Firms’ Response to Sustainable Climate Change

Dear Colleagues,

Climate change has emerged as one of the most critical and challenging business concerns. Firms have begun to consider climate change issues as part of their strategic management plans. A number of countries have increased their levels of effort to mitigate global warming. The Paris Agreement has urged firms to take a more proactive and strategic stance toward a sustainable and low-carbon economy. However, our understanding of firms’ managerial responses to sustainable climate change remains at an early stage. Academic researchers and industry practitioners, as well as policy-makers, are increasingly required to address business risks and opportunities engendered by climate change and provide strategic implications for a sustainable climate change era.

This Special Issue will encompass a selection of articles addressing, among others, concerns linked to:

(1) Understand firms’ attitudes, perceptions, and stances to climate change

(2) Explore a diverse range of managerial and strategic options to address climate change issues

(3) Characterize firms’ managerial responses to climate change

(4) Examine antecedents and consequences of firms’ responses to climate change

(5) Investigate the effects of firms’ response to sustainable climate change on economic, environmental, and social performance

(6) Depict business cooperative models with supply chain partners, external stakeholders, and society for transition to sustainable and low-carbon economy, and

(7) Develop appropriate climate change policy design to promote firms’ forward-looking response

Prof. Su-Yol Lee
Guest Editor

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