All businesses must balance a focus on profits with a focus on ethics. In today¡¯s business world, investors are paying an increasing amount of attention to companies¡¯ commitments to corporate sustainability (CS). In order to enhance the credibility of their CS investments, large companies...

Horizontal collaborations emerged as a new strategic option in the logistics sector during the last decade. However, successful implementation of horizontal collaborations is far from a developed issue due to several barriers that exist or emerge when setting up such collaborative projects. This...

We explore how a firm’s knowledge structure characteristics and market identity—as reflected in its position in the industry value chain and market status—influence knowledge-based alliance (KBA) formation. We propose that a firm’s propensity to form KBAs is affected by the congruence...

This study attempts to increase the understanding of how different solutions to build alliance management capability influence alliance performance. We propose that both reliance on the informal accumulation of alliance experience (i.e., tacit alliance management knowledge, AMK) and articulation...

In recent years, the need to create new financial tools to mobilize private capital and generate suitable resources to face both social and environmental challenges led to the development of new tools and ideas. In this context, green bonds have emerged as a new financial tool to better respond...

Mergers and acquisitions (M&A) have been primarily investigated from a shareholder‐centric perspective of economic value maximization. However, this type of strategic initiatives also carries relevant implications for companies' capacity to respond to increasing social and environmental...

Climate change has increasingly attracted business attention over the last decade, and it will probably be so in the next years. The goal of this paper is twofold. First we contribute to the ongoing debate on the effects of environmental strategies on firm performance. We investigate this...

Marketing is changing over time, giving value not only to customer satisfaction but also to environmental heritage, for a sustainable economy. The importance of the natural environment related to marketing brought many academics and professionals to define green marketing, although today there...

Today, socially responsible investing (SRI) represents the youngest financial-services industry that investors can exploit to implement their investment strategies. Although literature in this field is growing, additional research is needed to disentangle the factors affecting the performance of...