Table of Contents: January 2022

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 2022

Academy of Management Discoveries

• Nobody Home: A Parallel Process Investigation of a Child Welfare Agency. William A. Kahn.

California Management Review

• Incentivizing Environmental Improvements in Supply Chains through Data-Driven Governance. Dara O’Rourke, Niklas Lollo.

• Tools and Technologies of Transparency in Sustainable Global Supply Chains. Paul McGrath, Lucy McCarthy, Donna Marshall, Jakob Rehme.

Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice

•  A System Justification Theory of Entrepreneurial Attitudinal Change During a Crisis. Kun Liu, Kun Fu, Jing Yu Yang, Ahmad Al Asady.

• One Path Does Not Fit All: A Career Path Approach to the Study of Professional Women Entrepreneurs. Jennifer Merluzzi, Ronald S. Burt.

Harvard Business Review

• The Founder of UBI Group on Leading a Transition to Renewable Energy in Africa. Salma Okonkwo.

• How Companies Can Address Their Historical Transgressions. Sarah Federman.

• Corporate Political Spending Is Bad Business. Dorothy S. Lund, Leo E. Strine.

• DEI Gets Real. Dagny Dukach.

• Case Study: Should You Compromise Your Founding Principles for Faster Growth?. Sandeep Puri.

Human Relations

• Algorithmic governmentality and the space of ethics: Examples from ‘People Analytics’. Richard Weiskopf, Hans Krause Hansen.

• Management without morals: Construct development and initial testing of amoral management. Matthew J. Quade, Julena M. Bonner, Rebecca L. Greenbaum.

• Transforming corporate social responsibilities: Toward an intellectual activist research agenda for micro-CSR research. Verena Girschik, Liudmyla Svystunova, Evgenia I. Lysova.

Information Systems Research

• Shared Prosperity (or Lack Thereof) in the Sharing Economy. Mohammed Alyakoob, Mohammad S. Rahman.

• Does Social Media Accelerate Product Recalls? Evidence from the Pharmaceutical Industry. Yang Gao, Wenjing Duan, Huaxia Rui.

• Racial Bias in Customer Service: Evidence from Twitter. Priyanga Gunarathne, Huaxia Rui, Abraham Seidmann.

• The Societal Impact of Sharing Economy Platform Self-Regulations—An Empirical Investigation. Wencui Han, Xunyi Wang, Mehmet Eren Ahsen, Sunil Wattal.

Journal of Business Ethics

• The Character Lens: A Person-Centered Perspective on Moral Recognition and Ethical Decision-Making. Erik G. Helzer, Taya R. Cohen, Yeonjeong Kim.

•  “Traduttore, Traditore?” Translating Human Rights into the Corporate Context. Marisa McVey, John Ferguson, François-Régis Puyou.

• Trends in the Dynamic Evolution of Corporate Social Responsibility and Leadership: A Literature Review and Bibliometric Analysis. Liming Zhao, Miles M. Yang, Zhenyuan Wang, Grant Michelson.

• Women Directors and Corporate Social Performance: An Integrative Review of the Literature and a Future Research Agenda. Giovanna Campopiano, Patricia Gabaldón, Daniela Gimenez-Jimenez.

• Resource Scarcity and Humanitarian Social Innovation: Observations from Hunger Relief in the Context of the COVID-19 Pandemic. Iana Shaheen, Arash Azadegan, Donna F. Davis.

• The Role of Moral Foundations, Anticipated Guilt and Personal Responsibility in Predicting Anti-consumption for Environmental Reasons. Barbara Culiberg, Hichang Cho, Mateja Kos Koklic, Vesna Zabkar.

• CEO Inside Debt and Employee Workplace Safety. Xuan Wu, Yueting Li, Yangxin Yu.

• Mandating Diversity on the Board of Directors: Do Investors Feel That Gender Quotas Result in Tokenism or Added Value for Firms?. Jessica M. Rixom, Mark Jackson, Brett A. Rixom.

• Confucian Virtue Ethics and Ethical Leadership in Modern China. Li Yuan, Robert Chia, Jonathan Gosling.

• Does CEO Risk-Aversion Affect Carbon Emission?. Ashrafee Hossain, Samir Saadi, Abu S. Amin.

• The Costs and Labour of Whistleblowing: Bodily Vulnerability and Post-disclosure Survival. Kate Kenny, Marianna Fotaki.

• Fairly and Justly? Are Employment Tribunals Able to Even Out Whistleblowing Power Imbalances?. Laura William, Wim Vandekerckhove.

• The Professional Logic of Sustainability Managers: Finding Underlying Dynamics. Tommy Borglund, Magnus Frostenson, Sven Helin, Katarina Arbin.

• Ethical Marketing in the Blockchain-Based Sharing Economy: Theoretical Integration and Guiding Insights. Teck Ming Tan, Jari Salo.

• Change in Rhetoric but not in Action? Framing of the Ethical Issue of Modern Slavery in a UK Sector at High Risk of Labor Exploitation. Gabriela Gutierrez-Huerter O, Stefan Gold, Alexander Trautrims.

• Counter-reporting sustainability from the bottom up: the case of the construction company WeBuild and dam-related conflicts. Antonio Bontempi, Daniela Del Bene, Louisa Jane Di Felice.

• The Public Effect of Private Sustainability Reporting: Evidence from Incident-Based Engagement Strategy. Natalia Semenova.

• Guilty by Association: Spillover of Regulative Violations and Repair Efforts to Alliance Partners. Tera L. Galloway, Douglas R. Miller, Kun Liu.

• Like It or Not: When Corporate Social Responsibility Does Not Attract Potential Applicants. Eva Alexandra Jakob, Holger Steinmetz, Marius Claus Wehner, Christina Engelhardt, Rüdiger Kabst.

• Vanishing Boycott Impetus: Why and How Consumer Participation in a Boycott Decreases Over Time. Wassili Lasarov, Stefan Hoffmann, Ulrich Orth.

• Active First Movers vs. Late Free-Riders? An Empirical Analysis of UN PRI Signatories’ Commitment. Tobias Bauckloh, Stefan Schaltegger, Sebastian Utz, Sebastian Zeile, Bernhard Zwergel.

• The EThIC Model of Virtue-Based Allyship Development: A New Approach to Equity and Inclusion in Organizations. Meg A. Warren, Michael T. Warren.

• Responses to Ethical Scenarios: The Impact of Trade-Off Salience on Competing Construal Level Effects. Nelson Borges Amaral, Jinfeng Jiao.

• Developing Ethical Sensitivity in Future Accounting Practitioners: The Case of a Dialogic Learning for Final-Year Undergraduates. Janie Bérubé, Yves Gendron.

• Shared Responsibility and Labor Rights in Global Supply Chains. Yossi Dahan, Hanna Lerner, Faina Milman-Sivan.

• Luxury Ethical Consumers: Who Are They?. Joëlle Vanhamme, Adam Lindgreen, Gülen Sarial-Abi.

• Social Entrepreneur Servant Leadership and Social Venture Performance: How are They Related? Sarah Kimakwa,  Jorge A. Gonzalez, Hale Kaynak.

• Board Gender Diversity and Women in Senior Management. Pallab Kumar Biswas, Larelle Chapple, Helen Roberts, Kevin Stainback.

• Mobilizing After Corporate Environmental Irresponsibility in a Community of Place: A Framing Microprocess Perspective. Valeria Cavotta, Guido Palazzo, Antonino Vaccaro.

Journal of Consumer Psychology

• The significance and meaning of racial identity in consumer research: A review and call for research. David B. Wooten, Tracy Rank-Christman.

Journal of Consumer Research

• Repair, Consumption, and Sustainability: Fixing Fragile Objects and Maintaining Consumer Practices. D. Matthew Godfrey, Linda L. Price, Robert F. Lusch.

• Do consumers care about morality? A review and framework for understanding morality’s marketplace influence. Aviva Philipp-Muller, Jacob D. Teeny, Richard E. Petty.

Journal of Environmental Economics and Management

• Searching for carbon leaks in multinational companies. Antoine Dechezleprêtre, Caterina Gennaioli, Ralf Martin, Mirabelle Muûls, Thomas Stoerk.

• Climate policy without a price signal: Evidence on the implicit carbon price of energy efficiency in buildings. Ghislaine Lang, Bruno Lanz.

• Pricing carbon in the aviation sector: Evidence from the European emissions trading system. Xavier Fageda, Jordi J. Teixidó.

• Carbon pricing and power sector decarbonization: Evidence from the UK. Marion Leroutier.

• Too much energy The perverse effect of low fuel prices on firms. Massimiliano Calì, Nicola Cantore, Leonardo Iacovone, Mariana Pereira-López, Giorgio Presidente.

• Modest and incomplete incentives may work: Pricing plastic bags in Uruguay. José María Cabrera, Marcelo Caffera, Alejandro Cid.

Journal of Financial and Qualitative Analysis

• Gender, Credit, and Firm Outcomes. Manthos D. Delis, Iftekhar Hasan, Maria Iosifidi, Steven Ongena.

Journal of International Business Studies 

• Unintended signals: Why companies with a history of offshoring have to pay wage penalties for new hires. Alina Grecu, Wolfgang Sofka, Marcus M. Larsen, Torben Pedersen.

• Multinational enterprises and natural disasters: Challenges and opportunities for IB research. Chang Hoon Oh, Jennifer Oetzel.

• Navigating cross-border institutional complexity: A review and assessment of multinational nonmarket strategy research. Pei Sun, Jonathan P. Doh, Tazeeb Rajwani, Donald Siegel.

MIS Quarterly

• The Impact of the Sharing Economy on Household Bankruptcy. Tingting Nian, Yuyuan (Anthony) Zhu, Vijay Gurbaxani.

Operations Research 

• Pricing and Optimization in Shared Vehicle Systems: An Approximation Framework.

  Siddhartha Banerjee, Daniel Freund, Thodoris Lykouris.

Organization and Environment

• Through the Smokescreen of the Dieselgate Disclosure: Neutralizing the Impacts of a Major Sustainability Scandal. Olivier Boiral, Marie-Christine Brotherton, Alexander Yuriev, David Talbot.

• Regenerative Organizations: Introduction to the Special Issue. Pablo Muñoz, Oana Branzei.

• In Transition Toward the Ecocentric Entrepreneurship Nexus: How Nature Helps Entrepreneurs Make Ventures More Regenerative Over Time. Maxim Vlasov.

Organization Science 

• He’s Overqualified, She’s Highly Committed: Qualification Signals and Gendered Assumptions About Job Candidate Commitment. Elizabeth Lauren Campbell, Oliver Hahl.

• Can Racial Diversity Attenuate Racial Discrimination in Service Interactions? Evidence from Cite-and-Release Decisions within Police Departments. Jirs Meuris.

• Green to Gone? Regional Institutional Logics and Firm Survival in Moral Markets. Siddharth Vedula, Jeffrey G. York, Michael Conger, Elizabeth Embry.

• The Role of Resources in the Success or Failure of Diverse Teams: Resource Scarcity Activates Negative Performance-Detracting Resource Dynamics in Social Category Diverse Teams. Siyu Yu, Lindred L. Greer.

• Alternative Futures for the Digital Transformation: A Macro-Level Schumpeterian Perspective. Zlatko Bodrožić, Paul S. Adler.

• Institutional Investor Activism and Employee Safety: The Role of Activist and Board Political Ideology. Wei Shi, Chongwu Xia, Philipp Meyer-Doyle.

• Collateral Damage: The Relationship Between High-Salience Events and Variation in Racial Discrimination. Andreea Gorbatai, Peter Younkin, Gordon Burtch.

• “Making Out” While Driving: Relational and Efficiency Games in the Gig Economy. Lindsey D. Cameron.

• Expanding the Locus of Resistance: Understanding the Co-constitution of Control and Resistance in the Gig Economy. Lindsey D. Cameron, Hatim Rahman.

• Inside the Velvet Glove: Sustaining Private Regulatory Institutions Through Hollowing and Fortifying. Sean Buchanan, Michael L. Barnett.

• Shared Fate and Entrepreneurial Collective Action in the U.S. Wood Pellet Market. Shon R. Hiatt, Sangchan Park.

• Mitigating Gig and Remote Worker Misconduct: Evidence from a Real Effort Experiment. Vanessa C. Burbano, Bennett Chiles.

• Waging War from Remote Cubicles: How Workers Cope with Technologies That Disrupt the Meaning and Morality of Their Work. Madeleine Rauch, Shahzad (Shaz) Ansari.

• Seeking Purity, Avoiding Pollution: Strategies for Moral Career Building. Erin Reid, Lakshmi Ramarajan.

• A Matter of Transition: Authenticity Judgments and Attracting Employees to Hybridized Organizations. Nevena Radoynovska, Rachel Ruttan.

• Socially Irresponsible Employment in Emerging-Market Manufacturers. Greg Distelhorst, Anita McGahan.

Organization Studies 

• ‘Are they out to get us?’ Power and the ‘recognition’ of the subject through a ‘lean’ work regime. Ewan Mackenzie, Tom McGovern, Adrian Small, Chris Hicks, Tracy Scurry.

Research Policy

• Intermediaries for the greater good: How entrepreneurial support organizations can embed constrained sustainable development startups in entrepreneurial ecosystems. Frank J. van Rijnsoever.

• Assessing transitions through socio-technical configuration analysis – a methodological framework and a case study in the water sector. Jonas Heiberg, Bernhard Truffer, Christian Binz.

• Transforming the s-shape: Identifying and explaining turning points in market diffusion curves of low-carbon technologies in Austria. Veronika Kulmer, Sebastian Seebauer, Helene Hinterreither, Dominik Kortschak, Michaela C. Theurl, Willi Haas.

• Framing improvements of public innovation in a living lab context: Processual learning, restrained space and democratic engagement. Lars Fuglsang, Anne Vorre Hansen.

• Technological Diversification to Green Domains: Technological Relatedness, Invention Impact and Knowledge Integration Capabilities. Lutao Ning, Rui Guo.

• Greenfield foreign direct investments and regional environmental technologies. Davide Castellani, Giovanni Marin, Sandro Montresor, Antonello Zanfei.

• Interplay of policy experimentation and institutional change in sustainability transitions: The case of mobility as a service in Finland. Paula Kivimaa, Karoline S. Rogge.

• Patent Toxicity. Gianluca Biggi, Elisa Giuliani, Arianna Martinelli, Emilio Benfenati.

Sloan Management Review

•  Mapping Exclusion in the Organization. Inga Carboni, Andrew Parker, Nan S. Langowitz.

• Does Your Business Need a Human Rights Strategy? N. Craig Smith, Markus Scholz, Jane Williams.

• Why ‘Explicit Uncertainty’ Matters for the Future of Ethical Technology. Mark Nitzberg.

• The Progressive Roots of Management Science. Stephen Cummings, Todd Bridgman.

• Why Companies Practice Corporate Social Responsibility. Shawn Pope, Alwyn Lim.

• Leading in an Age of Employee Activism. Megan Reitz, John Higgins.

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