Table of Contents: February 2024

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 February 2024

Academy of Management Learning and Education

• Book Review: The Engaged Scholar: Expanding the Impact of Academic Research in Today’s World. Sabzar Ahmad Peerzadah.

• The Unstated Ontology of the Business Case Study: Listening for Indigenous Voices in Business School Curricula. Jordyn Hrenyk, Emily Salmon.

• When Hard-Working Bees Do Not Make a Productive Beehive: Legitimacy Tensions in Societal Impact Governance and How to Navigate Them. Olga Ryazanova, Peter McNamara, Tatiana Andreeva.

• The Power of Ethics. John F. Hulpke, Cubie LaiLai Lau.

Academy of Management Review

• Excusing Corporate Wrongdoing and the State of Nature. Kenneth Silver, Paul Garofalo.

• Humanistic Organizing: The Transformative Force of Mindful Organizational Communication. Sophia Town, Christopher S. Reina, Boris H. J. M. Brummans, Michael Pirson.

• Taking a “LEAP”: How Workplace Allyship Initiatives Shape Leader Anxiety, Allyship, and Power Dynamics That Contribute to Workplace Inequality. Stephanie J. Creary.

• Integrating the Shadow within “Us” to Strengthen Our Field. Catherine Honor Tinsley, Renee R. Kathawalla, Matthew A. Cronin.

• How Crisis Management Strategies Address Stakeholders’ Sociocognitive Concerns and Organizations’ Social Evaluations. Farhan Iqbal, Michael D. Pfarrer, Jonathan Bundy.

Accounting Review

• Material ESG Alpha: A Fundamentals-Based Perspective. Byung Hyun Ahn, Panos N. Patatoukas, George S. Skiadopoulos.

• How Do Online Conflict Disclosures Support Enforcement? Evidence from Personal Financial Disclosures and Public Corruption. Alexandra A. Scherf.

• Board Gender Diversity and Investment Efficiency: Global Evidence from 83 Country-Level Interventions. Dave Baik (Young-Il), Clara Xiaoling Chen, David Godsell.

• Tax Boycotts. H. Scott Asay, Jeffrey L. Hoopes, Jacob R. Thornock, Jaron H. Wilde. 

Administrative Science Quarterly 

• Book Review: Frank Dobbin and Alexandra Kalev. Getting to Diversity: What Works and What Doesn’t. Elizabeth Gorman.

• Words of a Leader: The Importance of Intersectionality for Understanding Women Leaders’ Use of Dominant Language and How Others Receive It. Cydney Hurston Dupree.

• Book Review: Allison Elias. The Rise of Corporate Feminism: Women in the American Office, 1960–1990. Caitlin Rosenthal.

• Book review: Kimberly Kay Hoang. Spiderweb Capitalism: How Global Elites Exploit Frontier Markets. Samantha Ortiz Casillas.

Business Ethics Quarterly

• The Ethics of Deferred Prosecution Agreements for MNEs Culpable of Foreign Corruption: Relativistic Pragmatism or Devil’s Pact? Glauco De Vita, Donato Vozza.

• Site-seeing Humanness in Organizations. Tuure Haarjärvi, Sari Laari-Salmela.

• Can Digitally Transformed Work Be Virtuous? Alejo José G. Sison.

• Book Review: Organizations as Wrongdoers: From Ontology to Morality, by Stephanie Collins. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023. 208 pp. B. V. E. Hyde.

Contemporary Accounting Research

• Accounting and silence: The unspeakable, the unsaid, and the inaudible. Caecilia Drujon d’Astros, Jérémy Morales, Bernard Leca.

• Climatic Disasters and Distracted Analysts. Yuqi Han, Connie X. Mao, Hongping Tan, Chi Zhang.

Econometrica

• Corporate Tax Cuts and the Decline in the Manufacturing Labor Share. Barış Kaymak, Immo Schott.

Human Resource Management

• Why are employee assistance programmes under-utilised and marginalised and how to address it? A critical review and a labour process analysis. Tianyi Long.

• When does CSR-facilitation human resource management motivate employee job engagement? The contextual effect of job insecurity. Kamran Iqbal, Jie Shen, Xin Deng.

• Untangling human resource management and employee wellbeing relationships: Differentiating job resource HR practices from challenge demand HR practices. Mengwei Li, Na Fu, Clint Chadwick, Brian Harney.

Journal of Applied Psychology

• Modeling gender differences in the job promotion process: Replication and extension of Martell et al. (1996). David R. Meldgin, Gregory Mitchell, Frederick L Oswald.

• Identity work support perceptions (IWSP): Development of a construct and measure. Esther L. Jean, Nicolina Taylor, Wayne S. Crawford, Alison V. Hall, Hoda Vaziri, Wendy J. Casper, Lars U Johnson.

• A conditional reasoning test for risk and incident propensity: Development and validation. Alexa D. Baxley, Justin A. DeSimone, Daniel J. Svyantek, Kelley Noll.

• Doxing, political affiliation, and type of information: Effects on suspicion, perceived similarity, and hiring-related judgments. Philip L. Roth, Philip Bobko, Guohou “Jack” Shan, Rebecca W. Roth, Emily Ferrise, Jason B Thatcher.

• Taking a heavier toll? Racial differences in the effects of workplace mistreatment on depression. Ji Woon Ryu, Erik Gonzalez-Mulé, Ernest H O’Boyle.

• Supervisor integrity empowers employees to advocate for diversity in problematic climates. Timothy G. Kundro, Brett H. Neely Jr., Cindy P. Muir (Zapata).

• Following community norms or an internal compass? The role of prospective leaders’ social category membership in the differential effects of authentic and ethical leadership on stereotype threat. Urszula Lagowska, Filipe Sobral, Jorge Jacob, Andrew C. Hafenbrack, Rafael Goldszmidt.

• A creativity stereotype perspective on the Bamboo Ceiling: Low perceived creativity explains the underrepresentation of East Asian leaders in the United States. Jackson G Lu.

Journal of Business Venturing

• Sight unseen: The visibility paradox of entrepreneurship in an informal economy. Robert Nason, Siddharth Vedula, Joel Bothello, Sophie Bacq, Andrew Charman.

• Adapting a collective will and a way during a civil war: The persistence of an entrepreneurial ecosystem as an architecture of hope. Trenton Alma Williams, Ramzi Fathallah.

• When a crisis hits: An examination of the impact of the global financial crisis and the COVID-19 pandemic on financing for women entrepreneurs. Wei Yu, Jipeng Fei, Grace Peng, James Bort.

Journal of Consumer Marketing

• A multidimensional lens of environmental consciousness: towards an environmentally conscious theory of planned behavior. Vishal Kumar Laheri, Weng Marc Lim, Purushottam Kumar Arya, Sanjeev Kumar.

• Delving into the behaviour of sharing economy consumers: a literature review. Cecilia Grieco, Chiara Palagonia.

• Does consumption values and ascribed responsibility predict attitudes towards sustainable luxury brands. Ekta Aggarwal, Anurupa B. Singh, Richa Misra.

• Testing the effects of moral intensity news frames on consumer boycott intention. Olivia Stacie-Ann Cleopatra Bravo, Sindy Chapa.

• Keeping promises in cause-related marketing campaigns: development and validation of promised impact evidence scale. Parthesh R. Shanbhag, Yogesh Pai P., Murugan Pattusamy, Gururaj Kidiyoor, Nandan Prabhu.

• Promoting access-based consumption practices through fashion renting: evidence from Italy. Elisabetta Savelli, Barbara Francioni, Ilaria Curina, Marco Cioppi.

Journal of Economics and Management Strategy

• Communicating clean technology: Green premium, competition, and ecolabels. Aditi Sengupta.

• Organization of production and income inequality. Luis Medrano-Adán, Vicente Salas-Fumás, Javier Sanchez-Asin.

• Platforms and the transformation of the content industries. Luis Aguiar, Imke Reimers, Joel Waldfogel.

Journal of Financial Economics

• J’Accuse! Antisemitism and financial markets in the time of the Dreyfus Affair. Quoc-Anh Do, Roberto Galbiati, Benjamin Marx, Miguel A. Ortiz Serrano.

Journal of Industrial Ecology

• Returnable packaging systems and store operations: Processes, costs, and benefits. Ina Marie Raible, Christina Holweg, Gerald Reiner, Christoph Teller.

• Biodiversity impact of food waste: Quantification for supply chain stages and products in Germany. Jakob Bogenreuther, Thomas Kastner, Felicitas Schneider, Thomas Koellner.

• Bottom-up dynamics in circular innovation systems: The perspective of circular start-ups. Marvin Henry, Julian Kirchherr, Rob Raven, Marko Hekkert.

• Linking socio-economic metabolism models and simulation games: Reflections on benefits and challenges. Marta Roca-Puigròs, Andreas Gerber, Markus Ulrich, Matthias Y. Reich, Daniel Beat Müller, Patrick Wäger.

• Categorization of manufacturing companies’ readiness profiles for the transition to the circular economy: A multidimensional cluster analysis. Thayla Zomer, Tim McAloone, Daniela Pigosso.

• Disentangling social impacts in global value chains through structural path analysis: Investigating forced labor in the cotton industry. Ángela García-Alaminos, Fabio Monsalve, Jorge Zafrilla.

• Australia’s circular economy metrics and indicators. Alessio Miatto,  Nargessadat Emami, Kylie Goodwin, James West, Mohammad Sadegh Taskhiri, Thomas Wiedmann, Heinz Schandl.

• The environmental performance of plastic packaging waste management in Germany: Current and future key factors. Sarah Schmidt, David Laner.

• Toward global and national toxicity footprints. Alexandra Leclerc, Etienne Berthet, Konstantin Stadler, Richard Wood, Alexis Laurent.

Journal of Management

• Peer Response to Regulatory Enforcement: Lobbying by Non-Sanctioned Firms. Sergei Kolomeitsev, Kristie J. N. Moergen, Jason W. Ridge, Dan L. Worrell, Scott Kuban.

• Corporate Scandals as Punctuating Events That Change Human Resource Roles. Elaine Farndale, Jaap Paauwe, Paul Boselie, Sven Horak.

• On the Edge of Destruction: An Impaired-Regulation Model of Destructive Entrepreneurial Action. Dean A. Shepherd, Stella Seyb, Vangelis Souitaris.

• Stereotypical Perception in Management: A Review and Expansion of Role Congruity Theory. María del Carmen Triana, Ruixiang Song, Cyril Taewoong Um, Lei Huang.

Journal of Management Studies

• Entrepreneurial Orientation and Underconformity to Female Board Representation Norms. Fatemeh Askarzadeh, Krista Lewellyn, Stav Fainshmidt, William Q. Judge.

• Critical Management Studies: A Critical Review. André Spicer, Mats Alvesson.

• Cross-Sector Partnership Research at Theoretical Interstices: Integrating and Advancing Theory across Phases. Mohamad Sadri, Angela Aristidou, Davide Ravasi.

• Cross-Sector Partnerships to Address Societal Grand Challenges: Systematizing Differences in Scholarly Analysis. Lea Stadtler, M. May Seitanidi, Helena H. Knight, Jennifer Leigh, Amelia Clarke, Marlene Janzen Le Ber, Jill Bogie, Priyanka Brunese, Oda Hustad, Ioannis Krasonikolakis, Eleni Lioliou, Adriane MacDonald, Jonatan Pinkse, Sarita Sehgal.

• Prescriptive Theorizing in Management Research: A New Impetus for Addressing Grand Challenges. Marvin Hanisch.

• Panacea or Dangerous Practice: A Counterpoint to Hanisch’s Argument for Prescriptive Theorizing. Samuel Horner, Joep Cornelissen, Mike Zundel.

• Prescriptive Theorizing to Tackle Societal Grand Challenges: Promises and Perils. Christopher Wickert.

• Social Entrepreneurs as Ecosystem Catalysts: The Dynamics of Forming and Withdrawing from a Self-Sustaining Ecosystem. Paulo Savaget, Pinar Ozcan, Tyrone Pitsis.

• How Deep-Level and Surface-Level Board Diversity, Formal and Informal Social Structures Affect Innovation. Guoli Chen, Po-Hsuan Hsu, Yen Teik Lee, Daniel Z. Mack.

• Embracing non-Western Contexts in Management Scholarship. Christopher Wickert, Kristina Potočnik, Shameen Prashantham, Weilei (Stone) Shi, Yuliya Snihur.

• How Companies Restrain Means–Ends Decoupling: A Comparative Case Study of CSR Implementation. Andromachi Athanasopoulou, Emilio Marti, David Risi, Eva Schlindwein.

• How Context Matters in Non-market Strategies: Exploring Variations in Corporate Social Responsibility-Political Activity Relationships. Dorothee Maria Winkler, Anna Krzeminska.

• Marginalized Communities and the Problem of Research Extraction. Joel Bothello, Leandro Bonfim.

• Negative Incentives and Regulatory Capture: Noncompliance with Price Ceilings on Essential Medicines in India. Mirko H. Benischke, Ajay Bhaskarabhatla.

Journal of Marketing Research 

• The Value of Safety Training for Business-to-Business Firms. Yixing Chen, Shrihari Sridhar, Kyuhong Han, Sonam Singh, Vikas Mittal, Taehoon Im.

• Cause-Related Marketing as Sales Promotion. Christina Schamp, Mark Heitmann, Yuri Peers, Peter S.H. Leeflang.

• A Preemptive and Curative Solution to Mitigate Data Breaches: Corporate Social Responsibility as a Double Layer of Protection. John JianJun Zhu, Ling Tuo, Yanfen You, Qiang Fei, Matthew Thomson.

Journal of Operations Management

• Does leader disability status influence the operational performance of teams with individuals with disabilities? An empirical study in the apparel industry. Dustin Cole, Sriram Narayanan, Shawnee Vickery.

• Closed-loop supply chains with product remanufacturing: Challenges and opportunities. Saurabh Bansal, V. Daniel R. Guide, Sergey Naumov.

• How do suppliers respond to institutional complexity? Examining voluntary public environmental disclosure in a global manufacturing supply network. William Diebel, Jury Gualandris, Robert D. Klassen.

• Behavioral multi-lever decision-making: A study of consumer return policy, price, and inventory decisions. Han Kyul Oh, Huseyn Abdulla, Rogelio Oliva.

Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists

• Do Financial Markets Respond to Green Opportunities? Tobias Kruse, Myra Mohnen, Misato Sato.

• The Welfare Costs of Job Loss and Decarbonization: Evidence from Germany’s Coal Phaseout. Luke Haywood, Markus Janser, Nicolas Koch.

• Air Pollution and Adult Cognition: Evidence from Brain Training. Andrea La Nauze, Edson Severnini.

• What Determines Effectiveness of Renewable Energy Standards?: General Equilibrium Analytical Model and Empirical Analysis. Don Fullerton, Chi Ta.

• Between Wind and Water: Tradeoffs of Irrigation and Wind Projects. Steven M. Smith, Daniel Cooley.

• Banning Products with Low Energy Efficiency: Market Response and Adjustment Cost. Thiess Buettner, Anne Kesselring.

• China’s Waste Import Ban and US Solid Waste Management: Effects of the Loss of a Waste Haven. Hilary Sigman, Rachel Strow.

• Do Ride-Hailing Services Worsen Freeway Congestion and Air Quality? Evidence from Ubers Entry in California. Chandra Kiran B. Krishnamurthy, Nicole S. Ngo.

• Solar Geoengineering, Learning, and Experimentation. David Kelly, Garth  Heutel, Juan B. Moreno-Cruz, Soheil Shayegh.

• Do Market Failures Create a ‘Durability Gap’ in the Circular Economy? Don Fullerton, Shan He.

• Environmental Policy Uncertainty. Himadri Palikhe, Georg Schaur, Charles  Sims.

• Management Practices and Climate Policy in China. Soo-Keong Yong, Ulrich Wagner, Peiyao Shen, Mirabelle Muuls,Ralf Martin, Jing Cao, Laure De Preux.

• Regional Heterogeneity in Environmental Quality: The Role of Firm Production Networks and Trade. Doyoung Park, Jacob Howard, William Ridley.

• The Dynamic Impacts of Pricing Groundwater. Ellen Bruno, Katrina K. Jessoe, W. Michael Hanemann.

• The Economic Cost of Groundwater Depletion in the High Plains Aquifer. Gabriela Perez-Quesada, Nathan P. Hendricks, David R. Steward.

• Confounding Adaptation in Perennial Climate Damages: A Unified Statistical Approach for Brazilian Coffee. James A. Rising. 

Management Science

• The Power of Knowing a Woman Is in Charge: Lessons from a Randomized Experiment. Loretti Dobrescu, Alberto Motta, Akshay Shanker.

• Climate Regulation and Emissions Abatement: Theory and Evidence from Firms’ Disclosures. Tarun Ramadorai, Federica Zeni.

• Gender Quotas in Hiring Committees: A Boon or a Bane for Women? Pierre Deschamps.

• Safe Bets, Long Shots, and Toss-Ups: Strategic Engagements Between Activists and Firms. Guy L. F. Holburn, John W. Maxwell, Jean-Philippe Bonardi.

• Treat, Dump, or Export? How Domestic and International Waste Management Policies Shape Waste Chain Outcomes. Sytske C. Wijnsma, Dominique Olié Lauga, L. Beril Toktay.

• Quantifying the Impact of Impact Investing. Andrew W. Lo, Ruixun Zhang.

• The Gender Gap in Meaningful Work. Vanessa C. Burbano, Olle Folke, Stephan Meier, Johanna Rickne.

• Minimum Wage Increases and Employer Performance: Role of Employer Heterogeneity. Sumit Agarwal, Meghana Ayyagari, Renáta Kosová.

• Charitable Giving by the Poor: A Field Experiment in Kyrgyzstan. Maja Adena, Rustamdjan Hakimov, Steffen Huck.

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