Dear Colleagues,

ESG governance, driven by the global sustainable development agenda, has emerged as an important issue in corporate strategy and governance reform. Institutional fit has also been widely employed to interpret organizational responses to external institutional pressures for compliance and strategic adjustments. However, the systematic exploration of how green technological innovation can facilitate corporate strategic reconfiguration by combining the two remains underexplored by scholars.

Green technological innovation is the core engine that drives enterprises to achieve strategic reconfiguration and governance reform. It opens up new growth paths for enterprises by reshaping production methods, optimizing resource allocation, restructuring value chain architecture, and alleviating environmental regulatory pressure. Simultaneously, it also poses new challenges to the strategic logic and governance reform of enterprises, compelling them to undertake systematic innovations in goal setting, capability building, business ethics and path dependence. In this process, the dual mechanisms of ESG governance and institutional fit play a crucial role: ESG governance strengthens the strategic significance of green technological innovation at the organizational cognitive level by directing enterprises to incorporate environmental responsibility, social value and governance efficiency into the framework of corporate strategy and governance reform. Institutional fit, on the other hand, provides resource support and incentive measures through external institutional arrangements such as green finance, carbon markets and environmental regulations, reducing the uncertainty and market barriers of green technological innovation, and thereby achieving corporate compliance and strategic adjustment.

This special issue focuses on, but is not limited to, the following research topics:

(1) The path for corporate strategic reconfiguration through green technology innovation

(2) The role of ESG governance in corporate strategic reconfiguration and governance reform

(3) The promotion of corporate compliance and strategic adjustment through institutional fit

(4) How green technological innovation can reshape corporate strategies through the integration of ESG governance and institutional fit

We invite authors to submit a paper for consideration for this special issue. Please submit full papers through https://www.imrpress.com/journal/JEEMS. Select the Section for the Special Issue: “GTI and CSR”. Author guidelines must be strictly followed: https://www.imrpress.com/journal/JEEMS/page/instructions. Contact the guest editors Oana-Ramona Lobont (oana.lobont@e-uvt.ro), Shulin Xu (20231033@gdufe.edu.cn) and Chi-Wei Su (cwsu7137@gmail.com) about whether a submission is within the scope of the special issue.

Prof. Oana-Ramona Lobont, Dr. Shulin Xu and Prof. Chi-Wei Su
Guest Editors