Table of Contents: December 2021

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 2021

Academy of Management Journal

• To Catch A Predator: The Lived Experience of Extreme Practices. Mark de Rond, Jaco Lok, Adrian Marrison.

• Advancing Reform: Embedded Activism to Develop Climate Solutions. Todd Schifeling, Sara Soderstrom.

• Balancing “Protective Disguise” with “Harmonious Advocacy”: Social Venture Legitimation in Authoritarian Contexts. Isabel Neuberger, Jochem Kroezen, Paul Tracey.

• Different Roots, Different Fruits: Gender-Based Differences in Cultural Narratives about Perceived Discrimination Produce Divergent Psychological Consequences. Leigh Plunkett Tost, Ashley E. Hardin, Jacob W. Roberson, Francesca Gino.

• Meaning, Mission, and Measurement: How Organizational Performance Measurement Shapes Perceptions of Work as Worthy. Haley Allison Beer, Pietro Micheli, Marya L Besharov.

• Receiving Service from a Person with a Disability: Stereotypes, Perceptions of Corporate Social Responsibility, and the Opportunity for Increased Corporate Reputation. David Dwertmann, Bernadeta Goštautaitė, Rūta Kazlauskaitė, Ilona Bučiūnienė.

• From the Editors—Publishing Impactful Research in AMJ: Winners of the 2020 and 2021 Impact Awards. Elizabeth E. Umphress, Lindred L. Greer, Cindy P. Muir (Zapata), Andrew Knight.

Accounting, Organizations and Society

• Regulatory mandates and responses to uncomfortable knowledge: The case of country-by-country reporting in the extractive sector. Lisa Baudot, David J. Cooper.

American Economic Review

• Assortative Matching or Exclusionary Hiring? The Impact of Employment and Pay Policies on Racial Wage Differences in Brazil. François Gerard, Lorenzo Lagos, Edson Severnini, David Card.

Business and Society

• Majority-Minority Boards of Directors and Decision Making: The Effects of Homophily on Lending Decisions. Cullen F. Goenner.

• Meaningfulness and Impact of Academic Research: Bringing the Global South to the Forefront. Premilla D’Cruz, Ernesto Noronha, Sudhir Katiyar.

• Moral Intensity, Perceived Impacts, and Task Motivation: Evidence From Volunteers. Akwasi Opoku-Dakwa.

• What We Talk About When We Talk About Stakeholders. Michael E. Johnson-Cramer, Robert A. Phillips, Hussein Fadlallah, Shawn L. Berman, Heather Elms.

• Why the Super-Rich Will Not Be Saving the World: Philanthropy and “Privatization Creep” in Global Development. Sally Brooks, Arun Kumar.

• Broad or Narrow Stakeholder Management? A Signaling Theory Perspective. Limin Fu, Dirk M. Boehe, Marc O. Orlitzky.

• Broadening Our Understanding of Human Resource Management for Improved Environmental Performance. Florencio F. Portocarrero, Anne-Laure P. Winkler, Jone L. Pearce.

• Are They Really a New Species? Exploring the Emergence of Social Entrepreneurs Through Giddens’s Structuration Theory. Artur Steiner, Sarah Jack, Jane Farmer, Izabella Steinerowska-Streb.

• Do Firms Adjust Corporate Social Responsibility Engagement After a Focal Change in Credit Ratings? Nikolaos Karampatsas, Nihat Aktas, Alexander Witkowski.

• Optimism Amid Despair: How to Avoid a Net-Zero Debacle. Rajat Panwar.

• The CSR Imperative: How CSR Influences Word-of-Mouth Considering the Roles of Authenticity and Alternative Attractiveness. Stefan Markovic, Oriol Iglesias, Yuqian Qiu, Mehdi Bagherzadeh.

Ecological Economics

• Wellbeing economy: An effective paradigm to mainstream post-growth policies? Lorenzo Fioramonti, Luca Coscieme, Robert Costanza, Ida Kubiszewski, … Roberto De Vogli.

• Social tipping processes towards climate action: A conceptual framework. Ricarda Winkelmann, Jonathan F. Donges, E. Keith Smith, Manjana Milkoreit, … Timothy M. Lenton.

• How to remove microplastics in wastewater? A cost-effectiveness analysis. Larissa Vuori, Markku Ollikainen.

• Integrating coordination mechanisms in the sustainability assessment of agri-food chains: From a structured literature review to a comprehensive framework. Carlos Moreno-Miranda, Liesbeth Dries.

• Money is money: The economic impact of BerkShares. Josh Matti, Yang Zhou.

• A framework to allocate responsibilities of the global environmental concerns: A case study in Spain involving regions, municipalities, productive sectors, industrial parks, and companies. Brais Suárez-Eiroa, Emilio Fernández, David Soto-Oñate, Aida Ovejero-Campos, … Gonzalo Méndez.

• Coordination games vs prisoner’s dilemma in sustainability games: A critique of recent contributions and a discussion of policy implications. Alessio Carrozzo Magli, Piero Manfredi.

• Sand futures: Post-growth alternatives for mineral aggregate consumption and distribution in the global south. Arpita Bisht.

• The impact of information asymmetry on animal welfare-friendly consumption: Evidence from milk market in Japan. Shinichi Kitano, Yuka Mitsunari, Akira Yoshino.

• Determinants of fossil fuel divestment in European pension funds. Florian Egli, David Schärer, Bjarne Steffen.

• The Sustainable Development Goals as new business norms: A survey experiment on stakeholder preferences. Tomomi Yamane, Shinji Kaneko.

• No clue about bioplastics. Erik Ansink, Louise Wijk, Frederiek Zuidmeer.

• The economic, environmental and social performance of European certified food. Valentin Bellassen, Marion Drut, Mohamed Hilal, Antonio Bodini, … Filippo Arfini.

• On thin ice – The Arctic commodity extraction frontier and environmental conflicts. Ksenija Hanaček, Markus Kröger, Arnim Scheidel, Facundo Rojas, Joan Martinez-Alier.

Journal of Marketing

• The Impact of Corporate Social Responsibility on Brand Sales: An Accountability Perspective. Dionne Nickerson, Michael Lowe, Adithya Pattabhiramaiah, Alina Sorescu.

• How Industries Use Direct-to-Public Persuasion in Policy Conflicts: Asymmetries in Public Voting Responses. Kathleen Seiders, Andrea Godfrey Flynn, Gergana Y. Nenkov.

Journal of Political Economy

• Directed Technical Change as a Response to Natural Resource Scarcity. John Hassler, Per Krusell, Conny Olovsson.

Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science

• When drivers become inhibitors of organic consumption: the need for a multistage view. Robert Mai, Stefan Hoffmann, Ingo Balderjahn.

• When imperfect is preferred: the differential effect of aesthetic imperfections on choice of processed and unprocessed foods. Jacob Suher, Courtney Szocs, Koert van Ittersum.

• Does your skin color matter in buyer–seller negotiations? The implications of being a Black salesperson. David Gligor, Christopher Newman, Saim Kashmiri.

Manufacturing and Service Operations Management

• When Shared Autonomous Electric Vehicles Meet Microgrids: Citywide Energy-Mobility Orchestration. Wei Qi, Mengyi Sha, Shanling Li.

• Before It’s Too Late: Product Recall Delays and Policy Design. Wenzheng Mao, Zhanyu Dong, Hsiao-Hui Lee.

• Shipment Policies for Products with Fixed Shelf Lives: Impact on Profits and Waste. Arzum Akkaş, Dorothee Honhon.

• Smart Charging of Electric Vehicles: An Innovative Business Model for Utility Firms. Owen Q. Wu, Şafak Yücel, Yangfang (Helen) Zhou.

• Sourcing from a Self-Reporting Supplier: Strategic Communication of Social Responsibility in a Supply Chain. Tao Lu, Brian Tomlin.

Marketing Science

• What Happens When a Retailer Drops a Product Category? Investigating the Consequences of Ending Tobacco Sales. Ali Goli, Pradeep K. Chintagunta.

Organizational Behaviour and Human Decision Processes

• A gender gap in managerial span of control: Implications for the gender pay gap. Margaret Lee, Laura J. Kray.

• Social class background, disjoint agency, and hiring decisions. Daron L. Sharps, Cameron Anderson.

• Rewarding morality: How corporate social responsibility shapes top management team compensation votes. Ryan Fehr, Abhinav Gupta, Cristiano Guarana.

Production and Operations Management

• Marketing’s and Operations’ Roles in Product Recall Prevention: Antecedents and Consequences. Anindita Chakravarty, Alok R. Saboo, Guiyang Xiong.

• Fast Fashion, Charities, and the Circular Economy: Challenges for Operations Management. Reza Zanjirani Farahani, Nasrin Asgari, Luk N. Van Wassenhove.

• How Ride-Sharing Is Shaping Public Transit System: A Counterfactual Estimator Approach. Yang Pan, Liangfei Qiu.

• Humanitarian Operations and the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Maria Besiou, Alfonso J. Pedraza-Martinez, Luk N. Van Wassenhove.

• Coordinating Installation of Electric Vehicle Charging Stations between Governments and Automakers. Jiayi Joey Yu, Christopher S. Tang, Musen Kingsley Li, Zuo-Jun Max Shen.

• Trade-In or Sell in My P2P Marketplace: A Game Theoretic Analysis of Profit and Environmental Impact. Aditya Vedantam, Emre M. Demirezen, Subodha Kumar.

• Rapid Development of a Decision Support System to Alleviate Food Insecurity at the Los Angeles Regional Food Bank amid the COVID-19 Pandemic. Lester Blackmon, Ross Chan, Omar Carbral, Geeta Chintapally, Sandip Dhara, Peter Felix, Aditi Jagdish, Srini Konakalla, Jasbir Labana, Jeff McIlvain, Jason Stone, Christopher S. Tang, Jason Torres, Weldon Wu.

• Gender-Related Operational Issues Arising from On-Demand Ride-Hailing Platforms: Safety Concerns and System Configuration. Yanli Tang, Pengfei Guo, Christopher S. Tang, Yulan Wang.

Quarterly Journal of Economics

• The Costs of Employment Segregation: Evidence from the Federal Government Under Woodrow Wilson. Abhay Aneja, Guo Xu.

Review of Accounting Studies

• Social media, signaling, and donations: testing the financial returns on nonprofits’ social media investment. Erica E. Harris, Daniel G. Neely, Gregory D. Saxton.

• Corporate social performance and the managerial labor market. Xin Dai, Feng Gao, Ivy Xiying Zhang.

Review of Economic Studies

• Seawalls and Stilts: A Quantitative Macro Study of Climate Adaptation. Stephie Fried.

Review of Finance

• Financial Literacy in the Age of Green Investment. Anders Anderson, David T Robinson.

Review of Financial Studies 

• Corporate ESG Profiles and Banking Relationships. Joel F Houston, Hongyu Shan.

• Mortgage Finance and Climate Change: Securitization Dynamics in the Aftermath of Natural Disasters. Amine Ouazad, Matthew E Kahn.

• Going Underwater? Flood Risk Belief Heterogeneity and Coastal Home Price Dynamics. Laura A Bakkensen, Lint Barrage.

Strategic Management Journal

• From a shareholder to stakeholder orientation: Evidence from the analyses of CEO dismissal in large U.S. firms. Shoonchul Shin, Juyoung Lee, Pratima (Tima) Bansal.

• Building greener motorhomes: How dual-purpose technical and relational capabilities affect component and full product innovation. Anne Parmigiani, Jennifer Irwin, Brooke Lahneman.

• Gender and competitiveness when earning for others: Experimental evidence and implications for sponsorship. Nathan Barrymore, Cristian L. Dezső, Benjamin C. King.

• Firm partisan positioning, polarization, and risk communication: Examining voluntary disclosures on COVID-19. Richard A. Benton, J. Adam Cobb, Timothy Werner.

• Institutional protection of minority employees and entrepreneurship: Evidence from the LGBT Employment Non-Discrimination Acts. Raffaele Conti, Olenka Kacperczyk, Giovanni Valentini.

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