Table of Contents: January 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 January 2025

Academy of Management Discoveries

• Sustainability-Oriented Innovation for System-Level Impact. Jennifer Goodman, Minna Halme, and Jouni Juntunen.

• The Legal Embeddedness of Criminal Organizations: The Case of Barcelona’s Narcopisos. Guillaume Dumont and Rafael Clua García.

• Unpacking Managerial Responses to Employee Voice. Commentary on “The Perils of Voice Veneer: The Case of Disneyland Puppeteers’ Unionization Efforts,” By Holm, Fong, and Anteby. Madeline Ong, Leonard Bierman, and Daria Panina.

Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice

• Dirty Entrepreneurship: The Intersectionality of Entrepreneurs’ Dirty Recycling Businesses. Dean A. Shepherd, Vinit Parida, and Joakim Wincent.

Harvard Business Review

• Getting Strategic About Sustainability. Jason Jay, Kate Isaacs, and Hong Linh Nguyen.

• AXA’s CEO on Insurance as a Tool to Drive Positive Impact. Thomas Buberl.

• How Women Can Win in the Workplace. Kweilin Ellingrud, Lareina Yee, and María del Mar Martínez.

Human Relations

• Moving with the trouble: How vulnerability and critical hope enable reckoning with complicity in entrepreneurial initiatives. Nada Endrissat and Christina Lüthy.

• Worker cooperative ‘regeneration’: Insights from the Brazilian Landless Rural Workers Movement. Reece Garcia and Christopher J McLachlan.

• The political economy of accountability: Philanthropy’s ‘double dispossession’ of racial justice organizations under racial capitalism. Adam Saifer and Patrizia Zanoni.

• Emancipatory entrepreneuring as disidentification: A queer-feminist view of becoming a democratic cooperative. Jonas Friedrich and Chris Steyaert.

• The suspension of morality in organisations: Conceptualising organisational moral disengagement and testing its role in relation to unethical behaviours and silence. Roberta Fida, Irene Skovgaard-Smith, Claudio Barbaranelli, Marinella Paciello, Rosalind Searle, Ivan Marzocchi, and Matteo Ronchetti.

Information Systems Research

• A Natural Disaster Reshapes Prosocial Microlending. Yi Ding, Haifeng Xu, and Bernard C. Y. Tan.

• Skill-Biased Technical Change, Again? Online Gig Platforms and Local Employment. Xue Guo, Zhi (Aaron) Cheng, and Paul A. Pavlou.

Journal of Accounting And Economics

• Tax havens and reputational costs. Adrienne DePaul, Frank Murphy, and Mary E. Vernon.

• Sell-side analysts’ assessment of ESG risk. Min Park, Aaron Yoon, and Tzachi Zach.

• Board risk oversight and environmental and social performance. Hami Amiraslani, Carolyn Deller, Christopher D. Ittner, and Thomas Keusch.

Journal of Business Ethics

• Bridging East and West: How Business Schools Can Develop Responsible Leader Competencies. Tatiana Donato Trevisan, Debbie Haski-Leventhal, and Sarah Bankins.

• Family Firms and Bribe Payments in Developing Countries: The Moderating Role of Social Capital. Chrysovalantis Gaganis, Fotios Pasiouras, and Linda D. Hollebeek

• Cultivating CSR: The Artistic Influence of Top Executives on Corporate Responsibility. Jinli Xiao, Weijuan Liang, and Gary Gang Tian.

• Family Firms and Ethics: Towards a Deeper Understanding of the Determinants of Ethical Decision-Making and Emerging Future Research Pathways. Minas N. Kastanakis, Solon Magrizos, and Andrea Calabrò.

• Corporate Social Responsibility, Related Party Transaction and Earnings Management: Evidence from India. Rohan Kumar Mishra, Frank Obenpong Kwabi, and Abhijeet Chandra.

• A ‘Grey’ Side of Family Business Ethics? Looking into the Interplay of Internal and External Ethical Orientations: Empirical Insights from the Wine Industry. Elena Casprini, Rocco Palumbo, and Lorenzo Zanni.

• Does it Pay to Patent Green Innovations? Stock Market Reactions to Family and Nonfamily Firms’ Green Patents. Francesco Chirico, Kimberly A. Eddleston, and Pankaj C. Patel.

• Linking CEO Celebrity to the Ethical Behavior of Family Firms in a Digital Age: Evidence from China. Tachia Chin, Sanjay Kumar Singh, and Grigorios Lamprinakos.

• The Best of Firms, the Worst of Firms: Ethical Bifurcation in Family Businesses During Crises. Danny Miller and Isabelle Le Breton-Miller.

• Compartmentalization and the Role of Polyphony in Moral Dialogue. Taija Turunen and Eva-Lena Lundgren-Henriksson.

• Does Traditional Debt Financing Hurt the Environment? Evidence from Toxic Releases. Xiaoyi Lyu, Chenyu Shan, and Dragon Yongjun Tang.

• Unpacking the Linkage Between Green Volunteering and Ethical Leadership Behavior in Managers. Jintao Lu, Shiyu Yan, and Chunyan Wang.

• Does Product Market Competition Promote or Reduce Firms’ Corporate Social Responsibility Behavior? How Stakeholder Attention Shapes Responsiveness to Stakeholders. Yichen Wang and Christopher Marquis.

• Social Entrepreneurship: A Well-Being Based Approach. Rama Krishna Reddy Kummitha, Benson Honig, and David Urbano.

• Hidden Bias, Overt Impact: A Systematic Review of the Empirical Literature on Racial Microaggressions at Work. Alexander Newman, Snehanjali Chrispal, and Luke Macaulay.

• In Moderation: Automation in the Digital Public Sphere. Diana Acosta Navas.

• Fundraising, Governance and Environmental Ethics: Evidence from Equity Crowdfunding. Silvio Vismara and Peter Wirtz.

• “A Sane Island in an Ocean of Madness”: A Case of Alternative Organisational Ethics Through Post-Growth Values. Ben Robra, Alex Pazaitis, and Arnaud Levy.

• Institutional Investors with Disciplinary History and CSR Behavior of Investee Firms. Samuel B. Bonsall IV, Babak Mammadov, and Blerina Bela Zykaj.

• The Impact of Ethical Leadership on Black Employees’ Workplace Experiences: Echoes from Black Culture and History. Darryl B. Rice, Jamila Maxie, and Steven Day.

• Multispecies Ethics and Space: Coexisting with Wolves. Géraldine Paring.

• The (In)Visibility of Undisclosed Political Connections. Hong Cai, Ole-Kristian Hope, and Han Wu.

• “Fresh Start” Messaging, “Rebirth Associations,” and Consumers’ Environmentally Sustainable Actions. Yuliya Strizhakova, Robin A. Coulter, and Linda L. Price.

• No Seat at the Table: How Territoriality Constrains Cross-Sector Collaboration in Disaster Response. Dorothee Nussbruch and Verena Girschik.

• The Ethical Dilemma in Hybrid Organizations: A Production Function Approach to Credit Expansion in Microfinance. Kjetil Andersson, Bert D’Espallier, and Roy Mersland.

• Digital and Disembedded? Questioning the Territorial Embeddedness of Local Digital Platforms. Frédéric Bally, Albane Grandazzi, and Thibault Daudigeos.

• CEO Activism and Political Mobilization. Young Hou and Christopher Poliquin.

• Responsible Management-as-Process of Smoothing–Striating: Transcending Freedom or Control Contingencies. Oliver Laasch, Christine McLean, and Jeremy Aroles.

• Deepening the Conversation on Systemic Sustainability Risks: A Social-Ecological Systems Approach. Hanna Ahlström, Amanda Williams, and Andrea S. Downing.

• Women Harmonizing Sustainability Practices for a Circular Bioeconomy: Can They Transform from Within Organizations? Alexia Sanz-Hernández, Irene Zarauz, and María Esther López Rodríguez.

• Can Green Needs Always Promote Green Innovation? Moral Licensing in Corporate Environmental Responsibility. Heng Zhang and Binglin Gong.

• Choices and Effects of Different Green Labels in the EU Bond Market. Peng Zhou, Shijie Jin, and Wenjie Ding.

• Serving as an Ethical Signal: Understanding How and When Socially Responsible Human Resource Management Inhibits Time Theft. Bo Lv, Jie Xiao, and Haomin Chen.

• Security and Privacy Protection in Developing Ethical AI: A Mixed-Methods Study from a Marketing Employee Perspective. Xuequn Wang, Xiaolin Lin, and Bin Shao.

• Circular Consumption Practices as Matters of Care. Nina Mesiranta, Malla Mattila, and Elina Närvänen.

• Unveiling Investor Motivation and Trust in Impact Investing: Evidence from Global Green Bond Issuances. Chaoxi Liang, Xiaoming Ma, and Xiawei Liao.

• Weathering the Risk: How Climate Uncertainty Fuels Corporate Fraud. Xing Chen, Fenghua Wen, and Gary Gang Tian.

• Supporting and Humiliating Dignity with Biometric Technologies: An Affordance Perspective. Jayson Killoran, Jasmin Manseau, and Jan Kietzmann.

• State Ownership, Environmental Regulation, and Corporate Green Investment: Evidence from China’s 2015 Environmental Protection Law Changes. Thomas J. Chemmanur, Bo Cheng, and Qianqian Yu.

• A CEO’s Childhood Family Decline and Corporate Social Responsibility: The Mediating Role of Long-Term Orientation. Mengyu Cai and Nan Zhou.

• Institutional Theory in Social Entrepreneurship: A Review and Consideration of Ethics. Xing Li and Niels Bosma.

• Can Ethical Texts Achieve Clarity? Whistleblowing Texts in the UK Banking Sector and the Ethical Clarity Framework. Elizabeth Hornby.

• Judging in the Dark: How Delivery Riders Form Fairness Perceptions Under Algorithmic Management. Yuan Xiang, Jing Du, and Huan Yan Xie.

• Work Integration of People with Mental Disorders Through Social Enterprise: A Humanistic-Personalist Framework and Case Study. Iñigo Gallo and Domènec Melé.

• Engaging Marginalized Stakeholders: Towards a Dialogical Theorization of Effective Corporate-Rightsholder Remedy. Lara Bianchi, Robert Caruana, and Alysha Kate Shivji.

• Examining the Nuances of Consumer Racial Bias: An Analysis of Positive Consumer Response to Racial Representation on Instagram. Joon H. Ro, Jae-Eun Namkoong, and Eunsoo Choi.

• Executive Presentations and Environmental Action in Polluting Industries: Moderating Effects of Narrative and Numeric Concreteness on Aspirational Talk. Jaemin Kim, Joy Jiang, and Michael Greiner.

• ‘Should I Tell?’ Moral Reflexivity in 14 Whistleblower Autobiographies. Thomas Olesen.

• Three Problems of Business Addressed by Stakeholder Theory: Insights from the Institutional Economics of John R. Commons. Vladislav Valentinov.

• Social Trust, Environmental Violations, and Remedial Actions in China. Yasir Shahab, Zhiwei Ye, and Muhammad Nadeem.

Journal of Consumer Psychology

• Consumption sacrifice. Ximena Garcia-Rada, Tami Kim, and Peggy J. Liu.

• Man up! The mental health-feminine stereotype and its effect on the adoption of mental health apps. Jaewoo Lee and Remi Trudel.

Journal of Consumer Research

• Consumption Solidarity: Healing Cultural Trauma Following Marketplace Violence. Amy Greiner Fehl, Marlys Mason, and Mariann Györke.

• Mythologized Counter-Futures and Self-Protective Consumption: A Netnography of Doomsday Preppers. Hunter Jones and Eric J Arnould.

• When Diversity Backfires: The Asymmetric Role of Multicultural Diversity on Brand Perception. Esther Uduehi, Julian K Saint Clair, Mitchell Hamilton, and Americus Reed, II.

• Collective Layoffs and Offshoring: A Social Contract Account. Armin Granulo, Anne-Madeleine Kranzbühler, Christoph Fuchs, and Stefano Puntoni.

• Market Sensemaking for Consumers’ Collective Political Agency. Marlon Dalmoro and Lisa Peñaloza.

• How Do Physical Disability Cues Influence Assumptions about Consumer Tastes? Unpacking the Disability Preference Stereotype. Helen van der Sluis, Adriana Samper, Kirk Kristofferson, and Terri Hlava.

• The Cumulative Effects of Marketized Care. Andreas Chatzidakis, Giana M Eckhardt, and Katharina C Husemann.

• Why Online Consumption Communities Brutalize. Olivier Sibai, Marius K Luedicke, and Kristine de Valck.

Journal of Environmental Economics and Management

• Agriculture’s nitrogen legacy. Konstantinos Metaxoglou and Aaron Smith.

• A general equilibrium approach to carbon permit banking. Loick Dubois, Jean-Guillaume Sahuc, and Gauthier Vermandel.

• Do time-of-use prices deliver energy savings at the right time? Zheng Fu, Kevin Novan, and Aaron Smith.

• Resource dependence, recycling, and trade. Peter H. Egger and Christian Keuschnigg.

• Turn off the faucet: Can individual meters reduce water consumption? Paul E. Carrillo, Ivette Contreras, and Carlos Scartascini.

• Blowin’ in the wind: Long-term downwind exposure to air pollution from power plants and adult mortality. Shinsuke Tanaka.

• Unintended environmental consequences of anti-corruption strategies. Elías Cisneros and Krisztina Kis-Katos.

• Focusing the view: Improved methods for assessing viewshed impacts of onshore wind turbines. Luran Dong, Corey Lang, and Jason Parent.

• Combining private and common property management: The impact of a hybrid ownership structure on grassland conservation. Min Liu, Pengfei Liu, and Kaixing Huang.

• Information, incentives, and environmental governance: Evidence from China’s ambient air quality standards. Pei Li, Yi Lu, Lu Peng, and Jin Wang.

Journal of Finance

• The Impact of Minority Representation at Mortgage Lenders. W. Scott Frame, Ruidi Huang, Erica Xuewei Jiang, Yeonjoon Lee, Will Shuo Liu, Erik J. Mayer, and Adi Sunderam.

• The Allocation of Socially Responsible Capital. Daniel Green and Benjamin N. Roth.

• Pricing Poseidon: Extreme Weather Uncertainty and Firm Return Dynamics. Mathias S. Kruttli, Brigitte Roth Tran, and Sumudu W. Watugala.

• Sustainability or Greenwashing: Evidence from the Asset Market for Industrial Pollution. Ran Duchin, Janet Gao, and Qiping Xu.

Journal of Financial and Qualitative Analysis

• Gender and Managerial Job Mobility: Career Prospects for Executives Displaced by Acquisitions. Xiaohu Guo, Vishal K. Gupta, Sandra Mortal, and Vikram Nanda.

Journal of International Business Studies

• Taking a stand while abroad? Towards a theory of MNCs’ sociopolitical activism in host countries. Ishva Minefee and Lori Qingyuan Yue.

• Book Review: The world for sale: money, power and the traders who barter the Earth’s resources. Sorin M. S. Krammer.

• Multinational enterprises and climate action: a low-income perspective with Africa focus. Lemma W. Senbet.

• Leveraging the capabilities of multinational firms to address climate change: a finance perspective. Franklin Allen, Adelina Barbalau, and Federica Zeni.

• Corruption experience and foreign investments: clean hands or dirty hands learning? Negash Haile Dedho, René Belderbos, and Alvaro Cuervo-Cazurra.

• The sustainability of MNE sustainability initiatives. Srilata Zaheer.

• MNEs and financing climate change transitions: the challenge of collective action. Shaker A. Zahra.

• Prosocial motivation and lending to the poor: evidence from an international crowdfunding platform. Luqun Xie, Yi Ding, and Haifeng Xu.

• Regulatory actions and reputation spillovers: investor reactions to Foreign Corrupt Practices Act violations. Seung-Hyun Lee, Jisun Yu, and Jinsil Kim.

MIS Quarterly

• Special Issue Introduction: Digital Technologies and the Advancement of Social Justice: A Framework and Agenda. Min-Seok Pang, Atreyi Kankanhalli, Margunn Aanestad, Sudha Ram, and Likoebe M. Maruping.

• Do Technology Resources Influence Income Mobility? The Role of Regional and Caste Spillovers from Computer Ownership. Che-Wei Liu, Sunil Mithas, and Terence J. V. Saldanha.

• Recognition in Personal Data: Data Warping, Recognition Concessions, and Social Justice. Marta Stelmaszak, Erica L. Wagner, and Nicolle Nixon DuPont.

• Beyond Categories: A Flow-Oriented Approach to Social Justice on Online Labour Platforms. Reza M. Baygi, Lucas D. Introna, and Mahya Ostovar.

• Exclusion for Public Safety or Inclusion for Gig Employment: Managing the Tension with a Trilogy of Guardians. Arun Rai, Yanzhen Chen, and Yatang Lin.

• Do Black Fintechs Matter? The Long and Winding Road to Develop Inclusive Algorithms for Social Justice. Eduardo Henrique Diniz, Bruno Henrique Sanches, Marlei Pozzebon, and Simone Luvizan.

• Designing Digital Platforms for Social Justice: Empowering End Users Through the Dataswyft Platform. Ilias Danatzis, Jennifer D. Chandler, Melissa A. Akaka, and Irene C. L. Ng.

• The Effect of AI-Enabled Credit Scoring on Financial Inclusion: Evidence from an Underserved Population of over One Million. Chunxiao Li, Hongchang Wang, Songtao Jiang, and Bin Gu.

• Curated Cases on Social Justice and Digital Technologies: Illuminating Phenomena across the World. Agarwal et al.

Operations Research

• Optimizing the Path Towards Plastic-Free Oceans. Dick den Hertog, Jean Pauphilet, Yannick Pham, Bruno Sainte-Rose, and Baizhi Song.

• Monetizing Positive Externalities to Mitigate the Infrastructure Underinvestment Problem. Hao Bai, Alain Bensoussan, Gordon Briest, and Benoît Chevalier-Roignant.

• Drone-Delivery Network for Opioid Overdose: Nonlinear Integer Queueing-Optimization Models and Methods. Miguel A. Lejeune and Wenbo Ma.

Organization and Environment

• Forging the Future: Reconfiguring Value Chains Through Circular Economy Meta-Organizing. Elizabeth M. Miller, Samuli Patala, and Jukka-Pekka Ovaska.

• Agreeing to Disagree: Linear-Circular and Public-Private Tensions in the Transformation to Circular Business Models. Herman I. Stål, Siarhei Manzhynski, and Maria Bengtsson.

• Riding the Climate Surge: How Climate Change Dynamics Drives Green Innovation—Evidence From China. Lin Yuan, Xiaoyun Chen, and Endong Yang.

• Co-creating or Confounding? Hybrid Legitimacy Evaluation of Circular Business Models in the U.K. Plastics Sector. Adeyemi Adelekan and Maria Sharmina.

Organization Science

• When Lives Are at Stake: Managing Temporal Complexity with a Strategy Process Repertoire. Joachim Stonig and Günter Müller-Stewens.

• How Social Movements Catalyze Firm Innovation. Kate Odziemkowska and Yiying Zhu.

• How Psychological Barriers Constrain Men’s Interest in Gender-Atypical Jobs and Facilitate Occupational Segregation. Eileen Y. Suh, Evan P. Apfelbaum, and Michael I. Norton.

• Location Matters: Everyday Gender Discrimination in Remote and On-site Work. Laura Doering and András Tilcsik.

• Passion Penalizes Women and Advantages (Unexceptional) Men in High-Potential Designations. Joyce C. He, Jon M. Jachimowicz, and Celia Moore.

• Discursive Struggles and Contested Stigma Extensions: Explaining the Gradual Stigmatization of the U.S. Tobacco Industry. Ana M. Aranda, Eero Vaara, Helen Etchanchu, and Jonne Y. Guyt.

• Counter-Activism Against Ideological Opponents: Evidence Based on the Competitive Dynamics of Corporate Engagement in Advocacy Giving. Haram Seo.

• Board Gender Diversity Reforms Around the World: The Impact on Corporate Innovation. Kun Tracy Wang, Lin Cui, Nathan Zhenghang Zhu, and Aonan Sun.

• Attention Focus and New Opportunities: The Moderating Role of Managerial Attention to Alternative Issues. John Eklund, Manav Raj, and J. P. Eggers.

• “It Takes More Than a Pill to Kill”: Bounded Accountability in Disciplining Professional Misconduct Despite Heightened Transparency. Ece Kaynak and Hatim A. Rahman.

Organization Studies

• Hybridizing Sustainability Metric Applications with Local Stakeholder Inputs: A life cycle assessment with a co-design demonstration. Maggie Cascadden, Kylie Heales, Matt Kingston, Pia Heidak, and P. Devereaux Jennings.

• Unpacking Organizational Agency in Institutional Change: The role of executives’ political connections and shareholders’ investment horizons. Shenggang Ren, Ji Yan, Nengzhi Yao, and Lei Du.

• Media Review: The Fix Podcast–Immersing Ourselves in the Practice of Gender (In)Equality. Anja Danner-Schröder, Corinna Frey-Heger, and Kathrin Sele.

• The time is right when you make it right: Coordinating routine clusters in sustained crises. Daniel Geiger and Lisa Harborth.

• Resonant Organizing and Thriving in the Post-growth Era: Diffractive entanglements in a case of social organizing. Simona D’Antone, Susi Geiger, and Gregorio Fuschillo.

• Resourcing Agency for Sustained Collective Action Amid Creeping Crises. Charlotte M. Karam, Rich DeJordy, W. E. Douglas Creed, Lina Daouk-Öyry, Shawn P. Scott, Carmen Geha, and Alain Daou.

• Media Review: The Gender of Capital. Bernard Forgues.

• Media Review: Strategies for Distributed and Collective Action. Elise Lobbedez.

• In Plain Sight: Mechanisms of means–ends decoupling in impact investing. Lauren Kaufmann, Gorgi Krlev, and Maoz (Michael) Brown.

• Bridging Global Mandates and Local Realities: Intermediary clusters and interorganizational collaboration for international development. Giulia Cappellaro, Valentina Mele, and Shaz Ansari.

• With Privilege Comes Responsibility: Why some privileged insiders transform institutions for societal benefit. Cecile Feront, Stephanie Bertels, and Ralph Hamann.
• Securing Meaningfulness in Corporate Social Responsibility: Exploring meaning-making mechanisms via economies of worth. Mai C. Vu and Hyemi Shin.
• Towards Recognition and Redistribution: Solidaric demands and subaltern subjectivities in Bangladeshi jute mills. Fahreen Alamgir and Kathleen Riach.
• Meaningful Work Through Craft: How workers in low-skilled roles engage in anomalous craft to gain autonomy and receive recognition. Marjolaine Rostain and Jean Clarke.

Research Policy

• Implementing responsible research and innovation and sustainability assessment in research projects: A framework and application. Melf-Hinrich Ehlers, Nadja El Benni, and Mélanie Douziech.

• Interfaces, social information processing, and diversity cascades: How board diversity influences invention output. Daniel Z. Mack, Guoli Chen, Po-Hsuan Hsu, Yen Teik Lee, and Gerard George.

• Green patents and green trademarks as indicators of green innovation. Jörn Block, Darius Lambrecht, Tom Willeke, Marco Cucculelli, and Damiano Meloni.

• Assessing the productivity and abatement effects of the 1990 Clean Air Act Amendment. Jason Campbell and Steven Levkoff.

• Understanding the role of internal governance units in the process of social innovation: The case of Shared Lives Plus in England. Carl Purcell, Jill Manthorpe, and Juliette Malley.

• Climate change affectedness and innovation in firms. Jens Horbach and Christian Rammer.

• Everyone steps back? The widespread retraction of crowd-funding support for minority creators when migration fear is high. John (Jianqiu) Bai, William Kerr, Chi Wan, and Alptug Y. Yorulmaz.

Sloan Management Review

• Craft Schedules That Work for Everyone. Donald Sull and Alexander Kowalski.

• The Myth of the Sustainable Consumer. Andreas von der Gathen, Nicolai Broby Eckert, and Caroline Kastbjerg.

• Consumers Are Gaining the Right to Repair — Are You Ready? Jan Recker and Gerald C. Kane.

• What the Trump Administration Means for Sustainability Efforts. Andrew Winston.

• How Businesses Can Help Safeguard Human Rights. Michael H. Posner, interviewed by Kaushik Viswanath.

• How Ukrainian Companies Are Transforming Wartime Challenges Into Lifelines. Maxim Sytch and Christopher I. Rider.

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