Circular economy (CE) initiatives require coordination among stakeholders whose roles, resources, and interests are often unevenly distributed across value networks. Existing

CSR, ESG, and stakeholder engagement frameworks offer useful starting points, but they do not fully explain how these relationships are governed during circular transitions. [...]

Although sustainable supply chain management (SSCM) scholarship has extensively documented the importance of sustainable procurement practices, it has been developed predominantly

in resource-rich Western contexts where organizations possess adequate financial, technological, and infrastructural resources. [...]

The EU corporate sustainability due diligence directive mandates human rights due diligence for organizations within their global supply chains. Social sustainability is highly

critical in textile supply chains due to widespread poor working conditions. This work assesses the social sustainability of multi-tier textile supply chains, recursively [...]

Although environmental innovation is increasingly critical for corporate sustainability, limited attention has been paid to how executive characteristics shape such outcomes.

In particular, the long-term impact of CEO tenure on environmental innovation remains underexplored in the context of governance quality. [...]

Poverty is a major concern in emerging countries like India. The present study predicts the modelling of social efficiency in Indian MFIs employing machine learning, an unexplored

area among the extant research. We collected 31 Indian MFIs from the World Bank Mix market database from 2011 to 2019. [...]

Focus on assessing the likelihood of harms, including the risk of committing criminal offences, has tended to be on negative events or characteristics, but promotive factors—positive

events/characteristics—and protective factors—developmental features that may facilitate management of the negative—may be just as important. [...]