Table of Contents: December 2019

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 December 2019

Academy of Management Journal

• “Tapping” into Good Will: Enhancing Corporate Reputation through Customer Volunteering. Jessica B Rodell, Tyler Burns Sabey, Kristie M. Rogers.

• “Matter Battles”: Cognitive Representations, Boundary Objects, and the Failure of Collaboration in Two Smart Cities. Tiona White Zuzul.

• Regulatory Uncertainty, Corporate Structure, and Strategic Agendas: Evidence from the U.S. Renewable Electricity Industry. Nilanjana Dutt, John Joseph.

Accounting, Organizations and Society

• Performative agency and incremental change in a CSR context. Claudine Grisard, Marcia Annisette, Cameron Graham.

• The radical potential of leaks in the shadow accounting project: The case of US oil interests in Nigeria. Jane Andrew, Max Baker.

Business and Society

• Sustainability Struggles: Conflicting Cultures and Incompatible Logics. Anne M. Kok, Frank G. A. de Bakker, Peter Groenewegen.

• Struggles at the Summits: Discourse Coalitions, Field Boundaries, and the Shifting Role of Business in Sustainable Development. George Ferns, Kenneth Amaeshi.

• The Effects of Attribution Style and Stakeholder Role on Blame for the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill. Stacey R. Kessler, Kevin T. Mahoney, Brandon Randolph-Seng, Mark J. Martinko, Paul E. Spector.

• Environmental Externalities and Weak Appropriability: Influences on Firm Pollution Reduction Technology Development. Joel Malen, Alfred A. Marcus.

• How Organizational Structure Affects Ecological Responsiveness. Miguel Pérez-Valls, José Céspedes-Lorente, Javier Martínez-del-Río, Raquel Antolín-López.

• Understanding the Millennials’ Integrated Ethical Decision-Making Process: Assessing the Relationship Between Personal Values and Cognitive Moral Reasoning. James Weber.

Business Strategy and Environment

• ISO 14001, EMAS and environmental performance: A meta‐analysis. Artitzar Erauskin‐Tolosa, Eugenio Zubeltzu‐Jaka, Iñaki Heras‐Saizarbitoria, Olivier Boiral.

• Exploring networks of proximity for partner selection, firms’ collaboration and knowledge exchange. The case of clean‐tech industry. Alessandro Marra, Vittorio Carlei, Cristiano Baldassari.

• Coopetition for sustainability: Between organizational benefit and societal good. Siarhei Manzhynski, Frank Figge.

• Global governance in new public environmental management: An international and intertemporal comparison of voluntary standards’ impacts. Marcus Wagner.

• ISO 14001 and CO2 emissions: An analysis of the contingent role of country features. Elisabet Garrido, Consuelo González, Raquel Orcos.

• When companies improve the sustainability of the natural environment: A study of large U.S. companies. Taryn De Mendonca, Yan Zhou.

• Successful eco‐innovators: Exploring the association between open inbound knowledge strategies and the performance of eco‐innovative firms. Lourdes Moreno‐Mondéjar, Ángela Triguero, Francisco José Sáez‐Martínez.

• Measuring the impact of sustainability policy and practices in tourism and hospitality industry. Sakshi Shashi, Roberto Cerchione, Harbhajan Bansal.

• Is environmental innovation conducive to corporate financing? The moderating role of advertising expenditures. Zhongju Liao.

• New ventures in Cleantech: Opportunities, capabilities and innovation outcomes. Febi Jensen, Hans Lööf, Andreas Stephan.

• Gaining sustainable development by green supply chain innovation: Perspectives of specific investments and stakeholder engagement. Aihua Wu, Tianfu Li.

• The extended theory of planned behavior in Turkish customers’ intentions to visit green hotels. Emel Yarimoglu, Tugrul Gunay.

• Does corporate environmental responsibility engagement affect firm value? The mediating role of corporate innovation. Zhenghui Li, Gaoke Liao, Khaldoon Albitar

• Sustainable entrepreneurship, innovation, and business models: Integrative framework and propositions for future research. Florian Lüdeke‐Freund.

• Dynamic business modeling for sustainability: Exploring a system dynamics perspective to develop sustainable business models. Federico Cosenz, Vinicius Picanço Rodrigues, Francesco Rosati.

• Materiality in integrated and sustainability reporting: A paradigm shift? Chiara Mio, Marco Fasan, Antonio Costantini.

• Mitigating climate change: A role for regulations and risk‐taking. Andrew Bryant, Jennifer J. Griffin,Vanessa G. Perry.

• Effect of green innovation strategy on firm‐idiosyncratic risk: A competitive action perspective. Woon Leong Lin, Azali Bin Mohamed, Murali Sambasivan, Nick Yip.

• Energy eco‐innovations for sustainable development: Exploring organizational strategic capabilities through an energy cultures framework. Sara Walton, Annie Zhang, Conor O’Kane.

• Do the ecoinnovation and ecodesign strategies generate value added in munificent environments? Isabel‐María García‐Sánchez, Isabel Gallego‐Álvarez, José‐Luis Zafra‐Gómez.

• Can sustainable investments outperform traditional benchmarks? Evidence from global stock markets. Felipe Arias Fogliano de Souza Cunha, Erick Meira de Oliveira, Renato J. Orsato, Marcelo Cabus Klotzle, Fernando Luiz Cyrino Oliveira, Rodrigo Goyannes Gusmão Caiado.

• Understanding variation in the relationship between environmental management practices and firm performance across studies: A meta‐analytic review. Kuen‐Hung Tsai, Chi‐Tsun Huang, Zi‐Hyo Chen.

• The influence of green marketing strategies on business performance and corporate image in the retail sector. Chipo Mukonza, Ilze Swarts.

• A systematic literature review of socially responsible investment and environmental social governance metrics. Luluk Widyawati.

• The influence of feedback and awareness of consequences on the development of corporate sustainability action over time. Jacob Hörisch, Isabell Wulfsberg, Stefan Schaltegger.

California Management Review

• How Social Entrepreneurs Zig-Zag Their Way to Impact at Scale. V. Kasturi Rangan, Tricia Gregg.

Ecological Economics

• Ecological economics in 2049: Getting beyond the argument culture to the world we all want. Robert Costanza.

• Developing a restoration narrative: A pathway towards system-wide healing and a restorative culture. James Blignaut, James Aronson.

• Can product bundling increase the joint adoption of electric vehicles, solar panels and battery storage? Explorative evidence from a choice-based conjoint study in Austria. Alfons Priessner, Nina Hampl.

• Private sustainability standards as tools for empowering southern pro-regulatory coalitions? Collaboration, conflict and the pursuit of sustainable palm oil. Kate Macdonald.

Journal of Business Venturing

• Powered by compassion: The effect of loving-kindness meditation on entrepreneurs’ sustainable decision-making. Yuval Engel, Anusha Ramesh, Nick Steiner.

• The double impact of institutions: Institutional spillovers and entrepreneurial activity in the solar photovoltaic industry. Joern Hoppmann, Ben Vermeer.

• Can prosocial motivation harm entrepreneurs’ subjective well-being? Ewald Kibler, Joakim Wincent, Teemu Kautonen, Gabriella Cacciotti, Martin Obschonka.

• Micro-entrepreneurship and subjective well-being: Evidence from rural Bangladesh. Muhammad Faress Bhuiyan, Artjoms Ivlevs.

Journal of Marketing 

• Who Receives Credit or Blame? The Effects of Made-to-Order Production on Responses to Unethical and Ethical Company Production Practices. Neeru Paharia.

Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science

• Reverse innovation: a conceptual framework. Suresh Malodia, Shaphali Gupta.

Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists

• But What Does it Mean? Competition between Products Carrying Alternative Green Labels when Consumers are Active Acquirers of Information. Anthony Heyes, Sandeep Kapur, Peter Kennedy, Steve Martin, and John Maxwell.

• Weather and the Decision to Go Solar: Evidence on Costly Cancellations. Yanjun Liao.

• Peaking Interest: How Awareness Drives the Effectiveness of Time-of-Use Electricity Pricing. Brian C. Prest.

• Can Learning Explain Deterrence? Evidence from Oil and Gas Production. Peter Maniloff.

• Colony Collapse and the Consequences of Bee Disease: Market Adaptation to Environmental Change. Randal R. Rucker, Walter N. Thurman, and Michael Burgett.

Manufacturing and Service Operations Management

• Humanitarian Operations: A World of Opportunity for Relevant and Impactful Research. Maria Besiou, Luk N. Van Wassenhove.

• Choice of Electronic Waste Recycling Standard Under Recovery Channel Competition. Gökçe Esenduran, Yen-Ting Lin, Wenli Xiao, Minyue Jin.

• Interesting, Important, and Impactful Operations Management. Gérard P. Cachon, Karan Girotra, Serguei Netessine.

Marketing Science

• Advertising and Demand for Addictive Goods: The Effects of E-Cigarette Advertising. Anna E. Tuchman.

Organizational Behaviour and Human Decision Processes

• History backfires: Reminders of past injustices against women undermine support for workplace policies promoting women. Ivona Hideg, Anne E. Wilson.

• Mock meat in the butchery: Nudging consumers toward meat substitutes. Jolien Vandenbroele, Hendrik Slabbinck, Anneleen Van Kerckhove, Iris Vermeir.

Production and Operations Management

• Why Have Voluntary Time‐of‐Use Tariffs Fallen Short in the Residential Sector? Dong Gu Choi, Michael K. Lim, Karthik Murali, Valerie M. Thomas.

• Sustainable Innovation: Pushing the Boundaries of Traditional Operations Management. Luk N. Van Wassenhove.

• The Role of Inclusive Innovation in Promoting Social Sustainability. Başak Kalkanci, Morvarid Rahmani, L. Beril Toktay.

• Optimal Selling Policies for Farmer Cooperatives. Jim (Junmin) Shi, Yao Zhao, Rose B. Karimi Kiwanuka, Jasmine (Aichih) Chang.

Strategic Management Journal

• Chief sustainability officers and corporate social (Ir)responsibility. Ruchunyi Fu, Yi Tang, Guoli Chen.

• Unwelcome voices: The gender bias‐mitigating potential of unconventionality. Owen Parker, Rachel Mui, Varkey Titus Jr.

• Do firms use corporate social responsibility to insure against stock price risk? Evidence from a natural experiment. Yonghong Jia, Xinghua Gao, Scott Julian.

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