Table of Contents: January 2020

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 January 2020

Academy of Management Discoveries

• Detecting False Accounts in Intermediated Voluntary Disclosure. Patrick J Callery, Jessica Perkins.

• GUIDEPOST: From Environmental Strategy to Environmental Impact. Sanjay Sharma.

• What Do We Talk About When We Talk About Community? COMMENTARY ON “It Takes a Village to Sustain a Village: A Social Identity Perspective on Successful Community-Based Enterprise Creation” By Christina Hertel, Sophie Bacq, and Frank-Martin Belz. Ewald Kibler, Pablo Muñoz.

• Sustainable Development for a Better World: Contributions of Leadership, Management, and Organizations. Jennifer Howard-Grenville, Gerald F. Davis, Thomas Dyllick, C. Chet Miller, Stefan Thau, Anne S. Tsui.

• Supersized Tensions and Slim Responses? The Discursive Construction of Strategic Tensions Around Social Issues. Jonatan Pinkse, Tobias Hahn, Frank Figge.

California Management Review

• How Social Entrepreneurs Zig-Zag Their Way to Impact at Scale. V. Kasturi Rangan, Tricia Gregg.

Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice

• Digital Sustainability and Entrepreneurship: How Digital Innovations Are Helping Tackle Climate Change and Sustainable Development. Gerard George, Ryan K. Merrill, Simon J. D. Schillebeeckx.

• Entrepreneurship for Sustainable Development: A Review and Multilevel Causal Mechanism Framework. Matthew P. Johnson, Stefan Schaltegger.

• Volunteer Retention in Prosocial Venturing: The Role of Emotional Connectivity. Steffen Farny, Ewald Kibler, Solange Hai, Paolo Landoni.

• Family Firm Brands, Perceptions of Doing Good, and Consumer Happiness. Margarete Schellong, Nils D. Kraiczy, Lucia Malär, Andreas Hack.

• The Direct and Indirect Impact of Gender Diversity in New Venture Teams on Innovation Performance. Ye Dai, Gukdo Byun, Fangsheng Ding.

Human Relations

• From tokens to key players: The influence of board gender and ethnic diversity on corporate discrimination lawsuits. Michael Abebe, Hazel Dadanlar.

• Organizational form and pro-social fantasy in social enterprise creation. Kate Kenny, Helen Haugh, Marianna Fotaki.

Journal of Business Ethics

• How Pro-social Framing Affects the Success of Crowdfunding Projects: The Role of Emphasis and Information Crowdedness. Daniela Defazio, Chiara Franzoni, Cristina Rossi-Lamastra.

• How to Whistle-Blow: Dissensus and Demand. Kate Kenny, Alexis Bushnell.

• Advertising Primed: How Professional Identity Affects Moral Reasoning. Erin Schauster, Patrick Ferrucci, Edson Tandoc, Tara Walker.

• Mood and Ethical Decision Making: Positive Affect and Corporate Philanthropy. Leon Zolotoy, Don O’Sullivan, Myeong-Gu Seo.

• Institutions and Agency in the Sustainability of Day-to-Day Consumption Practices: An Institutional Ethnographic Study. Tiia-Lotta Pekkanen.

• A Humanistic Narrative for Responsible Management Learning: An Ontological Perspective. Michael Pirson.

• Antecedents of Environmentally and Socially Responsible Sustainable Consumer Behavior. Maja Hosta, Vesna Zabkar. 

• Measuring Social Performance in Social Enterprises: A Global Study of Microfinance Institutions. Leif Atle Beisland, Kwame Ohene Djan, Roy Mersland.

• When is Sustainability a Liability, and When Is It an Asset? Quality Inferences for Core and Peripheral Attributes. Siv Skard, Sveinung Jørgensen, Lars Jacob Tynes Pedersen.

• Doing Good While Behaving Badly: Checkout Charity Process Mechanisms. Michael Giebelhausen, Benjamin Lawrence, HaeEun Helen Chun.

• Dissensus! Radical Democracy and Business Ethics. Carl Rhodes, Iain Munro, Torkild Thanem, Alison Pullen. 

• Denaturalizing the Environment: Dissensus and the Possibility of Radically Democratizing Discourses of Environmental Sustainability. Charles Barthold, Peter Bloom.

• Selfish Sharing? The Impact of the Sharing Economy on Tax Reporting Honesty. Leslie Berger, Lan Guo, Tisha King.

• Sustainability Beyond Instrumentality: Towards an Immanent Ethics of Organizational Environmentalism. Christian Garmann Johnsen.

• Dissent in Consensusland: An Agonistic Problematization of Multi-stakeholder Governance. Martin Fougère, Nikodemus Solitander.

• ‘Our Marketing is Our Goodness’: Earnest Marketing in Dissenting Organizations. Jerzy Kociatkiewicz, Monika Kostera.

• Dealing with Ethical Dilemmas: A Look at Financial Reporting by Firms Facing Product Harm Crises. Shafu Zhang, Like Jiang, Michel Magnan, Lixin Nancy Su.

• Firms Talk, Suppliers Walk: Analyzing the Locus of Greenwashing in the Blame Game and Introducing ‘Vicarious Greenwashing’. Marta Pizzetti, Lucia Gatti, Peter Seele.

• Corporate Social Responsibility and Financial Fraud: The Moderating Effects of Governance and Religiosity. Xing Li, Jeong-Bon Kim, Haibin Wu, Yangxin Yu. 

• Spirituality and Corporate Philanthropy in Indian Family Firms: An Exploratory Study. Navneet Bhatnagar, Pramodita Sharma, Kavil Ramachandran.   

• Addressing Governance Gaps in Global Value Chains: Introducing a Systematic Typology. Stephanie Schrage, Dirk Ulrich Gilbert.

• B Corp Certification and Its Impact on Organizations Over Time. Malu Villela, Sergio Bulgacov, Glenn Morgan.

• Value-Enhancing Social Responsibility: Market Reaction to Donations by Family vs. Non-family Firms with Religious CEOs. Min Maung, Danny Miller, Zhenyang Tang, Xiaowei Xu.

• What on Earth Should Managers Learn About Corporate Sustainability? A Threshold Concept Approach. Ivan Montiel, Peter Jack Gallo, Raquel Antolin-Lopez.

• Does It Pay to Invest in Japanese Women? Evidence from the MSCI Japan Empowering Women Index. Jonathan Peillex, Sabri Boubaker, Breeda Comyns. 

• Mapping the Ethicality of Algorithmic Pricing: A Review of Dynamic and Personalized Pricing. Peter Seele, Claus Dierksmeier, Reto Hofstetter.

• Lights Off, Spot On: Carbon Literacy Training Crossing Boundaries in the Television Industry. Wendy Chapple, Petra Molthan-Hill, Rachel Welton.

• Protecting Environment or People? Pitfalls and Merits of Informal Labour in the Congolese Recycling Industry. Clément Longondjo Etambakonga, Julia Roloff.    

• Achieving Responsible Management Learning Through Enriched Reciprocal Learning: Service-Learning Projects and the Role of Boundary Spanners. Martin Fougère, Nikodemus Solitander, Sanchi Maheshwari.

• Are Politically Endorsed Firms More Socially Responsible? Selective Engagement in Corporate Social Responsibility. Xiaowei Rose Luo, Danqing Wang.

• Competences for Environmental Sustainability: A Systematic Review on the Impact of Absorptive Capacity and Capabilities. Tulin Dzhengiz, Eva Niesten.

• From Black Pain to Rhodes Must Fall: A Rejectionist Perspective. Rashedur Chowdhury.

• Varieties of Responsible Management Learning: A Review, Typology and Research Agenda. John G. Cullen.

• The Role of Ethical Standards in the Relationship Between Religious Social Norms and M&A Announcement Returns. Leon Zolotoy, Don O’Sullivan, Keke Song.

• Higher Ethical Objective (Maqasid al–Shari’ah) Augmented Framework for Islamic Banks: Assessing Ethical Performance and Exploring Its Determinants. Arman Mergaliyev, Mehmet Asutay, Alija Avdukic.

Journal of Consumer Psychology

• Good Guys Can Finish First: How Brand Reputation Affects Extension Evaluations. Zachary S. Johnson, Huifang Mao, Sarah Lefebvre, Jaishankar Ganesh.

Journal of Environmental Economics and Management

• When threats become credible: A natural experiment of environmental enforcement from Florida. Wesley Blundell.

• Firms’ and states’ responses to laxer environmental standards. Tito Cordella, Shantayanan Devarajan.

• Graduated stringency within collective incentives for group environmental compliance: Building coordination in field-lab experiments with artisanal gold miners in Colombia. Luz A. Rodriguez, Alexander Pfaff, Maria Alejandra Velez.

• The real effect of legal institutions: Environmental courts and firm environmental protection expenditure. Qi Zhang, Zhi Yu, Dongmin Kong.

• The price of innovation: An analysis of the marginal cost of green buildings. Andrea Chegut, Piet Eichholtz, Nils Kok.

Journal of International Business Studies

• Culture and institutions: How economic freedom and long-term orientation interactively influence corporate social responsibility. Johan Graafland, Niels Noorderhaven.

• Global connectedness and dynamic green capabilities in MNEs. Vladislav Maksimov, Stephanie Lu Wang, Shipeng Yan.

• Enforcing higher labor standards within developing country value chains: Consequences for MNEs and informal actors in a dual economy. Rajneesh Narula.

Organization and Environment

• Life Cycle Work: A Process Study of the Emergence and Performance of Life Cycle Practice. Hanna Nilsson-Lindén, Andreas Diedrich, Henrikke Baumann.

• Environmental Concern in a Capitalist Economy: Climate Change Perception Among U.S. Specialty-Crop Producers. Yetkin Borlu, Leland Glenna.

• Contingency in Business Sustainability Research and in the Sustainability Service Industry: A Problematization and Research Agenda. Jean-Pierre Imbrogiano.

• Pollution Stigma and Manufacturing Firms’ Disengagement Effort: Interactive Effects of Pressures From External Stakeholders. Jia Xu, Jiuchang Wei, Haipeng (Allan) Chen.

• The Social Origins of ESG: An Analysis of Innovest and KLD. Robert G. Eccles, Linda-Eling Lee, Judith C. Stroehle.

• Strategizing Nature in Cross-Sector Partnerships: Can Plantation Revitalization Enable Living Wages? Iteke van Hille, Frank G. A. de Bakker, Peter Groenewegen, Julie E. Ferguson.

• Invisible Hand or Ecological Footprint? Comparing Social Versus Environmental Impacts of Recent Economic Growth. Gregory M. Mikkelson.

• From Paradoxical Thinking to Practicing Sustainable Business: The Role of a Business Collective Organization in Supporting Entrepreneurs. Sara B. Soderstrom, Kathryn L. Heinze.

• Winds of Change: A Neo-Design Approach to the Regeneration of Regions. Raghu Garud, Joel Gehman, Peter Karnøe.

Organization Science

• Institutional Logics and Technology Development: Evidence from the Wind and Solar Energy Industries. Suzanne G. Tilleman, Michael V. Russo, Andrew J. Nelson.

• Why Do Firms Suffer Differently from Input Stigmatization? The Costs of Removing Stigmatized Inputs. Luis Diestre, Juan Santaló.

• Balancing Professional Prototypes Increases the Valuation of Women in Male-Dominated Professions. Felix Danbold, Corinne Bendersky.

• Product Categories as Judgment Devices: The Moral Awakening of the Investment Industry. Diane-Laure Arjaliès, Rodolphe Durand.

• Stock Market Responses to Unethical Behavior in Organizations: An Organizational Context Model. Bradford Baker, Rellie Derfler-Rozin, Marko Pitesa, Michael Johnson.

Organization Studies

• Managing Impressions Rather Than Emissions: Volkswagen and the false mastery of paradox. Medhanie Gaim, Stewart Clegg, Miguel Pina e Cunha.

• The Impact of Frame Ambiguity on Field-Level Change. Cecile Feront, Stephanie Bertels.

• Challenges in Building Robust Interventions in Contexts of Poverty: Insights from an NGO-driven multi-stakeholder network in Ethiopia. Jakomijn van Wijk, Jeroen van Wijk, Sarah Drost, Wouter Stam.

• From Universalizing Transparency to the Interplay of Transparency Matrices: Critical insights from the emerging social credit system in China. Hans Krause Hansen, Richard Weiskopf.

• Performing Values Practices and Grassroots Organizing: The Case of Solidarity Economy Initiatives in Greece. Maria Daskalaki, Marianna Fotaki, Irene Sotiropoulou.

• Organizing the Environmental Governance of the Rare-Earth Industry: China’s passive revolution. Le Bo, Steffen Böhm, Noelia-Sarah Reynolds.

• Climate Change Is Not a Problem: Speculative Realism at the End of Organization. Norah Campbell, Gerard McHugh, PJ Ennis.

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