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 2024
Academy of Management
Between War and Peace: How Boredom Shapes the Enactment of Idealized Futures in Extreme Contexts. Madeleine Rauch.
Fostering Entrepreneurship in Nonmetro Areas: Ecosystem Architects as Conduits of Knowledge Spillovers. Sunasir Dutta, Daniel P. Forbes.
Avoidance and Aggression in Stakeholder Engagement: The Impact of CEO Paranoia and Paranoia-Relevant Cues. Jason W. Ridge, Aaron D. Hill, Amy Ingram, Sergei Kolomeitsev, Dan L. Worrell.
Academy of Management Perspectives
Terra Economicus: Rhetorical Strategies of Legitimation in Land Grabbing. Syed Eraj Hassan, Ajnesh Prasad.
Moving Beyond Place- and Past-Based Identities for Better Stakeholder Engagement. David Oliver, Suresh Cuganesan, Kon Shing Kenneth Chung.
Navigating Grand Societal Challenges through Meta-Consensus: Combating Online Hate Speech through Collective Action in Multistakeholder Initiatives. Bennet Schwoon.
Signaling Collective Action in Ecosystems. Esko Hakanen, Ville Eloranta, Claire Shaw, Pekka Töytäri.
The “Gospel” of Entrepreneurship? Entrepreneurialism, Development, and the Youth Enterprise. Seungah Sarah Lee.
Setting an Example for the “Sharing Economy” Category: The Double-Edged Sword of Exemplars. Taehyun Lee, Jonathan Sitruk.Unseen Heroes: How Social Enterprises Facilitate Legitimation of Marginalized Groups. Alina Spanuth, David Urbano.
Curbing Unethical Behavior at Work: What Role for Nudging? Leonie Decrinis.
Digital Activism: Beyond Collective Actions and Hashtags. Ronei Leonel, Kathleen Rehbein, Michelle Westermann-Behaylo.
Accounting, Organizations, and Society
Audit Firms’ Corporate Social Responsibility Activities and Auditor Reputation. Joshua L. Gunn, Chan Li, Lin Liao, Jinxuan Yang, Shan Zhou.
Reducing Turnover Intentions of Black Employees in the Accounting Profession: The Roles of Racial Centrality, Racial Identity Affirmation, and Supervisor Closeness. Cynthia S. Wang, Alexis N. Smith, Edward E. Scott, Bryan D. Edwards, Seth E. Smart.
Accounting and the Shifting Spheres: The Economic, the Public, the Planet. Hendrik Vollmer.
Bringing Morality Back In: Accounting as Moral Interlocutor in Reflective Equilibrium Processes. Kalle Kraus, Anette Mikes, Carissa Véliz.
Accounting for Sustainability and Climate Change: Special Section Overview. Hans Christensen, Jeffrey Hales, Brendan O’Dwyer, Mark E. Peecher.
American Economic Review
Fighting Climate Change: International Attitudes Toward Climate Policies. Antoine Dechezleprêtre, Adrien Fabre, Tobias Kruse, Bluebery Planterose, Ana Sanchez Chico, Stefanie Stantcheva.
Corruption as a Local Advantage: Evidence from the Indigenization of Nigerian Oil. Jonah M. Rexer.
Start-up Costs and Market Power: Lessons from the Renewable Energy Transition. Akshaya Jha, Gordon Leslie.
The Benefits of Revealing Race: Evidence from Minority-Owned Local Businesses. Abhay Aneja, Michael Luca, Oren Reshef.
Regulating Conglomerates: Evidence from an Energy Conservation Program in China. Qiaoyi Chen, Zhao Chen, Zhikuo Liu, Juan Carlos Suárez Serrato, Daniel Yi Xu.
Business and Society
Shifting Battlegrounds: Corporate Political Activity in the EU General Data Protection Regulation. Václav Ocelík, Ans Kolk, Kristina Irion.
Different Shades of Green? The Role of Green HRM and Its Authenticity in Cultivating Employee Commitment to Environment and Organization. Thomas Van Waeyenberg, Judith H. Semeijn.
Resource Orchestration in Cross-Sector Partnerships for Systemic Change: A Longitudinal Study of Urban Food Assistance. Giulia Bartezzaghi, Paola Garrone, Andrea Rizzuni, Marco Melacini, Alessandro Perego.
SES Resilience in a Disrupted Earth System: Developing Systemic Attention to Emerging Ecological Adversity in Collaborative Governance Organizations. Lucie Baudoin, Francois Collet, Daniel Arenas.
The Hidden Costs of Scientific Progress: A Call for Holistic and Environmentally Sustainable Approaches to Scientific Research. Erik Hermann, Rüdiger Hahn.
Illusory Conduct Stigma: Organizations as Targets as Well as Participants in Conspiracy Theories. Murad A. Mithani.
Unbundling Ethical Consumer Choice: A Configurational Analysis With a Framing Experiment. Leena Lankoski, Sari Ollila.
Learning or Leaking? Enforcement Spillover Effects Within and Beyond the Firm. Zhengyan Li, Thomas P. Lyon.
“All by Myself”: Navigating the Lonely Odyssey of Ethnographic Fieldwork in the Business and Society Domain. Lorenzo Skade.
Context-Driven Diversification in Social Enterprises. Nachiket Bhawe, Srivardhini K. Jha.
Do All Roads Lead to Rome? How Three Process Pathways Contribute to Transformative Innovation in Cross-Sector Partnerships. Anna Margolis.
Enhancing Pracademia in Business Schools: Designing Systems That Enable Impact. Helen P. N. Hughes, Jill Dickinson, Ged Hall, David L. Loseby.
How to Achieve Impact With Innovative Publication Formats: Taking Stock of Business & Society’s Commentary Section. Frank G. A. de Bakker, Simon Pek, Hari Bapuji.
Ecological Economics
Do Voluntary Sustainability Standards Improve Socioeconomic and Ecological Outcomes? Evidence from Ghana’s Cocoa Sector. Marlene Yu Lilin Wätzold, Issaka Abdulai, Amanda Cooke, Katharina Krumbiegel, Carolina Ocampo-Ariza, Arne Wenzel, Meike Wollni.
Seeking or Ignoring Ethical Certifications in Consumer Choice. Dianna R. Amasino, Suzanne Oosterwijk, Nicolette J. Sullivan, Joël van der Weele.
Can Improving Climate Change Perception Lead to More Environmentally Friendly Choices? Evidence from an Immersive Virtual Environment Experiment. Tommaso Luzzati, Stefano Baraldi, Sara Ermini, Claudia Faita, Valeria Faralla, Pietro Guarnieri, Luca Lusuardi, Vincenzo Santalucia, Sara Scipioni, Matteo Sirizzotti, Alessandro Innocenti.
Conceptualising the Environmental Dimension of Left-Behind Places. Charlotte Sophia Bez.
Public Policies on Circular Economy: A Systematic Review. Riccardo Losa.
Carbon Giants: Exploring the Top 100 Industrial CO2 Emitters in the EU. Xenia Miklin, Thomas Neier, Simon Sturn, Klara Zwickl.
Cosmological Limits to Growth, Affective Abundance, and Rights of Nature: Insights from Buen Vivir/Sumak Kawsay for the Cultural Politics of Degrowth. Katharina Richter.
Social Networks, Environmental Literacy, and Farmers’ Clean Low-Carbon Farming Behaviors: Evidence from Villages in China. Fei Lin, Jisheng Li, Chen Wu.
Animal Welfare, Moral Consumers and the Optimal Regulation of Animal Food Production. Thomas Eichner, Marco Runkel.
Extractivist Valorization in Industrial Forestry in the Global North: Elements of an Analytical Framework and Illustration for the Cases of Finland and Alberta, Canada. Jana Rebecca Holz, Anna Saave.
Community Reconstruction of Biocultural Landscapes: Application in the Kokonuko Indigenous Territory. Marta Montaño, Olga Sanabria, Oswaldo Quilindo, Alexander Urrego-Mesa, Enric Tello, Joan Marull.
GVC Participation and Carbon Emissions: A Network Analysis. Matthew Smith, Dimitris Christopoulos.
Global Land-Use Implications of Preference Shifts Towards Regional Feed and Sustainable Diets in Germany and the European Union. Florian Freund, Sakson Soisontes, Verena Laquai, Martin Banse.
Effect Simulation and Local Adaptation of Multi-Agent Collaborative Governance in Marine Eco-Economic Systems: Evidence from China. Lehua Gao, Kun Gao, Wenwen Sun, Yue Zhang, Runping Zhang, Longxuan Zhang.
Extreme Weather, Agricultural Insurance and Farmers’ Climate Adaptation Technologies Adoption in China. Hui Mao, Zhenkai Sun, Anyuan Chai, Lan Fang, Chaoqian Shi.
Environmental Responsibility and Exposure of Finance: Combining Environmentally-Extended Input-Output and Balance Sheet Approaches. Paul Hadji-Lazaro.
A Novel Nature-Based Risk Index: Application to Acute Risks and Their Financial Materiality on Corporate Bonds. Amina Cherief, Takaya Sekine, Lauren Stagnol.
Biodiversity Disclosure in the European Finance Sector. Leyla Azizi, Christoph Scope, Anne Ladusch, Remmer Sassen.
The Biodiversity Premium. Guillaume Coqueret, Thomas Giroux, Olivier David Zerbib.
Breaking the Bag Habit: Testing Interventions to Reduce Plastic Bag Demand. Armenak Antinyan, Luca Corazzini.
Public Support for Degrowth Policies and Sufficiency Behaviors in the United States: A Discrete Choice Experiment. Dallas O’Dell, Davide Contu, Ganga Shreedhar.
Green Versus Green: The Case Against Holistic Environmental Permitting Processes. Patrik Söderholm, Maria Pettersson.
Buzzword or Breakthrough Beyond Growth? The Mainstreaming of the Wellbeing Economy. Anders Hayden.
A Comparative Review of De- and Post-Growth Modeling Studies. Arthur Lauer, Iñigo Capellán-Pérez, Nathalie Wergles.
Varieties of Capitalism and Environmental Performance. Felipe Jordán.
Circular Economy for Resource Security in the European Union (EU): Case Study, Research Framework, and Future Directions. Brian Baldassarre.
Defining Just Transition. Giorgos Galanis, Mauro Napoletano, Lilit Popoyan, Alessandro Sapio, Olivier Vardakoulias.
Are Natural Disasters Stumbling Blocks to Carbon Inequality Mitigation? A Global Perspective. Kangyin Dong, Congyu Zhao, Rabindra Nepal, Kerstin K. Zander.
Natural Insurance as a Green Alternative for Farmers? Empirical Evidence for Semi-Natural Habitats and Methodological Bias. Jérôme Faure, Lauriane Mouysset.
Wealth Inequality and Carbon Inequality. Ablam Estel Apeti, Bao We Wal Bambe, Eyah Denise Edoh, Alpha Ly.
Varieties of Anticapitalism: A Systematic Study of Transformation Strategies in Alternative Economic Discourses. Querine Kommandeur, Juliette Alenda-Demoutiez, Maria Kaufmann, Ingrid Visseren-Hamakers.
Nobody Decides for All: Modeling Incentives and Policies for Closing the Material Loop. Xi Sun, Karsten Neuhoff.
Green Coops: Drivers of Innovation for Circular Strategies Among Italian Cooperatives. Asia Guerreschi, Emy Zecca.
Building a Local Structural Basis for Economic Change? A Case Study on Grassroots Initiatives from a ‘Social Provisioning’ Perspective. Roman Hausmann, Anne-Kathrin Schwab.
Shared Responsibility for Carbon Emission Reduction in Worldwide “Steel-Electric Vehicle” Trade Within a Sustainable Industrial Chain Perspective. Yanxin Liu, Huajiao Li, Huijun Ren, Hongdian Jiang, Bo Ren, Ning Ma, Zhensong Chen, Weiqiong Zhong, Sergio Ulgiati.
Efficiency, Sufficiency and Consistency in Sustainable Development: Reassessing Strategies for Reaching Overarching Goals. Marco Rudolf, Mario Schmidt.
Will the EU Deforestation-Free Products Regulation (EUDR) Reduce Tropical Forest Loss? Insights from Three Producer Countries. Roldan Muradian, Raras Cahyafitri, Tomaso Ferrando, Carolina Grottera, Luiz Jardim-Wanderley, Torsten Krause, Nanang I. Kurniawan, Lasse Loft, Tadzkia Nurshafira, Debie Prabawati-Suwito, Diaz Prasongko, Paula A. Sanchez-Garcia, Barbara Schröter, Diana Vela-Almeida.
Journal of Accounting Research
The Role of Information in Building a More Sustainable Economy: A Supply and Demand Perspective. Henry L. Friedman, Gaizka Ormazabal.
Comply or Explain: Do Firms Opportunistically Claim Trade Secrets in Mandatory Environmental Disclosure Programs? Yile (Anson) Jiang.
Do Commercial Ties Influence ESG Ratings? Evidence from Moody’s and S&P. Xuanbo Li, Yun Lou, Liandong Zhang.
Journal of Management Information Systems
Special Section: Information Technology to Improve Mental Health. Corey Angst, Alan R. Dennis, Elena Karahanna, Gondy Leroy.
Strategizing Responses to Data Breaches: A Multi-Method Study of Organizational Responsibility and Effective Communication with Stakeholders. Hamid Reza Nikkhah, Varun Grover.
Journal of Marketing
The Minority Ownership Awareness Effect: When Promoting Minority Ownership Increases Brand Evaluations. Esther Uduehi, Aaron J. Barnes.
Is This for Me? Differential Responses to Skin Tone Inclusivity Initiatives by Underrepresented Consumers and Represented Consumers. Jennifer K. D’Angelo, Lea Dunn, Francesca Valsesia.
Becoming More Socially Profit Oriented. George S. Day.
Driving Social Profit: Frontline Insights from an Entrepreneur Committed to Sustainable Innovation. Alessandro Benetton.
Commentary on “Intersectionality in Marketing: A Paradigm for Understanding Understudied Consumers.” Giana M. Eckhardt, Praveen K. Kopalle.
Journal of Political Economy
The Effect of Gender Discrimination on Labor Supply. Nickolas Gagnon, Kristof Bosmans, Arno Riedl.
Journal of Supply Chain Management
Taking Academic Ownership of the Supply Chain Emissions Discourse. Andreas Wieland, Felix Creutzig.
Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science
Recycle Right: How to Decrease Recycling Contamination With Informational Point-of-Disposal Signage. Aylin Cakanlar, Megan Hunter, Gergana Y. Nenkov.
When Marketplaces Fail: How Market-Challenged Consumers Navigate the Marketplace. Samantha N. N. Cross, Akon E. Ekpo.
Manufacturing and Service Operations Management
How Does Flexibility Affect Environmental Performance? Evidence from the Power Generation Industry. David F. Drake, Suresh Muthulingam.
OM Forum—Operations Management Research: Relevance and Impact. Jayashankar M. Swaminathan.
OM Forum—Asset-Level Perspectives on the Clean Energy Transition. Nicola Secomandi.
Green Disposable Packaging and Communication: The Implications of Bring-Your-Own-Container. Yunlong Peng, Fei Gao, Jian Chen.
Interplay Between Servicizing and Remanufacturing: Economic and Environmental Implications. Xichen Sun, Tharanga Rajapakshe, Rogelio Oliva.
Recycling Standards, Green Inventions, and Spillover: Evidence from California’s Electronic Waste Recycling Act (EWRA). Suvrat Dhanorkar, Suresh Muthulingam.
Social Learning and Content Quality Under Polarization. Bharadwaj Kadiyala, Dongwook Shin.
Marketing Science
The Impact of Voluntary Labeling. Anita Rao, Raluca Ursu.
Bad Apples on Rotten Tomatoes: Critics, Crowds, and Gender Bias in Product Ratings. Luis Aguiar.
Consumption Responses to an Unpopular Policy: Evidence from a Short-Lived Soda Tax. Andrew T. Ching, Daniel Goetz.
Production and Operations Management
Reducing Modern Slavery Risks in Supply Chains: Contributions From a Sociotechnical Systems Perspective. Sajad Fayezi, Robert Klassen, Stefan Gold, Amy Benstead, Luk Van Wassenhove.
Redesign of Virtual Power Plant-Led Electricity Demand Response Program. Xuanyu Wu, Min Yang, Liang Liang, Jingxian Chen.
How to Leverage Digital Platforms in Preventing Industrial Accidents: Evidence from a Multi-Level Empirical Study. Lin Zhang, Zhen Shao, Jose Benitez.
Government Financing for Clean Technology Development: Financial Risk and Environmental Benefits. Seung Hwan Jung, Lingxiu Dong, Dongnyoung Kim, Yunzhe Qiu.
Achieving Economic and Environmental Sustainability With Supply Chain Contracts. Chuanwen Dong, Dong Li.
The Relative Indirect Effects of Technology Bias and Implicit Bias on Racial Disparity in Service Delivery and Sepsis Mortality. Qi Wang, Anita L. Carson, Sarah Zheng.
Long-Lasting Insecticidal Net Campaigns for Malaria Control Considering Prioritization and Equity. Fabíola Negreiros de Oliveira, Douglas Alem, Fabricio Oliveira, Adriana Leiras.
Quarterly Journal of Economics
Exploitation Through Racialization. Dan McGee.
LinkedOut? A Field Experiment on Discrimination in Job Network Formation. Yulia Evsyukova, Felix Rusche, Wladislaw Mill.
Do Financial Concerns Make Workers Less Productive? Supreet Kaur, Sendhil Mullainathan, Suanna Oh, Frank Schilbach.
Review of Accounting Studies
How Government Procurement Shapes Corporate Climate Disclosures, Commitments, and Actions. Omri Even-Tov, Guoman She, Detian Yang.
An Empirical Analysis of Gender Differences in Asymmetric Labor Adjustment: Evidence from Korea. Meeok Cho, Jiwon Hyeon, Hee-Yeon Sunwoo.
Corporate Responsibility and Corporate Misbehavior: Are CSR Reporting Firms Indeed Responsible? Christine Reitmaier, Wolfgang Schultze, Julia Vollmer.
Review of Economic Studies
The Child Penalty Atlas. Henrik Kleven, Camille Landais, Gabriel Leite-Mariante.
Transhumant Pastoralism, Climate Change, and Conflict in Africa. Eoin F. McGuirk, Nathan Nunn.
Review of Finance
Do Salient Climatic Risks Affect Shareholder Voting? Eliezer M. Fich, Guosong Xu.
Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal
Stairway to Impact or Highway to Failure? A Cognitive Perspective on Business Model Design Processes in Nascent Sustainable Ventures. Eduard Esau, Christina Lara Kannegießer, Manuel Reppmann, Erk P. Piening, Laura Marie Edinger-Schons.
Is Cain More Able? A Behavioral Perspective on the Relationship Between Family CEO Birth Order and Family Firms’ CSR. Paola Rovelli, Michael Razen, Carlotta Benedetti, Nina Schweiger, Alfredo De Massis, Kurt Matzler.
Digital Technology-Based Business Model Design and Innovation to Address Grand Challenges: A Process Model. Liyan Wang, Wei Zhang, Steven White, Hang Fan.
Strategic Management Journal
When Corporate Silence Is Costly: Negative Consumer Responses to Corporate Silence on Social Issues. Marco Shaojun Qin, Xueming Luo, Todd Schifeling, Yang Wang.
Corporate Social Responsibility in the Age of Activist Directorships. Brian L. Connelly, Mark R. DesJardine, Wei Shi, Zhihui Sun.
ESG as a Nonmarket Strategy to Cope with Geopolitical Tension: Empirical Evidence from Multinationals’ ESG Performance. Jin Hyung Kim, Jooyoung Kwak, Hyung-Kun Park.
Physical Climate Change Exposure and Firms’ Adaptation Strategy. Xia Li.
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