Table of Contents: January 2021

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 2021

Academy of Management Discoveries

• How Much Influence Do Ceos Have On Company Actions And Outcomes? The Example Of Corporate Social Responsibility. Georg Wernicke, Miha Sajko, Christophe Boone.

• Impact Measurement In An Emerging Social Sector: Four Novel Approaches. Pablo Muñoz, Edward Gamble, Haley Beer.

• Mapping The Class Ceiling: The Social Class Disadvantage For Attaining Management Positions. Paul Ingram, Jean Joohyun Oh.

• Response To Commentaries On “Leveraging A Recessive Narrative To Transform Joe Paterno’s Image: Media Sensebreaking, Sensemaking, And Sensegiving During Scandal”. Derron G. Bishop, Linda Klebe Treviño, Dennis A. Gioia, Glen E. Kreiner.

Academy of Management Perspectives

• Health Care In Times Of War. Gordon C Shen, Peter F Martelli, Paul K Clarke, Karlene H Roberts.

Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice

• Women Hold Up Half The Sky? Informal Institutions, Entrepreneurial Decisions, And Gender Gap In Venture Performance. Eric Yanfei Zhao, Ling Yang.

• Exploring The Role Of Privilege In Migrant Women’s Self-Employment. Natasha A. Webster, Karen Haandrikman.

Harvard Business Review

• It’s Time To Replace The Public Corporation. Roger L. Martin.

• The Forgotten Dimension Of Diversity. Paul Ingram.

• When Machine Learning Goes Off The Rails. Boris Babic, I. Glenn Cohen, Theodoros Evgeniou, Sara Gerke.

• How To Talk To Your Cfo About Sustainability. Tensie Whelan, Elyse Douglas.

• Volunteer Programs That Employees Can Get Excited About. Jessica Rodell.

• Getting Serious About Diversity: Enough Already With The Business Case. Robin J. Ely, David A. Thomas.

• Be A Better Ally. Tsedale M. Melaku, Angie Beeman, David G. Smith, W. Brad Johnson.

Human Relations

• Manifesto For A New Quality Of Working Life. Chris Warhurst, Angela Knox.

• “Bloody Wonder Woman!”: Identity Performances Of Elite Women Entrepreneurs On Instagram. Helena Heizmann, Helena Liu.

• Does “How” Firms Invest In Corporate Social Responsibility Matter? An Attributional Model Of Job Seekers’ Reactions To Configurational Variation In Corporate Social Responsibility. Daniel G Bachrach, Pavlos A Vlachos, Kris Irwin, Frederick P Morgeson.  

• Reframing Childhood Obesity: The Role Of Local Communities In Change Implementation Failure. James M Vardaman, John M Amis, Paul M Wright, Ben P Dyson.

Information Systems Research

• An Empirical Investigation Of The Antecedents And Consequences Of Privacy Uncertainty In The Context Of Mobile Apps. Sameh Al-Natour, Hasan Cavusoglu, Izak Benbasat, Usman Aleem.

Journal of Business Ethics

• The Gender Effects Of Audit Partners On Audit Outcomes: Evidence Of Rule 3211 Adoption. Jie Hao, Viet Pham, Meng Guo.

• A Newcomer Socialization Perspective On The Proliferation Of Unethical Conduct In Organizations: The Influences Of Peer Coaching Practices And Newcomers’ Goal Orientations. Xiangmin Liu, Rebecca L. Greenbaum, Zhengtang Zhang.

• How Corporate Charitable Giving Reduces The Costs Of Formal Controls. Bernhard E. Reichert, Matthias Sohn.

• Stakeholder Friction. Kirsten Martin, Robert Phillips.

• Milking It For All It’s Worth: Unpalatable Practices, Dairy Cows And Veterinary Work? Caroline Clarke, David Knights.

• Do Boards Take Environmental, Social, And Governance Issues Seriously? Evidence From Media Coverage And Ceo Dismissals. Jenna J. Burke.

• The Radical Behavioral Challenge And Wide-Scope Obligations In Business. Hasko Von Kriegstein.

• Vulnerable Populations And Individual Social Responsibility In Prosocial Crowdfunding: Does The Framing Matter For Female And Rural Entrepreneurs? Maria Figueroa-Armijos, John P. Berns.

• Can Corporate Ethics Programs Reduce Unethical Behavior? Threat Appraisal Or Coping Appraisal. Taslima Jannat, Syed Shah Alam, Chieh-Yu Lin.

• Creating Social Value For The ‘Base Of The Pyramid’: An Integrative Review And Research Agenda. Addisu A. Lashitew, Somendra Narayan, Lydia Bals.

• Legitimacy And Cosmopolitanism: Online Public Debates On (Corporate) Responsibility. Anne Vestergaard, Julie Uldam.

• The Inhibitory Effect Of Political Conservatism On Consumption: The Case Of Fair Trade. Thomas Usslepp, Sandra Awanis, Ahmad Daryanto.

• Business Ethics And Quantification: Towards An Ethics Of Numbers. Gazi Islam.

• Extracting Legitimacy: An Analysis Of Corporate Responses To Accusations Of Human Rights Abuses. Rajiv Maher, Moritz Neumann, Mette Slot Lykke.

• Place Matters: (Dis)Embeddedness And Child Labourers’ Experiences Of Depersonalized Bullying In Indian Bt Cottonseed Global Production Networks. Premilla D’cruz, Ernesto Noronha, Saikat Chakraborty.

• Religious Values Motivating Csr: An Empirical Study From Corporate Leaders’ Perspective. Bo Xu, Linlin Ma.

• Board Gender Diversity And Corporate Response To Cyber Risk: Evidence From Cybersecurity Related Disclosure. Camélia Radu, Nadia Smaili.

• Should You Buy Local? Carson Young.

• Not Just A Gender Numbers Game: How Board Gender Diversity Affects Corporate Risk Disclosure. Andreas Seebeck, Julia Vetter.

• Multilevel Examination Of How And When Socially Responsible Human Resource Management Improves The Well-Being Of Employees. Zhe Zhang, Juan Wang, Ming Jia.

• Punishing Vices Or Rewarding Virtues? The Motivations For And Benefits Of Ethical Ratings For Private Italian Companies. Fabio La Rosa, Francesca Bernini.

• Hometown Ties And Favoritism In Chinese Corporations: Evidence From Ceo Dismissals And Corporate Social Responsibility. Hongjin Zhu, Yue Pan, Jinli Xiao.

• Innovating For Good In Opportunistic Contexts: The Case For Firms’ Environmental Divergence. Dante I. Leyva-De La Hiz, J. Alberto Aragon-Correa, Andrew G. Earle.

• How Foreign Institutional Shareholders’ Religious Beliefs Affect Corporate Social Performance? Xuezhou Zhao, Libing Fang, Ke Zhang.

• How Much You See Is How You Respond: The Curvilinear Relationship Between The Frequency Of Observed Unethical Behavior And The Whistleblowing Intention. Muel Kaptein.

• Effect Of Csr And Ethical Practices On Sustainable Competitive Performance: A Case Of Emerging Markets From Stakeholder Theory Perspective. Abdul Waheed, Qingyu Zhang.

• How Unbecoming Of You: Online Experiments Uncovering Gender Biases In Perceptions Of Ridesharing Performance. Brad Greenwood, Idris Adjerid, Nathan L. Meikle.

• Inducing Corporate Social Responsibility: Should Investors Reward The Responsible Or Punish The Irresponsible? Tyson B. Mackey, Alison Mackey, Jason J. Lepore.

• Drivers Of Sustainability And Consumer Well-Being: An Ethically-Based Examination Of Religious And Cultural Values. Elizabeth A. Minton, Soo Jiuan Tan, Richie L. Liu.

• Resistance Will Be Futile? The Stigmatization (Or Not) Of Whistleblowers. Meghan Van Portfliet.

• A New Understanding Of Marketing And “Doing Good”: Marketing’s Power In The Tmt And Corporate Social Responsibility. Wenbin Sun, Rahul Govind.

• Which Privacy Policy Works, Privacy Assurance Or Personalization Declaration? An Investigation Of Privacy Policies And Privacy Concerns. Fue Zeng, Qing Ye, Yiping Amy Song.

• Cure Or Sell: How Do Pharmaceutical Industry Marketers Combine Their Dual Mission? An Approach Using Moral Dissonance. Bénédicte Bourcier-Béquaert, Loréa Baïada-Hirèche, Anne Sachet-Milliat.

• Corporate Social Responsibility And Ngo Directors On Boards. Shili Chen, Niels Hermes, Reggy Hooghiemstra.

• Opening Constructive Dialogues Between Business Ethics Research And The Sociology Of Morality: Introduction To The Thematic Symposium. Masoud Shadnam, Andrey Bykov, Ajnesh Prasad.

• The Morality Of “New” Ceo Activism. Layla Branicki, Stephen Brammer, Carl Rhodes.

Journal of Consumer Psychology

• Together We Rise: How Social Movements Succeed. Gia Nardini, Tracy Rank‐Christman, Melissa G. Bublitz, Samantha N. N. Cross, Laura A. Peracchio.

• Secrets And Likes: The Drive For Privacy And The Difficulty Of Achieving It In The Digital Age. Alessandro Acquisti, Laura Brandimarte, George Loewenstein.

• Reasons For Both Pessimism And Optimism: A Response To The Commentaries. Alessandro Acquisti, Laura Brandimarte, George Loewenstein.

Journal Of Environmental Economics And Management

• The Effect Of Culture On Energy Efficient Vehicle Ownership. Massimo Filippini, Tobias Wekhof.

• Exporting And Pollution Abatement Expenditure: Evidence From Firm-Level Data. Soumendra Nath Banerjee, Jayjit Roy, Mahmut Yasar.

• Effectiveness Of Climate Policies: Carbon Pricing Vs. Subsidizing Renewables. Klaus Gugler, Adhurim Haxhimusa, Mario Liebensteiner.

• When Tax Incentives Drive Illicit Behavior: The Manipulation Of Fuel Economy In The Automobile Industry. Shinsuke Tanaka.

• Do Regulatory Loopholes Distort Technical Change? Evidence From New Vehicle Launches Under The Japanese Fuel Economy Regulation. Yoshifumi Konishi, Shunsuke Managi.

• Fall In The Sea, Eventually? A Green Paradox In Climate Adaptation For Coastal Housing Markets. Lee C. Parton, Steven J. Dundas.

• ‘The Scarlet Letters’: Information Disclosure And Self-Regulation: Evidence From Antibiotic Use In Denmark. Dagim G. Belay, Jørgen D. Jensen.

Journal of Financial and Qualitative Analysis

• Climate Change News Risk And Corporate Bond Returns. Thanh D. Huynh, Ying Xia.

• Board Gender Diversity And Corporate Innovation: International Evidence. Dale Griffin, Kai Li, Ting Xu.

• Corporate Innovation: Do Diverse Boards Help? Heng An, Carl R. Chen, Qun Wu, Ting Zhang.

Journal of International Business Studies 

• Multinational Energy Utilities In The Energy Transition: A Configurational Study Of The Drivers Of Fdi In Renewables. Samuli Patala, Jouni K. Juntunen, Tiina Ritvala.

• Are Firms With Foreign Ceos Better Citizens? A Study Of The Impact Of Ceo Foreignness On Corporate Social Performance. Olivier Bertrand, Marie-Ann Betschinger, Caterina Moschieri.

Organization Science 

• From Help To Harm: Increases In Status, Perceived Underreciprocation, And The Consequences For Access To Strategic Help And Social Undermining Among Female, Racial Minority, And White Male Top Managers. Gareth D. Keeves, James D. Westphal.

• Why Do Banks Favor Employee-Friendly Firms? A Stakeholder-Screening Perspective. Cuili Qian, Donal Crilly, Ke Wang, Zheng Wang.

• Good Deeds Done In Silence: Stakeholder Management And Quiet Giving By Chinese Firms. Heli Wang, Ming Jia, Zhe Zhang.

• Evaluating Board Candidates: A Threat-Contingency Model Of Shareholder Dissent Against Female Director Candidates. Arjun Mitra, Corinne Post, Steve Sauerwald. 

Organization Studies

• Hybrid Orchestration In Multi-Stakeholder Innovation Networks: Practices Of Mobilizing Multiple, Diverse Stakeholders Across Organizational Boundaries. Charlotte Reypens, Annouk Lievens, Vera Blazevic.

• Not Just Good For Her: A Temporal Analysis Of The Dynamic Relationship Between Representation Of Women And Collective Employee Turnover. Cara C. Maurer, Israr Qureshi.

Research Policy

• Hand In Hand To Nowhereland? How The Resource Dependence Of Research Institutes Influences Their Co-Evolution With Industry. Joern Hoppmann.

• Organisational Institutionalisation Of Responsible Innovation. Richard Owen, Mario Pansera, Phil Macnaghten, Sally Randles.

Sloan Management Review 

• Can Data Drive Racial Equity? Elizabeth J. Kennedy.

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