehensive synthesis of the BGD and ESG performance nexus across aggregate and its pillar-level dimensions. Utilizing a rigorous, dual-methodological approach, following the PRISMA protocol, this research study analyzed 75 peer-reviewed articles for systematic literature review (SLR) and 35 empirical studies for meta-analysis, all retrieved from the Scopus database covering 2018 to 2025. The results confirm a robust positive association between BGD and aggregate ESG performance along with its pillars. Critically, the meta-analysis reveals significant heterogeneity across the studies, which suggests that this relationship is contingent upon contextual and methodological preferences. To the best of the authors' knowledge, this research study is the first of its kind to investigate the impact of BGD on ESG performance by uniquely integrating meta-analysis and SLR evidence. Ultimately, this study reconciles conflicting findings in corporate governance literature and reports that BGD functions as an effective corporate governance mechanism translating into quantifiable sustainability outcomes.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":36531,"journal":{"name":"Business Strategy and Development","volume":"9 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.7,"publicationDate":"2026-09-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149072690","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}