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{"title":"Towards agri-food industry sustainability: Addressing agricultural technology adoption challenges through innovation","authors":"Ajjaree Limpamont,&nbsp;Pichawadee Kittipanya-ngam,&nbsp;Nopparuj Chindasombatcharoen,&nbsp;Harry Jay M. Cavite","doi":"10.1002/bse.3871","DOIUrl":"10.1002/bse.3871","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Agriculture is a key economic driver but also a significant contributor to environmental challenges. Despite promotion, uptake of agricultural technologies remains low due to various challenges. This study explores challenges and solutions in the adoption of agricultural technology in Thailand, emphasising its positive impact on agri-food sector sustainability. We developed a conceptual framework based on technology adoption literature review. Employing multiple case studies, our research uncovers challenges not only at the farmer level but also within the agricultural ecosystem level. Addressing these challenges requires comprehensive changes in physical, digital, and legal infrastructure. Solutions include reshaping farmer mindsets and enhancing awareness of technology benefits. Despite limitations to the agri-food industry in Thailand, the study offers valuable insights for technology providers and policymakers, contributing to the literature on technology adoption by smallholder farmers. Our findings emphasise the need for sustainability strategies in the agri-food sector through greater technology uptake to enhance environmental sustainability.</p>","PeriodicalId":9518,"journal":{"name":"Business Strategy and The Environment","volume":"33 7","pages":"7352-7367"},"PeriodicalIF":12.5,"publicationDate":"2024-07-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141584246","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Exploring the interplay between intellectual property models and sustainability transitions: A multi-level analysis","authors":"Akriti Jain,&nbsp;Anjula Gurtoo,&nbsp;Elizabeth Eppinger,&nbsp;Pratheeba Vimalnath,&nbsp;Frank Tietze","doi":"10.1002/bse.3851","DOIUrl":"10.1002/bse.3851","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Research on international technology transfer and partnership agreements provides a comprehensive understanding of country-level impacts of intellectual property (IP) rights on sustainability transitions. However, firm-level studies on how firms use and share their IP to support sustainability practices remains limited. The paper disentangles the relationship between firm-level IP models and sustainability practices drawing from a cross-case analysis of 28 firms offering sustainable innovations across four sectors. Analysis of firms' year-wise data collected from 854 documents (typically 1996–2021) and 58 in-depth interviews exploring linkage between IP models and sustainability practices of firms engaged in sustainable innovation provide six key findings: (a) emphasis on safeguarding registered and unregistered IP assets among firms with sustainable innovations; (b) widespread adoption of selectively open inbound IP models coupled with diverse IP sharing mechanisms; (c) a preference for collaborative (joint) IP ownership among internally driven firms, contrasting with a tendency for exclusive in-licensing among those reacting to external pressures; (d) a divergence in outbound IP models, with internally motivated firms favouring selectively open approaches and externally driven firms favouring closed IP models; (e) the adoption of fully open outbound IP models democratize sustainable innovation diffusion; and (f) leveraging broadly open outbound IP models alongside closed or selectively open models balances widespread use with access control and achieves significant social sustainability. A framework is hence developed to guide technology-sharing policies and procedures. Therefore, the paper creates a platform for prescribing sustainable IP incentives for encouraging firms to share IP for wider diffusion of sustainable innovations.</p>","PeriodicalId":9518,"journal":{"name":"Business Strategy and The Environment","volume":"33 7","pages":"7321-7351"},"PeriodicalIF":12.5,"publicationDate":"2024-07-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141566151","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Exploring coopetition and value-based networks in business models for sustainability—A case study of the specialty coffee industry in Colombia","authors":"Angélica Rodríguez,&nbsp;Henar Alcalde-Heras,&nbsp;Edurne A. Iñigo","doi":"10.1002/bse.3878","DOIUrl":"10.1002/bse.3878","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Drawing on coopetition-based and values-based business model networks, we explore competitors' coevolutionary interactions to drive sustainability. Using a specialty coffee industry case study in Colombia, we propose an analytical framework for collaboration, leveraging resources to transform neglected industry values. We apply the congruence analysis method to compare theoretical expectations with empirical findings, providing rigorous evidence. Our study reveals that developing values-based networks through coopetition allows collective problem resolution and offers new opportunities for value creation. This research contributes to coopetition and values-based network theories, emphasizing practical implications for sustainability-focused business models. By highlighting competitor collaboration intricacies, our study enhances our understanding of the dynamics of local markets.</p>","PeriodicalId":9518,"journal":{"name":"Business Strategy and The Environment","volume":"33 7","pages":"7305-7320"},"PeriodicalIF":12.5,"publicationDate":"2024-07-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/bse.3878","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141561184","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Transition policy mixes and business model adaptation: Incumbent firms' response to zero-carbon policy in the housing sector","authors":"Mina Rezaeian,&nbsp;Jonatan Pinkse,&nbsp;John Rigby","doi":"10.1002/bse.3870","DOIUrl":"10.1002/bse.3870","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This paper provides a firm-level perspective on sustainability transitions by analysing how government can use transition policy mixes to entice industry incumbents to adapt their business model to integrate sustainable technologies. It examines firm-level barriers to policy implementation, why these exist, and how government can use transition policy mixes to overcome them. The empirical analysis provides an in-depth case study of the UK Zero Carbon Homes (ZCH) as a transition policy mix and considers the point of view of policymakers and incumbent housebuilders. The paper sheds light on the question of how transition policy mix designs can support incumbents' business model adaptation to bring about transformational change for sustainability. The results show that the interaction between various policy shortcomings and business model adaptation barriers led to a failure of government to move the housebuilding sector towards a stronger integration of sustainable technologies. The paper concludes by arguing that decarbonising housing in the UK was a system failure, rather than a market or policy failure, as the government failed to address the underlying reasons of incumbents' resistance to changing their business model. The findings suggest that taking incumbents' business models into consideration while designing policies for sustainability transitions is necessary to entice established firms to actively take part in the process of transitions and adapt to new sustainable norms.</p>","PeriodicalId":9518,"journal":{"name":"Business Strategy and The Environment","volume":"33 7","pages":"7287-7304"},"PeriodicalIF":12.5,"publicationDate":"2024-07-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/bse.3870","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141561298","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Eco-centric success: Stakeholder approaches to sustainable performance via green improvisation behavior and environmental orientation in the hotel industry","authors":"Syed Hussain Murtaza,&nbsp;Adnan Khan,&nbsp;Syed Muhammad Mustafa","doi":"10.1002/bse.3860","DOIUrl":"10.1002/bse.3860","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This study delves into the relationship between green improvisational behavior (GIB), environmental orientation (EO), a green creative climate (GCC), and how they influence the environmental (EP) and social performance (SP) in the hotel industry. Through the perspective of stakeholder theory, the study examines how these factors work together to cultivate an atmosphere. The data was carefully collected through surveys at Pearl Continental Hotels &amp; Resorts branches, a known chain of luxury hotels in Pakistan. Using Structural Equation Modeling for analysis, the study reveals insights for the hospitality industry in promoting a culture that encourages innovative and sustainable practices through environmentally friendly actions. By understanding what drives the development of an environment, hotels can create an organizational culture that supports eco-friendly initiatives. Additionally, this research contributes to existing knowledge by investigating the role of focus in effectively implementing and utilizing practices that promote a green creative climate for improved environmental and social performance within the hotel industry. The results provide implications for practices within hotels and offer theoretical perspectives on the factors driving sustainability efforts in this sector.</p>","PeriodicalId":9518,"journal":{"name":"Business Strategy and The Environment","volume":"33 7","pages":"7273-7286"},"PeriodicalIF":12.5,"publicationDate":"2024-07-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141553333","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Climate reporting in the fast lane? The impact of corporate governance on the disclosure of climate-related risks and opportunities","authors":"Maria Gebhardt,&nbsp;Anne Schneider,&nbsp;Florian Siedler,&nbsp;Philipp Ottenstein,&nbsp;Henning Zülch","doi":"10.1002/bse.3852","DOIUrl":"10.1002/bse.3852","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Climate-related issues have become increasingly relevant, as reflected in current political and academic discourse. This development is also reflected in investors' capital allocation decisions and their demand for climate-related information. Considering the recommendations of the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD), we first investigate the climate-related disclosure quality of listed German firms. We use self-constructed scoring models based on the TCFD recommendations to measure disclosure quality. Second, we use regression analysis to investigate whether corporate governance can explain climate-related disclosure quality. The results indicate that disclosure quality is heavily dispersed across firms, with risk disclosure being better than disclosure of opportunities. Corporate governance factors exert distinct but mostly weak influence on climate-related disclosure quality and that institutional ownership promotes climate-related disclosure quality. We show several implications for research and practice and highlight the relevance for firms to implement a comprehensive approach to communicating climate-related issues.</p>","PeriodicalId":9518,"journal":{"name":"Business Strategy and The Environment","volume":"33 7","pages":"7253-7272"},"PeriodicalIF":12.5,"publicationDate":"2024-07-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/bse.3852","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141545949","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Sustainability reporting in carbon-intensive industries: Insights from a cross-sector machine learning approach","authors":"Edoardo Crocco,&nbsp;Laura Broccardo,&nbsp;Hind Alofaysan,&nbsp;Reeti Agarwal","doi":"10.1002/bse.3850","DOIUrl":"10.1002/bse.3850","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Due to climate change concerns, academics and practitioners focus more on environmental management and sustainability. Accounting researchers have focused on corporate environmental disclosure and sustainability reporting in response to stakeholder demand for openness and accountability. Thus, scholarly studies on sustainability reporting have gained momentum with the frequent use of qualitative text analysis to assess company disclosures' completeness and quality. However, sustainability reporting research has major limitations wherein past studies have focused on certain sectors or qualitative content analysis. Coherently with the abovementioned gap, our study intends to examine sustainability reports of companies in agriculture, conventional energy, heavy industry and manufacturing, transport and automotive, and construction, the highly carbon-intensive industries most vulnerable to physical climate damage and net-zero transition risk. In doing so, the goal of the present research is to investigate sustainability reporting practice on a larger, cross-sectoral scale by using automated, machine learning-powered text analysis methods to complement and strengthen qualitative research results that scholars have previously obtained. The latent Dirichlet allocation topic modelling technique has been used to examine companies' sustainability efforts and identify industry-specific subtopics based on quantitative distribution. The originality of our analysis lies in determining how companies prioritise issues in sustainability reports. By comparing reports from different industries, we also identify sector-specific patterns and how organisations in highly carbon-intensive industries that are most exposed to physical climate damage and net-zero transition risk prioritise certain themes over others, as well as identifying what type of content is overall more prominently featured in reports, regardless of the industry. Our study adds to sustainability reporting literature by investigating a previously unstudied sample of sectors. Moreover, our study informs practitioners of existing sustainability reporting procedures. The subject model and a cross-industry view can advise policymakers and industry of which themes are under-disclosed and what industry-specific rules may be desirable to suit sector-specific needs.</p>","PeriodicalId":9518,"journal":{"name":"Business Strategy and The Environment","volume":"33 7","pages":"7201-7215"},"PeriodicalIF":12.5,"publicationDate":"2024-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141545951","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"How do firms develop and financially benefit from green product innovation in a developing country? Roles of innovation orientation and green marketing innovation","authors":"Listowel Owusu Appiah,&nbsp;Dominic Essuman","doi":"10.1002/bse.3864","DOIUrl":"10.1002/bse.3864","url":null,"abstract":"<p>While previous research has explored the antecedents and outcomes of green product innovation, empirical evidence remains inconclusive. This study draws on the contingent natural resource–based view to conceptualize how innovation orientation enables firms to develop green product innovation to enhance financial performance, especially where they emphasize green marketing innovation. The study tests its hypotheses using primary survey data from 347 small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in Ghana and PROCESS as an analytical tool. The results suggest that innovation orientation has a positive relationship with green product innovation and that green product innovation mediates the relationship between innovation orientation and financial performance. Additional results indicate that green product innovation contributes more to financial performance under increasing levels of green marketing innovation. The article sheds new light on how firms can combine innovation orientation, green product innovation, and green marketing innovation to boost financial performance in a developing country.</p>","PeriodicalId":9518,"journal":{"name":"Business Strategy and The Environment","volume":"33 7","pages":"7241-7252"},"PeriodicalIF":12.5,"publicationDate":"2024-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/bse.3864","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141683770","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Carbon accounting and integrated reporting for net-zero business models towards sustainable development: A systematic literature review","authors":"Assunta Di Vaio,&nbsp;Anum Zaffar,&nbsp;Meghna Chhabra,&nbsp;Daniel Balsalobre-Lorente","doi":"10.1002/bse.3863","DOIUrl":"10.1002/bse.3863","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This study highlights the main concerns regarding firms' carbon accounting and decarbonization practices. Under institutional, legitimacy and stakeholder theories, this study analyses the linkages between carbon accounting outputs and integrated reporting (IR), as well as between disclosure assurance systems in the transition towards net-zero business models (n-ZBMs). This study emphasizes the awareness of accounting tools to be considered environmental and social measures due to decarbonization practices. This study developed a systematic literature review (SLR) of 433 English articles published in Scopus database and Google Scholar between the years 1990 and 2024. It is a consolidated methodological approach in the ‘sustainability accounting’ research field to fill the existing gaps that justify this study. The results of this study highlight that IR and carbon accounting awareness enhance firms' performance and have positive social and environmental impacts with the adoption of decarbonization practices towards n-ZBMs through an improved understanding of stakeholders and regulatory pressures. This study is the first to explore the relationship between carbon accounting awareness and IR about the decarbonization practices, as well as the role of assurance in the transition for n-ZBMs. This study tries to move from the concept of legitimacy of the decarbonization practices that firms aim to achieve through sustainable disclosure to the legitimacy of business models towards net-zero emissions.</p>","PeriodicalId":9518,"journal":{"name":"Business Strategy and The Environment","volume":"33 7","pages":"7216-7240"},"PeriodicalIF":12.5,"publicationDate":"2024-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141545950","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Assessing the impact of Industry 4.0 technologies on the social sustainability of agrifood companies","authors":"Livio Cricelli,&nbsp;Roberto Mauriello,&nbsp;Serena Strazzullo,&nbsp;Mark Anthony Camilleri","doi":"10.1002/bse.3874","DOIUrl":"10.1002/bse.3874","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Industry 4.0 technologies present new opportunities for the sustainable development of companies in the agrifood industry. The extant literature on this topic suggests that innovative technologies can support agrifood companies in addressing environmental, economic and social sustainability issues. While the environmental and economic benefits of technological innovations in the agrifood industry have been widely investigated, few studies sought to explore the impact of the adoption of Industry 4.0 technologies on long-standing social issues. This research addresses this knowledge gap, the data were gathered from 116 Italian agrifood companies that utilized Industry 4.0 technologies. The findings from structural equations modelling partial least squares (SEM-PLS) show that adopting Industry 4.0 technologies helps agrifood companies to improve human resources management, supply chain management and stakeholder relationships. Finally, this contribution puts forward implications for practitioners, as it raises awareness on the benefits of using technological innovations to promote social sustainability outcomes.</p>","PeriodicalId":9518,"journal":{"name":"Business Strategy and The Environment","volume":"33 7","pages":"7182-7200"},"PeriodicalIF":12.5,"publicationDate":"2024-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141521338","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}