Table of Contents: April 2021

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 2021

Academy Of Management Discoveries

• Constructing safety: Reconciling Error Prevention and Error Management in Oil & Gas and Petrochemicals Operations. Charles Ian Cowley, David Denyer, Elmar Kutsch, Kim Turnbull-James.

California Management Review

• Tackling Societal Challenges with Open Innovation. Anita M. McGahan, Marcel L. A. M. Bogers, Henry Chesbrough, Marcus Holgersson.

Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice

• Trailing Wives and Constrained Agency Among Women Migrant Entrepreneurs: An Intersectional Perspective. Paul Lassalle, Eleanor Shaw.

Harvard Business Review

• Manage the Suppliers That Could Harm Your Brand. Jodi L. Short, Michael W. Toffel.

Human Relations

• He aronga takirua: Cultural double-shift of Māori scientists. Jarrod Haar, William John Martin.

•  Careers advancement of women: Applying a multi-level relational perspective in the context of Turkish banking organisations. Didem Taser-Erdogan.

•  No family left behind: Flexibility i-deals for employees with stigmatized family identities. Smriti Anand, Arjun Mitra

•  Collective sensemaking in the local response to a grand challenge: Recovery, alleviation and change-oriented responses to a refugee crisis. Mark van der Giessen, Christina Langenbusch, Gabriele Jacobs, Joep Cornelissen.

•  No such thing as a free ride: The impact of disability labels on relationship building at work. Anna Brzykcy, Stephan Boehm.

• The effect of intra-workplace pay inequality on employee trust in managers: Assessing a multilevel moderated mediation effect model. Felix Schulz, Danat Valizade, Andy Charlwood.

•  Underemploying highly skilled migrants: An organizational logic protecting corporate ‘normality’. Annette Risberg, Laurence Romani.

•  Contextualising intersectionality: A qualitative study of East Asian female migrant workers in the UK. Seonyoung Hwang, T Alexandra Beauregard

•  Career challenges in smart cities: A sociotechnical systems view on sustainable careers. Petru Lucian Curşeu, Judith Hilde Semeijn, Irina Nikolova.

Information Systems Research

• Standing Up or Standing By: Understanding Bystanders’ Proactive Reporting Add a Comment to Social Media Harassment. Randy Yee Man Wong , Christy M. K. Cheung , Bo Xiao, Jason Bennett Thatcher.

• The Deterrent Effect of Ride-Sharing on Sexual Assault and Investigation of Situational Contingencies. Jiyong Park , Min-Seok Pang , Junetae Kim, Byungtae Lee.

Journal of Accounting and Economics

• Real Effects of Disclosure Regulation on Voluntary Disclosers. Jody Grewal.

 Journal of Business Ethics

• Evidence on the Economic Consequences of Marriage Equality and LGBT Human Rights. Jessie Y. Zhu, Wally Smieliauskas.

• Putting the “Love of Humanity” Back in Corporate Philanthropy: The Case of Health Grants by Corporate Foundations. Muhammad Umar Boodoo, Irene Henriques, Bryan W. Husted.

• Corporate Accountability Towards Species Extinction Protection: Insights from Ecologically Forward-Thinking Companies. Lee Roberts, Monomita Nandy, Abeer Hassan, Suman Lodh, Ahmed A. Elamer.

• Doing Well and Doing Good: How Responsible Entrepreneurship Shapes Female Entrepreneurial Success. Xuemei Xie, Yonghui Wu.

• Deliberating Our Frames: How Members of Multi-Stakeholder Initiatives Use Shared Frames to Tackle Within-Frame Conflicts Over Sustainability Issues. Angelika Zimmermann, Nora Albers, Jasper O. Kenter.

•  Beyond Market Strategies: How Multiple Decision-Maker Groups Jointly Influence Underperforming Firms’ Corporate Social (Ir)responsibility. Xi Zhong, Liuyang Ren, Tiebo Song.

•  Power Imbalance and the Dark Side of the Captive Agri-food Supplier–Buyer Relationship. Richard Glavee-Geo, Per Engelseth, Arnt Buvik.

•  Socially Oriented Shareholder Activism Targets: Explaining Activists’ Corporate Target Selection Using Corporate Opportunity Structures. Abhijith G. Acharya, David Gras, Ryan Krause.

• Assessing Customers’ Moral Disengagement from Reciprocity Concerns in Participative Pricing. Preeti Narwal, J. K. Nayak, Shivam Rai.

•  Ethical Decision-Making in Family Firms: The Role of Employee Identification. Friederike Sophie Reck, Denise Fischer, Malte Brettel.

•  Is It Freedom? The Coming About of the EU Directive on Whistleblower Protection. Wim Vandekerckhove.

• Non-audit Engagements and the Creation of Public Value: Consequences for the Public Interest. Bertrand Malsch, Marie-Soleil Tremblay, Jeffrey Cohen.

•  Changes in Corporate Social Responsibility and Stock Performance. Hui-Ju Tsai, Yangru Wu.

• “Educate, Agitate, Organize”: Inequality and Ethics in the Writings of Dr. Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar. Arun Kumar, Hari Bapuji, Raza Mir.

•  “We’re Just Geeks”: Disciplinary Identifications Among Business Students and Their Implications for Personal Responsibility. Maribel Blasco.

• The Regulatory Dynamics of Sustainable Finance: Paradoxical Success and Limitations of EU Reforms. Hanna Ahlström, David Monciardini.

• Does A Virtuous Circle Really Exist? Revisiting the Causal Linkage Between CSP and CFP. Xiaoping Zhao, Audrey Murrell.

• Contaminated Heart: Does Air Pollution Harm Business Ethics? Evidence from Earnings Manipulation. Charles H. Cho, Zhongwei Huang, Siyi Liu, Daoguang Yang.

•  Is Femvertising the New Greenwashing? Examining Corporate Commitment to Gender Equality. Yvette Sterbenk, Sara Champlin, Kasey Windels, Summer Shelton.

•  Adversity Tries Friends: A Multilevel Analysis of Corporate Philanthropic Response to the Local Spread of COVID-19 in China. Hanwen Chen, Siyi Liu, Xin Liu, Daoguang Yang.

•  State-Level Culture and Workplace Diversity Policies: Evidence from US Firms. Sivathaasan Nadarajah, Muhammad Atif, Ammar Ali Gull.

•  When Discrimination is Worse, Autonomy is Key: How Women Entrepreneurs Leverage Job Autonomy Resources to Find Work–Life Balance. Dirk De Clercq, Steven A. Brieger.

•  Theoretical Insights of CSR Research in Communication from 1980 to 2018: A Bibliometric Network Analysis. Yi Grace Ji, Weiting Tao, Hyejoon Rim.

•  Non-economic Performance of Benefit Corporations: A Variance Decomposition Approach. Pankaj C. Patel, C. S. Richard Chan.

•  Pathways to Lasting Cross-Sector Social Collaboration: A Configurational Study. Christiana Weber, Helen Haugh, Markus Göbel, Hannes Leonardy.

•  Law Lost, Compliance Found: A Frontline Understanding of the Non-linear Nature of Business and Employee Add a Comment to Law. Na Li, Benjamin van Rooij.

•  Economic Peace as a Counterpoint to the Warfare Economy: Rethinking Individual and Collective Responsibility. Fiona Ottaviani, Dominique Steiler.

•  The Effect of Regulation on Sustainable Procurement: Organisational Leadership and Culture as Mediators. Daniel Etse, Adela McMurray, Nuttawuth Muenjohn.

•  Ruthless Exploiters or Ethical Guardians of the Workforce? Powerful CEOs and their Impact on Workplace Safety and Health. Jesper Haga, Fredrik Huhtamäki, Dennis Sundvik.

•  The Effects of Top Management Team National Diversity and Institutional Uncertainty on Subsidiary CSR Focus. Sven Dahms, Suthikorn Kingkaew, Eddy S. Ng.

•  Sexual Harassment, Sexual Violence and CSR: Radical Feminist Theory and a Human Rights Perspective. Kate Grosser, Meagan Tyler.

• Nudges in SRI: The Power of the Default Option. Jean-Francois Gajewski, Marco Heimann, Luc Meunier.

•  New Directions in Corporate Social Responsibility and Ethics: Codes of Conduct in the Digital Environment. David López Jiménez, Eduardo Carlos Dittmar, Jenny Patricia Vargas Portillo.

• Too Good To Be True: Influencing Credibility Perceptions with Signaling Reference Explicitness and Assurance Depth. Carolin Baier, Max Göttsche, Andreas Hellmann & Frank Schiemann.

• “It’s Just Business”: Understanding How Business Frames Differ from Ethical Frames and the Effect on Unethical Behavior. McKenzie R. Rees, Ann E. Tenbrunsel, Kristina A. Diekmann.

Journal of Consumer Psychology

• Selfless First Movers and Self‐Interested Followers: Order of Entry Signals Purity of Motive in Pursuit of the Greater Good. Ike Silver, Brooke A. Kelly, Deborah A. Small.

• Nonmaleficence in Shaming: The Ethical Dilemma Underlying Participation in Online Public Shaming. Chen Pundak, Yael Steinhart, Jacob Goldenberg.

• When Cause‐Marketing Backfires: Differential Effects of One‐for‐One Promotions on Hedonic and Utilitarian Products. Riley G. Dugan, Joshua J. Clarkson, Joshua T. Beck.

• The Differentiation Principle: Why Consumers Often Neglect Positive Attributes of Novel Food Products. Arnd Florack, Teresa Koch, Simona Haasova, Sonja Kunz, Hans Alves.

• Consumers—Especially Women—Avoid Buying From Firms With Higher Gender Pay Gaps. Tobias Schlager, Bhavya Mohan, Katherine DeCelles, Michael Norton.

• Landfill or Recycle? Pro‐Environmental Receptacle Labeling Increases Recycling Contamination. Jesse R. Catlin, James M. Leonhardt, Yitong Wang, Rommel J. Manuel.

• Guilt of the Meat‐Eating Consumer: When Animal Anthropomorphism Leads to Healthy Meat Dish Choices. Danny JM Kim, Sunyee Yoon.

• Designing for All: Consumer Response to Inclusive Design. Vanessa M. Patrick, Candice R. Hollenbeck.

Journal of Consumer Research 

• The Regeneration of Consumer Movement Solidarity. Andreas Chatzidakis, Pauline Maclaran, Rohit Varman.

•  How Do Consumers React to Company Moral Transgressions? The Role of Power Distance Belief and Empathy for Victims. Haiyue (Felix) Xu, Lisa E Bolton, Karen Page Winterich.

•  How Brands Craft National Identity. Michael B Beverland, Giana M Eckhardt, Sean Sands, Avi Shankar.

•  Not Too Far to Help: Residential Mobility, Global Identity, and Donations to Distant Beneficiaries. Yajin Wang, Amna Kirmani, Xiaolin Li.

•  Assimilating and Differentiating: The Curvilinear Effect of Social Class on Green Consumption. Li Yan, Hean Tat Keh, Jiemiao Chen.

Journal of Environmental Economics and Management

• The health consequences of excess emissions: Evidence from Texas. Alex J. Hollinsgworth, David M. Konisky, Nikolaos Zirogiannis.

•  Effectiveness of climate policies: Carbon pricing vs. subsidizing renewables. Klaus Gugler, Adhurim Haxhimusa, Mario Liebensteiner.

• (Machine) learning from the COVID-19 lockdown about electricity market performance with a large share of renewables. Christoph Graf, Federico Quaglia, Frank A. Wolak.

•  Does the COVID-19 lockdown improve global air quality? New cross-national evidence on its unintended consequences. Hai-Anh H. Dang, Trong-Anh Trinh.

Journal of Financial and Qualitative Analysis

• Gender Gaps in Venture Capital Performance. Paul A. Gompers, Vladimir Mukharlyamov, Emily Weisburst, Yuhai Xuan.

•  Gender, Credit, and Firm Outcomes. Manthos D. Delis, Iftekhar Hasan, Maria Iosifidi, Steven Ongena.

Journal of International Business Studies 

• MNC responses to international NGO activist campaigns: Evidence from Royal Dutch/Shell in apartheid South Africa. Ishva Minefee, Marcelo Bucheli.

•  MNE responses to carbon pricing regulations: Theory and evidence. Michael Nippa, Sanjay Patnaik, Markus Taussig.

• Long-term energy transitions and international business: Concepts, theory, methods, and a research agenda. Jonathan Doh, Pawan Budhwar, Geoffrey Wood.

•  Sharing economy: International marketing strategies. Irina V. Kozlenkova, Ju-Yeon Lee, Diandian Xiang, Robert W. Palmatier.

•  The impact of multinational enterprises on community informal institutions and rural poverty. Kristin Brandl, Elizabeth Moore, Camille Meyer, Jonathan Doh.

MIS Quarterly

• Avoiding an Oppressive Future of Machine Learning: A Design Theory for Emancipatory Assistants. Gerald C. Kane, Amber G. Young, Ann Majchrzak, Sam Ransbotham.

•  The CARE Theory of Dignity Amid Personal Data Digitalization. Dorothy E. Leidner, Olgerta Tona.

• Examining Assumptions: Provocations on the Nature, Impact, and Implications of IS Theory. Andrew Burton-Jones, Brian S. Butler, Susan V. Scott, Sean Xin Xu.

Operations Research

• Placement Optimization in Refugee Resettlement. Narges Ahani, Tommy Andersson, Alessandro Martinello, Alexander Teytelboym, Andrew C. Trapp.

• Data-Driven Transit Network Design at Scale. Dimitris Bertsimas, Yee Sian Ng, Julia Yan

Organization and Environment

• Organizational Learning for Environmental Sustainability: Internalizing Lifecycle Management. Guia Bianchi, Francesco Testa, Olivier Boiral, Fabio Iraldo.

• The Impact of Managers and Network Interactions on the Integration of Circularity in Business Strategy. Manon Eikelenboom, Gjalt de Jong.

•  Reformists, Decouplists, and Activists: A Typology of Ecocentric Management. Mauricio Hernández, Pablo Muñoz.

•  Leadership Forum on Organizations and Sustainability: Taking Stock, Looking Forward. Tobias Hahn, Jennifer Howard-Grenville, Thomas Lyon, Michael V. Russo, Judith L. Walls.

• Why Do Firms Participate in Voluntary Environmental Programs? A Meta-Analysis of the Role of Institutions, Resources, and Program Stringency. Peter Tashman, Svetlana Flankova, Marc van Essen, Valentina Marano.

Organization Science

• Congruence Between Leadership Gender and Organizational Claims Affects the Gender Composition of the Applicant Pool: Field Experimental Evidence. Mabel Abraham, Vanessa Burbano.

• Women in the Inner Circle: Gender and Director Networks After the Fracturing of the Corporate Elite. Richard A. Benton.

•  Social Responsibility Beyond the Corporate: Executive Mental Accounting Across Sectoral and Issue Domains. Razvan Lungeanu, Klaus Weber.

•  Why Do Firms Fail to Engage Diversity? A Behavioral Strategy Perspective. Chengwei Liu.

• Bounding and Binding: Trajectories of Community-Organization Emergence Following a Major Disruption. Trenton Alma Williams, Dean A. Shepherd.

•  Bad Company: Shifts in Social Activists’ Tactics and Resources After Industry Crises.

  Mary-Hunter McDonnell, Kate Odziemkowska, Elizabeth Pontikes.

•  We’re Not Like Those Crazy Hippies: The Dynamics of Jurisdictional Drift in Externally Mandated Occupational Groups. Grace Augustine.

•  Network-Biased Technical Change: How Modern Digital Collaboration Tools Overcome Some Biases but Exacerbate Others. Lynn Wu, Gerald C. Kane.

Organization Studies

• New Order and Old Institutions: South Africa and the institutional work of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Tapiwa Seremani, Carine Farias, Stewart Clegg.

• Data and Organization Studies: Aesthetics, emotions, discourse and our everyday encounters with data. Adam Saifer, M. Tina Dacin.

•  Heart, Mind and Body: #NoMorePage3 and the Replenishment of Emotional Energy. Lauren McCarthy, Sarah Glozer.

• More Than a Revolving Door: Corporate lobbying and the socialization of institutional carriers. Anna Tyllström.

• Post-Inquiry Sensemaking: The Case of the ‘Black Saturday’ Bushfires. Graham Dwyer, Cynthia Hardy, Steve Maguire.

• Protect to Damage? Institutional work, unintended consequences and institutional dynamics. Eun Young Song.

• Biomateriality and Organizing: Towards an Organizational Perspective on Food. Christine Moser, Juliane Reinecke, Frank den Hond, Silviya Svejenova, Grégoire Croidieu.

• Forging Forms of Authority through the Sociomateriality of Food in Partial Organizations. Stefano Pascucci, Domenico Dentoni, Jen Clements, Kim Poldner, William B. Gartner.

Research Policy

•  Design and environmental technologies: Does ‘green-matching’ actually help?. Claudia Ghisetti, Sandro Montresor, Antonio Vezzani.

• Does participation in knowledge networks facilitate market access in global innovation systems? The case of offshore wind. Maria Tsouri, Jens Hanson, Håkon Endresen Normann.

• Stimulating a more Circular Economy through Public Procurement: Roles and dynamics of intermediation. Dr. Anne Rainville.

Sloan Management Review 

• The Four Fatal Mistakes Holding Back Circular Business Models. Johan Frishammar, Vinit Parida.

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