Table of Contents: December 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 December 2023

Academy of Management Journal

• Echoes from the Past: The Impact of Racial Transference on Leader Selection during Succession. McKenzie C. Preston, Andrew M. Carton.

• Dirty Heroes? Healthcare Workers’ Experience of Mixed Social Evaluations during the Pandemic. Devin J. Rapp, J. Matthew Hughey, Glen E. Kreiner.

• Public–Private and Private–Private Collaboration as Pathways for Socially Beneficial Innovation: Evidence from Antimicrobial Drug-Development Tasks. Birgul Arslan, Gurneeta Vasudeva, Elizabeth B. Hirsch.

• The Publicization of Organizational Misconduct: A Social Structural Approach. Alessandro Piazza, Julien Jourdan.

• Change at Last, but When Does Change Last? Preserving Attentional Engagement around Past Failures and their Lessons. Peter M. Madsen, Vinit Desai.

• Tick Off the Gender Diversity Box: Examining the Cross-Level Effects of Women’s Representation in Senior Management. Priyanka Dwivedi, Lionel Paolella.

• Collaborating on the Edge of Failure: Frame Alignment Across Multiple Interaction Arenas in Multi-Stakeholder Partnerships. Julia Grimm, Juliane Reinecke.

• Happy Talk: Is Common Diversity Rhetoric Effective Diversity Rhetoric? Lisa M. Leslie, Elinor Flynn, Olivia A. Foster-Gimbel, Colleen Flaherty Manchester.

• From Scarcity to Abundance: Scholars and Scholarship in an Age of Generative Artificial Intelligence. Matthew Grimes, Georg von Krogh, Stefan Feuerriegel, Floor Rink, Marc Gruber.

• Reaching for the Stars: How Gender Influences the Formation of High-Status Collaboration Ties. Carla Rua-Gomez, Gianluca Carnabuci, Martin C. Goossen.

 Academy of Management Perspectives 

• Fooled by Diversity? When Diversity Initiatives Exacerbate Rather Than Mitigate Bias and Inequality. Karin Hellerstedt, Timur Uman, Karl Wennberg.

• Dealing with Organizational Legacies of Irresponsibility. Jordi Vives-Gabriel, Judith Schrempf-Stirling, Diego M. Coraiola.

• Rethinking “Woke” and “Integrative” Diversity Strategies: Diversity, Equity, Inclusion—and Inequality. Nancy DiTomaso.

• Recruitment Deception and the Organization of Labor for Exploitation: A Policy–Theory Synthesis. Denise Fletcher, Alexander Trautrims.

• Civic Wealth Creation: Bypassing Monopolies Through Collective Action. G. T. Lumpkin, Eduardo Meléndez, Sophie Bacq. 

• A Call to Maximize the Social Impact of Our Research: An Effective Altruism Approach. Samantha Kassirer, Emma E. Levine, Maryam Kouchaki.

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

 Accounting, Organizations and Society

• Accounting, reporting and verification of impact: Implications for sustainability: A commentary on Adams et al. (2023) “Styles of verification and the pursuit of organisational repair: The case of social impact.” Matias Laine.

• Discussion of “Do green business practices license self-dealing or prime prosociality? Cross-domain evidence from environmental concern triggers.” Khrystyna Bochkay.

• Catch me if you match! A discussion of auditors’ involvement in clients’ sustainability reporting. Betrand Malsch. 

• Commentary: On theory, data, and interpreting results in political CSR research: Reflecting on “Do firms put their money where their mouth is? Sociopolitical claims and corporate political activity.” Robin W. Roberts.

• CSR disclosures in buyer-seller markets: Research design issues, greenwashing and regulatory implications, and directions for future research. Sandra C. Vera-Muñoz.

• Auditor sustainability focus and client sustainability reporting. Manlu Liu, Jing Tang, Stephanie Walton, Yiyang Zhang, Xinlei Zhao. 

• Do firms put their money where their mouth is? Sociopolitical claims and corporate political activity. Susanne Preuss, Malte M. Max.

American Economic Review

• Does the Squeaky Wheel Get More Grease? The Direct and Indirect Effects of Citizen Participation on Environmental Governance in China. Mark Buntaine, Michael Greenstone, Guojun He, Mengdi Liu, Shaoda Wang, Bing Zhang.

• Asset-Based Microfinance for Microenterprises: Evidence from Pakistan. Faisal Bari, Kashif Malik, Muhammad Meki, Simon Quinn.

Business and Society

• Unpacking Indigenous Social Mobility: Entrepreneurs, Social Networks, and Connections to Culture. Rochelle Côté, Michelle Evans.

• Leaving the Cold Behind: The Role of Emotions and Cognitive Biases in Business Adaptation to Climate Change. Mercedes Bleda, Jonatan Pinkse.

• How Do Political and Nonpolitical Ties Affect Corporate Regulatory Participation? A Regulatory Capture Perspective. Jun Xia, Fiona Kun Yao, Xiaoli Yin, Xinran Wang, Zhouyu Lin.

• Power in the Process of Reversing Mission Drift in Hybrid Organizations: The Case of a French Multinational Worker Co-operative. Ignacio Bretos, Anjel Errasti, Carmen Marcuello.

• The Dominant Integral Affect Model of Unethical Employee Behavior. Ramachandran Veetikazhi, S. M. Ramya, Michelle Hong, T. J. Kamalanabhan.

• The Role of Partnership Portfolios for Sustainability in Addressing the Stability-Change Paradox: Dong/Orsted’s Transition From Fossil Fuels to Renewables. Tulin Dzhengiz, Leona A. Henry, Khaleel Malik.

• Circular Economy and Business Models: Managing Efficiency in Waste Recycling Firms. Laura Parte, Pilar Alberca.

• When Are Voluntary Environmental Programs More Effective? A Meta-Analysis of the Role of Program Governance Quality. Svetlana Flankova, Peter Tashman, Marc Van Essen, Valentina Marano.

• Rethinking Business School Education: A Call for Epistemic Humility Through Reflexivity. Divya Singhal, Matthew C. Davis, Hinrich Voss.

• Do Sustainability Signals Diverge? An Analysis of Labeling Schemes for Socially Responsible Investments. Sofia Brito-Ramos, Maria Céu Cortez, Florinda Silva.

• Untaming Grand Challenges Research: Against a De-Politicization of Grand Challenges. Anselm Schneider.

• Navigating Populism: A Study of How German and Swedish Corporations Articulate the Refugee Situation in 2015–2016. Christian Garmann Johnsen, Ulf Larsson-Olaison, Lena Olasion, Florian Weber.

• Conceptualizing, Theorizing, and Measuring the Contributions of Business to Refugee Crises. Harry J. Van Buren, III, Charlotte Karam, Alexander Newman, Colin Higgins.

• Scorched Earth: Employers’ Breached Trust in Refugees’ Labor Market Integration. Katja Wehrle, Mari Kira, Ute-Christine Klehe, Guido Hertel.

• “I’m Not a Refugee Girl, Call Me Bella”: Professional Refugee Women, Agency, Recognition, and Emancipation. Dimitria Groutsis, Jock Collins, Carol Reid.

Ecological Economics

• The impact of climate change mitigation policies on European labour markets. Eva Alexandri, José-Ignacio Antón, Richard Lewney.

• Impact of industrial intelligence on green total factor productivity: The indispensability of the environmental system. Siying Yang, Fengshuo Liu.

• Encouraging sustainable food consumption through nudges: An experiment with menu labels. Arianna Buratto, Lorenzo Lotti. 

• Challenging the growth-prosperity Nexus: Redefining undergraduate economics education for the Anthropocene. Maximilian Tallgauer, Christoph Schank.

• Is environmental regulation keeping e-waste under control? Evidence from e-waste exports in the European Union. Sónia Almeida Neves, António Cardoso Marques, Leonardo Batista de Sá Lopes. 

• Global employment and skill level requirements for ‘Post-Carbon Europe.’ Martin Černý, Martin Bruckner, Jan Weinzettel, Kirsten Wiebe, Klaus Hubacek. 

• Do Farmers Participating in Short Food Supply Chains Use Less Pesticides? Evidence from France. Pierre Chiaverina, Sophie Drogué, Florence Jacquet.

• Transcending the nature-society dichotomy: A dialogue between the Sumak Kawsay and the epistemology of complexity. A. Malo Larrea, M. Ambrosi de la Cadena, J. Collado Ruano, L. Gallardo Fierro.

• Intergenerational altruism, pessimism bias on tenure insecurity, and sustainable land use: Evidence from household grassland management in China. Fanzheng Yang, Lingling Hou, Fang Xia.

• Does land tenure change accelerate deforestation? A matching-based four-country comparison. Chuan Liao, Suhyun Jung, Daniel G. Brown, Arun Agrawal. 

• Safeguarding livelihoods against reductions in economic output. Jefim Vogel, Gauthier Guerin, Daniel W. O’Neill, Julia K. Steinberger. 

• New officials, fresh outlooks on policy uncertainty: Leadership turnover in environmental protection bureaus and additional corporate environmental reporting. Zhenbo Zhang, Junyi Xing, Anbang Wang, Xiaohua Meng.

• Embedding circularity: Theorizing the social economy, its potential, and its challenges. Rafael Ziegler, Thomas Bauwens, Michael J. Roy, Simon Teasdale, Emmanuel Raufflet.

• Value asymmetries in Norwegian forest governance: The role of institutions and power dynamics. Elisabeth Veivåg Helseth, Paul Vedeld, Arild Vatn, Erik Gómez-Baggethun.

• The complex relationships between non-food agriculture and the sustainable bioeconomy: The French case. Pascal Grouiez, Romain Debref, Franck-Dominique Vivien, Nicolas Befort.

• Assessing the performance of voluntary environmental agreements under high monitoring costs: Evidence from the Brazilian Amazon. Bruno Varella Miranda, Gustavo Magalhães de Oliveira.

• Unpacking the black box of ‘energy technology’: How abstraction and resource fungibility obscure ecologically unequal exchange. Alf Hornborg.

• Pathways to stringent carbon pricing: Configurations of political economy conditions and revenue recycling strategies. A comparison of thirty national level policies. Daniel Muth.

• Procedural climate justice: Conceptualizing a polycentric solution to a global problem. Kilian de Ridder, Felix Carl Schultz, Ingo Pies. 

Journal of Accounting Research

• Ethnic Minority Analysts’ Participation in Public Earnings Conference Calls. Rachel W. Flam, Jeremiah Green, Joshua A. Lee, Nathan Y. Sharp.

Journal of Marketing 

• Affording Disposal Control: The Effect of Circular Take-Back Programs on Psychological Ownership and Valuation. Anna Tari, Remi Trudel.

• On the Path to Decolonizing Health Care Services: The Role of Marketing. Reece George, Steven D’Alessandro, Mehmet Ibrahim Mehmet, Mona Nikidehaghani, Michelle M. Evans, Gaurangi Laud, Deirdre Tedmanson.

Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science

• Engaging customers and suppliers for environmental sustainability: Investigating the drivers and the effects on firm performance. Amalesh Sharma, Sourav Bikash Borah, Anirban Adhikary.

• Diversity representation in advertising. Colin Campbell, Sean Sands, Alexis Mavrommatis.

• How an ethos of repair shapes material sustainability in services. D. Matthew Godfrey, Linda L. Price.

• Women’s underrepresentation in business-to-business sales: Reasons, contingencies, and solutions. Aline Isabelle Lanzrath, Christian Homburg, Robin-Christopher M. Ruhnau.

• The greenguard effect: When and why consumers react less negatively following green product failures. Ali Tezer, Matthew Philp, Anshu Suri.

• Deploying artificial intelligence in services to AID vulnerable consumers. Erik Hermann, Gizem Yalcin Williams, Stefano Puntoni.

• How lack of knowledge on emissions and psychological biases deter consumers from taking effective action to mitigate climate change. Karen Page Winterich, Rebecca Walker Reczek, Tamar Makov.

• The positive effects of integrated advertising, featuring diverse ensembles, on societal identification and mainstream brand value. Conor M. Henderson, Marc Mazodier, Jamel Khenfer.

• Disposal-based scarcity: How overstock reduction methods influence consumer brand perceptions and evaluations. Oanh Dinh Yen Nguyen, Tania Bucic, Harmen Oppewal. 

Manufacturing and Service Operations Management

• Decarbonizing OCP. Dimitris Bertsimas, Ryan Cory-Wright, Vassilis Digalakis, Jr.

• Waste Not Want Not? The Environmental Implications of Quick Response and Upcycling. Xiaoyang Long, Luyi Gui.

• OM Forum—The Operations of Well-Being: An Operational Take on Happiness, Equity, and Sustainability. Charles J. Corbett.

• Private vs. Pooled Transportation: Customer Preference and Design of Green Transport Policy. Kashish Arora, Fanyin Zheng, Karan Girotra.

Marketing Science

• Frontiers: Breaking the Glass Ceiling: Empowering Female Entrepreneurs Through Female Mentors. Frank Germann, Stephen J. Anderson, Pradeep K. Chintagunta, Naufel Vilcassim.

• Dynamic Pricing and Organic Waste Bans: A Study of Grocery Retailers’ Incentives to Reduce Food Waste. Robert Evan Sanders.
  

• Frontiers: Inequalities in Dealers’ Interest Rate Markups? A Gender- and Race-Based Analysis. O. Cem Ozturk, Cheng He, Pradeep K. Chintagunta.

Organizational Behaviour and Human Decision Processes

• On the trajectory of discrimination: A meta-analysis and forecasting survey capturing 44 years of field experiments on gender and hiring decisions. Michael Schaerer, Christilene du Plessis, My Hoang Bao Nguyen, Robbie C.M. van Aert, Eric Luis Uhlmann. 

• The interplay of gender and perceived sexual orientation at the bargaining table: A social dominance and intersectionalist perspective. Sreedhari D. Desai, Brian C. Gunia.

Production and Operations Management

• Rigidity in crisis: The impact of OHSAS 18001 certification on production repurposing during COVID-19. Yuxiao Ye, Shenyang Jiang, Di Fan, Baofeng Huo, Maggie Wenjing Liu.

• Maximizing disability diversity, language diversity, and productivity: A study in apparel manufacturing. Ying Zhang, Sriram Narayanan, Tharo Soun, Kalyanmoy Deb, Dustin Cole.

• Supply chain short-term financing for responsible production at small and medium-sized enterprises. Xiaole Chen, Vernon N. Hsu, Guoming Lai, Yang Li.

• Increasing the supply of health products in underserved regions. Burak Kazaz, Scott Webster, Prashant Yadav.

Review of Economic Studies

• Stalled Racial Progress and Japanese Trade in the 1970s and 1980s. Mary Kate Batistich, Timothy N Bond.

Review of Finance

• Green Links: Corporate Networks and Environmental Performance. Hossein Asgharian, Michał Dzieliński, Zahra Hashemzadeh, Lu Liu.

• ESG shareholder engagement and downside risk. Andreas G. F. Hoepner, Ioannis Oikonomou, Zacharias Sautner, Laura T Starks, Xiao Y Zhou.

• Does Socially Responsible Investing Change Firm Behavior? Davidson Heath, Daniele Macciocchi, Roni Michaely, Matthew C. Ringgenberg. 

Review of Financial Studies 

• Climate Change and Adaptation in Global Supply-Chain Networks. Nora M. C. Pankratz, Christoph M Schiller.

• Banking on Carbon: Corporate Lending and Cap-and-Trade Policy. Ivan T Ivanov, Mathias S Kruttli, Sumudu W Watugala.

• Gender Bias in Promotions: Evidence from Financial Institutions. Ruidi Huang and others.

 Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal

• Asserting and transcending ethnic homophily: How entrepreneurs develop social ties to access resources and opportunities in socially contested environments. Christian Busch, Robert Mudida.

• Complementary currencies and entrepreneurship: Sustaining micro-entrepreneurs in Kenyan informal settlements. George Kuk, Camille Meyer, Stephanie Giamporcaro.

Strategic Management Journal

• My kind of people: Political polarization, ideology, and firm location. Benjamin Barber IV, Daniel J. Blake.

• The racial gap in entrepreneurship and opportunities inside established firms. Tiantian Yang, Olenka Kacperczyk.

• Ripple effects: How collaboration reduces social movement contention. Kate Odziemkowska, Mary-Hunter McDonnell.

• Investing in general human capital as a relational strategy: Evidence on flexible arrangements with contract workers. Thomaz Teodorovicz, Sérgio Lazzarini, Sandro Cabral, Anita M. McGahan.

• The role of information in the gender gap in the market for top managers: Evidence from a quasi-experiment. Ulya Tsolmon.

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