Table of Contents: April 2024

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 2024

Academy of Management Discoveries

• The Perils of Voice Veneer: The Case of Disneyland Puppeteers’ Unionization Efforts. Audrey L. Holm, Bella T. Fong, Michel Anteby.

• By the People and for the People: The Double-Edged Effects of Platform User Mobilization on Public Policies. Yuni Wen, Edward Walker, Lori Qingyuan Yue.

• CEOs Showing Humanity: Human Care Statements in Conference Calls and Stock Market Performance during Crisis. Lauren Howe, Laura M Giurge, Alexander Wagner, Jochen Menges.

• Does Broadening the term “Diversity” Correlate with a Lowered Representation of Racial Minorities and Women in Organizations? Modupe Akinola, Tina Opie, Geoff Ho, Safiya Castel, Miguel Unzueta, Ariella Kristal, Flannery Stevens, Arthur Brief, Nicholas D. Zambrotta.

California Management Review

• Global Sustainability Frontrunners: Lessons from the Nordics. Robert Strand.

• Essential Capabilities for Successful Digital Service Innovation at the Bottom of the Pyramid. Vijaya Sunder M and Siddhartha Modukuri.

• The Changing Ranks of Corporate Leaders. Peter Cappelli, Rocio Bonet, Monika Hamori.

Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice

• Evaluating the Credibility of Entrepreneurs’ Impact Promises in Early-Stage Impact Investing. Guillaume Dumont.

• Liability of Ownership Origin, Corporate Philanthropy, and Desire for Control in Chinese Family Firms. Ruijie Jin, Helen Wei Hu.

Harvard Business Review

• To Create a Greener Future, the West Can’t Ignore China. Shameen Prashantham, Lola Woetzel.

• How Inclusive Brands Fuel Growth. Omar Rodríguez-Vilá, Dionne Nickerson, Sundar Bharadwaj.

• For Start-Ups Seeking Talent, a Lofty Purpose Can Backfire. Amy Meeker.

• How to Market Sustainable Products. Frédéric Dalsace, Goutam Challagalla.

• How Companies Should Weigh In on a Controversy. David M. Bersoff, Sandra J. Sucher, Peter Tufano.

• Case Study: Navigating Labor Unrest. Jorge Tamayo.

• Does Capitalism Need Reform—or Revolution? Scott LaPierre.

Human Relations

• Repoliticizing spirituality: A collaborative autoethnography on Indigenous identity dynamics during an environmental conflict in a Mapuche community in Chile. Rajiv Maher, Simón Loncopán.

• Prefigurative imaginaries: Giving the unbanked in Kenyan informal settlements the power to issue their own currency. George Kuk, Stéphanie Giamporcaro.

• Contesting social responsibilities of business: Centring context, experience, and relationality. Premilla D’Cruz, Nolywé Delannon, Arno Kourula, Lauren McCarthy, Jeremy Moon, Laura J Spence.

• Coping with personhood limbo: Personhood anchoring work among undocumented workers in Italy. Roya Derakhshan, Vivek Soundararajan, Pankhuri Agarwal, Andrew Crane.

• ‘Brazil must be a country for entrepreneurs and workers, not scoundrels’: Personal branding mechanisms underpinning CEO activism. Amon Barros, Benjamin Rosenthal, Caio Coelho, Bruno Leandro.

• Financially insecure and less ethical: Understanding why and when financial insecurity inhibits ethical leadership. Yuanmei (Elly) Qu, Mayowa T Babalola, Chidiebere Ogbonnaya, Shuang Ren, Lu Chen, Mengxi Yang.

Information Systems Research

• Integrated Decision Support for Disaster Risk Management: Aiding Preparedness and Response Decisions in Wildfire Management. Daniel Suarez, Camilo Gomez, Andrés L. Medaglia, Raha Akhavan-Tabatabaei, Sthefania Grajales.

• Shedding Light on the Dark: The Impact of Legal Enforcement on Darknet Transactions. Jason Chan, Shu He, Dandan Qiao, Andrew Whinston.

Journal of Accounting and Economics

• Employee responses to CEO activism. Anahit Mkrtchyan, Jason Sandvik, Da Xu.

• Community membership and reciprocity in lending: Evidence from informal markets. Rimmy E. Tomy, Regina Wittenberg-Moerman. 

Journal of Business Ethics

• Teaching Race in Business Schools: The Challenges and Possibilities of Anti-Racist Education. Helena Liu.

• Natural Disaster, Tax Avoidance, and Corporate Pollution Emissions: Evidence from China. Rui Xu, Liuyang Ren.

• Selling Who You Know: How We Justify Sharing Others’ Data. Susanne Ruckelshausen, Bernadette Kamleitner, Vincent Mitchell.

• Greenhouse Gas Disclosure: Evidence from Private Firms. Aline Grahn.

• Mapping the Contours of Blame: An Account of the Moral Boundaries of Organizations. Rita Mota, Alan D. Morrison.

• The Ethical Embeddedness of the Economic Inequality Debate. Mikko Ketokivi, Sebastien M. Fosse, Peter Kawalek.

• Will a Moral Follower Please Stand Up (to the Machiavellian Leader)? The Effects of Machiavellian Leadership on Moral Anger and Whistleblowing. Taran Lee-Kugler, Jun Gu, Rebecca Mitchell.

• Ethics of Quantification and Randomised Control Trials in International Development: A Decolonial Analysis. Emily Cook-Lundgren, Emanuela Girei.

• Digital Inclusion and Financial Inclusion: Evidence from Peer-to-Peer Lending. Xiaoran Jia, Kiridaran Kanagaretnam.

• On ‘the Politics of Repair Beyond Repair’: Radical Democracy and the Right to Repair Movement. Javier Lloveras, Mario Pansera, Adrian Smith.

• In Defence of the Indefensible: Exploring Justification Narratives of Corporate Elites Accused of Corruption. Mabel Torbor, David Sarpong, Derrick Boakye.

• Can Consumers’ Altruistic Inferences Solve the CSR Initiative Puzzle? A Meta-analytic Investigation. François A. Carrillat, Carolin Plewa, Ekaterina Napolova and others.

• The Ethics of Commons Organizing: A Critical Reading. David Murillo, Pau Guinart, Daniel Arenas.

• Impact of Corporate Culture on Environmental Performance. Mabel D. Costa, Solomon Opare.

• The Banality of Organizational Wrongdoing: A Reading on Arendt’s Thoughtlessness Thesis. Javier Hernández, Consuelo Araos.

• Boardroom Diversity and Carbon Emissions: Evidence from the UK Firms. Ishwar Khatri.

• Do Old Board Directors Promote Corporate Social Responsibility? Han-Hsing Lee, Woan-lih Liang, Quang-Thai Truong and others.

• Standing Up or Standing By: Abnormally Hot Temperatures and Corporate Environmental Engagement. Jiaxin Wang, Jingyi Zhuang, Kam C. Chan.

• Redefining Academic Safe Space for Responsible Management Education. Joé T. Martineau, Audrey-Anne Cyr.

• Diversity and Business Legitimacy. Adam Gjesdal.

• Hybridity in Nonprofit Organizations: Organizational Perspectives on Combining Multiple Logics. Aastha Malhotra, April L. Wright, Lee C. Jarvis.

• The Nexus Between Sources of Workers’ Power in the Garment Manufacturing Industries of Lesotho and Eswatini. Søren Jeppesen, Andries Bezuidenhout.

• Machine Learning for Predicting Corporate Violations: How Do CEO Characteristics Matter? Ruijie Sun, Feng Liu Jing Luo.

• Board Gender Diversity and Within-Firm Wage Inequity: Evidence from the Relaxation of China’s One-Child Policy. Ni Qin, Dongmin Kong, Mengxu Xiong and others.

• Beyond Reach but Within Sight: Ethical Leaders’ Pursuit of Seemingly Unattainable Role Models in East Asia. Sophia Chia-Min Chou.

• CEO Religion and Corporate Social Responsibility: A Socio-behavioral Model. Isabelle Le Breton-Miller, Danny Miller, Xiaowei Xu and others.

• Ethics of Care and Employees: The Impact of Female Board Representation and Top Management Leadership on Human Capital Development Policies. Conor Callahan, Arjun Mitra, Steve Sauerwald.

• Doing Good and Doing Well? CSR Climate as a Driver of Team Empowerment and Team Performance. Tom Kluijtmans, Kenn Meyfroodt, Saskia Crucke.

• Participation Strategies and Ethical Considerations in NGO Led Community-Based Conservation Initiatives. Chaudhry Ghafran, Sofia Yasmin.

• Import Penetration and Corporate Misconduct: A Natural Experiment. Christopher Dupuis, Ying Zheng.

• Are Companies Offloading Risk onto Employees in Times of Uncertainty? Insights from Corporate Pension Plans. Douglas Cumming, Fanyu Lu, Chia-Feng (Jeffrey) Yu.

• The Influence of Religious Identification on Strategic Green Marketing Orientation. Riza Casidy, Denni Arli, Lay Peng Tan.

• A Moral Evaluation of LBOs. Aurélien Philippot.

• “Be Not Conformed to this World”: MacIntyre’s Critique of Modernity and Amish Business Ethics. Sunny Jeong, Matthew Sinnicks, Mai Chi Vu.

• The Temporal Structuring of Corporate Sustainability. Sébastien Mena, Simon Parker.

• Structures Supporting Virtuous Moral Agency: An Empirical Enquiry. Dirk Vriens, Riki A. M. de Wit, Claudia Groß.

• Responsible Business Conduct in Commodity Trading—A Multidisciplinary Review. Henrietta Dorfmüller, Wangui Kimotho, Florian Wettstein.

• Silent Majority: How Employees’ Perceptions of Corporate Hypocrisy are Related to their Silence. Yiming Wang, Yuhua Xie, Duojun He.

• Moral Economy and the Ethics of the Real Living Wage in UK Football Clubs. Tony Dobbins, Peter Prowse.

• Language as a Source of Epistemic Injustice in Organisations. Natalie Victoria Wilmot.

• The Homo Economicus as a Prototype of a Psychopath? A Conceptual Analysis and Implications for Business Research and Teaching. Florian Fuchs, Volker Lingnau.

• Can You Hear Nature Sing? Enacting the Syilx Ethical Practice of Nʕawqnwixʷ to Reconstruct the Relationships Between Humans and Nature. Grace H. Fan.

• The Labyrinth of Corruption in the Construction Industry: A System Dynamics Model Based on 40 Years of Research. Seyed Ashkan Zarghami.

• Climate Change Denial and Corporate Environmental Responsibility. Mansoor Afzali, Gonul Colak, Sami Vähämaa.

• Social Diversity on Corporate Boards in a Country Torn by Civil War. Kamil K. Nazliben, Luc Renneboog, Emil Uduwalage.

• Do Internal Auditors Make Consistent Ethical Judgments in English and Chinese in Reporting Wrongdoing? Peipei Pan, Chris Patel.

• Ethical Leadership on the Rise? A Cross-Temporal and Cross-Cultural Meta-Analysis of its Means, Variability, and Relationships with Follower Outcomes Across 15 Years. Justine Amory, Bart Wille, Sofie Dupré and others.

• The Dismissal of New Female CEOs: A Role Congruity Perspective. Yusi Jiang, Wan Cheng, Xuemei Xie.

• Top Managers’ Rice Culture and Corporate Social Responsibility Performance. Yonggen Luo, Dongmin Kong, Huijie Cui.

• Conceptualising Sustainability as the Pursuit of Life. Frederik Dahlmann.

• How Officials’ Political Incentives Influence Corporate Green Innovation. Shenggang Ren, Donghua Liu, Ji Yan.

• Local Tournament Incentives and Corporate Social Responsibility. Yiqing Tan.

• Who Keeps Company with the Wolf will Learn to Howl: Does Local Corruption Culture Affect Financial Adviser Misconduct? Mia Hang Pham, Harvey Nguyen, Anh Dao.

• Beliefs Matter: Local Climate Concerns and Industrial Greenhouse Gas Emissions in the United States. Glen Dowell, Thomas Lyon.

• Building Common Ground: How Facilitators Bridge Between Diverging Groups in Multi-Stakeholder Dialogue. Julia Grimm, Rebecca C. Ruehle, Juliane Reinecke.

• Don’t Rock the Boat: The Social-symbolic Work to Confront Ethnic Discrimination in Branches of Professional Service Firms. Daniela Aliberti, Rita Bissola, Barbara Imperatori.

• “It’s Business”: A Qualitative Study of Moral Injury in Business Settings; Experiences, Outcomes and Protecting and Exacerbating Factors. Karina Nielsen, Claire Agate, Rachel Lewis and others.

• Rules of the Game and Credibility of Implementation in the Control of Corruption. Karl Z. Meyer, John M. Luiz, Johannes W. Fedderke.

• Systems Perspectives on Business and Peace: The Contingent Nature of Business-Related Action with Respect to Peace Positive Impacts. Sarah Cechvala, Brian Ganson.

• Should I Stay or Should I Go? Auditor Ethical Conflict and Turnover Intention. Guillermina Tormo-Carbó, Zeena Mardawi, Elies Seguí-Mas.

• Responsible Design Thinking for Sustainable Development: Critical Literature Review, New Conceptual Framework, and Research Agenda. Brian Baldassarre, Giulia Calabretta, Erik Jan Hultink and others.

Journal of Consumer Psychology

• The mobile giving gap: The negative impact of smartphones on donation behavior. Stefan J. Hock,  Kristen A. Ferguson,  Kelly B. Herd.

Journal of Consumer Research

• Becoming Nature: Encounters in Interspecies Contact Zones. Annetta Grant and others.

• Conspiracy Beliefs and Consumption: The Role of Scientific Literacy. Nathan Allred, Lisa E Bolton.

• Price Partitioning of Socio-Moral Surcharges. Shreyans Goenka, Rajesh Bagchi.

• Practical Relevance in Consumer Research. Wayne D Hoyer and others.

• Conversations on Society and Culture. June Cotte.

• Race in Consumer Research: Past, Present, and Future. Sonya A Grier and others.

• Hidden Barriers to Marketplace Disability Accessibility: An Empirical Analysis of the Role of Perceived Trade-Offs. Lauren Grewal and Helen van der Sluis.

• People, Peace, Prosperity, and the Planet: A Journey toward Sustainable Development in Consumer Research. Martin Mende and others.

• From Second-Hand to Third-Hand: Reuse and Resale Cycle. Feifei Huang and Vincent Chi Wong.

• Crowdfunding as a Market-Fostering Gift System. Andre F Maciel and Michelle F Weinberger.

Journal of Environmental Economics and Management

• Climate anomalies and international migration: A disaggregated analysis for West Africa. Fernanda Martínez Flores, Sveta Milusheva, Arndt R. Reichert, Ann-Kristin Reitmann.

• Benefits of diesel emission regulations: Evidence from the World’s largest low emission zone. Cheolmin Kang, Mitsuru Ota, Koichi Ushijima.

• Beyond the annual averages: Impact of seasonal temperature on employment growth in US counties. Ha Minh Nguyen.

• Strategic pricing, lifespan choices and environmental implications of peer-to-peer sharing. Francisco J. André, Carmen Arguedas, Sandra Rousseau.

• On the perils of environmentally friendly alternatives. Francisco Alpizar, Fredrik Carlsson, Gracia Lanza.

• Window dressing: Changes in atmospheric pollution at boundaries in response to regional environmental policy in China. Liyuan Cui, Zeyu Chen, Yanfen Huang, Huayi Yu.

• On the palm oil-biodiversity trade-off: Environmental performance of smallholder producers. Bernhard Dalheimer, Iordanis Parikoglou, Fabian Brambach, Mirawati Yanita, Bernhard Brümmer and others.

• Carbon capture: Storage vs. Utilization. Michel Moreaux, Jean-Pierre Amigues, Gerard van der Meijden, Cees Withagen.

• Can leaders motivate employees’ energy-efficient behavior with thoughtful communication? Christin Hoffmann, Kirsten Thommes.

• Farmer response to policy induced water reductions: Evidence from the Colorado River. Lena Harris.

• Political influence on international climate agreements with border carbon adjustment. Achim Hagen, Mark Schopf. 

• Importing air pollution? Evidence from China’s plastic waste imports. Kerstin Unfried, Feicheng Wang.

• Distributional effects of the increasing heat incidence on labor productivity. Jingfang Zhang, Emir Malikov, Ruiqing Miao.

• A rationale for the Right-to-Development climate policy stance? Dorothée Charlier, Aude Pommeret, Francesco Ricci.

• Electric vehicle usage, pollution damages, and the electricity price elasticity of driving. Cody Nehiba.

• Environmental Policies and directed technological change. Klaus Gugler, Florian Szücs, Thomas Wiedenhofer.

• Do conservation contests work? An analysis of a large-scale energy competitive rebate program. Chi L. Ta.

• Resource discoveries and the political survival of dictators. Alexandra Brausmann, Elise Grieg.

• Screening green innovation through carbon pricing. Lassi Ahlvik, Inge van den Bijgaart.

• The impact of industrial sulfur dioxide emissions regulation on agricultural production in China. Pei Li, JunJie Wu, Wenchao Xu.

• Do residential property assessed clean energy (PACE) financing programs affect local house price growth? Melanie I. Millar, Roger M. White.

• Climate policy in emerging economies: Evidence from China’s Low-Carbon City Pilot. Haibo Zhang, Corrado Di Maria, Bahar Ghezelayagh, Yuli Shan.

• Complementarity between labor and energy: A firm-level analysis. Lucas Bretschger, Ara Jo.

Journal of International Business Studies 

• Smart disclosure: an enabler for multinationals to reduce human rights violations in global supply chains. Stephanie Lu Wang, Yejee Lee, Dan Li.

• Parenthood wage gaps in multinational enterprises. Khadija van der Straaten, Niccolò Pisani, Ans Kolk.

• Unpacking collective materialism: how values shape consumption in seven Asian markets. Rajeev Batra, S. Arunachalam, Michael S. W. Lee and others. 

MIS Quarterly

• Inclusion by Design: Requirements Elicitation with Digitally Marginalized Communities. Isam Faik, Avijit Sengupta, and Yimeng Deng.

• iRepair or I Repair? A Dialectical Process Analysis of Control Enactment in the iPhone Repair Aftermarket. Jan Recker, Roman Zeiss, and Mario Mueller.

Operations Research 

• Outcome-Driven Dynamic Refugee Assignment with Allocation Balancing. Kirk Bansak, Elisabeth Paulson.

• A Mutual Catastrophe Insurance Framework for Horizontal Collaboration in Prepositioning Strategic Reserves. Hani Zbib, Burcu Balcik, Marie-Ève Rancourt, Gilbert Laporte.

• Shipping Emission Control Area Optimization Considering Carbon Emission Reduction. Dan Zhuge, Shuaian Wang, Lu Zhen.

• A Dynamic Model for Managing Volunteer Engagement. Baris Ata, Mustafa H. Tongarlak, Deishin Lee, Joy Field.

Organization and Environment

• Indigenous People Struggle for Damage Repair: Assessing Shadow Networks Resistance and Pursuit of Resilience in the Context of an Industrial Disaster. Mônica Cavalcanti Sá de Abreu, Raphael de Jesus Campos de Andrade.

• Examining the Effects of Green Human Resource Management Practices, Green Psychological Climate, and Organizational Pride on Employees’ Voluntary Pro-Environmental Behavior. Hina Zafar, Yuliani Suseno.

• Toward an Ecological Resource Orchestration Model. Guillaume Carton, Julia Parigot.

• What Makes a Business Model Sustainable? Activities, Design Themes, and Value Functions. Florian Lüdeke-Freund, Tobias Froese, Krzysztof Dembek, Francesco Rosati, Lorenzo Massa.

• Tensions Between Local Embeddedness and Scaling up: Insights from Grassroots Sustainability Initiatives in the Renewable Energy Transition. Lea Baileche, Magalie Marais, Florence Palpacuer.

• Engaging Paradoxical Tensions in Cross-Sectoral Collaborative Business Model Development for Sustainability: A Case Study in the Urban Energy Transition. Christian Tschiedel, Tim Feiter, Alexander Kock.

• Making Sustainable Places Through Spaces: Role Identity Expansion and Imagination in a Swiss Urban Planning Committee. Emamdeen Fohim, Mélodie Cartel, Chintan Kella.

• Responding to a Wicked Problem: How Time, Sense of Place, and Organisational Boundaries Shape Companies’ Decarbonisation Strategies. Leticia Canal Vieira, Mariolina Longo, Matteo Mura.

• Sustaining Attention to Sustainability, Health, and Well-Being in Urban Regeneration. Ke Zhou, Elanor Warwick, Marcella Ucci, Mike Davies, Nici Zimmermann.

• Regulatory Capture in Transboundary Waste Dumping: (Lack of) Accountability in the Global North–South Context. Chaminda Wijethilake, Pawan Adhikari, Bedanand Upadhaya.

Organization Science   

• Attention Focus and New Opportunities: The Moderating Role of Managerial Attention to Alternative Issues. John Eklund, Manav Raj, J. P. Eggers.

• In Search of a Soft Landing: How Premigration Work Attainments Influence Identity Transformation Processes of Refugee Entrepreneurs. Joris Amin, Elco van Burg, Wouter Stam.

• Group Size and Its Impact on Diversity-Related Perceptions and Hiring Decisions in Homogeneous Groups. Aneesh Rai, Edward H. Chang, Erika L. Kirgios, Katherine L. Milkman.

• The Ideological Imperative: Corporate Social Responsibility and News Media Coverage of Firms. Yasir Dewan, Tal Simons, Georg Wernicke.

• Survivalist Organizing in Urban Poverty Contexts. Tim Weiss, Michael Lounsbury, Garry Bruton. 

• Refugee Hiring and Organizational Performance. Grazia D. Santangelo, Vera Rocha, Wolfgang Sofka.

• Legitimating Illegitimate Practices: How Data Analysts Compromised Their Standards to Promote Quantification. Ryan Stice-Lusvardi, Pamela J. Hinds, Melissa Valentine.

Organization Studies

• Strategic Social Value Orientation and Sustainability Performance: A commensuration perspective. Marcelo F. de la Cruz Jara, Jelena Spanjol, Theresa Doppstadt.

• Wage Theft, Secrecy, and Derealization of ‘Ideal Workers’ in the Bangladesh Garment Industry. Shoaib Ahmed.

• Catastrophe to Consensus: Hegemonic performativity in climate adaptation. Nichole Wissman, David Levy, Daniel Nyberg.

• Editorial: A Special Forum on the Australian Black Summer Bushfires. Hokyu Hwang, Erica Coslor, Hamid Foroughi.

Research Policy 

• How does the social economy contribute to social and environmental innovation? Evidence of direct and indirect effects from a European survey. Damien Rousselière, Marie J. Bouchard, Samira Rousselière.

• Green technological diversification: The role of international linkages in leaders, followers and catching-up countries. Nicoletta Corrocher, Simone Maria Grabner, Andrea Morrison.

Sloan Management Review 

• Doubling Down on Impact Reporting. Brian Tomlinson and Lucy Godshall.

• What the Smart Money Says About Black CEOs. Curtis L. Wesley II et al.

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