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{"title":"Contracting as Sensemaking Infrastructure: Enacting Sustainability Strategy in Business‐to‐Business Relationships","authors":"Mohammad Naji Shah Mohammadi, Ebru Metin","doi":"10.1002/bse.71652","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/bse.71652","url":null,"abstract":"Firms articulate sustainability objectives but depend on suppliers and business partners to enact them. As commitments cross organizational and professional boundaries, their meaning may fragment even when parties agree in principle. This theory‐synthesis article examines B2B contracting as sensemaking infrastructure for enacting sustainability strategy across interorganizational relationships. Integrating sensemaking, proactive contracting, and contract design, it develops the sensemaking‐based contracting framework. The framework identifies four interdependent functions: framing clarifies what the relationship seeks to govern; translation connects that understanding to responsibilities, data, and routines; adaptation organizes legitimate revision; and signaling connects relationship‐level performance to external credibility. The article repositions contracting from downstream compliance to strategy enactment. It shows that preserving contractual wording is insufficient when purpose becomes disconnected from performance and directs managerial attention to connections among purpose, responsibility, capability, review, and evidence. Whether this infrastructure supports shared meaning depends on power, network position, and actors' ability to question established interpretations.","PeriodicalId":9518,"journal":{"name":"Business Strategy and The Environment","volume":"50 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":13.4,"publicationDate":"2026-10-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149130462","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":"Organizational Growth Reconsidered: A Systems‐Based Review and Research Agenda","authors":"Swantje Freund, Josua Oll, Joern Hoppmann","doi":"10.1002/bse.71561","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/bse.71561","url":null,"abstract":"Recent years have witnessed a significant increase in post‐ and degrowth research, which explores the social and ecological consequences of, and alternatives to, economic growth. To date, however, the debate has primarily occurred at the macroeconomic level, leaving a gap in our understanding of the role of organizational growth in a post‐growth context. Therefore, in this paper, we review the general management and corporate sustainability literatures, which have long investigated organizational growth, to gain insights into the inputs, processes, and outputs of organizational growth across multiple levels of analysis. Drawing on these findings and adopting a systems perspective, we devise a research agenda for future growth‐critical research at the organizational level. We suggest that studying emergence, adaptation, interdependence, and feedback in relation to organizational growth has significant potential to advance the fields of both corporate sustainability and post‐ and degrowth. Additionally, our integrative review offers practical advice for managers and policymakers seeking to guide organizations toward post‐growth pathways.","PeriodicalId":9518,"journal":{"name":"Business Strategy and The Environment","volume":"171 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":13.4,"publicationDate":"2026-10-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149130463","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":"Water as a Strategic Design Variable for Climate‐Resilient Urban Farming: Reconfiguring Sustainable Business Models Through the Water‐Enabled Resource Architecture Framework","authors":"Nicolò Gianmauro Totaro, Gianvito Nesca, Federica Stella Blasi, Marta Sozzo, Giovanni Schiuma","doi":"10.1002/bse.71646","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/bse.71646","url":null,"abstract":"This study examines how water sourcing and management can be embedded within urban farming business models to enhance environmental sustainability, climate resilience, and economic viability. It introduces the water‐enabled resource architecture (WERA) framework, which conceptualizes water as a strategic design variable capable of reshaping value proposition, governance arrangements, value capture logic, feasibility conditions, and performance indicators. The framework is illustrated through a comparative case study of an urban aquaponics installation in which two structurally equivalent systems operate under closely aligned conditions and different water sourcing strategies: centralized potable water supply and rainwater harvesting. Within the analyzed case, the decentralized configuration is associated with greater water autonomy and estimated operating‐cost reductions, while also redistributing organizational responsibilities and requiring additional infrastructure, treatment, and monitoring routines. WERA therefore provides an analytical lens for examining how water choices reshape governance, stakeholder value, cost‐risk mechanisms, and resource resilience within urban farming business models. It also clarifies how water choices reshape governance, stakeholder value, and cost‐risk mechanisms in urban systems.","PeriodicalId":9518,"journal":{"name":"Business Strategy and The Environment","volume":"29 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":13.4,"publicationDate":"2026-10-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149151751","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":"Digitalisation, Organisational Innovation and Firms' Environmental Protection Expenditures: Evidence From Spanish Manufacturing","authors":"Alexy Apolo‐Romero, Pedro Sánchez‐Sellero","doi":"10.1002/bse.71597","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/bse.71597","url":null,"abstract":"This paper investigates how digitalisation and organisational innovation shape firms' routine environmental protection efforts in Spanish manufacturing. Using an unbalanced panel of 2348 firms and 7603 firm‐year observations from 2009–2023 drawn from the Survey on Business Strategies (ESEE), the study examines the determinants of current environmental protection expenditures as a recurrent form of operational green capability rather than radical eco‐innovation. The empirical analysis relies on panel‐data logit models that relate firm characteristics at time (2009–2022) to current environmental protection expenditures at time (2010–2023), with firm‐level controls and sector and period effects, and reports average marginal effects. The results show that digitalisation is strongly and consistently associated with routine environmental protection efforts. Firms that use robotics in production, invest in external ICT training and implement software‐based process innovations exhibit around 8–11 percentage points higher predicted probabilities of undertaking current environmental protection expenditures than otherwise similar firms. Organisational innovation, measured through the introduction of new work‐organisation practices, also displays a positive and significant association, with an average marginal effect of about 8–9 percentage points. Participation in EU research programmes is likewise positively associated with environmental protection expenditures, although this result applies to a relatively small share of firms and should be interpreted with caution, as it likely reflects the behaviour of a self‐selected subset of highly capable, outward‐oriented firms. The findings indicate that digital and organisational capabilities, together with cooperative engagements, act as key enablers of operational green practices, even though interaction terms provide only weak evidence of strong complementarities in this specific outcome. The paper contributes novel firm‐level evidence on how the twin green–digital transition materialises in ongoing environmental management within a manufacturing sector dominated by SMEs in Spain, shifting attention from one‐off eco‐innovations towards the stabilisation of everyday environmental routines and highlighting the role of capability bundles in supporting sustained environmental protection efforts.","PeriodicalId":9518,"journal":{"name":"Business Strategy and The Environment","volume":"61 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":13.4,"publicationDate":"2026-10-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149130464","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":"The Sustainability Claim Paradox: When Green Marketing Encourages Greater Consumption","authors":"Ruta Birutyte, Ricardo Correia, Martin Aubel, Dominyka Venciute","doi":"10.1002/bse.71621","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/bse.71621","url":null,"abstract":"Sustainability claims are assumed to promote responsible consumption, yet consumption itself drives environmental harm. Drawing on moral licensing theory, this study asks whether such claims instead licence greater consumption across the purchase, use/replacement and disposal stages of one cycle. A between‐subjects experiment ( <jats:italic>N</jats:italic> = 303) manipulated claim strength (control, light, strong) in a product advertisement, and the hypothesised effects were estimated jointly using partial least squares structural equation modelling. Stronger claims raised perceived environmental impact, which raised intended purchase quantity, and this belief carried the total purchase effect entirely, consistent with static moral licensing. The evidence is mixed thereafter: Claim strength had no net effect on intended use or replacement, and although it showed a small total effect on justifying earlier disposal, perceived impact did not carry that effect, and the direct path was inconclusive under the inferential rule adopted here. Environmental concern attenuated rather than amplified the effect.","PeriodicalId":9518,"journal":{"name":"Business Strategy and The Environment","volume":"245 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":13.4,"publicationDate":"2026-10-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149130461","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":"Employee Perceptions of Organizational Sustainability: A Systematic Review and Integrative Multilevel Framework","authors":"Salah Bitar, Said Elbanna","doi":"10.1002/bse.71618","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/bse.71618","url":null,"abstract":"Employee perceptions are central to whether organizational sustainability initiatives become embedded in workplace practice or remain symbolic. This study reviews 123 peer‐reviewed articles published between 2000 and 2024 to clarify how employees interpret organizational sustainability and how these interpretations are associated with workplace outcomes. The findings show that perceptions are linked to individual values and capabilities, leadership signals, green HRM practices, sustainability communication, perceived authenticity, and wider stakeholder pressures. Favorable perceptions are associated with engagement, pro‐environmental behavior, creativity, and organizational citizenship for the environment, whereas perceived greenwashing or corporate hypocrisy is associated with weaker trust and commitment. Drawing on Social Exchange Theory, the Resource‐Based View, and Signaling Theory, the study proposes an association‐based multilevel framework that positions employee perceptions as the interpretive link between sustainability drivers and individual, organizational, and external outcomes.","PeriodicalId":9518,"journal":{"name":"Business Strategy and The Environment","volume":"35 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":13.4,"publicationDate":"2026-10-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149123543","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":"Beyond Linear Paths: Configurations of Networks, Knowledge, and Dynamic Capabilities for Sustainable MSMEs","authors":"Ruchi Mishra, K. B. Kiran","doi":"10.1002/bse.71634","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/bse.71634","url":null,"abstract":"Despite extensive research on entrepreneurial business networks (EBNs), knowledge management (KM), and dynamic capabilities (DC), three questions remain theoretically underdeveloped and empirically unexplored in resource‐constrained MSMEs. These concern the integrative mechanisms through which EBN and KM jointly cultivate DC, the differential mediation logic of DC across sustainability outcome types, and the configurational pathways through which these constructs collectively produce sustainability outcomes. Using PLS‐SEM and fsQCA on data from 316 manufacturing MSMEs in Uttar Pradesh, India, this study finds that DC fully mediates the effects of EBN and KM on sustainable competitiveness (SComP), whereas sustainable performance (SP) retains direct network and knowledge effects, reflecting its operational proximity to resource inputs. The necessity analysis confirms no single condition is individually necessary for high SP, and fsQCA reveals nine equifinal configurations, showing that high SP is achievable through multiple strategic routes. These findings offer actionable insights for managers and policymakers in emerging‐economy contexts.","PeriodicalId":9518,"journal":{"name":"Business Strategy and The Environment","volume":"9 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":13.4,"publicationDate":"2026-10-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149123544","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":"From Uncertainty to Risk: How Firms Respond in Circular Economy Transitions","authors":"Hiva Rastegar,Gabriel Eweje","doi":"10.1002/bse.71642","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/bse.71642","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The transition to a circular economy exposes firms to multiple sources of uncertainty, yet existing research largely treats these challenges as barriers rather than drivers of firm behavior. This paper develops a conceptual understanding of how uncertainty is translated into risk and how this shapes firm responses in circular economy contexts. It proposes that firms translate uncertainty into perceived risk through identifiable organizational processes, and this translation varies systematically with firms' prior experience and resource flexibility in CE ‐related activity rather than being inferred only from firms' eventual responses. Building on this perspective, the paper extends the behavioral theory of the firm by showing that in circular economy settings, risk perception is shaped across networks of interdependent firms rather than within a single firm, and that anticipated and realized risk can push firms in opposite directions. It further specifies when perceived risk leads to defensive versus proactive firm responses, based on firm experience and resource flexibility. By positioning risk as a central mechanism linking uncertainty to firm behavior, the paper offers an integrated explanation of circular economy transitions with theoretical, managerial, and policy implications.","PeriodicalId":9518,"journal":{"name":"Business Strategy and The Environment","volume":"295 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":13.4,"publicationDate":"2026-10-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149092884","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 Does Green Human Resource Management Shape Organizational Sustainable Performance? A Literature Review and Future Research Agenda","authors":"Truong Thi Hue,Nguyen Thi Huyen","doi":"10.1002/bse.71639","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/bse.71639","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Understanding how green human resource management (GHRM) shapes organizational sustainable performance (OSP) is increasingly important for aligning human resource practices with organizations' environmental, social, and economic sustainability goals. This study systematically reviews how GHRM shapes OSP by integrating performance analysis with an in‐depth synthesis based on the theory, context, characteristics, and methodology (TCCM) framework. Following the SPAR‐4‐SLR procedure, 391 articles from Web of Science and Scopus published between 2012 and April 2026 were analyzed for research performance, whereas a subset of 104 articles published in A*, A, and B journals according to the ABDC list was selected from this dataset for detailed content analysis. The findings show a sharp increase in publications since 2016 and reveal that the field is dominated by the Ability‐Motivation‐Opportunity framework, resource‐based view, social cognitive theory, and social learning theory. Empirical research remains concentrated in the hospitality, manufacturing, and service sectors and relies heavily on quantitative, cross‐sectional survey designs. The review also identifies several important gaps, including limited multi‐theoretical integration, insufficient attention to high‐emission and underexplored sectors, overreliance on subjective performance measures, limited use of longitudinal and mixed‐method designs, and inadequate examination of the dark side of GHRM. By integrating these insights into a TCCM‐informed multilevel framework, this study clarifies the mechanisms and boundary conditions through which GHRM may shape OSP while offering a focused agenda for future research.","PeriodicalId":9518,"journal":{"name":"Business Strategy and The Environment","volume":"26 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":13.4,"publicationDate":"2026-10-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149092885","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":"Mobilizing Dynamic‐Capability Microfoundations for Sustainability‐Oriented Innovation: The Role of Innovation Champions","authors":"Qingfeng Tian,Narges Siamian,Tahir M. Nisar,Nick Hajli","doi":"10.1002/bse.71635","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/bse.71635","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Organizations face growing pressure to respond to environmental and social challenges, yet research has not sufficiently explained how organizational actors mobilise dynamic‐capability microfoundations across the development of sustainability‐oriented innovations. Drawing on 68 semistructured interviews conducted between March and November 2024 across 18 EU and UK marine firms, this qualitative study examines how innovation champions and related actors support sensing, seizing, and reconfiguring. The analysis identifies an interconnected process: market exposure and network relationships support sensing sustainability‐oriented opportunities; perceived product–capability fit shapes whether those opportunities progress to seizing; and managerial mobilization, cross‐functional problem‐solving, and relationship coordination support reconfiguration. Rather than treating every influential manager as an innovation champion, the study distinguishes championing activities—persistent advocacy, boundary spanning, resource mobilization, and coordination—from formal organizational positions. The study contributes by explaining how actor‐level mechanisms connect successive dynamic‐capability stages in a sustainability‐oriented innovation context. Product–capability fit is presented as an emerging transition mechanism that requires further testing rather than as an entirely novel construct.","PeriodicalId":9518,"journal":{"name":"Business Strategy and The Environment","volume":"27 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":13.4,"publicationDate":"2026-10-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149092883","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}