Table of Contents: April 2020

NBS’s monthly compilation of the latest business sustainability research prioritizes in-press articles, in order to highlight cutting-edge knowledge. The list draws from Financial Times Top 50 journals and other publications.

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Research for April 2020

Academy of Management Discoveries

• Beyond the Business Case for Social Responsibility. Sarah Kaplan.

• Where Does an Organization’s Responsibility End?: Identifying the Boundaries on Stakeholder Claims. Anita M. McGahan.

• Bringing signaling theory to intermediated voluntary disclosure. Commentary on “Detecting False Accounts in Intermediated Voluntary Disclosure” by Patrick Callery and Jessica Perkins. Rüdiger Hahn, Daniel Reimsbach.

• “Does a Common Mechanism Engender Common Results?” by Rawhouser, Cummings and Hiatt – Some “Carry Forwards” for Studies of the Paris Agreement. P Devereaux Jennings, Andrew Hoffman, Manely Sharifian.

Academy of Management Perspectives

• Understanding the Global Refugee Crisis: Managerial Consequences and Policy Implications. Chun Grace Guo, Akram Al Ariss, Chris Brewster.

• Climate-proofing management research. Daniel Nyberg, Christopher Wright.

• Managing and preparing for emerging infectious diseases: Avoiding a catastrophe. Vijay Pereira, Yama Temouri, Swetketu Patnaik, Kamel Mellahi.

• Corporate foresight: A new frontier for strategy and management. Alessandro Fergnani.

• It’s Not Black and White: Toward a Contingency Perspective on the Consequences of Being a Token. Marla Baskerville Watkins, Aneika Simmons, Elizabeth Umphress.

• New Information Technology and Implicit Bias. Kimberly D. Elsbach, Ileana Stigliani.

Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice

• The Dark Side of Entrepreneurs’ Creativity: Investigating How and When Entrepreneurs’ Creativity Increases the Favorability of Potential Opportunities That Harm Nature. Xin Qin, Dean A. Shepherd, Daomi Lin, Sujuan Xie, Xueji Liang, Shanshan Lin.

• Entrepreneurship and Poverty Alleviation: The Importance of Health and Children’s Education for Slum Entrepreneurs. Dean A. Shepherd, Vinit Parida, Joakim Wincent.

• Entry of Providers Onto a Sharing Economy Platform: Macro-Level Factors and Social Interaction. Oksana Gerwe, Rosario Silva, Julio de Castro.

Environmental Science and Policy

• Nexus thinking in business: Analysing corporate responses to interconnected global sustainability challenges. Frederik Dahlmann and Graham Bullock.

Harvard Business Review

• Why Sexual Harassment Programs Backfire. Frank Dobbin, Alexandra Kalev.

• Marketing Meets Mission. Myriam Sidibe.

• Why Soliciting Donations at the Cash Register Can Backfire. Tim Bower.

• What’s Really Holding Women Back? Robin J. Ely, Irene Padavic.

• A More Sustainable Supply Chain. Verónica H. Villena, Dennis A. Gioia.

• Becoming a Better Corporate Citizen. Indra K. Nooyi, Vijay Govindarajan.

• Creating a Trans-Inclusive Workplace. Christian N. Thoroughgood, Katina B. Sawyer, Jennica R. Webster

Information Systems Research

• Examining the Heterogeneous Impact of Ride-Hailing Services on Public Transit Use. Yash Babar , Gordon Burtch.

Journal of Accounting and Economics

• Where’s the greenium? David F. Larcker, Edward M. Watts.

Journal of Business Ethics

• When the Law Distinguishes Between the Enterprise and the Corporation: The Case of the New French Law on Corporate Purpose. Blanche Segrestin, Armand Hatchuel, Kevin Levillain.

• The Transformation from Traditional Nonprofit Organizations to Social Enterprises: An Institutional Entrepreneurship Perspective. Wai Wai Ko, Gordon Liu.

• Punishment by Securities Regulators, Corporate Social Responsibility and the Cost of Debt. Guangming Gong, Xin Huang, Sirui Wu, Haowen Tian, Wanjin Li.

• Beyond Warm Glow: The Risk-Mitigating Effect of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). Abhi Bhattacharya, Valerie Good, Hanieh Sardashti.

• How Should Responsible Investors Behave? Keynes’s Distinction Between Entrepreneurship and Speculation Revisited. Christian Hecker.

• The Effect of Consumer Perceptions of the Ethics of Retailers on Purchase Behavior and Word-of-Mouth: The Moderating Role of Ethical Beliefs. Millissa F. Y. Cheung, W. M. To.

• Sweatshops and Free Action: The Stakes of the Actualism/Possibilism Debate for Business Ethics. Travis Timmerman, Abe Zakhem.

• Corporate Social Responsibility Disclosures and Investor Judgments in Difficult Times: The Role of Ethical Culture and Assurance. Andrew C. Stuart, Jean C. Bedard, Cynthia E. Clark.

• Towards the Development of an Empirical Model for Islamic Corporate Social Responsibility: Evidence from the Middle East. Petya Koleva.

• Microfranchising to Alleviate Poverty: An Innovation Network Perspective. Laté Lawson-Lartego, Lars Mathiassen.

• CEO Hubris and Firm Pollution: A Tricky Relationship. Maximilian H. Theissen, Hubertus H. Theissen.

• A Longitudinal Assessment of Corrective Advertising Mandated in United States v. Philip Morris USA, Inc. Christopher Berry, Scot Burton, Jeremy Kees, J. Craig Andrews.

• Material Sustainability Information and Stock Price Informativeness. Jody Grewal, Clarissa Hauptmann, George Serafeim.

• Coercive Pressures and Anti-corruption Reporting: The Case of ASEAN Countries. Tiyas Kurnia Sari, Fitra Roman Cahaya, Corina Joseph.

• Translating Corporate Social Responsibility into Action: A Social Learning Perspective. Amanuel G. Tekleab, Paul M. Reagan, Boram Do, Ariel Levi.

• How Do Companies Respond to Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) ratings? Evidence from Italy. Ester Clementino, Richard Perkins.

• Ethical Consumption Communities Across Physical and Digital Spaces: An Exploration of Their Complementary and Synergistic Affordances. Vera Hoelscher, Andreas Chatzidakis.

• Distinct Effects of Pride and Gratitude Appeals on Sustainable Luxury Brands. Felix Septianto, Yuri Seo, Amy Christine Errmann.

• Perspectives, Opportunities and Tensions in Ethical and Sustainable Luxury: Introduction to the Thematic Symposium. Victoria-Sophie Osburg, Iain Davies, Vignesh Yoganathan.

• Constructing Personas: How High-Net-Worth Social Media Influencers Reconcile Ethicality and Living a Luxury Lifestyle. Marina Leban, Thyra Uth Thomsen, Sylvia von Wallpach.    

• CSR Actions, Brand Value, and Willingness to Pay a Premium Price for Luxury Brands: Does Long-Term Orientation Matter? Mbaye Fall Diallo, Norchène Ben Dahmane Mouelhi.

• Stakeholder Perceptions of Risk in Mandatory Corporate Responsibility Disclosure. Lisa Baudot, Zhongwei Huang, Dana Wallace.

• To Be or Not to Be Governed Like That? Harmful and/or Offensive Advertising Complaints in the United Kingdom’s (Self-) Regulatory Context. Kristina Auxtova, Mary Brennan, Stephen Dunne.

• Price? Quality? Or Sustainability? Segmenting by Disposition Toward Self-other Tradeoffs Predicts Consumers’ Sustainable Decision-Making. Spencer M. Ross, George R. Milne.

• Responding to Diffused Stakeholders on Social Media: Connective Power and Firm Reactions to CSR-Related Twitter Messages. Gregory D. Saxton, Charlotte Ren, Chao Guo.

• The Ethics of Entrepreneurial Philanthropy. Charles Harvey, Jillian Gordon, Mairi Maclean.

• Perceived Greenwashing: The Effects of Green Marketing on Environmental and Product Perceptions. Szerena Szabo, Jane Webster.

• Determinants of Electronic Word-of-Mouth on Social Networking Sites About Negative News on CSR. Maria del Mar García-de los Salmones, Angel Herrero.

• Do Corporate Social Responsibility Reports Convey Value Relevant Information? Evidence from Report Readability and Tone. Shuili Du, Kun Yu.

• Corporate Leadership and Mass Atrocity. Sarah Federman.

• Looking Backward and Forward: Political Links and Environmental Corporate Social Responsibility in China. Peng Zhou, Felix Arndt, Kun Jiang, Weiqi Dai.

• On Ethical Violations in Microfinance Backed Small Businesses: Family and Household Welfare. Rahul Nilakantan, Deepak Iyengar, Samar K. Datta.

• The Moral Disillusionment Model of Organizational Transgressions Ethical Transgressions Trigger More Negative Reactions from Consumers When Committed by Nonprofits. Matthew J. Hornsey, Cassandra M. Chapman, Heidi Mangan.

• The Role of Institutional Uncertainty for Social Sustainability of Companies and Supply Chains. Nikolas K. Kelling, Philipp C. Sauer, Stefan Gold. 

• Green is the New White: How Virtue Motivates Green Product Purchase. Nathalie Spielmann.

• The role of Corporate Social Responsibility in Organisational Identity Communication, Co-Creation and Orientation. Mohamed Karim Sorour, Mark Boadu, Teerooven Soobaroyen.

• John Rawls’ Concept of the Reasonable: A Study of Stakeholder Action and Reaction Between British Petroleum and the Victims of the Oil Spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Kristian Alm, Mark Brown.

Journal of Consumer Psychology

• Improving Financial Inclusion through Communal Financial Orientation: How Financial Service Providers Can Better Engage Consumers in Banking Deserts. Martin Mende, Linda Court Salisbury, Gergana Y. Nenkov, Maura L. Scott.

Journal of Consumer Research

• Blame It on the Self-Driving Car: How Autonomous Vehicles Can Alter Consumer Morality. Tripat Gill.

MIS Quarterly

• The Impact of Subscription Reciprocity on Charitable Content Creation and Sharing: Evidence from Twitter on Giving Tuesday. Xue (Jane) Tan, Yingda Lu, and Yong Tan.

• Interventions for Improving Professional Networking for Women: Experimental Evidence from the IT Sector. Sofia Bapna and Russell J. Funk.

• How Information Technology Matters in Societal Change: An Affordance-Based Institutional Logics Perspective. Isam Faik, Michael Barrett, and Eivor Oborn.

Organization and Environment

• Introduction to the Special Issue on “Social Movements and Private Environmental Governance” Thomas P. Lyon.

• “Nano” Regeneration: How Human Agency Intermediates Between Nature and Technology in Community-Based Energy. Charlotte Marie Walther, Kim Poldner, Helen Kopnina, Domenico Dentoni.

• Material ESG Outcomes and SDG Externalities: Evaluating the Health Care Sector’s Contribution to the SDGs. Costanza Consolandi, Himani Phadke, Jim Hawley, Robert G. Eccles.

• Different Reasons for Different Responses: A Review of Incumbents’ Adaptation in Carbon-Intensive Industries. Franziska Sump, Sangyoon Yi.

• Understanding the Organization of Green Activism: Sociological and Economic Perspectives. Anthony Heyes, Brayden King.

• Transforming Markets? Activists’ Strategic Orientations and Engagement With Private Governance. Graeme Auld.

• The Role of Universities in Private Environmental Governance Experimentalism. Sarah E. Light.

• The Shadow of the Consumer: Analyzing the Importance of Consumers to the Uptake and Sophistication of Ratings, Certifications, and Eco-Labels. Graham Bullock, Hamish van der Ven.

• Do Private Regulations Ratchet Up? How to Distinguish Types of Regulatory Stringency and Patterns of Change. Devin Judge-Lord, Constance L. McDermott, Benjamin Cashore.

• From Raindrops to a Common Stream: Using the Social-Ecological Systems Framework for Research on Sustainable Water Management. Lucie Baudoin, Daniel Arenas.

• Trading Your Diversification Strategy for a Green One: How Do Firms in Emerging Economies Get on the Green Train? Die Hu, Yuandi Wang, Xue Yang.

• Social Learning for Anticipatory Adaptation to Climate Change: Evidence From a Community of Practice. Renato J. Orsato, José Guilherme Ferraz de Campos, Simone R. Barakat

• Contesting Instrumental Knowledge With Communicative Action: Why Kalabagh Dam (Pakistan) Remains Unbuilt. Tarique Niazi.

• From Sustainability to Integrated Reporting: The Legitimizing Role of the CSR Manager. Daniela Argento, Francesca Culasso, Elisa Truant.

• The Heterogeneity of Levels of Green Innovation by Firms in International Contexts: A Study Based on the Home-Country Institutional Profile. Dante I. Leyva-de la Hiz, Nuria Hurtado-Torres, María Bermúdez-Edo.

• The Formation of Environmentally Friendly Intentions of SME Owner-Managers in an Emerging Country: The Case of Tunisian’s Textile–Clothing Industry. Azzedine Tounés, Erno T. Tornikoski, Fafani Gribaa.

• Business Cases for Sustainability: A Stakeholder Theory Perspective. Stefan Schaltegger, Jacob Hörisch, R. Edward Freeman.

• Bill McKibben’s Influence on U.S. Climate Change Discourse: Shifting Field-Level Debates Through Radical Flank Effects. Todd Schifeling, Andrew J. Hoffman.

• Collaborative Civil Society Organizations and Sustainable Cities: The Role of “Mobilizing Leadership” in Building the Integral Commons. Kevin McDermott, Elizabeth C. Kurucz, Barry A. Colbert.

• Engaging With Paradox, Striving for Sustainability: Relating to Public Science and Commercial Research. Mary Ashby, Sally Riad, Sally Davenport.

• The Contextual Role of Regulatory Stakeholder Pressure in Proactive Environmental Strategies: An Empirical Test of Competing Theoretical Perspectives. Eva Alexandra Schmitz, Matthias Baum, Pascal Huett, Ruediger Kabst.

• To Be or to Seem: The Role of Environmental Practices in Corporate Environmental Reputation. Matilde Morales-Raya, Inmaculada Martín-Tapia, Natalia Ortiz-de-Mandojana.

• Management, Social Sustainability, Reputation, and Financial Performance Relationships: An Empirical Examination of U.S. Firms. Robert Sroufe, Venugopal Gopalakrishna-Remani.

• The Emergence of “Solidarity Recycling” in Brazil: Structural Convergences and Strategic Actions in Interconnected Fields. Silvio Eduardo Alvarez Candido, Fernanda Veríssimo Soulé, Mário Sacomano Neto.

Organization Science

• Dancing with Giants: How Small Women- and Minority-Owned Firms Use Soft Power to Manage Asymmetric Relationships with Larger Partners. Kisha Lashley, Timothy G. Pollock.

• If Higher Pay Is Profitable, Why Is It So Rare? Modeling Competing Strategies in Mass Market Services. Hazhir Rahmandad, Zeynep Ton.

• An Institutional Approach to Gender Diversity and Firm Performance. Letian Zhang.

Organization Studies

• The Identity Regulation of Disabled Employees: Unveiling the ‘varieties of ableism’ in employers’ socio-ideological control. Eline Jammaers, Patrizia Zanoni.

• Material Temporality: How materiality ‘does’ time in food organizing. Tor Hernes, Jonathan Feddersen, Majken Schultz.

• The Dynamics of (De)Stigmatization: Boundary construction in the nascent category of organic farming. Marjo Siltaoja, Merja Lähdesmaki, Nina Granqvist, Sami Kurki, Petteri Puska, Harri Luomala.

• Holding On While Letting Go: Neocolonialism as Organizational Identity Work in a Multinational Corporation. Marianne Storgaard, Janne Tienari, Rebecca Piekkari, Snejina Michailova.

• Persistent Category Ambiguity: The case of social entrepreneurship. Myrto Chliova, Johanna Mair, Alfred Vernis.

• Politicizing the Body in the Anti-Mining Protest in Greece. Marianna Fotaki, Maria Daskalaki.

• How Assemblages Change When Theories Become Performative: The case of the Blue Ocean Strategy. Guillaume Carton.

• Rethinking Diversity Management: An Intersectional Analysis of Diversity Networks. Marjolein Dennissen, Yvonne Benschop, Marieke van den Brink.

Research Policy

• Economic complexity and the green economy. Penny Mealy, Alexander Teytelboym.

• The antecedents of green technologies: The role of team-level recombinant capabilities. Gianluca Orsatti, Francesco Quatraro, Michele Pezzoni.

• Specialisation, diversification and the ladder of green technology development. François Perruchas, Davide Consoli, Nicolò Barbieri.

• Knowledge sources and impacts on subsequent inventions: Do green technologies differ from non-green ones? Nicolò Barbieri, Alberto Marzucchi, Ugo Rizzo.

• Mobile phones for financial inclusion: What explains the diffusion of mobile money innovations? Addisu A. Lashitew, Rob van Tulder, Yann Liasse.

• Mapping the winds of whole system reconfiguration: Analysing low-carbon transformations across production, distribution and consumption in the UK electricity system (1990–2016) Andrew McMeekin, Frank W. Geels, Mike Hodson.

• The technological system of production and innovation: The case of photovoltaic technology in China. Mahmood H. Shubbak.

• Shaping selection environments for industrial catch-up and sustainability transitions: A systemic perspective on endogenizing windows of opportunity. Xiao-Shan Yap, Bernhard Truffer.

Sloan Management Review

• A Crisis of Ethics in Technology Innovation. Max Wessel, Nicole Helmer.

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