Table of Contents: February 2025

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 2025

Academy of Management Learning and Education

• Review: How to Develop a Sustainable Business School. Lucie Baudoin, Simone Carmine.

• The Business School and the End of History: Reimagining Management Education. Ken Starkey, Sue Tempest.

• Book Review: Designing Intersectional Online Education: Critical Teaching and Learning Practices. Fikri Fikri, Mawaddah Hudri.

Academy of Management Review

• It Takes Two to Untangle: Illuminating How and Why Some Workplace Relationships Adapt While Others Deteriorate after a Workplace Microaggression. Summer R. Jackson, Basima A. Tewfik.

• From Bouncing Back to Bouncing Forward: A Temporal Trajectory Model of Organizational Resilience. Tor Hernes, Blagoy Blagoev, Sven Kunisch, Majken Schultz.

Accounting Review

• Global versus Local ESG Ratings: Evidence from China. Jeff Zeyun Chen, Zengquan Li, Ting Mao, Aaron Yoon.

• Does Litigation Risk Shape Environmental Disclosure Decisions? Evidence from Peers’ Environmental Disclosure Lawsuits. Scott A. Robinson, A. Nicole Skinner, Jasmine Wang.

• Public Company Auditing Around the Securities Exchange Act: Historical Lessons for ESG Assurance. Thomas Bourveau, Matthias Breuer, Jeroen K. G. Koenraadt, Robert Stoumbos.

Administrative Science Quarterly  

• Book review: Stuart L. Hart. Beyond Shareholder Primacy: Remaking Capitalism for a Sustainable Future. Thomas P. Lyon.

• Book review: Erik Schneiderhan and Martin Lukk. GoFailMe: The Unfulfilled Promise of Digital Crowdfunding. Matthias Tröbinger.

• CSR as Hedging Against Institutional Transition Risk: Corporate Philanthropy After the Sunflower Movement in Taiwan. Yishu Cai, Lori Qingyuan Yue, Fangwen Lin, Shipeng Yan, Haibin Yang.

• Book review: Maryann P. Feldman and Martin F. Kenney. Private Equity and the Demise of the Local: The Loss of Community Economic Power and Autonomy. Daniel Armanios, Hanzelle Kleeman

• Editorial: From the Editor. Christine M. Beckman.

• Stigmatization by an Authoritarian Government: Russian NGOs Under the 2012 Foreign Agents Law. Anastasiya Zavyalova.

• Harambee! A Triadic Perspective on Social Impact: Organizations, Evaluators, and Target Beneficiaries in Kenya. Anna Kim.

• Book Review: Michèle Lamont. Seeing Others: How Recognition Works—and How It Can Heal a Divided World. Brandy Aven.

Business Ethics Quarterly

• Beyond Black and White: Assessing the Legitimacy of Multi-Stakeholder Initiatives between the Descriptive and the Normative Perspective. Adrian Gombert, Rebecca C. Ruehle.

• The Relational and Redistributive Dynamics of Mutual Aid: Implications of Afro-Communitarian Ethics for the Study of Creative Work. Ana Alacovska, Robin Steedman, Thilde Langevang, Rashida Resario.

• Business and Society, the Society and Business, and, What Is It Like to Be a Rat? Christopher Wong Michaelson.

• Book Review: Living with the Invisible Hand: Markets, Corporations, and Human Freedom, by Waheed Hussain, edited by Arthur Ripstein and Nicholas Vrousalis. Sandrine Blanc.

• Art Review: Opera for the People: Exploring Artistic Democracy and the Ethics of Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion through Jonathan Dove’s Marx in London! by Scottish Opera. Alexandra Huang-Kokina.

• Book Review: Citizen Knowledge: Markets, Experts, and the Infrastructure of Democracy, by Lisa Herzog. Pierre-Yves Néron.

Contemporary Accounting Research

• Governmentality, counter-conduct, and modes of governing: Accounting and the pursuit of municipal sustainable waste management. Thomas Ahrens,  Laurence Ferry.

• Civil society as a quasi-regulator: Coordination in financial regulation on climate change. Robert J. Charnocz.

Human Resource Management

• The Hidden Cost of Mandatory Unpaid Overtime: How and When Mandatory Unpaid Overtime Undermines Subsequent Motivation to Work. Jie Shen, Liyu Lin, Wenyuan Huang, Bingtao Zhang.

• Revisiting the Spirals of Silence: The Case of Intra-Faith Discrimination at Work in Two Muslim Majority Countries. Selcuk Uygur, Jawad Syed, Erhan Aydin, Mustafa Özbilgin, Sercan Hamza Bağlama.

• Migration, Human Supply Chains, and the Multinational Enterprise: Confronting an Overlooked Global Mobility Challenge. Milda Žilinskaitė, Aida Hajro, Paul Baldassari, Christof Miska.

• Regulating Grand Challenges: The Evolution of Human Resource Managers’ Framing of the UK Gender Pay Gap Regulations. Janet Walsh.

• ‘In or Out’ or ‘In-And-Out’: The Social Identity Transition of Female Academics During the Perinatal Period. Yi-Ling Lai, Andy Thorpe.

• Gender Differences in Perception of Gender Inequity in Human Resource Management Practices. Dynah A. Basuil, Ankita Agarwal, Jennifer Manegold, Wendy J. Casper.

• A Systematic Review on Worker Voice in the Platform Economy: The Constitution of a Grassroots Voice Mechanism. Prakriti Dasgupta, Anthony McDonnell, Ronan Carbery, Stefan Jooss.

• ‘Leading’ by example? Gendered language in Human Resource job adverts. Maranda Ridgway, Louise Oldridge, Sharon Mavin.

Journal of Applied Psychology

• Are unions friends or foes of high-performance work systems? David Jinwoo Chung, Tae-Youn Park.

• From moral exemplar to underperformer? The double-edged sword of ethical leadership for leader in-role and extra-role performance. Grace Ching Chi Ho, David T. Welsh, John T. Bush.

• The gendered nature of leader behaviors: Navigating stereotype threat from conservation of resources and gender role perspectives. Szu-Han (Joanna) Lin, Justin P. Woodall, Marie S. Mitchell, Nai-Wen Chi, Russell E. Johnson.

• Whither bias goes, I will go: An integrative, systematic review of algorithmic bias mitigation. Louis Hickman, Christopher Huynh, Jessica Gass, Brandon Booth, Jason Kuruzovich, Louis Tay.

Journal of Business Venturing

• How environmental awareness and concern affect environmental entrepreneurial intent. Yasmin O. Schwegler, Jeffrey S. Petty.

• Fear the loss or welcome the gains? How stock options influence CEO risk-taking in corporate cleantech investments. David Bendig, Colin Schulz, Maximilian Möhwald, Patrick Pollok.

Journal of Consumer Marketing

• Promoting mindful consumption through a chatbot with an experiential mind. Ja Kyung Seo, Hye Jin Yoon.

Journal of Economics and Management Strategy

• Carrying Carbon? Negative and Positive Carbon Leakage With International Transport. Keisaku Higashida, Jota Ishikawa, Nori Tarui.

• Beyond the Pipeline (Problem): Examining Racial and Ethnic Representation in 21st Century High Technology Self-employment. Rachel Marie Brooks Atkins, April Burrage.

• Air Pollution and the Adoption of Industrial Robots in Firms. Weibing Li, Mingyang Li.

• Can Collaboration Promote Corporate Social Responsibility? Evidence From the Lab. Francisco Gomez Martinez, Sander Onderstal, Maarten Pieter Schinkel.

• Narrowing the “Digital Divide”: The Role of Fixed and Mobile Infrastructure. Ryan Hawthorne, Lukasz Grzybowski.

Journal of Financial Economics

• ESG: A panacea for market power? Philip Bond, Doron Levit.

• The impact of impact investing. Jonathan B. Berk, Jules H. van Binsbergen.

• Biodiversity finance. Caroline Flammer, Thomas Giroux, Geoffrey M. Heal.

• Four facts about ESG beliefs and investor portfolios. Stefano Giglio, Matteo Maggiori, Johannes Stroebel, Zhenhao Tan, Xiao Xu.

Journal of Industrial Ecology

• Spanning the industrial symbiosis within the circular economy: Critical issues and future research agenda. Chiara Palagonia, Laura Michelini, Caroline Mattelin-Pierrard.

• Synergies between corporate social responsibility precedence and sustainable development goals: A pathway to corporate-led change. Ran Zhang, Qian (Jan) Li.

• Accounting for learning in prospective LCA: Theory and practical guidance. Sander S. van Nielen, René Kleijn, Arnold Tukker.

• Management of paradoxical tensions in industrial symbiosis: An exploration at the inter-organizational level. Alice Alosi, Katrin Katana, Eleonora Annunziata, Murat Mirata, Francesco Rizzi, Marco Frey.

• A new circular economy conception for sustainable product design. Svenja Anja Klose, Magnus Fröhling.

• The evolution of research at the intersection of industrial ecology and artificial intelligence. Yongyue Gong, Fengmei Ma, Heming Wang, Asaf Tzachor, Wenju Sun, Junming Zhu, Gang Liu, Heinz Schandl.

• A framework for guiding safe and sustainable-by-design innovation. Carlos Felipe Blanco, Paul Behrens, Martina Vijver, Willie Peijnenburg, Joris Quik, Stefano Cucurachi.

• Measuring progress toward a circular economy of the ASEAN Community. Nargessadat Emami, Alessio Miatto, Shabbir Gheewala, Natthanij Soonsawad, Thi Cuc Nguyen, Anthony SF Chiu, Ivan Henderson Gue, Marianne Faith Martinico-Perez, Xaysackda Vilaysouk, Heinz Schandl.

• Implementing industrial and territorial ecology: The role of proximity and intermediaries in three French case studies. André Torre, Sébastien Bourdin, Sabrina Dermine-Brullot, Maël Jambou.

• Carbon performance and corporate financial performance during crises: Evidence from the COVID-19 pandemic and the Global Financial Crisis. Frederic Läger, Yassin Denis Bouzzine, Rainer Lueg.

• Social life cycle assessment and its methodological challenges: A bibliometric and content analysis. Qianwen Huang, Yue Sun, Qi Guo, Qizheng Li, Ying Zhang, Xin Li, Laili Wang.

• Assessing biodiversity-related disclosure: Drivers, outcomes, and financial impacts. Alexander Bassen, Daniel Buchholz, Kerstin Lopatta, Anna R. Rudolf.

• Sustainable photovoltaic recycling to mitigate environmental pollution under climate and resource constraints. Jianxin Guo, Yonglong Cheng, Xiaoling Song.

• Book Review: Environmentally responsible supply chains in the era of digital transformation By Pietro Evangelista, Jukka Hallikas, and Mohamad Y. Jaber (Eds.). Katharina Berger.

• A sensitivity analysis of the Earth for all model: Getting the giant leap scenario with fewer policies. Pierluigi Crescenzi, Giorgio Gambosi, Lucia Nasti, Aurora Rossi, Emanuele Natale.

Journal of Management

• The “WEIRDEST” Organizations in the World? Assessing the Lack of Sample Diversity in Organizational Research. Robin Schimmelpfennig, Christian Elbæk, Quinetta Roberson.

• The Role of Inclusive Leadership in Reducing Disability Accommodation Request Withholding. Xiji Zhu, Feng Jiang, Sabrina D. Volpone, David C. Baldridge, Ran Li.

• Socioeconomic Status and Employee Well-Being: An Intersectional and Resource-Based View of Health Inequalities at Work. Kelly P. Gabriel, Maira E. Ezerins, Christopher C. Rosen, Allison S. Gabriel, Charmi Patel, Grace J. H. Lim.

• A Review of Artificial Intelligence, Algorithms, and Robots Through the Lens of Stakeholder Theory. Michael J. Matthews, Runkun Su, Lindsey Yonish, Shawn McClean, Joel Koopman, Kai Chi Yam.

• Green Innovation Implementation: A Systematic Review and Research Directions. Xiangru Qin, Birgit Muskat, Véronique Ambrosini, Judith Mair, Ying-Yi Chih.

• Reenvisioning Family-Supportive Organizations Through a Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Perspective: A Review and Research Agenda. Ellen Ernst Kossek, Hoda Vaziri, Matthew B. Perrigino, Brenda A. Lautsch.

• Corporate Short-Termism: A Review and Research Agenda. Margarethe Wiersema, Haeyoung Koo, Weiru Chen, Yu Zhang.

• The Political Consequences of Work: An Integrative Review. Eva Selenko, Miriam Schilbach, Steven A. Brieger, Anahí Van Hootegem, Hans De Witte.

• The High Cost of Cheap Talk: How Disingenuous Ethical Language Can Reflect Agency Costs. Stephen J. Smulowitz, Michael D. Pfarrer, Didier Cossin, Hongze (Abraham) Lu.

• Autistic Applicants’ Job Interview Experiences and Accommodation Preferences: An Intersectional Analysis. Maira E. Ezerins, Lauren S. Simon, Christopher C. Rosen.

• Disadvantaged Communities, Sudden Threats, and the Founding of Social Movement Organizations: The Case of Anti-Mafia Organizations. Heewon Chae, Giovanni Battista Dagnino, Pino G. Audia.

Journal of Management Studies

• War as a Phenomenon of Inquiry in Management Studies. Fabrice Lumineau, Arne Keller.

• Confronting the Climate Crisis: Fossil Fuel Hegemony and the Need for Decarbonization, Degrowth, and Democracy. Daniel Nyberg, Christopher Wright.

• System Change, Not Climate Change: Charting Alternative Responses to the Climate Crisis through International Comparative Research. Zlatko Bodrožić, Paul Adler.

• Transforming How Ambivalence About DEI Work is Managed in Organizations. Stephanie J. Creary.

• The Mission (Im)possible of Climate Action through Quixotic Institutional Work. Giuseppe Delmestri, Elke S. Schuessler.

• A Mother’s Work Is Never Done: On Being a Mother in Academia. Erica Pimentel, Soraya Bel Hadj Ali.

• Causal Mechanisms in Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Management: A Meta-Synthesis of Micro-CSR Research. Stefanie Remmer, Dirk Ulrich Gilbert.

• Frame Overlapping in Moral Markets: The Case of an ‘Open, Free, and Neutral’ Telecommunications Network. Daniel Arenas, Joan Rodón, Mireia Yter.

• Climate Change Adaptation: New Vistas for Management Research. Mirko H. Benischke, Beatrice D’Ippolito, Garima Sharma, Christopher Wickert.

• Theorizing Waste as a Technique of Power in Capitalistic Stakeholder Relations. Elise Lobbedez, Stefano Pascucci, Teresa Panico.

• Hybridity in Non-profits: Innovating for Social Value Creation. Danielle Logue, Melissa Edwards, Gillian McAllister.

• Cyclical Change of Partnership Practices in Hybrid Settings. Christiana Weber, Marit Grewe-Salfeld,  Markus Göbel, Barbara Harsman, Yuka Matsuo, Rick Vogel.

• When A Political Sinner Does A Good Deed: The Role of Government Officials’ Stigma Anxiety in Granting Political Access. Yuyuan Chang, Shuping Li.

• How Imprints Transcend Era and Terra: A Study of Firms’ Controversial History and Present-Day Foreign Market Entry. Kunyuan Qiao, Jun Xia.

• Inscribing Impact: Measurement Practices in the Making of Moral Markets. Guillermo Casasnovas, Lisa Hehenberger, Kyriaki Papageorgiou.

• Desperate Journeys to Europe: Sensebreaking in Extreme Contexts. Amna Chaudhry, John M. Amis.

• Problematizing the Cooperative Firm: A Marxian View on Paradoxes, Dialectics, and Contradictions. Jon Las Heras, Anjel Errasti, Ignacio Bretos.

• Governing Transnational Commons: How International Treaties and Multi-Stakeholder Organizations Shape Cooperation and Conflict. Amol M. Joshi, David Antons, Erk P. Piening, Christina Dienhart, Torsten-Oliver Salge.

• Do Female State Officials Improve Corporate Social Responsibility in their Jurisdictions? A Disadvantage-Prohibiting Perspective. Jian Chu, Yi Tang, Guoguang Wan.

Journal of Marketing Research  

• Groceries or School Cafeterias: How Households Respond to School Nutrition Mandates. Mike Palazzolo, Zoey Hu, Kusum Ailawadi, Adithya Pattabhiramaiah.

• Are We Worse Off After Policy Repeals? Evidence from Two Green Policies. Dinesh Puranam, Sungjin Kim, Jihoon Hong, Hai Che.

Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists

• Infrastructure, Institutions, and the Conservation of Biodiversity in India. Raahil Madhok.

• Industrial Water Pollution and Agricultural Production in India. Nick Hagerty, Anshuman Tiwari.

• Environmental, Redistributive and Revenue Effects of Policies Promoting Fuel Efficient and Electric Vehicles. Patrick Bigler, Doina Radulescu.

• Efficiency and Water Use: Dynamic Effects of Irrigation Technology Adoption. Micah V. Cameron-Harp, Nathan P. Hendricks.

• The Economics of Orbit Use: Open Access, External Costs, and Runaway Debris Growth. Akhil Rao, Giacomo Rondina.

Management Science

• Shaping Police Officer Mindsets and Behaviors: Experimental Evidence of Procedural Justice Training. Rodrigo Canales, Juan Francisco Santini, Marina González Magaña, Alexis Cherem.

• An Anatomy of Crypto-Enabled Cybercrimes. Will Cong, Campbell Harvey, Daniel Rabetti, Zong-Yu Wu.

• CEO Hometown Preference in Corporate Environmental Policies. Wei Li, Qiping Xu, Qifei Zhu.

• Can Socially Minded Governance Control the Artificial General Intelligence Beast? Joshua S. Gans.

• Intersectional Peer Effects at Work: The Effect of White Coworkers on Black Women’s Careers. Elizabeth Linos, Sanaz Mobasseri, Nina Roussille.

• Learning to Be Fair: A Consequentialist Approach to Equitable Decision Making. Alex Chohlas-Wood, Madison Coots, Henry Zhu, Emma Brunskill, Sharad Goel.

• Remote Work and Job Applicant Diversity: Evidence from Technology Startups. David H. Hsu, Prasanna B. Tambe.

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