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This study adopts a systems-informed perspective and examines how ethical governance, environmental dynamism, exploratory and exploitative innovation, and GenAI adoption are associated with long-term competitive performance in B2B firms. Using survey data from 104 Portuguese B2B managers and Partial Least Squares Structural Equation Modelling (PLS-SEM), the findings show that ethical governance is the strongest organisational correlate of long-term competitive performance, underscoring the central role of governance structures in responsible GenAI use. GenAI adoption is positively associated with performance, but its role is complementary rather than dominant. Exploratory innovation does not show a significant direct association with performance; instead, its association with performance operates through GenAI adoption in the estimated model, suggesting that experimentation becomes more performance-relevant when translated into digitally enabled routines. In contrast, exploitative innovation is directly associated with performance through incremental efficiency mechanisms. 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