Table of Contents: April 2026

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 2026

Academy of Management Discoveries

• From Steering to Rowing: Public Sector Solutions for the Grand Challenge of Climate Adaptation. Eugenia Cacciatori, Paula Jarzabkowski, Rebecca Bednarek, Konstantinos Chalkias.

California Management Review

• Circular Cities: Transforming Systems Through Organizational Innovation. Boyd Cohen, Jan Kietzmann, Mark Esposito, Andrew Park.

• Food Supply Chain Orchestration for Circularity: The Lost Food Project. Shardul S. Phadnis, Suzanne Mooney, Sarah Grasset.

• Advancing Circularity: The Dynamic Capabilities to Drive Transformative Change. Daina Mazutis, Afolasade Nubi, Emma Segal.

• Weaving Urban Circularity: The Role of Fashion Startups. Nikhilesh Sinha, Satrupa Ghosh, Shilpi Banerjee.

• Digital Twins for Circular Cities: Planning for Positive Energy Districts. Arash Rezazadeh, Cláudia Antunes Marante, René Bohnsack.

Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice

• Into the Wild: Advancing Ecocentric Entrepreneurship Through Natural Non-Human Actors. Man Yang, Matthew Phillip Johnson.

• A Blessing in Disguise: Logic (In)Compatibility, Centrality, and Social Innovation in Hybrid Social Ventures. Jiawei Sophia Fu.

• Accent Discrimination in Entrepreneurial Fundraising. Luca Farè, Silvio Vismara.

Harvard Business Review

• Employees Are Relying on AI for Personal Support. That’s Risky. Constance Noonan Hadley, Sarah L. Wright.

Human Relations

• Algorithmic management and worker agency: The platform perspective on algoactivism. Prakriti Dasgupta, Ronan CarberyAnthony McDonnell, Stefan Jooss.

• Decolonizing craft: A systematic literature review of indigenous traditional modes of production in Abya Yala. Belinda Zakrzewska, François Bastien.

• Silent struggle: How older employees’ relational age and voice behavior shape co-worker trust and performance in professional teams. Chia-Yen (Chad) Chiu, Sanjeewa Perera, Valerie Caines.

• How to not change the world: Actionism and pseudo-praxis in organization and management theory. Simon Parker, Robert Cluley.

• Playing with trash: How gamification fostered the early adoption of zero-waste practices. Olivier Cristofini, Thomas Roulet.

• We are the backbone of the community’: Precarious multiple employment and the complex dynamics of dignity in, out and between work. Jo McBride, Andrew Smith, Miguel Martínez Lucio.

• Proverbs as other-than-human actants in corporate social responsibility communication: A ventriloquial analysis of corporate-community dialogues. Mai Chi Vu, Hyemi Shin.

• Editorial: Decolonizing academic publishing – Responding to systemic issues and disrupting the status quo. Nimruji Jammulamadaka, Penny Dick.

Information Systems Research

• When Vulnerability Drives Action: Designing Forward-Looking Frameworks for Disaster Preparedness. Thomas Roderick, Monica Chiarini Tremblay, Rajiv Kohli, Arturo Castellanos, Yolande Pengetnze.

• Balancing Acts: Unveiling the Dynamics of Post Removal on Social Media User-Generated Content. Guohou Shan, Liangfei Qiu.

Journal of Accounting and Economics

• Do financial disclosures affect corporate sustainability practices? Chenxing Jing, Bin Xu, Luo Zuo.

• Profit-fueled corporate cynicism. Leonardo P. Barcellos, Scott A. Emett.

• Supply chain washing: Strategic disclosure of corporate suppliers. Yilin Shi, Jing Wu, Yu Zhang, Yuqing Zhou.

Journal of Business Ethics

• From Green to Red: New Energy Projects and Violent Conflict in Fragile Contexts. Anne Spencer Jamison, Brian Ganson, Joseph Bettles.

• Humanizing the Base of the Pyramid: Exploring the Influence of Resource (Dis)Advantages on Value Creation. Ted London, Lisa Jones Christensen, Andrew Grogan-Kaylor.

• The Value of Looking into the Future: Top Managers’ Long-Term Orientation and ESG Engagement. Hongyan Sheng, Taiwen Feng, Yufei Huang.

• Drivers, Impacts, and Mitigation of Corporate Social Irresponsibility: An Environmental Injustice Perspective. N. Meenakshi, Amandeep Dhir, Puneet Kaur.

• CSR and Founder Legacy Dynamics Around Succession: An Intertemporal Choice Perspective. Isabelle Le Breton-Miller, Jin-hui Luo, Xiaowei Xu.

• Tailor-Formulating the Triple Bottom Line for Rural Sustainable Entrepreneurship: Evidence from Investigation Cases in China. Shiyu Wang, Yan Julian Zhang, Zongtao Tian.

• Adiaphorizing Processes in Organizations-Ethical Insensitivity in the Face of Managerial Violence. Y. Bazin, A. Notais, H. Gaillard.

• The Emergence of Collective Moral Disengagement. Ulf Schaefer, Urs Mueller, Johannes Habel.

• Moral Legitimacy Struggles in Purpose-Driven Ecosystems: Interplay of Collective Narratives and Meta-organizational Architectures. Samuli Patala, Paavo Ritala.

• Green Talent, Greener Outcomes? The Role of Governance in Translating Green Hiring into Substantive Environmental Action. Le Luo, Mauricio Marrone.

• Pathogen Stress Theory in Business Ethics: Bio-ecological Influences on Firms’ Environmental Sustainability Practices. Steven A. Brieger, Anna Jasinenko, Javad Ghaffari Feyzabadi.

• Vultures, Vampires, and Necro-waste in the Oil and Gas Industry. Jeff Everett, Dean Neu, Minqi Liu.

• Responsibilising Conservation: Accountability and Ethics of Community Engagement in Biodiversity Initiatives. Chaudhry Ghafran, Sofia Yasmin.

• Fiction and Bearing Witness to Corporate Crimes: The Work of Novelists in Business Ethics and Organizational Reform. Iain Munro.

• Peer Effects in Corporate ESG: Evidence from Mandatory Disclosure and Philanthropic Giving. Weishi Jia, Albert Tsang, Jingran Zhao.

• Revealing the Incrementalism Trap in Corporate Sustainability: The Impact of Conflicting Stakeholder Expectations in Incumbent and Startup Companies. Kim Strunk, Kaisa Henttonen, Hanna Lehtimäki.

• The Accuracy-Explainability Trade-off, the Right to Explanation, and the Implications for Organisations. Carlo Ludovico Cordasco, Carissa Véliz.

• When Benefits Backfire: The Impact of Social Insurance Contributions on Product Quality Compliance. Hengmiao Bao.

• Understanding Employees’ Moral Behaviors in Response to Corporate Social Irresponsibility (CSI): A Co-creational Perspective. Katie Haejung Kim, Hyejoon Rim.

• When Green Meets Institutional Pressures: How TMT Environmental Awareness Affects Radical Green Innovation. Xuejiao Ma, Shuai Li, Tianqi Che.

• Battlelines of Accountability: The Discursive Production of Digital Responsibility. Max Baker, Clinton Free, Fei Gao.

• CEO Incentive Horizon and Employee Workplace Safety. Xiaofeng Liu, Dongyue Wang, Ting Zhang.

• Safeguarding Purpose Integrity in Social Enterprises: Moving Beyond Mission Drift. Silvia Dorado, Isobel O’Neil, Bogdan Prokopovych.

• One Size Doesn’t Fit All: Navigating Gendered Ageism in Older Women’s Entry into Entrepreneurship. Yanying Chen, Zijie Song, Hanqing Chevy Fang.

• Generative Artificial Intelligence and Ethicality in Entrepreneurs’ Creativity. Md Imtiaz Mostafiz, Nazha Gali, Boyka Simeonova.

• Review of Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin – Studying Virtual Worlds for Business Ethics Perspectives on Desirable Futures. Bennet Schwoon, Hannah Schupfer.

• Neoliberal Conservation and the Corporate Governance of Biodiversity: A Multispecies Intersectional Critique of Offsetting. Lucie Wiart.

• The World Economic Forum: Country Competitiveness—Nonsense Without Accountability? Harald Bergsteiner, Gayle C. Avery.

• Family Ownership and CSR Overspending: Evidence from India on the Mediating Role of CSR Committee Composition. Pooja Thakur-Wernz, Chitra Singla, Olga Bruyaka.

• Civil Society, Multiple Publics, and Relational Recognition: Recognising Women Garment Workers and Organising Situated Responsibility in Bangladesh’s Apparel Industry. Fahreen Alamgir, Glen Croy, Kazi Mahmudur Rahman.

• Lonely Work: Gig Work, Workplace Technology and Working-Class Loneliness. Chris Bousquet.

• Robust CEO Activism and Two-Sided Alignment: How Elon Musk Gained (and Lost) Legitimacy in the Polarized U.S. News Media Landscape. Dorothee Maria Winkler, Florian Überbacher, Andreas Georg Scherer.

• Superstitious Beliefs to Mitigate Misfortune by Avoiding Unethical Practices: Zodiac Year Beliefs and Greenwashing. Xiaohong Wang, Jiyang Zhao, Huajun Liu.

• Configurations of Social Impact and Behavioral Search. Hans Rawhouser, Krista Lewellyn, Jeffery S. McMullen.

• Bridging Different Institutional Logics: The Role of Institutional Work in Translating Sustainable Product-Service Systems Across Contexts. Rıfgı Buğra Bağcı, Jawwad Z. Raja, Ismail Gölgeci.

• Toward a Moral Economy of Aggressive Tax Avoidance. Robert C. Bird.

• Corporate Social Responsibility and Employee Information Sharing. Yifei Chen, Dan Palmon, Qi Zhang.

Journal of Consumer Psychology

• The politics of impact: How political ideology shapes perceptions of the environmental impact of individual actions. Aylin Cakanlar, Katherine White, Remi Trudel.

• Stratified consumer activism: How socioeconomic status shapes boycott participation. Yan Vieites, Daniel Fernandes, Debora V. Thompson.

Journal of Consumer Research

• Repair Service Signals: How Brand Repair Services Signal Unused Utility and Increase Product Repair. Nathan Allred, Karen Page Winterich.

• Received! How Acknowledgment Increases a Company’s Sustainability Image and Drives Repeat Customer Participation in Take-Back Programs. Yuly Hong et al.

• Limiting Accessibility: How Targeting Consumers with Disabilities Constrains Acceptable Prices for Innovations. Musa Essa et al.

Journal of Environmental Economics and Management

• Bitcoin growth amid climate change: Policy and investment implications. Mohammadhossein Lashkaripour, Seyedmehdi Hosseini, Rizwan Ahmed.

• Ecological costs of energy infrastructure: Evidence from migratory bird tracking. Qiangyuan Chen, Jianmin Li, Yuanning Liang, Weiping Zhao, Tian Huang et al.

• How air pollution makes firms less innovative: Human capital and adaptive strategies. Tiago Cavalcanti, Kamiar Mohaddes, Hongyu Nian, Haitao Yin.

• Split incentives and energy efficiency investment: Evidence from the housing market. Erdal Aydin, Piet Eichholtz, Rogier Holtermans, Santiago Bohórquez Correa.

• The limits of cross-border environmental policies: Trade diversion as leakage. Ryan Abman, Hattie Jenkins, Clark Lundberg.

• A helping hand for the regulator: The role of industry associations in firm water pollution abatement in China. Jinyong Zhan, Dingyan He, Mengjun Yang.

• From brown to green? The displacement effect of coal-fired power plant closures in China. Yi Fan, Qiuxia Gao, Cheng Keat Tang.

• The honest truth about true pricing. Marcel Canoy, Jurjen J.A. Kamphorst, Jan Tichem.

• Physical climate risk and the pricing of bank loans. Karol Kempa.

Journal of Finance

• Funding Black High-Growth Startups. Lisa D. Cook, Matt Marx, Emmanuel Yimfor.

• Pricing of Climate Risk Insurance: Regulation and Cross-Subsidies. Sangmin S. Oh, Ishita Sen, Ana-Maria Tenekedjieva.

• The Long-Lasting Effects of Experiencing Communism on Attitudes toward Financial Markets. Christine Laudenbach, Ulrike Malmendier, Alexandra Niessen-Ruenzi.

Journal of Financial and Qualitative Analysis

• Silencing Pollution: The Environmental Consequences of Anti-SLAPP Laws. Xikai Chen, Jinjun (Ricky) Ke, Yu Flora Kuang.

• Government Procurement and Corporate Environmental Policies. Jie Chen, Chenxing Jing, Kevin Keasey, Bin Xu.

• Ethnic Diversity and Corporate Interstate Investments. Ying Mao, Zheng Wang, Hong Zou.

Journal of International Business Studies  

• International business and sustainability: towards an interdisciplinary research agenda. Jonathan Doh, Ans Kolk, Heli Wang.

• Offshoring’s hidden toll: mental distress among onshore employees. Robin John Clerckx, Christoph Grimpe, Mark Vancauteren.

• Tax avoidance and ESG disclosure mandates: international evidence. Sadok El Ghoul, Omrane Guedhami, Hyo Jin Yoon.

• Impact investment as an enabler of firm formalization in the Global South. Gilbert Kofi Adarkwah, Peter Kalum Schou.

• How (much) does country matter to CSR? A variance decomposition study. Steve Sauerwald, David J. Skandera, Tang Wang.

• Multinationals’ solutions to Grand Challenges. Alvaro Cuervo-Cazurra, Grazia D. Santangelo, Xufei Ma.

• Reflections on the 2025 JIBS Decade Award: “Institutions and social entrepreneurship: The role of institutional voids, institutional support, and institutional configurations.” Rosalie L. Tung.

MIS Quarterly

• Social Media Moderation and Content Generation: Evidence From User Bans. Xiaohui Zhang, Zaiyan Wei, Qianzhou Du, Zhongju Zhang.

• FAIR: A Design Theory for Artificial Intelligence Fairness. Arun Rai, Jing Tian, Ling Xue.

• Beyond Slacktivism: Unraveling the Power of Peripheral Mobilization through Social Media Talk and Ties. Romilla Syed, Leiser O. Silva, Oyebisi Oladeji.

Organization and Environment

• What Counts as Environmental Work? How Gender Regimes Shape Organizational Practice. Ambreen Tour Ben-Shmuel.

• Why Sustainability-Related Education Does Not Stick in Business Schools—and How to Fix It. Pratima (Tima) Bansal, Valen Boyd.

• Can Climate Adaptation Be Sustainable? Magali A. Delmas, Mallory E. Flowers.

Organization Science  

• A Platform Rating System and Vulnerable Workers: Evidence from Field Experiments in Singapore. Vanessa C. Burbano, Wesley W. Koo, Jiao Luo.

• When the Headlines Fade, the Story Goes On: Investigating How Local Newspaper Decline Affects Firm CSR Engagement. Jun Ho Lee, Zhiyan Wu, Michael Bednar.

• Supervisory Support Shift: The Impact of Disability Inclusion on Coworker Productivity. Yanhua Bird, Qi Li, Xiaoyu Zhou.

Organization Studies

• Tech will save us: The semiotic construction of utopian myth. Thomas Burø, Lærke Højgaard Christiansen.

• Unlearning for Democratic Organizing. Owen H. J. Powell, Koen P. R. Bartels.

• Your Silence Speaks Loudly: A ventriloquial approach to corporate silence about commitment in argumentative polylogues. José María López de Pedro.

• Reactivity to Benchmarking Corporate Human Rights: A configurational perspective. Rieneke Slager, Marloes Korendijk, Lottie Lane.

• Contesting the Future: Utopian politics and the defence of fossil fuel hegemony. Daniel Nyberg, Christopher Wright, Vanessa Bowden.

• Media Review: Discounting the Future. Lise Justesen.

• Media Review: From Diversity Management to the Politics of Organizational Worldmaking. Florence Villesèche.

• ‘. . . All Stakeholders Are Equally Unhappy’: The politics of frame consensus. Friederike Döbbe, Daniel Nyberg.

• Media Review: Venture Meets Mission: Organizing for Societal Impact. Metin Onal Vural.

• In Contamination: Disturbance ecology and organization studies. Attila Márton, Nicola Ens.

• Media Review: Enacting “Impact Entrepreneurship” on the Ground. Benjamin Huybrechts.

Research Policy

• Gold or green finger? Government involvement in venture capital investments and target firms’ green innovations. Michelle Xiaomin Fan, Kenneth G. Huang.

• Characterizing the policy mix and its impact on energy sustainable transformation: The case of China’s energy policy. Leilei Liu, Zhichao Ba, Liuhong Wang, Gang Li.

• Disruptive sustainability through digital innovations: Overcoming information asymmetries to benefit small-scale producers. Camille Meyer, John M. Luiz, Anton Grutter, Hamieda Parker.

• Institutional and capability enablers of firm-level emissions abatement under the EU Emissions Trading System. Panayiotis C. Andreou, Sofia Anyfantaki, Christos Cabolis, Konstantinos Dellis.

• Directing environmental innovation toward radical clean technologies for sustainable transitions: Market-based vs. command-and-control policies. Sebastian Gebhardt, Yun Hou, Masaru Yarime.

• Pluriversal technologies: A decolonial typology of knowledge integration for disruptive sustainability. Thomas Bauwens, Martin Calisto Friant, Koen Beumer, Paola Velasco-Herrejón.

• Towards disruptive sustainability: A multi-level analysis of business models driving sustainability transitions. Annabeth Aagaard.

Sloan Management Review  

• How Job Design for Disability Improves Work for Everyone. David Dwertmann, Stephan Böhm, Kristie McAlpine, Mukta Kulkarni.

• Beyond Verification — What Responsible AI Really Demands of Human Experts. Elizabeth M. Renieris et al. 

• Why Business Leaders Need to Champion Democracy. Julie Battilana et al.  

• Why Businesses Should Value Caregivers Now. Krystal Duarte et al.  

• Three Myths Fueling Companies’ Icy Silence on Politics. Andrew Winston.

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