Table of Contents: August 2023

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 August 2023

Academy of Management Learning and Education

• Virtuous Exemplarity in Business Ethics Education: Insights from the Platonic Tradition. Sandrine Frémeaux, Marco Donato, Christine Noël-Lemaitre.

• How Ideology Shapes What We Teach about Authority: A Comparative Analysis of the Presentation of Milgram’s Experiments in Textbooks. Todd Bridgman, Stephen Cummings.

• Book Review: Net Positive: How Courageous Companies Thrive by Giving More Than They Take. Venkataprasad Baddipudi.

• Book Review: Debating Business School Legitimacy: Attacking, Rocking, and Defending the Status Quo. Jacky Hong.

• Book Review: Comparative Reviews: Research Handbook of Responsible Management and The SAGE Handbook of Responsible Management, Learning and Education. John G. Cullen.

Academy of Management Review 

• Theorizing for Positive Impact. Morela Hernandez, Patrick Haack.

• Anti-Stigma Organizing in the Age of Social Media: How Social Movement Organizations Leverage Affordances to Build Solidarity. Milo Shaoqing Wang. Paul Tracey.

• On Valuing Women: Advancing an Intersectional Theory of Gender Diversity in Organizations. Lauren Kaufmann, Robbin Derry.

• Reconciling Entrepreneurial Resourcefulness with Sustainable Development: A Reply to “Surviving to Long-term Thriving through Augmented Entrepreneurial Resourcefulness”. Jeffery S. McMullen. 

• Just Role with It? The Impact of Transition Space Harassment on Work Role Engagement. Beth A. Livingston, Seung Whan Ryu, Lynn Bowes-Sperry.

• Racial Inequality in Organizations: A Systems Psychodynamic Perspective. Sanaz Mobasseri, William A. Kahn, Robin J. Ely.

• Far From Void: How Institutions Shape Growth in Informal Economies. Robert Nason, Joel Bothello.

Accounting Review

• Understanding the Sustainability Reporting Landscape and Research Opportunities in Accounting. Patricia M. Dechow.

• Can Shareholders Benefit from Consumer Protection Disclosure Mandates? Evidence from Data Breach Disclosure Laws. Musaib Ashraf, Jayanthi Sunder.

Administrative Science Quarterly  

• The Equality Policy Paradox: Gender Differences in How Managers Implement Gender Equality–Related Policies. Vanessa M. Conzon.

• (Not) Paying for Diversity: Repugnant Market Concerns Associated with Transactional Approaches to Diversity Recruitment. Summer R. Jackson. 

• Book Review: Shalene Wuttunee Jobin. Upholding Indigenous Economic Relationships: nehiyawak ᓀᐦᐃᔭᐊᐧᐠ narratives. Sarah Kaplan.

• Book Review: Margot Canaday. Queer Career: Sexuality and Work in Modern America. Michel Anteby.

• Book Review: David Gelles. The Man Who Broke Capitalism: How Jack Welch Gutted the Heartland and Crushed the Soul of Corporate America—and How to Undo His Legacy. Christopher McKenna.

Business Ethics Quarterly

• Multi-stakeholder Initiatives and Legitimacy: A Deliberative Systems Perspective. Kristin Apffelstaedt, Stephanie Schrage, Dirk Ulrich Gilbert. 

• Can Welfare Economics Justify Corporate Philanthropy? Proposing the Philanthropy Multiplier as a Metric for Evaluating Corporate Philanthropic Expenditures. William English.

• New Challenges to the Enlightenment: How Twenty-First-Century Sociotechnological Systems Facilitate Organized Immaturity and How to Counteract It. Andreas Georg Scherer, Cristina Neesham, Dennis Schoeneborn, Markus Scholz.

• How Digital Platforms Organize Immaturity: A Sociosymbolic Framework of Platform Power. Martín Harracá, Itziar Castelló, Annabelle Gawer. 

• The Moral Permissibility of Digital Nudging in the Workplace: Reconciling Justification and Legitimation. Rebecca C. Ruehle.

• Book Review: Ethics for Capitalists: A Systematic Approach to Business Ethics, Competition, and Market Failure, by Joseph Heath. Altona, MB: FriesenPress, 2023. 276 pp. Sareh Pouryousefi.

Human Resource Management

• Female expatriates on the move? Gender diversity management in global mobility. Benjamin Bader, Jana Bucher, Almasa Sarabi.

• Management practices and productivity: Does employee representation play a moderating role? Uwe Jirjahn, Marie-Christine Laible, Jens Mohrenweiser.

• Fueling employee proactive behavior: The distinctive role of Chinese enterprise union practices from a conservation of resources perspective. Mingyan Han, Maolong Zhang, Enhua Hu, Hongmei Shan.

• Women’s representation in top management teams of emerging markets’ multinationals in developed countries: A legitimacy perspective. Abubakr Saeed, Hammad Riaz, Safa Riaz.

• Maternal (perinatal) mental health and employment: An agenda for research and practice. Krystal Wilkinson.

Journal of Applied Psychology

• A breath of toxic air: The relationship between appraised air pollution, abusive supervision, and laissez-faire leadership through the dual-mediating pathways of negative affect and somatic complaints. Ussama Ahmad Khan, Charmi Patel, Christopher M. Barnes.

• Who speaks up when harassment is in the air? A within-person investigation of ambient harassment and voice behavior at work. Allison S. Gabriel, Nitya Chawla, Christopher C. Rosen, Young Eun Lee, Joel Koopman, Elena M. Wong.

• Reducing gender bias in the evaluation and selection of future leaders: The role of decision-makers’ mindsets about the universality of leadership potential. Zhi Liu, Aneeta Rattan, Krishna Savani.

• Sensemaking through the storm: How postpartum depression shapes personal work–family narratives. Allison S. Gabriel, Jamie J. Ladge, Laura M. Little, Rebecca L. MacGowan, Elizabeth E. Stilwell.

• When “who I am” is under threat: Measures of threat to identity value, meanings, and enactment. Mailys M. George, Karoline Strauss, Julija N. Mell, Heather C. Vough.

• Who needs nature? The influence of employee speciesism on nature-based need satisfaction and subsequent work behavior. Pok Man Tang, Anthony C. Klotz, Shawn T. McClean, Yating Wang, Zhaoli Song, Chin Tung Stewart Ng.

• The non-White standard: Racial bias in perceptions of diversity, equity, and inclusion leaders. Rebecca M. Paluch, Vanessa Shum.

• New strategies for addressing the diversity–validity dilemma with big data. Caleb Rottman, Cari Gardner, Joshua Liff, Nathan Mondragon, Lindsey Zuloaga.

Journal of Consumer Marketing

• CSR-authenticity and conciliation after service failure: the role of apology and compensation. Gizem Atav, Subimal Chatterjee, Basak Kuru.

• Role of justification of unethical behaviour in sustainable fashion consumption among Indian consumers: a parallel mediation approach. Jaspreet Kaur, Sangeeta Gupta, Lata Bajpai Singh.

• Guest editorial: challenging the coloniality of raced markets. Haseeb Shabbir, Michael R. Hyman, Alena Kostyk.

Journal of Financial Economics

• Temperature shocks and industry earnings news. Jawad M. Addoum, David T. Ng, Ariel Ortiz-Bobea.

• Deputizing financial institutions to fight elder abuse. Bruce Carlin, Tarik Umar, Hanyi Yi.

• The Big Three and board gender diversity: The effectiveness of shareholder voice. Todd A. Gormley, Vishal K. Gupta, David A. Matsa, Sandra C. Mortal, Lukai Yang.

Journal of Industrial Ecology

• Seven decades of plastic flows and stocks in the United States and pathways toward zero plastic pollution by 2050. Mengqing Kan, Chunyan Wang, Bing Zhu, Wei-Qiang Chen,  Yi Liu,  Yucheng Ren,  Ming Xu.

• Structural attribution of emissions along the global supply chain and implications for climate policy. Shohei Tokito, Tesshu Hanaka, Fumiya Nagashima.

• Unraveling the complexity of extended producer responsibility policy mix design, implementation, and transfer dynamics in the European Union. Jakob T. Pruess.

• Life cycle assessment of in-person, virtual, and hybrid academic conferences: New evidence and perspectives. Antonio Cavallin Toscani,  Atalay Atasu,  Luk N. Van Wassenhove,  Andrea Vinelli.

• Value-based bricolage: Resource mobilization in the circular economy. Sascha P. Klein, Verena Liszt-Rohlf, Patrick Spieth.

• Circular economy: A new research field? Julian Kirchherr, Andrea Urbinati, Kris Hartley.

• BEVSIM: Battery electric vehicle sustainability impact assessment model Rajesh Mehta, Milad Golkaram, Jack T. W. E. Vogels, Tom Ligthart, Eugene Someren, Spela Ferjan, Jelmer Lennartz.

• Avoiding investment in fossil fuel assets. Christopher A. Kennedy, Martin Sers, Michael I. Westphal.

• Biophysical economic interpretation of the Great Depression: A critical period of an energy transition. Christopher A. Kennedy.

Journal of Management

• Give Peace a Chance? How Regulatory Foci Influence Organizational Conflict Events in Intractable Conflict Environments. Libby Weber, Angelique Slade Shantz, Geoffrey M. Kistruck, Robert B. Lount, Jr.

• From Home to Corner Office: How Work–Life Programs Influence Women’s Managerial Representation in Japan. Yang Yang, Guoliang Frank Jiang, Alison M. Konrad.

• Government Corruption and Corporate Social Responsibility: An Instrumental Perspective. Cuili Qian, David H. Weng, Louise Yi Lu, Xuejun Jiang.

• LGBTQ Systems: A Framework and Future Research Agenda. Quinetta M. Roberson, Enrica N. Ruggs, Shaun Pichler, Oscar Holmes, IV.

• All Creatures Great and Small: A Review and Typology of Employee-Animal Interactions. Shawn Xiaoshi Quan, Carisa Lam, Kira Schabram, Kai Chi Yam.

• Autism and Employment: A Review of the “New Frontier” of Diversity Research. Maira E. Ezerins, Lauren S. Simon, Timothy J. Vogus, Allison S. Gabriel, Charles Calderwood, Christopher C. Rosen.

• Intersectional Inequalities and Invisibilization in Organizations: The Case of Indian Beauty and Wellness Services. Mrinmoy Majumder, Shubhda Arora.

• Delving Into Feminine Stereotypes: Female CEOs and the Corporate Social (Ir)Responsibility–Firm Performance Relationship. Rachel Mui, Aaron D. Hill.

• How Identity Impacts Bystander Responses to Workplace Mistreatment. Jamie L. Gloor, Tyler G. Okimoto, Xinxin Li, Brooke A. Gazdag, Michelle K. Ryan.

• Stronger Together: A Call for Gender-Inclusive Leadership in Business Schools. Janaki Gooty, Enrica N. Ruggs, Herman Aguinis, Diane M. Bergeron, Lillian T. Eby, Daan van Knippenberg, Corinne Post, Deborah E. Rupp, Sherry M. B. Thatcher, Scott Tonidandel, Francis J. Yammarino.

• Behavioral Agency Model and Corporate Social Irresponsibility: Uncovering the Implication of Fairness in CEO Compensation. Tanusree Jain, Rashid Zaman, Maretno Harjoto.

• Women Directors and Board Dynamics: Qualitative Insights from the Boardroom. Margarethe F. Wiersema, Marie Louise Mors.

• From Natural to Novel: The Cognition-Broadening Effects of Contact With Nature at Work on Creativity. Pok Man Tang, Anthony Klotz, Shawn McClean, Randy Lee.

• The Vulnerable Workforce: A Call for Research. Simon Lloyd D. Restubog, Pauline Schilpzand, Brent Lyons, Catherine Midel Deen, Yaqing He.

Journal of Management Studies

• Sea Change? Sensemaking, Firm Reactions, and Community Resilience Following Climate Disasters. Siri Boe-Lillegraven, Panikos Georgallis, Ans Kolk.

• Period Power: Organizational Stigma, Multimodality, and Social Entrepreneurship in the Menstrual Products Industry. Mirjam D. Werner, Maria Carmen Punzi, A. J. K. Turkenburg.

• Me, the Patriarchy, and the Business School. Andrea Prothero.

• Different Feathers Embedding Together: Integrating Diversity and Organizational Embeddedness. Debjani Ghosh, Jorge A. Gonzalez, Tomoki Sekiguchi.

• Penalty Zones in International Sustainability Standards: Where Improved Sustainability Doesn’t Pay. Nicole Darnall, Konstantinos Iatridis, Effie Kesidou, Annie Snelson-Powell.

• Missing the Impact in Impact Investing Research – A Systematic Review and Critical Reflection of the Literature. Deike Schlütter, Lena Schätzlein, Rüdiger Hahn, Carolin Waldner.

• Corporate Social Performance, Legitimacy, and the Choice of Foreign Partners by State-Controlled Entities in the Global Extractive Industries. Pavlos C. Symeou, George I. Kassinis.

• Emergence of Hybrid CSR Models as a Conflict-Driven Communicative Process in a Nordic Welfare State. Johanna Moisander, Kirsi Eräranta, Kathryn M. Fahy, Visa Penttilä.

• Do Hybrid Goals Pay off? Social and Economic Goals in Academic Spin-Offs. Hooman Abootorabi, Raj K. Shankar, Einar Rasmussen, Johan Wiklund.

• The Impact of Sustainable Investing: A Multidisciplinary Review. Emilio Marti, Martin Fuchs, Mark R. DesJardine, Rieneke Slager, Jean-Pascal Gond.

• Do Economic Sanctions Work? Evidence from the Russia-Ukraine Conflict. Ajai Gaur, Alexander Settles, Juha Väätänen.

• Perceived Organizational Purpose: Systematic Literature Review, Construct Definition, Measurement and Potential Employee Outcomes. Anna Jasinenko, Josephina Steuber.

Journal of Marketing Research  

• Revealing and Mitigating Racial Bias and Discrimination in Financial Services. Maura L. Scott, Sterling A. Bone, Glenn L. Christensen, Anneliese Lederer, Martin Mende, Brandon G. Christensen, Marina Cozac.

• Resources Available for Me Versus Us: Implications for Mitigating Consumer Food Waste. Huachao Gao, He (Michael) Jia, Bingxuan Guo.

• The Uptrend Effect: Encouraging Healthy Behaviors Through Greater Inferred Normativity. John P. Costello, Aaron M. Garvey, Frank Germann, James E.B. Wilkie[FM3] .

• Lobbying and Product Recalls: A Study of the U.S. Automobile Industry. Khimendra Singh, Rajdeep Grewal.

Journal of Operations Management

• Customer base environmental disclosure and supplier greenhouse gas emissions: A signaling theory perspective. Sining Song, Jie Lian, Keith Skowronski, Tingting Yan. 

Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists 

• Do Financial Markets Respond to Green Opportunities? Tobias Kruse, Myra Mohnen, Misato Sato.

• The welfare costs of job loss and decarbonization – evidence from Germany’s coal phase out. Luke Haywood, Markus Janser, Nicolas Koch.

• Public Pressure and the Heterogeneous Effects of Voluntary Pollution Abatement. Ruohao Zhang, Neha Khanna.

• Governing Climate Geoengineering: Side Payments Are Not Enough. Riccardo Ghidoni, Anna Lou Abatayo, Valentina Bosetti, Marco Casari, Massimo Tavoni. 

• Compliance and Truthfulness: Leveraging Peer Information with Competitive Audit Mechanisms. Timo Goeschl, Marcel Oestreich, Alice Soldà. 

Management Science

• Forget-Me-Not: The Persistent Effect of Information Provision for Adopting Climate-Friendly Goods. Yu Gao, Massimo Tavo.

• There Is No Planet B: Aligning Stakeholder Interests to Preserve the Amazon Rainforest. Anita M. McGahan, Leandro S. Pongeluppe.

• Rising Temperatures, Falling Ratings: The Effect of Climate Change on Sovereign Creditworthiness. Patricia Klusak, Matthew Agarwala, Matt Burke, Moritz Kraemer, Kamiar Mohaddes.

• Intergenerational Transmission of Organizational Misconduct: Evidence from the Chicago Police Department. Justin Frake, Derek Harmon.

• Design of Off-Grid Lighting Business Models to Serve the Poor: Field Experiments and Structural Analysis. Bhavani Shanker Uppari, Serguei Netessine, Ioana Popescu, Rowan P. Clarke.

• The Governance of Nonprofits and Their Social Impact: Evidence from a Randomized Program in Healthcare in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Anicet A. Fangwa, Caroline Flammer, Marieke Huysentruyt, Bertrand V. Quélin.

• Tailor-to-Target: Configuring Collaborative Shareholder Engagements on Climate Change. Rieneke Slager, Kevin Chuah, Jean-Pascal Gond, Santi Furnari, Mikael Homanen.

• The Irrelevance of Environmental, Social, and Governance Disclosure to Retail Investors. Austin Moss, James P. Naughton, Clare Wang.

• Regulating Gender Diversity: Evidence from California Senate Bill 826. Abigail Allen, Aida Sijamic Wahid.

• The Impact of Financial Stress on Workplace Harassment and Discrimination. Ayushi Narayan.

• Consumers’ Costly Responses to Product-Harm Crises. Rosa Ferrer, Helena Perrone.

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