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Cleantech incubators within the sustainable entrepreneurial ecosystem: Fundraising sources, income generation strategies, and the role of public support 可持续创业生态系统中的清洁技术孵化器：资金来源、创收战略和公共支持的作用

Strategic Change Pub Date : 2024-07-26 DOI: 10.1002/jsc.2598

Yannis Pierrakis, Anna Ivanova, Rahul Chawdhary

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Toward a more complete understanding of institutional logic configuration in an merger project 更全面地了解合并项目中的机构逻辑配置

Strategic Change Pub Date : 2024-07-15 DOI: 10.1002/jsc.2597

Anne‐Sophie Thelisson

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The influence of ESG score on financial performance: Evidence from the European health care industry 环境、社会和公司治理得分对财务业绩的影响：欧洲医疗保健行业的证据

Strategic Change Pub Date : 2024-06-03 DOI: 10.1002/jsc.2594

P. Candio

{"title":"The influence of ESG score on financial performance: Evidence from the European health care industry","authors":"P. Candio","doi":"10.1002/jsc.2594","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/jsc.2594","url":null,"abstract":"Company managers are increasingly recognizing that sustainable practices are not just ethical imperatives but potential drivers of long‐term value. To determine the degree to which this is grounded in business reality, a growing body of empirical studies have examined whether higher environmental, social, and governance (ESG) performance predicts better financial performance. However, conflicting findings have emerged, with reviews highlighting the role that methodological choices, normative setting, and industry can play in moderating that relationship. Unlike other industries, health care has been the focus of only a handful of heterogeneous quantitative studies. To contribute to this evidence base for the European context, the present study comprehensively examined whether and how ESG score can influence both accounting‐ and market‐based measures of financial performance. Company data from the top health care companies listed in the STOXX 600 Index over the last decade (2012–2022) were gathered and analyzed. The analysis results confirmed that a marked heterogeneity of effects across the different ESG scores and measures of financial performance exists, which is not merely due to differences in empirical strategy, with modest positive effects being estimated in most cases. Of the three pillars, the governance score consistently predicted more positive financial performance among the sample of listed European companies. The environmental pillar score only influenced accounting‐based measures, though inconsistently, whereas the social pillar did not seem to have any predicting role for accounting‐based measures. Future research should consider replicating the proposed analytical framework in other data settings and normative contexts to strengthen the current evidence base and therefore deepen our understanding of the mechanisms underlying the investigated relationships in the health care industry.","PeriodicalId":503460,"journal":{"name":"Strategic Change","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141269339","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}

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Addressing the climate–finance interaction in a new light: From green to brown assets disclosure in the banking industry 从新的角度看待气候与金融的相互作用：银行业从披露绿色资产到褐色资产

Strategic Change Pub Date : 2024-06-03 DOI: 10.1002/jsc.2593

Francesc Relaño, E. Paulet, H. Mavoori

{"title":"Addressing the climate–finance interaction in a new light: From green to brown assets disclosure in the banking industry","authors":"Francesc Relaño, E. Paulet, H. Mavoori","doi":"10.1002/jsc.2593","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/jsc.2593","url":null,"abstract":"This paper explores the contribution of the banking industry to the decarbonization of the economy in the aftermath of the Paris Agreement. To this end, two complementary indicators are proposed: a carbon balance and a fossil fuel to equity ratio. The main novelty of these indicators is that, beyond traditional approaches in green finance, they take into account the parallel endeavor of banks in fossil fuel financing (so‐called “brown assets”). The results of the inquiry are presented in various maps and graphs. Both elements show that the bank‐induced process of decarbonization is lagging behind that of other industries, which creates a significant risk of financial instability. Changing this banking behavior necessarily involves a climate‐driven reform of the prudential rules on capital requirements; however, given the magnitude of the problem, this might not be enough. Nor is it the most urgent concern. Above all, what this paper makes clear is that the appropriate measurement and disclosure of financed emissions (both “green” and “brown”) is the first crucial step for the correct assessment of climate‐related risk and forms the basis for subsequent policy action.","PeriodicalId":503460,"journal":{"name":"Strategic Change","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141268631","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}

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World‐makers and social justice: Strategies of (in)action? 世界缔造者与社会正义：行动（不）战略？

Strategic Change Pub Date : 2024-05-24 DOI: 10.1002/jsc.2591

Victoria Pagan, Susan Kirk

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Crowdfunding's impact on small business performance through exploitative and exploratory search strategies: An entrepreneurial resourcefulness perspective 众筹通过开发性和探索性搜索策略对小企业绩效的影响：创业资源丰富性视角

Strategic Change Pub Date : 2024-05-09 DOI: 10.1002/jsc.2584

C. Sarfo, Jing A. Zhang, Paula O’Kane, Conor O’Kane

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Substantial innovation or strategic innovation? The impact of government venture capital guidance funds on corporate innovation 实质性创新还是战略性创新？政府风险投资引导基金对企业创新的影响

Strategic Change Pub Date : 2024-05-07 DOI: 10.1002/jsc.2583

F. Saci, Mohamad Ahmad

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Cognitive profiles of strategic decision‐makers: Implications for exploration–exploitation strategies 战略决策者的认知特征：探索-开发战略的含义

Strategic Change Pub Date : 2024-04-17 DOI: 10.1002/jsc.2578

Goran Vlašić, Marina Dabić, Zoran Krupka

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The utility of performance review systems: A total quality management perspective 绩效考核制度的效用：全面质量管理视角

Strategic Change Pub Date : 2024-03-26 DOI: 10.1002/jsc.2580

Ying-ying Liao, Ebrahim Soltani, Abdullah Iqbal, R. van der Meer

{"title":"The utility of performance review systems: A total quality management perspective","authors":"Ying-ying Liao, Ebrahim Soltani, Abdullah Iqbal, R. van der Meer","doi":"10.1002/jsc.2580","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/jsc.2580","url":null,"abstract":"Scholars and practitioners alike have argued that performance review is prone to destructive effects and negative outcomes in progressive work organizations with a total quality management (TQM) orientation. Despite its pervasive use and significant consequences at individual, team, and organizational levels across contemporary workplaces, it has remained inadequately explored for its current operational systems and their role in helping employees achieve job mastery and enabling organizations to attain desired quality outcomes. To address this lacuna, this study aims to explore how performance review systems can align with continuous quality improvement in contemporary workplaces that espouse a culture of continuous learning and quality improvement. Given the exploratory and broad scope of the research, it adopts a multiple case study design which offers benefits both in terms of process and outcomes. The findings are indicative of two different performance review systems with very different implications for managing employees and achieving quality outcomes in line with TQM: tactical system with a focus on employee obedience to rigid top‐down control system for achieving conformance quality measures, and a dynamic system with a focus on employee ownership of the quality process for achieving desired quality.","PeriodicalId":503460,"journal":{"name":"Strategic Change","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140378631","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}

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Confucian Culture and Enterprise Strategic Change from a Perspective of the Golden Mean Ethics 金庸伦理视角下的儒家文化与企业战略变革

Strategic Change Pub Date : 2024-03-22 DOI: 10.1002/jsc.2581

Chao Li, Meng Huo, Yushi Jiang, Renhuai Liu

{"title":"Confucian Culture and Enterprise Strategic Change from a Perspective of the Golden Mean Ethics","authors":"Chao Li, Meng Huo, Yushi Jiang, Renhuai Liu","doi":"10.1002/jsc.2581","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/jsc.2581","url":null,"abstract":"As an important informal system, the impact of Confucian culture on enterprise strategic change decision‐making and economic and social development is often ignored. By using the OLS method and drawing from publicly listed companies on China's Shanghai and Shenzhen stock markets from 2002 to 2020 as research samples, this article empirically analyzes the relationship between Confucian culture and enterprise strategic change from the perspective of the “golden mean” ethics (a Confucian moral standard and philosophy of conduct). The article also attends to the moderating effects of foreign culture shock and stock rights between the relationship of Confucian culture and enterprise strategic change. A key finding is that the ethical thought of “golden mean” and “harmony” contained in Confucian culture has an inhibitory effect on the initiation of enterprise strategic change. Foreign culture shock positively moderates the relationship between Confucian culture and enterprise strategic change. When “shocked” by dominant foreign cultures, the negative impact of Confucian culture on enterprise strategic change will be weakened. Moreover, unlike previous research findings based on agency theory that suggests how state ownership may retard corporate development, the authors found that in an informal institutional environment with a strong Confucian culture, stock rights can play a positive moderating role in the relationship between Confucian culture and enterprise strategic change. When an enterprise is state‐owned, the inhibitory effect of Confucian culture on enterprise strategic change will be weakened further.","PeriodicalId":503460,"journal":{"name":"Strategic Change","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140216575","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}

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