サステナビリティ・ガバナンス体制から気候戦略へ：報告と内部説明責任のプロバイダー観測シーケンス

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🔬研究者:開示体制構築の順序と気候戦略の関連をプロバイダー観測データで示した実証研究として、因果推論の限界とともに参照価値がある。

🏢実務担当者:GRI先行の報告体制整備がクロスドメイン体制構築につながる可能性を示唆するが、気候戦略や排出削減への直接効果は期待できない点に留意。

🏛政策担当者:開示義務化の順序設計において、報告先行型アプローチの限定的効果とTCFD採用への影響を考慮すべき。

Corporate sustainability governance is often measured as a set of coexisting mechanisms, leaving unclear whether the order in which reporting and internal accountability first become visible is associated with later formal cross-domain assembly and climate implementation. Using Bloomberg FY2020–FY2024 data, this study defines provider-observed pathways in a focal cohort of 478 firms with no observed architecture component at the FY2020 baseline; the principal adjusted staged-adopter model uses 262 firms, while direct-climate models use 53–171 firms depending on the outcome. Reporting-first entry is associated with an 18.7 percentage-point higher probability of FY2024 formal cross-domain architecture under HC1 inference (p < 0.001). The point estimate is unchanged when uncertainty is clustered by country-of-domicile jurisdiction (p = 0.048), but finite-cluster inference is materially weaker (CR2/Satterthwaite p = 0.137; restricted Rademacher wild-cluster p = 0.303). Thus, coefficient magnitude is stable while jurisdiction-level statistical precision is not. Annual transition and two-year persistence estimates are positive, but a stricter three-year persistence check among firms with sufficient exposure shows no detectable adjusted difference. Component decomposition further shows that the precisely estimated domain contrast is driven mainly by GRI-first relative to committee-first entry; SASB-first and pay-first estimates are statistically imprecise. Reporting-first firms show no broader climate strategy advantage or lower-emissions advantage. TCFD adoption is lower after controls and remains significant after Holm adjustment, whereas the nominal positive Scope 2 result does not. The evidence therefore identifies a bounded, associational pattern in provider-observed formal governance assembly, not a causal adoption mechanism or evidence of superior climate performance. Information infrastructure remains a theoretically plausible interpretation for direct testing in future research.

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