Table of Contents: April 2025

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 2025

Academy of Management Discoveries

• The Spillover Effects of Labor Law Enforcement from a Wider Lens: A Reply to “How Does The Enforcement of Labor Law Affect Other Firms? Exploring the Spillover Effects on Competitors’ Responsible HRM Practices,” by Papagiannakis, Wood, Ioakimidis, Chousmekeridou and Galanski. Leonard Bierman, Katherine Eva Maich.

• Addressing the Crises of Modern-Day Capitalism through Responsible Management: A Call for Multidomain Microfoundations Research. Gerard P. Hodgkinson, Mohammad Asif Gazi, Simon Hayward, Oliver Laasch.

California Management Review

• Climate Finance: Progress, Challenges, and Opportunities on the Path to a Sustainable Planet. Laura Tyson, Daniel Weiss.

• Transforming Business Education for Sustainability. Ann Harrison, Michele de Nevers, Katherine Baird.

• Can “Sustaining Innovation” Deliver Sustainability? Amazon’s Innovation Processes on Corporate Decarbonization. Dara O’Rourke.

• Managing Sustainability Alliances: A Goal-Directed Framework. Elizaveta Johansson, Johan Frishammar, Anna Brattström.

Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice

• The Underbelly of Entrepreneurship: A Multilevel Perspective of Destructive Entrepreneurship. Sarah R. Chase, Dean A. Shepherd, Vangelis Souitari.

• Knocking on Heaven’s Door? Entrepreneurship, Firm Growth, and Health Risks. Jukka Partanen, Aino Tenhiälä, Teemu Kautonen, Markus Jokela, Daniel A. Lerner, Alexander McKelvie.

Harvard Business Review

• Sustainability as a Business-Model Transformation. Ivanka Visnjic, Felipe Monteiro, Michael L. Tushman.

• Balancing Digital Safety and Innovation. Tomomichi Amano, Tomomi Tanaka.

• Case Study: Should We Drop Our Board Diversity Goals? Nitin Nohria.

• How to Fix Our Broken Food System. Alison Beard.

Human Relations

• Killing us with slow poison: Organizing infrastructural violence and work at an internal frontier. Devi Vijay, Abrar Saiyed.

• “The eyes and ears of the railway”: How frontline workers uphold safety through their occupational expertise and embodied epistemic authority. Daniel Fisher, Daisy Chung.

• On the dynamics of intersectional (in)visibility: Women early career researchers negotiating authenticity at work. Mabel Torbor, David Sarpong, Mairi Maclean, Luke Fletcher.

• A processual perspective on alternative organization: Reorienting critical research through a study of two political parties. Emil Husted, Erik Mygind du Plessis, Sara Dahlman.

• Fermenting alternatives through the more-than-human relations of craft entrepreneuring. Emma Bell.

Information Systems Research

• Strategic Best-Response Fairness Framework for Fair Machine Learning. Hajime Shimao, Warut Khern-Am-Nuai, Karthik Kannan, Maxime C. Cohen.

• Human-Centric Information Systems Research on the Digital Future of Healthcare. Indranil Bardhan, Rajiv Kohli, Eivor Oborn, Abhay Mishra, Chuan Hoo Tan, Monica Chiarini Tremblay, Suprateek Sarker.

• Firm-Sponsored Online Communities: Building Alignment Capabilities for Participatory Governance. Hani Safadi, Tanner Skousen, Elena Karahanna.

• KETCH: A Knowledge-Enhanced Transformer-Based Approach to Suicidal Ideation Detection from Social Media Content. Dongsong Zhang, Lina Zhou, Jie Tao, Tingshao Zhu, Guodong (Gordon) Gao.

• A Nudge to Credible Information as a Countermeasure to Misinformation: Evidence from Twitter. Elina H. Hwang, Stephanie Lee.

Journal of Accounting and Economics

• Do Major Corporate Customers Deter Supplier Misconduct? Jie Chen, Xunhua Su, Xuan Tian, Bin Xu, Luo Zuo.

• Mitigating risk-shifting in corporate pension plans: Evidence from stakeholder constituency statutes. Amy D. Garman, Thomas R. Kubick.

Journal of Business Ethics

• Structuring Private Sustainability Governance: Combining Rule-Based and Goal-Based Mechanisms. Daniel Wörner, Niklas Letmathe, Thomas Friedli.

• Can Common Institutional Ownership Govern CSR Decoupling? Evidence from China. Qian Ding, Jinyu Chen, Wu Chen.

• Bias in Mission-Driven Finance: Discrimination or Mission Drift?* Anastasia Cozarenco, Ariane Szafarz.

• EDI Failure: Experiences of Racialized Interpersonal Misconduct and the Delegation of Moral Responsibility. Olivia Tomlinson, Adam Nix, Jennifer TyreeHageman.

• Escape the Kingdom! Family Business Metaphors in the French Business Press and their Implications for Gendered Representations. Audrey Missonier, Christina Constantinidis, Franck Celhay.

• Shareholder Satisfaction or Societal Benefit? Coalition Support and Goal Prioritization. Cyndi Man Zhang, Helen Wei Hu, Toru Yoshikawa.

• Determinants, Interests and Potential Risks: A Systematic Review of Corporate Water Responsibility Management. Xuhui Peng, Aila Khan, Jingduan Li.

• Reconciling with the Earth and Peoples: The Role of the Peoplehood Model in Developing an Ethical Form of Indigenous Resurgence. Grace H. Fan, Eli Enns, Zoe A. Cunliffe.

• Every Rose Has Its Thorns – How Exemplars Manage the Tensions in Inclusive Leadership. Wei Zheng, Jennifer Y. Kim, Ronit Kark.

• The Ethical Commitment of Business Strategy: ESG-Related Factors as Drivers of the SDGs. Ángeles López-Cabarcos, Ydriss Ziane, Juan Piñeiro-Chousa.

• Corporate Sincerity: Accommodation, Reputation Washing, and Moral Credit. Grant J. Rozeboom.

• Cost of Vagueness: Stakeholders’ Responses to Firms’ ESG Information. Hongbo He, Yiqing Chen, Hong Wan.

• Corporate Moral Responsibility vs. Corporate Social Responsibility: Friedman was Right. Kendy M. Hess.

• The Impact of Visual Perspectives in Advertisements on Consumers’ Reactions to Close-to-Expiry Food. Lu Monroe Meng, Eileen Yiran Zhang, Ce Liang.

• Staging Debates in Whistleblowing Research: A Problematizing Literature Review. Paul Zimmermann.

• Bridging Hegemony and Decolonial Epistemology: The Consolidation of GMO in Brazil. Yuna Fontoura, Morgana G. Martins Krieger, Alketa Peci.

• Promoting Cooperation in an Unequal World: Experimental Evidence on the Role of Transparency and Punishment. Jingnan Cecilia Chen, John D’Attoma, Antoine Malézieux.

• Whistleblowing as a Recursive Sequence of Épreuves: A Boltanskian Theorization of Speaking Up. Mahaut Fanchini, Meghan Van Portfliet.

• Instrumental or Normative Motives: How Should Brands Implement Their Activism Campaigns? Charlotte Lécuyer, Marine Kergoat, Christine Lambey-Checchin.

• Transnational Capitalism After Postcolonialism: Researching the Interfaces in Global Supply Chains. Bridget Kustin, Juliane Reinecke, Jimmy Donaghey.

• Can Women Save a Man’s World? The Influence of Gender-Discriminating Institutions on Female Family CEOs’ CSR Performance. Felix Hoch, Lilo Seyberth, Pramodita Sharma.

• A Feminist Ethics of Care for the Embodied Organizing of Solidarity: Lessons from the Refugee Crisis in Greece. Emmanouela Mandalaki.

• Rethinking Automation and the Future of Work with Hannah Arendt. Rosalie A. Waelen.

• “If you like it Green, put a ring on it”: Married women directors and environmental performance in family and non-family businesses. Vincenzo Vastola, Giovanna Campopiano, Domenico Rocco Cambrea.

• Loyalty as a Legitimizer of Wage Theft. Matthew L. Stanley, Christopher P. Neck, Walter Sinnott-Armstrong.

• “In the Grip of King Kong”: Making Sense of Whistleblower Retaliation Experiences Through Metaphor. Joseph McGlynn, Brian K. Richardson, Jacinta T. Tran.

• Three Dilemmas of Disabled Employee Voice. Anita Starzyk, Jana F. Bauer.

• Moral Learning in Organizations: An Integrative Framework for Organizational Ethics. Martin Kornberger, Stephan Leixnering.

• Does Corporate Political Advocacy Wrong Shareholders? Aaron Ancell.

• Diversity-Specific Empowering Leadership: An Alternative Approach to Reducing Sex-Based Bias and Enabling Inclusivity. Cara-Lynn Scheuer, Catherine Loughlin, Shasanka Chalise.

• On Addressing Societal Challenges: The Influence of Archetypal Biases on Scaling Social Innovation. John Healy, Jeffrey Hughes, Gemma Donnelly-Cox.

• Value Creating Corporate Social Responsibility Strategies of Family and Non-Family Firms: An Interventionist Perspective. Isabel-María García-Sánchez, Lázaro Rodríguez-Ariza, Shlomo Y. Tarba.

• Shaping the Future of Business Sustainability: LDA Topic Modeling Insights, Definitions, and Research Agenda. Lan Li, Fred Lemke.

• Social Credit and Trade Credit: A Coevolutionary Perspective. Qing Sophie Wang, Lihan Chen, Hamish D. Anderson.

• “We are Our Own Best Advocates”: When Disability Rights Activists Constructed Legal Compliance to Address Ableism in France. Lisa Buchter.

• Financing a Sustainable Future: The Diverging Effects of Equity and Credit Market Development on Corporate Social Responsibility. Mihail K. Miletkov, Viktoriya Staneva.

• Orchestration of Care: Exploring the Active Role of Disabled Workers in Creation of Socio-Material Care Arrangements at Work. Neva Bojovic, Amanda Peticca-Harris, Johannes Kraak.

• Navigating Competency in an Ableist World: The Lived Experiences of Disabled Individuals in Education and the Workplace. Deepti Sharma, Ganesh N. Prabhu.

• At the Intersection of Ableism and Sexism: Conceptual and Empirical Applications. Estefania Santacreu-Vasut, Huali Wu.

• Individual and Corporate Social Responsibility: Redemption from Excessive Executive Pay? Qiu Chen, Shujun Ding, Rengong Alex Zhang.

• Family Business Ethics: A Literature Review and Research Agenda. Marcos Ferasso, Tatiana Beliaeva, Tobias Gössling.

• Transparency in Place of Fair Insurance Pricing. Nicos A. Scordis.

• Pushed to the Edge? Entrepreneurs with Disabilities and the Post-socialist Experience of Ableism. Sára Csillag, Carmen Svastics, Zsuzsanna Győri.

• Can Business Ethics Courses Be Effective? A Quasi-Experimental Mixed-Methods Study of a Cooperative-Learning Approach in Higher Education. Mattia Martini, Dario Cavenago, Monica Carminati.

• Why and When Do Historical Brand Transgressions Matter? Fabien Pecot, Renaud Lunardo, Eugene Y. Chan.

• Extending the Geographic Scope of Corporate Social Responsibility: Remote Work and Housing Affordability. Michael W. Obal, Kimberly K. Merriman.

Journal of Consumer Psychology

• The egalitarian value of counterfeit goods: Purchasing counterfeit luxury goods to address income inequality. Jingshi (Joyce) Liu,  S. Wiley Wakeman,  Michael I. Norton.

Journal of Consumer Research

• How to Sustain Sustainable Practices? The Journey Toward Zero Waste Lifestyle.
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• From Order to Chaos: How Consumers Lose Control of Risks (and of Themselves). Júlio C Leandro and Delane Botelho.

• The Impact of Green Energy Production on Healthiness Perceptions and Preferences. Iman Paul et al.

• Reparative Consumption: The Role of Racial Identity and White Guilt in Consumer Preferences. Rishad Habib et al.

• Tournaments of Destruction: Consumers Battling for Visibility. Robin A. Coulter et al.

Journal of Environmental Economics and Management

• The geography of pollution regulation and productivity. Ying Chen, Wenjie Wu, Yanwen Yun.

• What drives the long-term relationship between economic development and environmental quality? The role of spatial dispersion vs. agglomeration. JunJie Wu, Kathleen Segerson, Christian Langpap.

• The social welfare implications of electrification in the U.S. residential energy market. Alexander Hill.

• Die hard: Exploring the characteristics of resource users who persist in the tragedy of the commons. Carina Cavalcanti, Andreas Leibbrandt.

• The dynamic effects of weather shocks on agricultural production. Cédric Crofils, Ewen Gallic, Gauthier.

• Polluting my downwind neighbor: Evidence of interjurisdictional free riding from air polluter locations in China. Zheng Li.

• Collateral damage: The environmental consequences of US sanctions. Chengjiu Sun, Shanshan Wang.

• Money versus procedures — Evidence from an energy efficiency assistance program. Bettina Chlond, Timo Goeschl, Martin Kesternich.

• Greener or cheaper goods: Economies of scope in R&D investments. John C. Strandholm, Ana Espinola-Arredondo, Felix Munoz-Garcia.

• Clearing the air: Women in politics and air pollution. Anna Laura Baraldi, Giovanni Fosco.

• Air pollution and innovation. Felix Bracht, Dennis Verhoeven.

• Decentralized renewable energy to grow manufacturing? Evidence from microhydro mini-grids in Nepal. Robyn C. Meeks, Hope Thompson, Zhenxuan Wang.

• Global air quality inequality over 2000–2020. Lutz Sager.

• The price of carbon risk: Evidence from the Kyoto Protocol ratification. Justin Hung Nguyen, Cameron Truong, Bohui Zhang.

• Patronage and pollution. Lianzhou Tang, Wenli Xu.

• Does environmental regulation drive specialisation in green innovation? Igor Bagayev, Dieter F. Kogler, Julie Lochard.

• Input subsidies and the depletion of natural capital: Chinese distant water fishing. Gabriel Englander, Jihua Zhang, Juan Carlos Villaseñor-Derbez, Qutu Jiang, et al.

Journal of Finance

• Women in Charge: Evidence from Hospitals. Katharina Lewellen.

• How Much Does Racial Bias Affect Mortgage Lending? Evidence from Human and Algorithmic Credit Decisions. Neil Bhutta, Aurel Hizmo, Daniel Ringo.

• In the Red: Overdrafts, Payday Lending, and the Underbanked. Marco Di Maggio, Angela Ma, Emily Williams.

Journal of Financial and Qualitative Analysis

• Better Tax Enforcement Moderates Airbnb’s Pressure on Housing Costs. Jesse A. Ellis, David G. Kenchington, Jared D. Smith, Roger M. White.

• Financing Negative Shocks: Evidence from Hurricane Harvey. Benjamin L. Collier, Lawrence S. Powell, Marc A. Ragin, Xuesong You.

• Strategic CEO Activism in Polarized Markets. Swarnodeep Homroy, Shubhashis Gangopadhyay.

• How Do Foreign Labor Regulations Affect Firms’ Operating Strategies? Katie Moon, Giorgo Sertsios.

• Is Carbon Risk Priced in the Cross Section of Corporate Bond Returns? Tinghua Duan, Frank Weikai Li, Quan Wen.

• Incentivizing Investors for a Greener Economy. Nam Nguyen, Alejandro Rivera, Harold H. Zhang.

Journal of International Business Studies 

• Translation of equality, diversity, and inclusion ideas in a foreign subsidiary. Cristina Leone, Arabella Mocciaro Li Destri, Pasquale Massimo Picone.

• Indigenous peoples’ reactions to foreign direct investment: a social movement perspective. Anne Spencer Jamison, Doron Tadmor, Witold Jerzy Henisz.

• Artificial states, ethnicity, and the survival of private participation infrastructure projects in Africa. Shuo Zhang, Jane W. Lu.

MIS Quarterly

• Regulating Emerging Technologies: Prospective Sensemaking through Abstraction and Elaboration. Stefan Seidel, Christoph J. Frick, and Jan vom Brocke.

• Ruckus in the Rentals, Seeking New Arrangements: Remedying the Impact of Home-Sharing on Urban Noise. Yi Ding, Moksh Matta, Ram Gopal, and Haifeng Xu.

Operations Research 

• D-Optimal Orienteering for Post-Earthquake Reconnaissance Planning. Jiaqi Wang, Weijun Xie, Ilya O. Ryzhov, Nikola Marković, Ge Ou.

• Unit Commitment Without Commitment: A Dynamic Programming Approach for Managing an Integrated Energy System Under Uncertainty. David B. Brown, James E. Smith.

Organization and Environment

• Measuring Companies’ Environmental and Social Impacts: An analysis of ESG Ratings and SDG Scores. Jan Anton van Zanten.

• Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises and the Circular Economy: Leveraging Ecosystem Strategies for Circular Business Model Implementation. Wiebke Reim, Sabrina Tabares, Vinit Parida.

• Orchestrating Circular Economy Ecosystem Emergence: A Case Study of Circular Textiles and Apparel. Lori DiVito, Jakomijn van Wijk, Iteke van Hille, Zita Ingen-Housz.

• Systems Approaches for Corporate Sustainability: How a Certification Program Can Develop and Enact a Bridging Capacity. Brooke Lahneman, Jennifer Howard-Grenville.

• Valuing Waste or Wasting Value: Tensions in Justifications of Worth in Circular Innovation Ecosystem Around Waste Valorization. Neva Bojovic, Hugo Guyader, Fanny Salignac, Frederic Ponsignon.

• Becoming a Circular Ecosystem: Altering Nested Identities, Positions, Capabilities, and Boundaries in Waste-Management Organizations. Tuomas Huikkola, Marko Kohtamäki, Rodrigo Rabetino.

Organization Science 

• Setting Up the Gap? Gender Differences in Initial Salary Offers in Hiring. Shiya Wang, Adina Sterling.

• Expectations and Exits: The Effect of CEO Agency and Communion on Boards’ Expectancy Violations and Dismissal of CEOs Following Breaches of Stakeholder Rights. J. Daniel Zyung.

• Employee “Free” Speech vs. Organizational Censorship on Social Media: Balancing the Tension Between Free Expression and Safeguards to Foster Psychological Safety. Brittany C. Solomon, Alexandra K. Scott, Matthew E. K. Hall.

• How Ideologically Opposed Stakeholders Influence Organizational Practice Adoption: Theory and Evidence from the Diffusion of Domestic Partner Benefits in Higher Education. Abhinav Gupta, Chad Murphy, Forrest Briscoe.

• National Conflict and High-Skilled Immigrants’ Workplace Efforts: Evidence from the U.S.–China Conflict. Suzan Sim, A-Sung Hong.

• Why Should Organizational Scholars Study Migration? Exequiel Hernandez, Prithwiraj Choudhury, Elena Kulchina, Dan Wang, J. Myles Shaver, Mary Zellmer-Bruhn, Tarun Khanna.

• Striking a Balance: Navigating Tensions Between Collective and Member Goals in Boundary Organizations. Ann-Kristin Zobel, Stephen Comello.

• Minding the Gap: How Perspective-Taking and Status Reflexivity Help Black Women Executives to Relate Across Difference at Work. Jamie Jocelyn Ladge, Keimei Sugiyama, Alexis Nicole Smith, Marla Baskerville Watkins, Pamela Carlton.

• The Role of Reviewer Characteristics on the Diversity of Successful Applicants. Evelina Gavrilova-Zoutman, Steffen Juranek.

• Reject or Protect? Corrective Action in Response to Women’s vs. Men’s Reports of Workplace Abuse. Timothy G. Kundro, Alyssa Tedder-King, Olivia M. Walker, Marissa Shandell.

• Working with the “Enemy”: Supervised Space, Free Space, and Cross-Border Collaboration amid Geopolitical Rivalry. Thomas John Fewer, Dali Ma, Diego M. Coraiola.

Organization Studies

• Assessing and Driving Societal Impact: Introduction to the themed section on Overcoming Shortcomings of Measuring Organizational Sustainability. Frank Wijen, Rodolphe Durand, Shon R. Hiatt, Juliane Reinecke, Judith L. Walls.

• Media Review: Moral Laundering. Martin Parker.

• The Affective Micropolitics of Craftivism: Organizing social change through the minor gesture. Sheena J. Vachhani, Emma Bell, Alexandra Bristow.

• Enabling Local Solutions to Global Challenges: The interplay between paradox knots and paradox salience in an NGO working in Uganda. Carolin J. Waldner, Stephanie Schrage, Andreas Rasche.

• Feudal Patriarchy, Capitalist Configurations, and Workplace Sexual Harassment in Pakistan. Ghazal Mir Zulfiqar, Mohsin Bashir, Ajnesh Prasad.

• Investigating the Complexity of Corporate Social Irresponsibility: A configurational analysis of organizational strain factors. Federica Nieri, Luciano Ciravegna, Evelyn Micelotta.

• Media Review: Neo-Luddites, Unite! Worker resistance in an era of real dystopian threats. Nicky Dries, Joost Luyckx, Max Bogaert.

• Soil and Organization Studies: Unearthing a ‘more-than-relational’ ethics towards non-humans. Daniel Sage.

• Building Bridges in the Digital Age: How online platforms foster trust during a crisis. Milo Shaoqing Wang, Runjia Zhang, Maxim Voronov.

• The Performativity of Organizational Gender Norms in Saudi Arabia. Claudia Eger.

Research Policy

• Variations in innovation strategies for sustainable development: Sustainable innovation policy instrument mixes of ten small OECD countries across five sectors. Viktória Döme, Weronika Cycak, Kira JM Matus.

• Looking under the hood—How incumbent characteristics reduce the innovation impact of trajectory-changing demand-pull policy mixes for battery electric vehicles. Hauke Luetkehaus.

• Technology discontinuation as a continuous process: diesel, sustainability, and the politics of delay. Stefania Sardo, Sebastian M. Pfotenhauer.

• Gender diversity in academic entrepreneurship: Social impact motives and the NSF I-corps program. April Burrage, Nilanjana Dasgupta, Ina Ganguli.

• Digital technology and inclusive development during global crisis: Evidence from a randomised experiment in Bangladesh. Xiaolan Fu, Pervez Ghauri, Jianan Lu.

• Decline processes in technological innovation systems: Lessons from energy technologies. Nuno Bento, Alejandro Nuñez-Jimenez, Noah Kittner.

Sloan Management Review 

• The Way to Net Zero: Reducing Emissions Takes Teamwork. Martin Glaum et al.

• How to Embed Purpose at Every Level. Stuart L. Hart.

• How Neuroinclusion Builds Organizational Capabilities. Robert D. Austin et al.

• The Time for Leadership Courage Is Right Now. Andrew Winston.

• Rethink the Growth Imperative. Andrew J. Hoffman.

• Why the Law Against Business Bribes Is Good for Business. Michael H. Posner.

• Amid DEI Rollbacks, Champion Allyship. Meg A. Warren.

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