Table of Contents: April 2022

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 2022

Academy of Management Discoveries

• Movement of People across Borders: Transdisciplinary Research to Meet the Challenges in Migration, Business, and Society. Aida Hajro, Milda Zilinskaite, Cristina Gibson, Paul Baldassari, Kevin Franklin, Wolfgang Mayrhofer, Chris Brewster, Mary Yoko Brannen.

California Management Review

• The Future of Global Supply Chains in a Post-COVID-19 World. Rajat Panwar, Jonatan Pinkse, Valentina De Marchi.

Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice

• Gender Differences in Enterprise Performance During the COVID-19 Crisis: Do Public Policy Responses Matter?. Addis G. Birhanu, Yamlaksira S. Getachew, Addisu A. Lashitew.

• Entrepreneurial Workaround Practices in Severe Institutional Voids: Evidence From Kenya. Alisa Sydow, Benedetto Lorenzo Cannatelli, Alessandro Giudici, Mario Molteni.

Harvard Business Review

• What Is the Purpose of Your Purpose? Jonathan Knowles, B. Tom Hunsaker, Hannah Grove, Alison James.

• The Messy but Essential Pursuit of Purpose. Ranjay Gulati.

• Use Purpose to Transform Your Workplace. Leena Nair, Nick Dalton, Patrick Hull, William Kerr.

• Purposeful Business the Agile Way. Darrell Rigby, Sarah Elk, Steve Berez.

• Data-Driven Diversity. Joan C. Williams, Jamie Dolkas.

• Managing a Polarized Workforce. Julia A. Minson, Francesca Gino.

• Creating High-Impact Coalitions. Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Tuna Cem Hayirli.

• How to Build an Anti-Racist Company. James D. White.

Human Relations

• EXPRESS: How is social inequality maintained in the Global South? Critiquing the concept of dirty work. Ghazal Zulfiqar, Ajnesh Prasad.

• EXPRESS: Development as Freedom? Insights from a Farmer-led Sustainable Agriculture NGO in the Philippines. Gavin Jack, Jagjit Plahe, Sarah Wright.

• EXPRESS: When ‘I’ becomes ‘We’: An ethnographic study of power and responsibility in a large food retail cooperative. Guy Huber, David Knights.

Journal of Business Ethics

• Reviewing Paradox Theory in Corporate Sustainability Toward a Systems Perspective. Simone Carmine, Valentina De Marchi.

• Diverse Organizational Adoption of Institutions in the Field of Corporate Social Responsibility. Sarah Margaretha Jastram, Alkis Henri Otto, Tatjana Minulla.

• True Consumer Autonomy: A Formalization and Implications. Michael R. Hyman, Alena Kostyk, David Trafimow.

• From Fear to Courage: Indian Lesbians’ and Gays’ Quest for Inclusive Ethical Organizations. Ernesto Noronha, Nidhi S. Bisht, Premilla D’Cruz.

• Philanthropy and the Making of a New Moral Order: A History of Developing Community. Arun Kumar.

• Ethical Complexity of Social Change: Negotiated Actions of a Social Enterprise. Babita Bhatt.

• Challenges and Insights from South Asia for Imagining Ethical Organizations: Introduction to the Special Issue. Fahreen Alamgir, Hari Bapuji, Raza Mir.

• Impact of Directors’ Network on Corporate Social Responsibility Disclosure: Evidence from China. Wenqin Li, John Ziyang Zhang, Rong Ding.

• Ambedkar, Radical Interdependence and Dignity: A Study of Women Mall Janitors in India. Ramaswami Mahalingam, Patturaja Selvaraj.

• Shaking Up (and Keeping Intact) the Old Boys’ Network: The Impact of the Mandatory Gender Quota on the Board of Directors in India. Bibek Bhattacharya, Ipsu Khadka, Dalhia Mani.

• How Have Corporate Codes of Ethics Responded to an Era of Increased Scrutiny? Tim Loughran, Bill McDonald, James R. Otteson.

• Organizations as Spaces for Caring: A Case of an Anti-trafficking Organization in India. Roscoe Conan D’Souza, Ignasi Martí.

• A National Governance Approach to the Political Nature and Role of Business: Case Study of the Mobile Telecommunications Industry in Afghanistan. Sameer Azizi.

• Changing Lens: Broadening the Research Agenda of Women in Management in China. Fang Lee Cooke.

• Why Disability Mainstreaming is Good for Business: A New Narrative. Sanjukta Choudhury Kaul, Quamrul Alam, Manjit Singh Sandhu.

• Corporate Purpose and Employee Sustainability Behaviors. C. B. Bhattacharya, Sankar Sen, Laura Marie Edinger-Schons, Michael Neureiter.

• Unethical Leadership: Review, Synthesis and Directions for Future Research. Sharfa Hassan, Puneet Kaur, Michael Muchiri, Chidiebere Ogbonnaya, Amandeep Dhir.

• Extending Social Sustainability to Suppliers: The Role of GVC Governance Strategies and Supplier Country Institutions. Sarah Castaldi, Miriam M. Wilhelm, Sjoerd Beugelsdijk, Taco van der Vaart.

• Socially Responsible Human Resource Management and Employee Moral Voice: Based on the Self-determination Theory. Hongdan Zhao, Yuanhua Chen, Weiwei Liu.

• Transforming Socially Responsible Investment: Lessons from Environmental Justice. Devon Reynolds, David Ciplet.

• Theorizing Discursive Resistance to Organizational Ethics of Care Through a Multi-stakeholder Perspective on Disability Inclusion Practices. Eline Jammaers.

• Women Leadership, Culture, and Islam: Female Voices from Jordan. Tamer Koburtay, Tala Abuhussein, Yusuf M. Sidani.

• The Role of Share Repurchases for Firms’ Social and Environmental Sustainability. Mario Vaupel, David Bendig, Denise Fischer-Kreer, Malte Brettel.

• From Reality to World. A Critical Perspective on AI Fairness. Jean-Marie John-Mathews, Dominique Cardon, Christine Balagué.

• Negotiating Meaning Systems in Multi-stakeholder Partnerships Addressing Grand Challenges: Homelessness in Western Canada. Sarah Easter, Matt Murphy, Mary Yoko Brannen.

• Organizations, Learning, and Sustainability: A Cross-Disciplinary Review and Research Agenda. Melanie Feeney, Therese Grohnert, Wim Gijselaers, Pim Martens.

• LGBT-Inclusive Representation in Entertainment Products and Its Market Response: Evidence from Field and Lab. Yimin Cheng, Xiaoyu Zhou, Kai Yao.

• Reciprocity in Firm–Stakeholder Dialog: Timeliness, Valence, Richness, and Topicality. Lite J. Nartey, Witold J. Henisz, Sinziana Dorobantu.

• Guest Editorial: Business Ethics in the Era of Artificial Intelligence. Michael Haenlein, Ming-Hui Huang, Andreas Kaplan.

• The Implications of Diverse Human Moral Foundations for Assessing the Ethicality of Artificial Intelligence. Jake B. Telkamp, Marc H. Anderson.

• Are Algorithmic Decisions Legitimate? The Effect of Process and Outcomes on Perceptions of Legitimacy of AI Decisions. Kirsten Martin, Ari Waldman.

• From Greenwashing to Machinewashing: A Model and Future Directions Derived from Reasoning by Analogy. Peter Seele, Mario D. Schultz.

• Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Implementation: A Review and a Research Agenda Towards an Integrative Framework. Tahniyath Fatima, Said Elbanna.

• When do Non-financial Goals Benefit Stakeholders? Theorizing on Care and Power in Family Firms. Melanie Richards.

• Challenging the Good Life: An Institutional Theoretic Investigation of Consumers’ Transformational Process Toward Sustainable Living. Derek Ezell, Victoria Bush, Matthew B. Shaner, Scott Vitel, Jiangang Huang.

• Green Practices and Customer Evaluations of the Service Experience: The Moderating Roles of External Environmental Factors and Firm Characteristics. Wei Jiang, Liwen Wang, Kevin Zheng Zhou.

• Cross-Border Mergers and Acquisitions and CSR Performance: Evidence from China. Xiaomeng Chen, Xiao Liang, Hai Wu.

• Buffering or Aggravating Effect? Examining the Effects of Prior Corporate Social Responsibility on Corporate Social Irresponsibility. Zhe Zhang, Mijia Gong, Shanshan Zhang, Ming Jia.

• CEO Personal Hedging and Corporate Social Responsibility. Jongwon Park, Sunyoung Kim, Albert Tsang.

• Transparency in Supply Chains (TISC): Assessing and Improving the Quality of Modern Slavery Statements. Bruce Pinnington, Amy Benstead, Joanne Meehan.

Journal of Consumer Psychology

• Untangling the web of misinformation and false beliefs. Gita Venkataramani Johar.

Journal of Consumer Research

• L’Art pour l’Art: Experiencing Art Reduces the Desire for Luxury Goods. Yajin Wang, Alison Jing Xu, Ying Zhang.

• Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) in the Journal of Consumer Research: A Curation and Research Agenda. Zeynep Arsel, David Crockett, Maura L Scott.

Journal of Environmental Economics and Management

• Evaluating the impact of technological renovation and competition on energy consumption in the workplace. Valeria Fanghella, Giovanna D’Adda, Massimo Tavoni.

• Environmental justice and Coasian bargaining: The role of race, ethnicity, and income in lease negotiations for shale gas. Christopher Timmins, Ashley Vissing.

• Searching for carbon leaks in multinational companies. Antoine Dechezleprêtre, Caterina Gennaioli, Ralf Martin, Mirabelle Muûls, Thomas Stoerk.

• Are power plant closures a breath of fresh air? Local air quality and school absences. Sarah Komisarow, Emily L. Pakhtigian.

Journal of Finance

• Do Equity Markets Care about Income Inequality? Evidence from Pay Ratio Disclosure. Yihui Pan, Elena S. Pikulina, Stephan Siegel, Tracy Yue Wang.

Journal of International Business Studies

• Tracing the connections between international business and communicable diseases. Ivan Montiel, Junghoon Park, Bryan W. Husted, Andres Velez-Calle.

• The influence of culture on the relationship between women directors and corporate social performance. Valentina Marano, Steve Sauerwald, Marc Van Essen. ‘

• Do foreign firms help make local firms greener? Evidence of environmental spillovers in China. Nahyun Kim, Junxiu Sun, Haitao Yin, Jon Jungbien Moon.

Operations Research

• Misinformation and Disinformation in Modern Warfare. Yanling Chang, Matthew F. Keblis, Ran Li, Eleftherios Iakovou, Chelsea C. White III.

• The Value of Coordination in Multimarket Bidding of Grid Energy Storage. Nils Löhndorf, David Wozabal.

Organization and Environment

• From Values to Value: The Commensuration of Sustainability Reporting and the Crowding Out of Morality. Koen van Bommel, Andreas Rasche, André Spicer.

• Bridging the Understanding of Sustainability Accounting and Organizational Change. Nicolas Garcia-Torea, Carlos Larrinaga, Mercedes Luque-Vílchez.

• Under Pressure? The Link Between Mandatory Climate Reporting and Firms’ Carbon Performance. Tobias Bauckloh, Christian Klein, Thomas Pioch, Frank Schiemann.

• The Uneven Returns of Transparency in Voluntary Nonfinancial Disclosures. Joel L. Andrus, Patrick J. Callery, Jake B. Grandy.

• Mainstreaming Business Models for Sustainability in Mature Industries: Leveraging Alternative Institutional Logics for Optimal Distinctiveness. Anne-Lorène Vernay, Mélodie Cartel, Jonatan Pinkse.

• What Really Explains ESG Performance? Disentangling the Asymmetrical Drivers of the Triple Bottom Line. Logan Crace, Joel Gehman.

• Cut Them Loose? Firms’ Response Strategies to Environmental Misconduct by Supplying Firms. Breeda Comyns, Pierre-Xavier Meschi, Anne Norheim-Hansen.

• Reconciling Institutional Logics Within First Nations Forestry-Based Social Enterprises. Anthony W. Persaud, Harry W. Nelson, Terre Satterfield.

• Human Hubris, Anthropogenic Climate Change, and an Environmental Ethic of Humility. Eugene Sadler-Smith, Vita Akstinaite.

• Configurations to Superior Environmental Innovation Strategy: A Both–And Approach. Tiziana Russo-Spena, Nadia Di Paola, Aidan O’Driscoll.

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

Organization Science

• Triadic Advocacy Work. Summer Rachel Jackson, Katherine Cissel Kellogg.

• Cooperation with Strangers: Spillover of Community Norms. Mario Molina, Victor Nee, Hakan Holm.

• Settlement Constellations and the Dynamics of Fields Formed Around Social and Environmental Issues. Sean Buchanan, Charlene Zietsma, Dirk Matten.

• Who Gives Back? Evidence from India on Successful Entrepreneurial Exit and Involvement in Philanthropy. Leena Kinger Hans, Balagopal (Bala) Vissa.

• Short-Selling Pressure and Workplace Safety: Curbing Short-Termism Through Stakeholder Interdependencies. Cuili Qian, Donal Crilly, Yupeng Lin, Keyuan Zhang, Rengong Zhang.

• Driven to Distraction: The Unintended Consequences of Organizational Learning from Failure Caused by Human Error. Brian Park, David W. Lehman, Rangaraj Ramanujam.

• What Makes Resource Provision an Effective Means of Poverty Alleviation? A Resourcing Perspective. Christopher Sutter, Babita Bhatt, Israr Qureshi.

• Gender, Race, and Network Advantage in Organizations. Emilio J. Castilla.

• Responsibility and Organization Science: Integrating Micro and Macro Perspectives. Ruth V. Aguilera, David A. Waldman, Donald S. Siegel.

Organization Studies

• The Ethics of Organizational Ethics. Carl Rhodes.

• Early Career Leadership Advancement: Evidence of incongruity penalties toward young, single women professionals. Jennifer Merluzzi, Damon J. Phillips.

• Resistance as a Way of Life: How a group of workers perpetuated insubordination to neoliberal management. David Sanson, David Courpasson.

• When States Build Markets: Policy support as a double-edged sword in the UK social investment market. Guillermo Casasnovas.

• Making a Difference Through Atmospheres: The Orange Alternative, laughter and the possibilities of affective resistance. Dorota Marsh, Martyna Śliwa.

• Inter-Organizational Paradox Management: How national business systems affect responses to paradox along a global value chain. Stephanie Schrage, Andreas Rasche.

Research Policy

• Towards privatized social and employment protections in the platform economy? Evidence from the UK courier sector. Steven Rolf, Jacqueline O’Reilly, Marc Meryon.

• The ability of European regions to diversify in renewable energies: The role of technological relatedness. Rosina Moreno, Diego Ocampo-Corrales.

• Environmental concerns, income inequality, and purchase of environmentally-friendly products: A longitudinal study of U.S. counties (2010-2017). Kunyuan Qiao, Glen Dowell.

• The stakeholder value proposition of digital platforms in an urban ecosystem. Carlos Carrasco-Farré, Yuliya Snihur, Pascual Berrone, Joan Enric Ricart.

• The role of proximity in sustainability transitions: A technological niche evolution analysis. Antonio Lopolito, Pasquale Marcello Falcone, Edgardo Sica

Sloan Management Review

• 10 MIT SMR Articles to Celebrate Earth Day. MIT SMR Editors.

• Businesspeople Must Reconnect With Nature to Save the Planet. George Ferns.

• Why Top Management Should Focus on Responsible AI. David Kiron, Elizabeth Renieris, Steven Mills.

• To Transition to Net Zero, Model the Alternative. Simon Glynn, Simon Cooper.

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