Table of Contents: December 2022

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 2022

Academy of Management Journal

• Triggers, Traps, and Disconnect: How Governance Obstacles Hinder Progress on Grand Challenges. Fannie Couture, Paula Jarzabkowski, Jane Kirsten Lê.

• Calling Oneself and Others In: Brokering Identities in Diversity Training. Keimei Sugiyama, Jamie J. Ladge, Diana Bilimoria.

• On the Plurality and Politics of Ally Work: Liberalism and Self, Relational, and Organizational Ally Work. Carolyn T Dang, Aparna Joshi.

• From the Editors—That’s Important, Interesting, and Generative: Winners of the AMJ 2021 Best Paper Award and 2022 Research Impact Award. Jennifer Howard-Grenville, Gurneeta Vasudeva, Daphne W. Yiu.

Academy of Management Perspectives

• The mutual Reinforcement of hard and soft Regulation. Judith Schrempf-Stirling, Florian Wettstein.

• Why Do Companies Go Woke? Nicolai Foss, Peter Klein.

• A Configurational Theory of Generalized Exchange in Stakeholder-Oriented Firms. Jeffrey S. Harrison, Violet Ho, Douglas A. Bosse, Donal Crilly.

• Much Ado about the Lack of Policy Implications in Scholarly Journals? Lillian T. Eby, David Facteau.

• Woke Corporations and Worldview: Making Moral Proclamations from Shaky Moral Foundations. Patrick Wright.

• When Everything Interacts with Everything Else: Intervening in Messes. Malvina Klag, Ann Langley.

• Rethinking Diversity Strategies: An Application of Paradox and Positive Organization Behavior Theories. David Andrew Waldman, Jennifer L. Sparr.

• Declining Trust in Capitalism: Managerial, Research, and Public Policy Implications. R. Michael Holmes, David A. Waldman, Donald S. Siegel, Justin A. Pepe.

• Challenging Disciplinary Norms in Management Research to Catalyze Climate Action. Franz Wohlgezogen, Tom Osegowitsch, Angela McCabe, Joeri Mol.

• Challenging Disciplinary Norms: A Response. Daniel Nyberg, Christopher Wright.

Accounting, Organizations and Society

• He, him, his: Masculine language in professional guidance and assessed equity and inclusion of women and LGBTQ+ people in the profession. Marietta Peytcheva.

American Economic Review

• Earnings Inequality and the Minimum Wage: Evidence from Brazil. Niklas Engbom, Christian Moser. 

Business and Society

• Grand Challenges and Female Leaders: An Exploration of Relational Leadership During the COVID-19 Pandemic. Abbie Griffith Oliver, Michael D. Pfarrer, François Neville.

• Everyday Talk on Twitter: Informal Deliberation About (Ir-)responsible Business Conduct in Social Media Arenas. Daniel Lundgaard, Michael Etter.

• Strengthening or Restricting? Explaining the Covid-19 Pandemic’s Configurational Effects on Companies’ Sustainability Strategies and Practices. Ralph Hamann, Alecia Sewlal, Neeveditah Pariag-Maraye, Judy Muthuri, Kenneth Amaeshi, Ijeoma Nwagwu, Jenny Soderbergh.

• The Instrumentalization of CSR by Rent-Seeking Governments: Lessons From Tanzania. Eva Nilsson.

• As Clear as Black and White: Racially Disparate Concerns Over Career Progression for Remote Workers Across Racial Faultlines. Daniel G. Bachrach, Pankaj C. Patel, Felicia Pratto.

• Leadership for Inclusion and Impact: A Renewed Vision for Business & Society. Hari Bapuji, Colin Higgins.

• More Than an Umbrella Construct: We Can (and Should) Do Better With CSR by Theorizing Through Context. Jill A. Brown, Andrew Spicer, Kathleen Rehbein, Colin Higgins, Frank G. A. de Bakker, Hari Bapuji.

• New Perspectives on Base of the Pyramid Strategies. Nikolay A. Dentchev, Laura Michelini, Alain Verbeke, Jeremy Hall, Jenny Hillemann.

Ecological Economics

• Promoting agricultural technologies with positive environmental effects: Evidence on tree planting in Indonesia. Karina Brenneis, Bambang Irawan, Meike Wollni.

• A general equilibrium analysis of individual choice behavior on alternative fuel vehicles. Jeongeun Lee, Yoonmo Koo.

• Quantity or quality: Environmental legislation and corporate green innovations. Xiaoqi Huang, Wei Liu, Zhan Zhang, Xinyu Zou, Pujuan Li.

• Flagship species and certification types affect consumer preferences for wildlife-friendly rice labels. Kota Mameno, Takahiro Kubo, Kiyokazu Ujiie, Yasushi Shoji.

• Circular economy, operational eco-efficiency, and sufficiency. An integrated view. Frank Figge, Andrea Stevenson Thorpe.

• The economics of microbiodiversity. Kwi Young Han, Lennard Kröger, Florian Buchholz, Ian Dewan, Martin Quaas, Hinrich Schulenburg, Thorsten B.H. Reusch.

• The costs and benefits of conservation versus logging of old-growth native forest: A case history. Carolyn King.

• Beyond climate stabilization: Exploring the perceived sociotechnical co-impacts of carbon removal and solar geoengineering. Benjamin K. Sovacool, Chad M. Baum, Sean Low.

• Eco-labels, conspicuous conservation and moral licensing: An indirect behavioural rebound effect. Ralf Barkemeyer, C. William Young, Phani Kumar Chintakayala, Anne Owen.

• The adoption of green public procurement practices: Analytical challenges and empirical illustration on Swedish municipalities. Elina Bryngemark, Patrik Söderholm, Martina Thörn.

• Energy footprints and the international trade network: A new dataset. Is the European Union doing it better? Octavio Fernández-Amador, Joseph F. Francois, Doris A. Oberdabernig, Patrick Tomberger.

• Environmental sustainability in agriculture: Identification of bottlenecks. Jussi Lankoski, Leena Lankoski.

• The effect of eco-certification on demand: The case of MSC-certified Norway lobster. Anna Andersson, Cecilia Hammarlund.

• Regional competition, rural pollution haven and environmental injustice in China. Cong Zhang, Ran Tao, Zihang Yue, Fubing Su.

• Towards stability of food production and farm income in a variable climate. Caroline Harkness, Francisco J. Areal, Mikhail A. Semenov, Nimai Senapati, Ian F.Shield, Jacob Bishop.

• How can Stakeholder Capitalism contribute to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals? A Cross-network Literature Analysis. Donizete Beck, Marcos Ferasso.

• A review of socioeconomic indicators of sustainability and wellbeing building on the social foundations framework. Henry M. Custodio, Michalis Hadjikakou, Brett A. Bryan.

• Does circular economy mitigate the extraction of natural resources? Empirical evidence based on analysis of 28 European economies over the past decade. Marco Bianchi, Mauro Cordella.

• Diagnostic, regenerative or fossil-free – exploring stakeholder perceptions of Swedish food system sustainability. E. Röös, A. Wood, S. Säll, A. Abu Hatab, S.Ahlgren, E.Hallström, P.Tidåker, H.Hansson.

Journal of Accounting Research

• Renewable Governance: Good for the Environment? Alexander Dyck, Karl V. Lins, Lukas Roth, Mitch Towner, Hannes F. Wagner.

• Does a Government Mandate Crowd Out Voluntary Corporate Social Responsibility? Evidence from India. Shivaram Rajgopal, Prasanna Tantri.

Journal of Political Economy

• Exit versus Voice. Eleonora Broccardo, Oliver Hart, Luigi Zingales.

Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science

• Drivers and outcomes of smallholder market participation in Sub-Saharan Africa. Marcia F. Kwaramba, Srinivas Sridharan, Felix T. Mavondo.

• Narrative curation and stewardship in contested marketspaces. Matthew M. Mars, Hope Jensen Schau, Tyler E. Thorp.

• Projecting lower competence to boost apology effectiveness: Underlying mechanism and boundary conditions. Paolo Antonetti, Ilaria Baghi.

Manufacturing and Service Operations Management

• Impacts of Distributive Comparison Behavior on Corporate Social Responsibility in Supply Chains: The Role of Small Firms. Mingzheng Wang, Xin Fang, Zizhuo Wang, Ying-ju Chen.

• Introduction to the Manufacturing & Service Operations Management Special Section on Responsible Research in Operations Management. Serguei Netessine, Christopher Tang, Michael Toffel.

Marketing Science

• Comment on “Spilling the Beans on Political Consumerism: Do Social Media Boycotts and Buycotts Translate to Real Sales Impact?” Bart J. Bronnenberg, Jean-Pierre Dubé.

• When Bulldozers Loom: Informal Property Rights and Marketing Practice Innovation Among Emerging Market Microentrepreneurs. Magda Hassan, Jaideep Prabhu, Rajesh Chandy, Om Narasimhan.

• Commentary on “Frontiers: Spilling the Beans on Political Consumerism: Do Social Media Boycotts and Buycotts Translate to Real Sales Impact?” Yphtach Lelkes.

• Rejoinder: Spilling More Beans on Political Consumerism: It’s More of the Same Tune. Jūra Liaukonytė, Anna Tuchman, Xinrong Zhu.

• Rejoinder: Heterogeneous Impact of Brands’ Support for Black Lives Matter on Consumer Add a Comment. Yang Wang, Marco Shaojun Qin, Xueming Luo, Yu (Eric) Kou.

Organizational Behaviour and Human Decision Processes

• Scholars of color explore bias in academe: Calling in allies and sharing affirmations for us by us. Oscar Holmes, Alexis Nicole Smith, Denise Lewin Loyd, Angélica S. Gutiérrez.

• Unethical choice in negotiations: A meta-analysis on gender differences and their moderators. Christoph Nohe, Joachim Hüffmeier, Paul Bürkner, Jens Mazei, Guido Hertel.

Production and Operations Management

• Can we work more safely and healthily with robot partners? A human-friendly robot–human-coordinated order fulfillment scheme. Jiuh-Biing Sheu, Tsan-Ming Choi.

• Supply chain leakage of greenhouse gas emissions and supplier innovation. Sining Song, Yan Dong, Thomas Kull, Craig Carter, Kefeng Xu.

• Optimizing the economic and environmental benefits of ride-hailing and pooling. Sergey Naumov, David Keith.

• Do polluting firms suffer long term? Can government use data-driven inspection policies to catch polluters? Chris K. Y. Lo, Christopher S. Tang, Yi Zhou.

• Preparedness with a system integrating inventory, capacity, and capability for future pandemics and other disasters. Musen Kingsley Li, ManMohan S. Sodhi, Christopher S. Tang, Jiayi Joey Yu.

• Mitigating the financial risk behind emission cap compliance: A case in maritime transportation. Qinghe Sun, Li Chen, Mabel C. Chou, Qiang Meng.

• Don’t waste that free lettuce! Impact of BOGOF promotions on retail profit and food waste. Qi Wu, Dorothee Honhon.

• Social impact operations at the global base of the pyramid. Jónas Oddur Jónasson, Kamalini Ramdas, Alp Sungu.

Quarterly Journal of Economics

• Does Directed Innovation Mitigate Climate Damage? Evidence from U.S. Agriculture. Jacob Moscona, Karthik A. Sastry.

• The Evolution of Access to Public Accommodations in the United States. Lisa D. Cook, Maggie E. C. Jones, Trevon D. Logan, David Rosé.

Review of Accounting Studies

• The nail that sticks out: corporate social responsibility and shareholder proposals. Michael L. Barnett, Valentin Dimitrov, Feng Gao.

Review of Finance

• Escaping Air Pollution: Immigrants, Students, and Spillover Effects on Property Prices Abroad. Yuk Ying Chang, Sudipto Dasgupta.

• Sustainable Finance. Alex Edmans, Marcin Kacperczyk.

• Asset Prices and Portfolios with Externalities. Steven D. Baker, Burton Hollifield, Emilio Osambela.

Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal

• Turning rebellion into money? Social entrepreneurship as the strategic performance of systems change. Simon Teasdale, Michael J. Roy, Alex Nicholls, Chantal Hervieux.

• Local context and post-crisis social venture creation. Sergey Anokhin, Todd Morgan, Lisa Jones Christensen, William Schulze.

• In pursuit of diversification opportunities, efficiency, and revenue diversification: A generalization and extension for social entrepreneurship. Jiaju Yan, Nick Mmbaga, David Gras.

Strategic Management Journal

• Does CEO emotion matter? CEO affectivity and corporate social responsibility. Linlin Wang, Ya Lin, Wan Jiang, Haibin Yang, Huazhong Zhao.

• Corporate social counterpositioning: How attributes of social issues influence competitive response. Aharon Mohliver, Donal Crilly, Aseem Kaul.

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