Table of Contents: August 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 August 2025

Academy of Management Learning and Education

• “Those of Us Who Stay”: Sensemaking, Embodiment, and Navigation of the Inclusion–Exclusion Paradox. Patricia T. Naya, Alessia Contu, Jared M. Poole.

• Men’s Leadership Development: A Framework for Advancing Gender Equity in Leadership Development. Nicole Ferry.

• Is My Research AResponsible? Dennis Tourish, Russell Craig.

• Book Review: Pedagogies of Collapse. Domenico Dentoni.

Academy of Management Review

• The Boundaries of Trust in a New Era. M. Audrey Korsgaard, Cecily D. Cooper, Kyle J. Mayer, Laura Poppo, Aks Zaheer.

• Awe-Driven Venturing: Identifying and Pursuing Transformational Opportunities. Trenton Alma Williams, Dean A. Shepherd.

• “MOB” Mentality?: On the Formation and Consequences of Moralized Opinion-Based Intergroup Conflict in Organizations. Michael G. Pratt, Luke N. Hedden, Hamza Khan.

• The PSI Model for Predicting Activist Engagements: Toward a Theory of Shareholder Activism. Mark R. DesJardine.

• Multiplex Jeopardy: Dissonant Ties Promote Gender Bias in Workplace Social Networks. Raina A. Brands, Martin Kilduff.

Accounting Review

• Generational Shifts and Changing Identities of Chinese Women Accountants Outside Public Accounting. Qi Li, Rania Kamla, Eleni Chatzivgeri.

Administrative Science Quarterly  

• Book Review: Baruch Fischhoff. Bounded Disciplines and Unbounded Problems: A Vision for Management Science. Alan D. Meyer.

• CrossFit in the Crosshairs: A Community-Embedded Theory of Firm Responsiveness to Social Issues. Enrico Forti, Alessandro Piazza, Joost Rietveld.

• Wicked Crises and the (In)capacity to Act. Renate E. Meyer.

• Book Review: Hatim A. Rahman. Inside the Invisible Cage: How Algorithms Control Workers. Matt Beane.

• Addressing Marginalized Populations in Management Research. Damon J. Phillips, Aruna Ranganathan.

Business Ethics Quarterly

• The Virtuous Life of Pleasure: Aristotle, Contemplation, and Corporate Sustainability. Melissa Fitzpatrick.

• Art Review: When Two Worlds Collide: Unveiling Ethical Challenges in Early Capitalist and Contemporary Societies Through the Lenses of Marius Bercea’s Universe. Alina Elena Blehuiu.

Contemporary Accounting Research

• Environmental disclosures and ESG fund ownership. Scott A. Robinson, Jonathan L. Rogers, A. Nicole Skinner, Laura A. Wellman.

• Local newspaper closures and bank loan contracts. Zhiming Ma, Derrald Stice, Han Stice, Yue Zhang.

• Cashiers’ contribution to organizations: A feminist perspective of accounting and countering. Nathalie Clavijo, Claire Dambrin.

Econometrica

• Selecting the Most Effective Nudge: Evidence From a Large-Scale Experiment on Immunization. Abhijit Banerjee, Arun G. Chandrasekhar, Suresh Dalpath, Esther Duflo, John Floretta, Matthew O. Jackson, et al.

• Contract Labor and Establishment Growth in India. Marianne Bertrand, Chang-Tai Hsieh, Nick Tsivanidis.

Human Resource Management

• Ethical Impact in HRM: Advancing Knowledge Production With Mode E. Laura Lamers.

• Toward Inclusive Green Human Resource Management: An Identity-Based Analytical Framework. Shuang Ren, Soumyadeb Chowdhury.

Journal of Applied Psychology

• After shocks: Humble leadership improves employee adjustment following shock events. Grace Mele-Cormier, Daniel M. Cable, Sergey Gorbatov.

• How does training contribute to workplace safety? A meta-analysis examining the effects of safety training. Tiffany Bisbey, Rylee M. Linhardt, Amanda Woods Herron, Molly P. Kilcullen, Eduardo Salas.

• Overcoming poverty and unemployment: The transfer dynamics of entrepreneurship training. Janina Peschmann, Michael M. Gielnik, Michael Frese, Kim Marie Bischoff.

• Disrupted selves in transition: How women navigate fertility treatments in the context of work. Nada Basir, Jamie J. Ladge, Serena Sohrab.

• Observers’ gender and behavioral responses to workplace sexual harassment via empathy: The moderating role of organizational intolerance. Sohee Kim, YoungAh Park, Yijue Liang.

Journal of Business Venturing

• Not what you expected to see? Obesity stereotypes, expectancy violations, and angel investment decisions. Torben Antretter, Henrik Wesemann Lekkas, Djordje Djokovic, Vangelis Souitaris, Joakim Wincent.

• Big things from small beginnings: Creating and scaling community-based opportunities for sustainable small and local businesses. Man Yang, Maria Ehrnström-Fuentes, Joakim Wincent.

• Financial inclusion and low-income women’s new venture initiation: A Field experiment. Abu Zafar M. Shahriar, Sarah R. Chase, Dean Shepherd.

• Meaningful venturing: Examining how entrepreneurs generate meaning in life. Stella Seyb, Dean A. Shepherd, Sally Maitlis.

Journal of Consumer Marketing

• Symbolic value and sustainable choice: consumer segments in the wedding dress market . Julianna Faludi, Kamilla Székelyné-Füller.

• Generational shifts: understanding the role of green self-identity, social norms and cohort differences in consumer intentions to purchase stigmatised recycled products. Michela Cesarina Mason, Gioele Zamparo, Salman Saleem, Rana Muhammad Umar.

• Reducing impulse buying: a review and research agenda. Bharadhwaj Sivakumaran; Bilwa Deshpande; Debasis Pradhan; Teidorlang Lyngdoh.

Journal of Financial Economics

• Too Levered for Pigou: Carbon pricing, financial constraints, and leverage regulation. Robin Döttling, Magdalena Rola-Janicka.

• Defunding controversial industries: Can targeted credit rationing choke firms? Kunal Sachdeva, André F. Silva, Pablo Slutzky, Billy Y. Xu.

• Mergers and acquisitions, technological change, and inequality. Wenting Ma, Paige Ouimet, Elena Simintzi.

• Polarization, purpose and profit. Daniel Ferreira, Radoslawa Nikolowa.

• Responsible investing: Costs and benefits for university endowment funds. George O. Aragon, Yuxiang Jiang, Juha Joenväärä, Cristian Ioan Tiu.

• Social preferences and corporate investment. Thomas Dangl, Michael Halling, Jin Yu, Josef Zechner.

• ESG lending. Sehoon Kim, Nitish Kumar, Jongsub Lee, Junho Oh.

• Financial constraints and the racial housing gap. Arpit Gupta, Christopher Hansman, Pierre Mabille.

Journal of Industrial Ecology

• Cross-border risks of industrial decarbonization: Carbon tariffs exacerbate carbon inequity in international trade. Yanan Ren, Mei Wang, Qunwei Wang.

• Can we improve well-being while reducing carbon emissions? Household-level evidence from China. Jiaming Yu, Wenling Liu, Xiaoyan Meng, Xinzhu Zheng.

• Integrating technology and environmental data to predict mismanaged plastic waste in a watershed. Lara M. Pinheiro, Diana Ita-Nagy, Desireé G. Hidalgo, Daniela Flor, Andrea Osorio Baquero, Nicole Becerra, et al.

• Biodiversity finance: Measuring and managing biodiversity in companies and financial markets. Enrico Benetto, Timo Busch, Francesca Verones, Richard Wood.

• Simulation-based analysis of country-specific mitigation strategies to decarbonize the passenger car fleet: A comparison between Germany, Poland, and Norway. Raphael Ginster, Karsten Kieckhäfer, Christian Thies, Christoph Runde, Jörg Wansart, Thomas S. Spengler.

• Impact of emerging packaging regulations on international trade and product safety with emphasis on plastic reuse and recycling in Europe and North America. Carinna Saldaña-Pierard, Phuong Mai Nguyen, Frédéric Debeaufort, Olivier Vitrac, Rafael Auras.

• Assessing plastic uses and waste through an environmentally extended SAM-based and structural path analysis: The case of Côte d’Ivoire. Patrice Guillotreau, Souleymane Sadio Diallo, Yazid Dissou, Sabine Garabedian, Allassane Ouattara, Silvain Payet, Philippe Cecchi.

• Synergistic sectoral actions can accelerate carbon reduction in consumption-intensive regions. Yujia Xiao, Minggao Xue, Xiaoling Zhang.

• Slow and unequal reduction in Austrian household GHG footprints between 2000 and 2020. Christian Dorninger, Simone Gingrich, Willi Haas, Alina Brad, Etienne Schneider, Dominik Wiedenhofer.

• The biophysical economic structure of four developed countries: Lessons for decarbonization. Rajib Sinha, Christopher Kennedy.

• Assessing environmental impacts of digitalization: A special issue. Göran Finnveden, George Kamiya, Vlad C. Coroamă, Pernilla Bergmark, Reid Lifset.

• Is circular economy a failing sustainability paradigm? Not necessarily. Julian Kirchherr, Kris Hartley.

• Circular ecosystems: Past, present, and future research directions. Raphael Aryee, Wisdom Kanda, Martin Geissdoerfer, Julian Kirchherr.

• The impact of uncertainty in repair service attributes on consumer preferences: Insights from a dual-response choice experiment. Paul Bengart, Bodo Vogt.

• Assessing company sustainability impact: Status quo and way ahead. Timo Busch, Brigitte Bernard-Rau, Hendrik Brosche.

Journal of Management

• Connected to a Sinking Ship? Firm Performance in a Besieged Autocracy. Christopher A. Hartwell.

• Not All Political Ties Are the Same: Firms’ Ties to the Government and Pollution. Wen Helena Li, Ilya R. P. Cuypers, Gokhan Ertug, Hari Bapuji, Wei Liu.

• When Managers Stay, Workers Are Safer: Rethinking the Value of Firm-Specific Human Capital. Mark R. DesJardine, Zhiyan Wang.

• Mixed Gambles in Product Recalls: How CEO Stock Options Drive Impression Management Tactics. Sumeet Malik, Taiyuan Wang, Geoff Martin, Luis Gomez-Mejia.

• Corporate Social Irresponsibility and Ownership Level in Cross-Border Acquisitions. Tsvetomira V. Bilgili, Holly Loncarich, Debmalya Mukherjee, Erin E. Makarius.

• How We Can Help Working Moms “Win”: The Impact of Social Support During Pregnancy on Postpartum Working Mom Guilt. Kaylee J. Hackney, Gary R. Thurgood, Dawn S. Carlson, Merideth J. Thompson.

• Comparing Learning-by-Doing Between In-House Provision and External Contracting in Public Service Provision. Louis Mulotte, Simon Porcher.

• Career Success and Minority Status: A Review and Conceptual Framework. Mina Beigi, Melika Shirmohammadi, Mostafa Ayoobzadeh, Amir Hedayati Mehdiabadi, Wee Chan Au, et al.

• Ecological Examination of Mortality Rate in an Infant Industry: The Roles of Legitimacy and Illegitimacy. Stan Xiao Li, Xiaotao Yao, Jie Yang.

Journal of Management Studies

• Learning About Local Culture to Research Developing Markets: How I Rediscovered the Importance of Lakou in Haiti. Howard Jean-Denis.

• The Inclusionary Effects of Performing Work: A Practice-Theoretical Study of Airport Security Work. Laura Dobusch, Dide van Eck, Maddy Janssens, Marieke van den Brink.

• Is There Fairness in AI? Elmira van den Broek, Anastasia Sergeeva, Marleen Huysman.

• When Newspapers Fail to Deter Corporate Illegality: The Constraining Effects of Economic Institutions. Tony Jaehyun Choi, Kam Phung.

• Unbottling Time: Indigenous Temporal Sovereignty and ‘Time-Less Organizing’ at a Bottled Water Plant Occupation in Mexico. Rajiv Maher.

• Embodied Territories: The Gendered-Classed Economies of Entrepreneurship in India. Vijayta Doshi, Kathleen Riach, Srinivas Venugopal.

• Tending to the Particular: Navigating Tensions Around Principles of Alternativity Through an Ethics of Care. Jonas Friedrich, Christina Lüthy.

• Social-Symbolic Work of Engaging Heterogeneous Communities: Participation Work and Entangled Effects on Organizations and Communities. Trish Ruebottom, Suhaib Riaz, Israr Qureshi.

• Clash of the Titans: Conflict Intensity, Community Dependence on Environmental Resources, and Stakeholder Multiplicity. Chang Hoon Oh, Jiyoung Shin.

• From ‘Dirty Boots’ to ‘Distant Friends’: How A Colombian Social Intermediary Integrates Communities through Entrepreneurship. Andrea Caldwell Marquez, Emily Block, Kelly Rubey, Viva Ona Bartkus.

• Unleashing the Impact Potential of Early-Career Researchers: Recognizing the Value of Micro-Level Impact. Tina Miedtank, Stephanie E. Raible, Marleen Wierenga.

• Financial/Social Trade-Offs in Dual-Purpose Companies. Fengbin Wang, Changwei Guo, Jianxun Chen, Sunny Li Sun.

• If You Can’t Let Go: The Role of Emotional Dependency in Global South–North Social Enterprises. Carina Keller, Vera Schwarzmann, Karin Kreutzer, Patricia Hein.

• Critical Management Studies: From One-Dimensional Critique to Three-Dimensional Scepticism. Mats Alvesson, André Spicer.

• What Is the Future of Future Making in Management Research? Christopher Wickert.

• Future Making as Emancipatory Inquiry: A Value-Based Exploration of Desirable Futures. Alice Comi, Luigi Mosca, Jennifer Whyte.

Journal of Marketing Research  

• Does Featuring People with Disabilities Help or Hurt Fashion Marketing Effectiveness? Jiaqian Wang, Chuang Wei.

Journal of Operations Management

• The Role of Public and Buyer-Driven Governance for Supplier Sustainability Development in China. Cheng-Yong Xiao, Miriam Wilhelm, Mark Pagell, Taco van der Vaart.

• On-Demand Schedules, Worker Absenteeism and Patient Dissatisfaction in Home Care Services. Antoaneta Momcheva, Fabrizio Salvador, Rocio Bonet, Marco Caserta.

• Decoupling Firm Growth From Carbon Emissions: A Supply Network Role Perspective. Iryna Malacina, Jaan-Pauli Kimpimäki, Heli Arminen, Axel Zehendner.

• Managerial Efficiency and Reverse-Flow Complexity in a Circular Economy. Sergey Naumov, Saurabh Bansal, V. Daniel R. Guide.

Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists 

• Attribution to Anthropogenic Causes Helps Prevent Adverse Events. Florian Diekert, Timo Goeschl, Christian König-Kersting.

• Heat and Productivity: Evidence from Flight On-Time Performance. Zhanhan Yu, Ying Shi.

Management Science

• Vaccines at Work: Experimental Evidence from a Firm Campaign. Manuel Hoffmann, Roberto Mosquera, Adrian Chadi.

• Owner Support for Green Shareholder Voting and Divestment. Ole-Andreas Elvik Næss.

• Product Ratings and Externalities. Thomas de Haan, Magnus Våge Knutsen.

• Displaying and Discounting Perishables: Impact on Retail Profits and Waste. Zumbul Atan, Dorothee Honhon, Xiajun Amy Pan.

• Using Social Recognition to Address the Gender Difference in Volunteering for Low-Promotability Tasks. Ritwik Banerjee, Priyoma Mustafi.

• Cost-Saving Synergy: Energy Stacking in Battery Energy Storage Systems. Joonho Bae, Roman Kapuscinski, John Silberholz.

• Gender Gap in Startup Recruiting: Evidence from Changes in Termination Costs. Francesco Castellaneta, Raffaele Conti, Aleksandra Joanna Kacperczyk.

• Substitution Between Corporate Social Responsibility Activities: Evidence from Hiring and Mistreating Unauthorized Workers and Pollution. Ying Huang, Ningzhong Li, Xiaolu Zhou.

• Minimum Viable Signal: Venture Funding, Social Movements, and Race. Matt Marx, Qian Wang, Emmanuel Yimfor.

• Boosting Sales and Customer Welfare from Premade Foods (Let the Freshest Chicken Fly off the Shelf First). Dan Andrei Iancu, Jae-Hyuck Park, Erica L. Plambeck.

• Economic Substance Behind Texas Political Anti-ESG Sanctions. Shiva Rajgopal, Anup Srivastava, Rong Zhao.

• Innovating Green: Competition Meets Regulation. Rui Dai, Rui Duan, Lilian Ng.

• Too Good To Go: Combating Food Waste with Surprise Clearance. Luyi Yang, Man Yu.

• Reducing Racial Disparities in Consumer Credit: Evidence from Anonymous Loan Applications. Poorya Kabir, Tianyue Ruan.

• Carbon Emissions, Mutual Fund Trading, and the Liquidity of Corporate Bonds. Jie Cao, Yi Li, Xintong Zhan, Weiming Zhang, Linyu Zhou.

• Market Design Choices, Racial Discrimination, and Equitable Microentrepreneurship in Digital Marketplaces. Mohammed Alyakoob, Mohammad Rahman.

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