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Environmental Strategies in the Brazilian Sugar‐Energy Sector: Drivers, Performance, and Competitiveness 巴西糖能源行业的环境战略：驱动因素、绩效和竞争力

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Business Strategy and The Environment Pub Date : 2025-09-09 DOI: 10.1002/bse.70189

Hugo Carlos Dornfeld, Adrislaine Silva Mansano, Herick Fernando Moralles, Luiz Fernando de Oriani e Paulillo

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Sustainable Futures: Redefining Africa's Circular Economy Through FinTech and Knowledge‐Driven Innovations 可持续未来：通过金融科技和知识驱动型创新重新定义非洲循环经济

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Business Strategy and The Environment Pub Date : 2025-09-06 DOI: 10.1002/bse.70167

Emmanuel K. Manu, David Atitie, Simplice A. Asongu

{"title":"Sustainable Futures: Redefining Africa's Circular Economy Through FinTech and Knowledge‐Driven Innovations","authors":"Emmanuel K. Manu, David Atitie, Simplice A. Asongu","doi":"10.1002/bse.70167","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/bse.70167","url":null,"abstract":"As sustainability becomes a global imperative, the circular economy (CE) presents a vital strategy for resource efficiency and resilience, particularly in Africa. This study examines how FinTech and knowledge‐driven innovations (i.e., human capital, ICT access, and innovation) shape CE outcomes across 33 African countries from 1997 to 2021. Using feasible generalized least squares (FGLS), panel‐corrected standard errors (PCSE), instrumental variables (2SLS), and quantile regression (MM‐QR), the study finds that FinTech adoption significantly enhances CE, especially through its role in enabling digital financial inclusion and low‐waste practices. Human capital positively impacts CE. ICT infrastructure shows mixed but important effects: mobile cellular subscriptions (ICT1) broaden access to digital tools, while secure internet servers (ICT2) are essential for advanced CE technologies. Innovation output exerts positive effects on CE and enhances the impact of FinTech. Regional findings reveal that Southern Africa shows the highest FinTech‐driven CE gains, supported by strong ICT and human capital; East and West Africa benefit from ICT2 and patenting, while Central Africa's CE potential is limited by weak digital infrastructure. These findings highlight the need for integrated, region‐specific policy approaches to accelerate CE transitions.","PeriodicalId":9518,"journal":{"name":"Business Strategy and The Environment","volume":"122 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":13.4,"publicationDate":"2025-09-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145003086","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}

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What Drives Impact Scaling? The Roles of Resources, Innovation Performance, and Sustainability Orientation 影响扩展的驱动力是什么？资源、创新绩效与可持续性导向的作用

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Business Strategy and The Environment Pub Date : 2025-09-06 DOI: 10.1002/bse.70147

Matthias Mrożewski, Aleksandra Dadełło, Charleen von Kolpinski, Olivier Delbard

{"title":"What Drives Impact Scaling? The Roles of Resources, Innovation Performance, and Sustainability Orientation","authors":"Matthias Mrożewski, Aleksandra Dadełło, Charleen von Kolpinski, Olivier Delbard","doi":"10.1002/bse.70147","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/bse.70147","url":null,"abstract":"The literature on sustainable entrepreneurship calls for a deeper understanding of how to scale impact, particularly as large‐scale solutions are essential to addressing today's grand challenges. Drawing on self‐collected survey data from 97 Polish impact startups, this paper investigates the roles of resource availability, innovation performance, and sustainability orientation in scaling impact. Building on the resource‐ and knowledge‐based view and threat rigidity theory, we propose a moderated mediation model and empirically demonstrate positive effects of knowledge resources on innovation performance, which subsequently enhances impact scaling. Interestingly, a startup's sustainability orientation is found to play an ambivalent role in the resource–innovation–scaling relationship. While it negatively moderates the link between knowledge resources and innovation performance, a positive effect emerges in the innovation–scaling connection. This paradox suggests that the more sustainability entrepreneurs face trade‐offs related to sustainability, the less willing they are to invest in innovation. Our findings hold important implications for both researchers and practitioners.","PeriodicalId":9518,"journal":{"name":"Business Strategy and The Environment","volume":"70 5 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":13.4,"publicationDate":"2025-09-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145003101","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}

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Beyond the Board: Does Female Leadership Make a Difference to Corporate Sustainability Performance, Disclosure and Assurance? 超越董事会：女性领导对企业可持续发展绩效、披露和保证有影响吗？

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Business Strategy and The Environment Pub Date : 2025-09-06 DOI: 10.1002/bse.70183

Ahmed A. Sarhan, Princess R. Bwanya, Christopher J. Cowton

{"title":"Beyond the Board: Does Female Leadership Make a Difference to Corporate Sustainability Performance, Disclosure and Assurance?","authors":"Ahmed A. Sarhan, Princess R. Bwanya, Christopher J. Cowton","doi":"10.1002/bse.70183","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/bse.70183","url":null,"abstract":"Previous research on gender diversity and corporate sustainability has tended to focus on the association between board diversity and sustainability performance. This study is more expansive in two crucial respects. First, it goes beyond the board to encompass senior executive diversity. Second, it also examines sustainability disclosure and assurance of that disclosure. Using 4618 firm‐year observations from companies in the UK FTSE All‐Share Index for the period 2002–2022, we find that both forms of gender diversity are positively associated with sustainability performance and disclosure, but not assurance. Sustainability‐related executive compensation moderates the relationships. We find no strong evidence of a critical mass effect, but we do see signs that executive gender diversity can substitute for board gender diversity. This comprehensive study of the gender diversity‐sustainability nexus provides significant new findings and demonstrates the importance of not leaving female executives out of the picture. Implications for researchers and practitioners are discussed.","PeriodicalId":9518,"journal":{"name":"Business Strategy and The Environment","volume":"33 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":13.4,"publicationDate":"2025-09-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145003098","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}

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From Scraps to Sweets: Perceptions of Food Healthfulness and the Acceptance of Upcycled Foods 从残羹剩饭到甜食：对食物健康的认知和对升级回收食品的接受

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Business Strategy and The Environment Pub Date : 2025-09-05 DOI: 10.1002/bse.70180

Kefeng Ou, Ling Jiang, David S. Waller

{"title":"From Scraps to Sweets: Perceptions of Food Healthfulness and the Acceptance of Upcycled Foods","authors":"Kefeng Ou, Ling Jiang, David S. Waller","doi":"10.1002/bse.70180","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/bse.70180","url":null,"abstract":"Upcycled foods offer a compelling solution to the global food waste crisis, yet a critical paradox hinders their market acceptance: consumers who embrace sustainability often reject these products. This paper challenges the conventional focus on ecological appeals, arguing that a deeper, unaddressed psychological barrier is at play. We identify and empirically validate healthfulness perception as the key mediating mechanism that explains this consumer resistance. Across four experiments, this study concludes that: (1) upcycling disclosure triggers negative healthfulness perceptions, which directly suppress purchase intentions; (2) pro‐environmental concern moderates the negative effect of upcycling disclosure, such that the effect is weaker for consumers with high environmental concern; and (3) targeted health‐related taglines successfully neutralize these negative perceptions, significantly boosting product preference and willingness to buy. These results offer a clear directive: the path to encouraging the purchase of upcycled foods lies not in amplifying their ecological benefits, but in proactively promoting their perceived healthfulness. Policymakers can also leverage these insights to promote upcycled foods as both healthy and environmentally friendly, encouraging sustainable consumption practices and reducing food waste at a broader level.","PeriodicalId":9518,"journal":{"name":"Business Strategy and The Environment","volume":"17 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":13.4,"publicationDate":"2025-09-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145003157","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}

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Supply Chain Sustainability Performance in the Manufacturing Sector of a Developing Economy 发展中经济体制造业的供应链可持续性绩效

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Business Strategy and The Environment Pub Date : 2025-09-05 DOI: 10.1002/bse.70169

Mohammad A. K. Alsmairat, Riad Al‐Chami, Jose Arturo Garza‐Reyes, Daniel Luiz de Mattos Nascimento

{"title":"Supply Chain Sustainability Performance in the Manufacturing Sector of a Developing Economy","authors":"Mohammad A. K. Alsmairat, Riad Al‐Chami, Jose Arturo Garza‐Reyes, Daniel Luiz de Mattos Nascimento","doi":"10.1002/bse.70169","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/bse.70169","url":null,"abstract":"To assess supply chain (SC) sustainability performance, it is essential to understand the influence of key enablers. This study examines the impact of legal pressure, competitive pressure, internal resources and customer preferences on SC sustainability performance, with a particular focus on the mediating role of strategic direction. A quantitative survey was conducted with 390 operations managers from manufacturing sectors across Qatar, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Oman and Jordan. The data were analysed using partial least squares structural equation modelling (PLS‐SEM). The results indicate that competitive pressure, internal resources and customer preferences significantly influence strategic direction, which in turn positively mediates their effect on sustainable supply chain (SSCM) performance. Legal pressure, however, was not found to significantly impact strategic direction, suggesting that regulatory mandates exert limited influence on manufacturing firms in the region. This study provides actionable insights for managers in developing strategic initiatives that enhance sustainability performance, particularly in contexts with constrained resources.","PeriodicalId":9518,"journal":{"name":"Business Strategy and The Environment","volume":"27 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":13.4,"publicationDate":"2025-09-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145003146","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}

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Ecolabels as Heuristic Cues: Exploring the Role of Ecolabels in Food Attribute Inferences 生态标签作为启发式线索：探索生态标签在食品属性推断中的作用

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Business Strategy and The Environment Pub Date : 2025-09-05 DOI: 10.1002/bse.70175

Francisco José Torres‐Peña, Manuel Parras‐Rosa, Carla Marano‐Marcolini, Francisco José Torres‐Ruiz

{"title":"Ecolabels as Heuristic Cues: Exploring the Role of Ecolabels in Food Attribute Inferences","authors":"Francisco José Torres‐Peña, Manuel Parras‐Rosa, Carla Marano‐Marcolini, Francisco José Torres‐Ruiz","doi":"10.1002/bse.70175","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/bse.70175","url":null,"abstract":"This study presents a novel approach by examining the role of environmental labels (e.g., ecolabels) as heuristic cues in consumer inferences, beyond their traditional informational function. The research evaluated the influence of the presence, number, and type (real or fake) of ecolabels on consumer inferences of an extra virgin olive oil product through a between‐subjects experiment involving 720 participants in Spain. The methodology was designed to minimize common biases by exposing each participant to only one stimulus and employing real product labels and packaging with controlled modifications (including both the quantity and type of seal, real and fake). Using various multivariate analyses of covariance (MANCOVA), the study sequentially explored a set of research questions regarding the impact of the number of ecolabels and their potential interchangeability across seven distinct product dimensions. The findings reveal that ecolabels do not significantly enhance overall product evaluations, except in two dimensions associated with human‐related attributes—commitment to quality and producer honesty—which are more closely linked to the generic certification process than to the specific meaning of each label. No linear relationship or optimal number of labels was identified, and no significant differences were found between real and fake ecolabels. The results suggest that ecolabels function primarily as generic heuristic cues with limited influence, particularly when the product's presentation is visually appealing.","PeriodicalId":9518,"journal":{"name":"Business Strategy and The Environment","volume":"22 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":13.4,"publicationDate":"2025-09-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145003151","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}

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Is the Devil in the Details? The Impact of ESG Controversy Materiality on Firm Performance 细节决定成败？ESG争议重要性对公司绩效的影响

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Business Strategy and The Environment Pub Date : 2025-09-05 DOI: 10.1002/bse.70179

Angela Karr, Jangwoon Kim, Taewoo Roh

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Bank Responses to Physical and Transition Risks in Lending: A Diagnostic Framework From a Systematic Literature Review 银行对贷款中的物理和过渡风险的反应：一个来自系统文献综述的诊断框架

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Business Strategy and The Environment Pub Date : 2025-09-05 DOI: 10.1002/bse.70176

Tabea Brüggemann, Rainer Lueg

{"title":"Bank Responses to Physical and Transition Risks in Lending: A Diagnostic Framework From a Systematic Literature Review","authors":"Tabea Brüggemann, Rainer Lueg","doi":"10.1002/bse.70176","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/bse.70176","url":null,"abstract":"Banks face mounting pressure to integrate climate risks into lending, yet responses remain incoherent. This systematic literature review of 9034 studies synthesizes 68 peer‐reviewed articles and develops a behavioral typology of five bank responses: recovery, containment, repricing, reallocation, and relational transformation. Responses vary by risk type, visibility, and salience. Acute, unexpected physical risks (nine studies) trigger recovery lending, while expected (five) or chronic risks (12) lead to containment or repricing. Transition risks (42) are more consistently priced when indicators are quantifiable and policy‐aligned; softer ESG signals elicit conditional responses. Asymmetries arise: recovery and containment occur only for physical risks, while strategic reallocation remains rare. Carbon‐intensive firms are penalized, while green firms benefit only when performance is credible and verifiable. We propose a diagnostic framework to evaluate climate risk management in lending, providing a novel tool to assess climate risk integration in bank lending and inform regulatory design and sustainability‐oriented strategy.","PeriodicalId":9518,"journal":{"name":"Business Strategy and The Environment","volume":"40 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":13.4,"publicationDate":"2025-09-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145003145","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}

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Communication Strategies in Hospitality: A Study on Michelin Green Star Sustainable Restaurants 酒店业的沟通策略：以米其林绿色之星可持续餐厅为例

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Business Strategy and The Environment Pub Date : 2025-09-05 DOI: 10.1002/bse.70184

Mirko Olivieri, Ginevra Testa, Luca Giraldi

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