Table of Contents: January 2023

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 2023

California Management Review

• Do Not Forget the “How” along with the “What”: Improving the Transparency of Sustainability Reports. Samuel Tang, Colin Higgins.

• Materiality Assessment Is an Art, Not a Science: Selecting ESG Topics for Sustainability Reports. Jilde Garst, Karen Maas, Jeroen Suijs. 

• Measuring and Disclosing Corporate Valuations of Impacts and Dependencies on Nature. Jakki Mohr, Carmen Thissen.

• Blended Value Creation: The Mediating Role of Competences. Rama Krishna Reddy Kummitha.

• Electric Vehicles Are a Platform Business: What Firms Need to Know. Edward G. Anderson, Hemant K. Bhargava, Jonas Boehm, Geoffrey Parker.

Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice

• Ties That Bind or Blind? The Role of Identity and Place in Understanding Women Entrepreneurs’ Support Needs. Norin Arshed, Graeme Martin, Stephen Knox.

• Entrepreneurial Opportunities as Responsibility. Douglas A. Bosse, Jeffrey S. Harrison, Jeffrey M. Pollack, Judith Schrempf-Stirling. 

Harvard Business Review

• Employers Can Do More to Advance Health Equity. Shantanu Nundy, Lisa A. Cooper, Ellen Kelsay. 

• Managing in the Age of Outrage. Karthik Ramanna.

Human Relations

• EXPRESS: Where the past meets the present: Upward mobility, environmental stimuli, and CEOs’ investment in CSR. Joanna Tochman Campbell, Jennifer J. Kish-Gephart.

• Doing inclusion as counter-conduct: Navigating the paradoxes of organizing for refugee and migrant inclusion. Laura Kangas-Müller, Kirsi Eräranta, Johanna Moisander.

• Creating inclusivity through boundary work? Zooming in on low-wage service sector work. Dide van Eck, Laura Dobusch, Marieke van den Brink.

• Webs of oppression: An intersectional analysis of inequalities facing women activists in Palestine. Amal Nazzal, Lindsay Stringfellow, Mairi Maclean.

• Understanding meaningful work in the context of technostress, COVID-19, frustration, and corporate social responsibility. Darija Aleksić, Matej Černe, Saša Batistič.

• Mobilizing landscapes of practice to address grand challenges. Fran Ackermann, Igor Pyrko, Georgina Hill.

• Fast and spurious: How executives capture governance structures to prevent cooperativization. Emilie Bourlier-Bargues, Jean-Pascal Gond, Bertrand Valiorgue.

• Effect of gender composition of committees. Erika Christie Berle, Kenneth Kavajecz, Yuko Onozaka.

• Organising populism: From symbolic power to symbolic violence. Ron Kerr, Sarah Robinson, Martyna Śliwa.

• Unsettling West-centrism in the study of professional service firms. Mehdi Boussebaa. 

• Revisiting conflict: Neoliberalism at work in the gig economy. Alessandro Niccolò Tirapani, Hugh Willmott. 

Information Systems Research

• Fairness of Ratemaking for Catastrophe Insurance: Lessons from Machine Learning. Nan Zhang, Heng Xu.

• Too Tired and in Too Good of a Mood to Worry About Privacy: Explaining the Privacy Paradox Through the Lens of Effort Level in Information Processing. Tawfiq Alashoor,  Mark Keil, H. Jeff Smith, Allen R. McConnell.

Journal of Business Ethics

• Foreign Institutional Investors, Legal Origin, and Corporate Greenhouse Gas Emissions Disclosure. Simon Döring, Wolfgang Drobetz, Henning Schröder.

• Gender Diversity: From Wall Street to Main Street. Yongqiang Chu, Xinming Li, Daxuan Zhao.

• Between Markets, Politics, and Ethics: On Vendor Conscience and Impersonal Markets. Matthew Caulfield.

• Twitter-Based Social Accountability Callouts. Dean Neu, Gregory D. Saxton.

• CEO’s Childhood Experience of Natural Disaster and CSR Activities. Daewoung Choi, Hyunju Shin, Kyoungmi Kim.

• The Legalistic Organizational Response to Whistleblowers’ Disclosures in a Scandal: Law Without Justice? Oussama Ouriemmi.

• The Invisible Racialized Minority Entrepreneur: Using White Solipsism to Explain the White Space. Rosanna Garcia, Daniel W. Baack.

• Developing a Culture of Solidarity Through a Three-Step Virtuous Process: Lessons from Common Good-Oriented Organizations. Sandrine Frémeaux, Anouk Grevin, Roberta Sferrazzo.

• Angel Investors’ Political Ideology and Investments in Women-Owned Ventures. Jianhong Chen, Jeffrey E. Sohl, Wan-Chien Lien.

• Building Eco-friendly Corporations: The Role of Minority Shareholders. Shouyu Yao, Yuying Pan, Feiyang Cheng.

• Organizations’ Management Configurations Towards Environment and Market Performances. Shuang Ren, Di Fan, Guiyao Tang.

• Carbon Emissions and TCFD Aligned Climate-Related Information Disclosures. Dong Ding, Bin Liu, Millicent Chang.

• Social Trust and Female Board Representation: Evidence from China. Baoyin Qiu, Haohan Ren, Bo Cheng.

• Quantitative Research on Corporate Social Responsibility: A Quest for Relevance and Rigor in a Quickly Evolving, Turbulent World. Shuili Du, Assaad El Akremi, Ming Jia.

• Accounting Standard-Setting for an Emission Trading Scheme: The Korean Case. Tae Hee Kim, Sun Hye Lee, Petros Vourvachis.

• ‘It’s as if I’m Worth Nothing’—Cost-Driven Restructuring and the Dignity of Long-Term Workers in Finland’s State-Owned Postal Service Company. Atte Vieno.

• Financial Sustainability of For-Profit Versus Non-Profit Microfinance Organizations Following a Scandal. Arzi Adbi.

• Accountable Selves and Responsibility Within a Global Forum. Victoria Pagan, Kathryn Haynes, Stefanie Reissner.

• When the Private and the Public Self Don’t Align: The Role of Discrepant Moral Identity Dimensions in Processing Inconsistent CSR Information. Ramona Demasi, Christian Voegtlin.

• Uncovering Economic Complicity: Explaining State-Led Human Rights Abuses in the Corporate Context. Tricia D. Olsen, Laura Bernal-Bermúdez.

• What Sal Owes Mookie: What Do The Right Thing and Mangrove Teach us About Business Ethics. Abraham Singer.

• Winning the Heart and Shaping the Mind with “Serious Play”: The Efficacy of Social Entrepreneurship Comics as Ethical Business Pedagogy. Yanto Chandra, Qian Jin.

• Greening the Financial Sector: Evidence from Bank Green Bonds. Mascia Bedendo, Giacomo Nocera, Linus Siming.

• When Are We More Ethical? A Review and Categorization of the Factors Influencing Dual-Process Ethical Decision-Making. Clark H. Warner, Marion Fortin, Tessa Melkonian.

• Stakeholder Theory: Toward a Classical Institutional Economics Perspective. Vladislav Valentinov.

• Do CEOs with Sent-Down Movement Experience Foster Corporate Environmental Responsibility? Dayuan Li, Jialin Jiang, Ding Wang.
  

• Clearing the Smoke: Regulations, Moral Legitimacy, and Performance in the U.S. Tobacco Industry. Ana M. Aranda, Tal Simons.

• Deliberative Democracy and Corporate Constitutionalism: Considering Corporate Constitutional Courts. Sandrine Blanc.

Journal of Consumer Psychology

• Plant power: SEEDing our future with plant-based eating. Melissa G. Bublitz,  Jesse R. Catlin,  Aziza C. Jones,  Lama Lteif,  Laura A. Peracchio.

Journal of Consumer Research

• Money, Sacrificial Work, and Poor Consumers. Rohit Varman, Hari Sreekumar, Russell W Belk 

Journal of Environmental Economics and Management

• Quantifying COVID-19’s silver lining: Avoided deaths from air quality improvements in Bogotá. Allen Blackman, Jorge A. Bonilla, Laura Villalobos.

• Tax incentives, environmental regulation and firms’ emission reduction strategies: Evidence from China. Yu Qi, Jianshun Zhang, Jianwei Chen.

• Is environmental regulation the answer to pollution problems in urbanizing economies?JunJie Wu, Kathleen Segerson, Chunhua Wang.

• How do consumers respond to price complexity? Experimental evidence from the power sector. Grant D. Jacobsen, James I. Stewart.

• When standards have better distributional consequences than carbon taxes. Jiaxin Zhao, Linus Mattauch.

Journal of Financial and Qualitative Analysis

• Sustainability Preferences Under Stress: Evidence from COVID-19. Robin Döttling, Sehoon Kim.

• Does Sunlight Kill Germs? Stock Market Listing and Workplace Safety. Claire Y. C. Liang, Yaxuan Qi, Rengong (Alex) Zhang, Haoran Zhu.

• Exporting Uncertainty: The Impact of Brexit on Corporate America. Murillo Campello, Gustavo S. Cortes, Fabrício d’Almeida, Gaurav Kankanhalli.

Journal of International Business Studies

• International business is contributing to environmental crises. Haitao Yu, Pratima Bansal, Diane-Laure Arjaliès.

• International business and Africa: Theoretical and applied challenges, and future directions. Ken Kamoche, Geoffrey Wood.

• The link between foreign institutional owners and multinational enterprises’ environmental outcomes. Pia Ellimäki, Ruth V. Aguilera, Nuria Esther Hurtado-Torres , J. Alberto Aragó.

• Corporate social performance in international business. Elizabeth Napier, Gary Knight, Yadong Luo, Andrew Delios.

• What drives corporate social performance? The role of nation-level institutions. Ioannis Ioannou, George Serafeim.

• Widening the lens: Multilevel drivers of firm corporate social performance. Anthony Goerzen, Michael Sartor, Kristin Brandl , Stacey Fitzsimmons.

• To make JIBS matter for a better world. Rosalie L. Tung.

• Taking the P in political corporate social responsibility seriously. Christopher Wickert, Arjen van Witteloostuijn.

• Global migration: Implications for international business scholarship. Aida Hajro, Chris Brewster, Washika Haak-Saheem , Michael J. Morley.
  

MIS Quarterly

• Impact of Ride-Hailing Services on Transportation Mode Choices: Evidence from Traffic and Transit Ridership. Kyunghee Lee, Qianran (Jenny) Jin, Animesh Animesh, Jui Ramaprasad.

• Rural-Urban Healthcare Access Inequality Challenge: Transformative Roles of Information Technology. Yu Tong, Chuan-Hoo Tan, Choon Ling Sia, Yani Shi, Hock-Hai Teo.

• Who Are You and What Are You Selling? Creator-Based and Product-Based Racial Cues in Crowdfunding. Lauren Rhue, Jessica Clark.

• How Green Information Technology Standards and Strategies Influence Performance: Role of Environment, Cost, and Dual Focus. Terence J. V. Saldanha, Sunil Mithas, Jiban Khuntia, Jonathan Whitaker, Nigel P. Melville.

Organization and Environment

• Digital Platforms for the Circular Economy: Exploring Meta-Organizational Orchestration Mechanisms. Outi Blackburn, Paavo Ritala, Joona Keränen.

• Firm- and Country-Specific Advantages: Towards a Better Understanding of MNEs’ Environmental Performance in the International Arena. Gozal Ahmadova, Manuel Bueno García, Blanca Delgado-Márquez, Luis Pedauga.

Organization Science

• Uniting Through Difference: Rich Cultural-Identity Expression as a Conduit to Inclusion. Rachel D. Arnett.

• The Crisis in Local Newspapers and Organizational Wrongdoing: The Role of Community Social Connectedness. Tony Jaehyun Choi, Mike Valente.

• The Firm as a Subsociety: Purpose, Justice, and the Theory of the Firm. Claudine Gartenberg, Todd Zenger.

• Variations in the Corporate Social Responsibility-Performance Relationship in Emerging Market Firms. Alvaro Cuervo-Cazurra,  Saptarshi Purkayastha,  Kannan Ramaswamy.

• Effective Information Infrastructures for Collaborative Organizing: The Case of Maasai Mara. Dorthe Døjbak Håkonsson, Erik Reimer Larsen, Jacob Kjær Eskildsen.

Organization Studies

• Indigenous Peoples and Organization Studies. François Bastien, Diego M. Coraiola, William M. Foster.

• Bureaucracy Meets Digital Reality: The Unfolding of Urban Platforms in European Municipal Governments. Charlotte-Katharina Lekkas, Vangelis Souitaris

• Are We All Activists? Giuseppe Delmestri.

• Civilized Dispossession’: Corporate accumulation at the dawn of modern capitalism. Wim Van Lent, Gazi Islam, Imran Chowdhury.

Research Policy

• Biopiracy: Crying wolf or a lever for equity and conservation? Rachel Wynberg.

• Interdisciplinary research and the societal visibility of science: The advantages of spanning multiple and distant scientific fields. Pablo D’Este, Nicolás Robinson-García.

• Corporate commitment to climate change: The effect of eco-innovation and climate governance. Khaldoon Albitar, Habiba Al-Shaer, Yang Stephanie Liu.

• Social movements and entrepreneurial activity: A study of the U.S. solar energy industry. Desirée F. Pacheco, Theodore A. Khoury.

• We’re in this together: Sustainable energy and economic competitiveness in the EU. Davide Consoli, Valeria Costantini, Elena Paglialunga.

• Do social policies foster innovation? Evidence from India’s CSR regulation. Shubhashis Gangopadhyay, Swarnodeep Homroy.

Sloan Management Review

• Turning rebellion into money? Social entrepreneurship as the strategic performance of systems change. Simon Teasdale, Michael J. Roy, Alex Nicholls, Chantal Hervieux.

• Local context and post-crisis social venture creation. Sergey Anokhin, Todd Morgan, Lisa Jones Christensen, William Schulze.

• In pursuit of diversification opportunities, efficiency, and revenue diversification: A generalization and extension for social entrepreneurship. Jiaju Yan, Nick Mmbaga, David Gras.

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