Table of Contents: July 2019

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 July 2019

Academy of Management Journal 

• Take a Stand or Keep Your Seat: Board Turnover after Social Movement Boycotts. Mary-Hunter McDonnell, J. Adam Cobb.

• Energizing through Visuals: How Social Entrepreneurs Use Emotion-Symbolic Work for Social Change. David Tomás Barberá, Itziar Castello, Frank G.A. de Bakker, Charlene Zietsma.

• Making the Invisible Visible: Paradoxical Effects of Intersectional Invisibility on the Career Experiences of Executive Black Women in the Workplace. Alexis Nicole Smith, Marla Baskerville, Jamie J. Ladge, Pamela Carlton.

• Last to Come and Last to Go? On the Complex Role of Gender and Ethnicity in the Reputational Penalties for Directors Linked to Corporate Fraud. Ivana Naumovska, Georg Wernicke, Edward Zajac.

• Across the Great Divides: Gender Dynamics Influence How Intercultural Conflict Helps or Hurts Creative Collaboration. Roy Chua, Mengzi Jin.

• Token Female Voice Enactment in Traditionally Male-Dominated Teams: Facilitating Conditions and Consequences for Performance. Crystal I. C. Farh, Jo K. Oh, John Hollenbeck, Andrew Yu, Stephanie M. Lee, Danielle D. King.

Accounting, Organizations and Society

• The Legitimation of Corporate Tax Minimization. Mattia Anesa, Nicole Gillespie, A. Paul Spee, Kerrie Sadiq.

American Economic Review

• Climate Change: The Ultimate Challenge for Economics. William Nordhaus.

• Subsidies and Time Discounting in New Technology Adoption: Evidence from Solar Photovoltaic Systems. Olivier De Groote, Frank Verboven.

Business Strategy and Environment

• Coping with coopetition—Facing dilemmas in cooperation for sustainable development: The case of the Dutch smart grid industry. Julia Planko, Maryse M.H. Chappin, Jacqueline Cramer, Marko P. Hekkert.

• Sustainable development and environmental policy: The engagement of stakeholders in green products in Vietnam. Quang Le Van, Thanh Viet Nguyen, Manh Hung Nguyen.

• Improving corporate biodiversity management through employee involvement. Olivier Boiral, Iñaki Heras‐Saizarbitoria, Marie‐Christine Brotherton.

• Luxury products for the circular economy? A case study of Bang & Olufsen. Anja Marie Bundgaard, Rikke Dorothea Huulgaard.

• Board structures, liberal countries, and developed market economies. Do they matter in environmental reporting? An international outlook. María Consuelo Pucheta‐Martínez, Isabel Gallego‐Álvarez, Inmaculada Bel‐Oms.

• Interactive effects of various institutional pressures on corporate environmental responsibility: Institutional theory and multilevel analysis. Yawen Gao, Jibao Gu, Hefu Liu.

• Green human resource management and the enablers of green organisational culture: Enhancing a firm’s environmental performance for sustainable development. Samuel Roscoe, Nachiappan Subramanian, Charbel J.C. Jabbour, Tao Chong.

• Determinants of materiality disclosure quality in integrated reporting: Empirical evidence from an international setting. Jannik Gerwanski, Othar Kordsachia, Patrick Velte.

• Green human resource management: Development of a valid measurement scale. Muzammel Shah.

• Does advertising the green benefits of products contribute to sustainable development goals? A quasi‐experimental test of the dilution effect. Gilles Grolleau, Naoufel Mzoughi, Angela Sutan.

• Factors for succeeding in ISO 14001 implementation in Italian construction industry. Andrea Chiarini.

• The role of returnee executives in improving green innovation performance of Chinese manufacturing enterprises: Implications for sustainable development strategy. Yingjie Hao, Congcong Fan, Yunguang Long, Jieyi Pan.

• The role of innovation in the implementation of green supply chain management practices. Graça Miranda Silva, Paulo J. Gomes, Joseph Sarkis.

• Customer motivations for sustainable consumption: Investigating the drivers of purchase behavior for a green‐luxury car. Afzaal Ali, Guo Xiaoling, Adnan Ali, Mehkar Sherwani, Farhan Muhammad Muneeb.

• Sustainability‐oriented capabilities for eco‐innovation: Meeting the regulatory, technology, and market demands. Pelin Demirel, Effie Kesidou.

• A quantitative study of financing efficiency of low‐carbon companies: A three‐stage data envelopment analysis. Xun Liu, Xiaoliang Yu, Simon Gao.

• Consequences of a green image of drone food delivery services: The moderating role of gender and age. Jinsoo Hwang, Hyunjoon Kim.

• Environmental sustainability orientation, competitive strategy and financial performance. Albert Danso, Samuel Adomako, Joseph Amankwah‐Amoah, Samuel Owusu‐Agyei, Renata Konadu.

• Beyond win–win: A syncretic theory on corporate stakeholder engagement in sustainable development. Fabien Martinez, Ken Peattie, Diego Vazquez‐Brust.

• An integral model for the implementation of environmental policy strategy. Jaime Rivera.

• Mapping circular economy activities in the European Union: Patterns of implementation and their correlates in small and medium‐sized enterprises. Tally Katz‐Gerro, Jordi López Sintas.

• Payments for ecosystem services and corporate social responsibility: Perspectives on sustainable production, stakeholder relations, and philanthropy in Thailand. Benjamin S. Thompson.

• Barriers to sustainability for small and medium enterprises in the framework of sustainable development—Literature review. Juanita Álvarez Jaramillo, Jhon Wilder Zartha Sossa, Gina Lía Orozco Mendoza.

• Does designing environmental sustainability disclosure quality measures make a difference? Akrum Helfaya, Mark Whittington.

• Chief executive officer ability, corporate social responsibility, and financial performance: The moderating role of the environment. Isabel‐María García‐Sánchez, Jennifer Martínez‐Ferrero.

• Sustainable development and research and development intensity in U.S. manufacturing firms. Jean D. Kabongo.

• Green management, firm innovations, and environmental turbulence. Yunyue Zhou, Chengli Shu, Wei Jiang, Shanxing Gao.

• Could lean practices and process innovation enhance supply chain sustainability of small and medium‐sized enterprises? Prasanta Kumar Dey, Chrisovalantis Malesios, Debashree De, Soumyadeb Chowdhury, Fouad Ben Abdelaziz.

• Does integrated reporting information influence internal decision making? An experimental study of investment behavior. Martin Esch, Benedikt Schnellbächer, Andreas Wald.

• Survival of the fittest: The impact of eco‐certification and reputation on firm performance. Patrizia Fanasch.

• Understanding sustainable consumption in an emerging country: The antecedents and consequences of the ecologically conscious consumer behavior model. Emel Yarimoglu, Gul Binboga.

California Management Review

• Affirmative Action and Its Persistent Effects: A New Perspective. Conrad Miller.

• Prospects for Enlightened Corporate Leadership. James O’Toole.

Ecological Economics

• Do Environmental Practices Improve Business Performance Even in an Economic Crisis? Extending the Win-Win Perspective. Bruno Michel Roman Pais Seles, Ana Beatriz Lopes de Sousa Jabbour, Charbel Jose.

• Stakeholder perceptions of marine plastic waste management in the United Kingdom. Grace McNicholas, Matthew Cotton.

• Environmental justice, degrowth and post-capitalist futures. Neera M. Singh.

• The role of corporate social responsibility in predicting CO2 emission: An institutional approach. Robert Kudłak.

Harvard Business Review

• The Elusive Green Consumer. Katherine White, David J. Hardisty, Rishad Habib.

• Future-Proof Your Climate Strategy. Joseph E. Aldy, Gianfranco Gianfrate.

• The Investor Revolution. Robert G. Eccles, Svetlana Klimenko.

Journal of Consumer Marketing 

• All-natural versus organic: are the labels equivalent in consumers’ minds? Clinton Amos, James C. Hansen, Skyler King.

• Green consumption behaviours of consumers within the scope of TPB. Simge Emekci.

• Puritan peers or egoistic entrepreneurs? Moral decay in lateral exchange markets. Rebeca Perren, Kristin Stewart, Cinthia B. Satornino.

• Moral foundations and credence attributes in livestock production: Canada. Ellen Goddard, Violet Muringai, Albert Boaitey.

Journal of Consumer Research 

• Consumer Movements and Value Regimes: Fighting Food Waste in Germany by Building Alternative Object Pathways. Johanna F Gollnhofer, Henri A Weijo, John W Schouten.

Organization & Environment 

• Corporate Environmental Disclosure Practices in Different National Contexts: The Influence of Cultural Dimensions. María Consuelo Pucheta-Martínez, Isabel Gallego-Álvarez.

• Three Paradoxes of Climate Truth for the Anthropocene Social Scientist. P. Devereaux Jennings, Andrew J. Hoffman.

• The Halo Effect and Social Evaluation: How Organizational Status Shapes Audience Perceptions on Corporate Environmental Reputation. Sangchan Park, Daegyu Yang, Hyeonjin Cha, Seobin Pyeon.

• On the Nature of Corporate Sustainability. Johannes Meuer, Julian Koelbel, Volker H. Hoffmann.

• Commercializing Sustainable Technologies by Developing Attractive Value Propositions: The Case of Photovoltaic Panels. Anne-Lorène Vernay, Melanie Sohns, Joachim Schleich, Meyer Haggège.

• Business Models for Sustainability: Choices and Consequences. Sabrina Schneider, Thomas Clauß.

• Introduction to the Special Issue on “Social Movements and Private Environmental Governance”. Thomas P. Lyon.

Organization Science 

• Leveraging Minority Identities at Work: An Individual-Level Framework of the Identity Mobilization Process. Sandra E. Cha, Laura Morgan Roberts.

• Safe or Profitable? The Pursuit of Conflicting Goals. Vibha Gaba, Henrich R. Greve.

• The Private Scope in Public–Private Collaborations: An Institutional and Capability-Based Perspective. Bertrand V. Quelin, Sandro Cabral, Sergio Lazzarini, Ilze Kivleniece.

Organization Studies

• Fueling Climate (In)Action: How organizations engage in hegemonization to avoid transformational action on climate change. George Ferns, Kenneth Amaeshi.

• Serving Multiple Masters: The role of micro-foundations of dynamic capabilities in addressing tensions in for-profit hybrid organizations. Christine Vallaster, François Maon, Adam Lindgreen, Joëlle Vanhamme.

• Prefigurative Partaking: Employees’ Environmental Activism in an Energy Utility. Annika Skoglund, Steffen Böhm.

• The Enduring State: An analysis of governance-making in three mining conflicts. Rajiv Maher, Francisco Valenzuela, Steffen Böhm.

• Who Fills the Global Governance Gap? Rethinking the Roles of Business and Government in Global Governance. Burkard Eberlein.

• New Roles of Government in the Governance of Business Conduct: Implications for Management and Organizational Research. Arno Kourula, Jeremy Moon, Marie-Laure Salles-Djelic, Christopher Wickert.

• More Than a Revolving Door: Corporate lobbying and the socialization of institutional carriers. Anna Tyllström.

• “Giant Toxic Lakes You Can See from Space” A Theory of Multimodal Messages and Emotion in Legitimacy Work. Lianne Lefsrud, Heather Graves, Nelson Phillips.

• Spitting in the Salad: Minor Rebellion as Institutional Agency. Liisa Välikangas, Arne Carlsen.

• State Governance Beyond the ‘Shadow of Hierarchy’: A social mechanisms perspective on governmental CSR policies. Anselm Schneider, Andreas Georg Scherer.

• Corporate Scramble for Africa? Towards a postcolonial framework for transglocal development governance. Johanna Gammelgaard, Stine Haakonsson, Sine N. Just.

• The Governance Divide in Global Corporate Responsibility: The Global Structuration of Reporting and Certification Frameworks, 1998–2017. Shawn Pope, Alwyn Lim.

• Saving the Canadian Fur Industry’s Hide: Government’s strategic use of private authority to constrain radical activism. Johnny Boghossian, José Carlos Marques.

• Dynamic De-responsibilization in Business–Government Interactions. Ralph Hamann.

Production and Operations Management

• Impact of Supply Chain Transparency on Sustainability under NGO Scrutiny. Shi Chen, Qinqin Zhang, Yong‐Pin Zhou.

Research Policy

• Gender gap in entrepreneurship. Jorge Guzman, Aleksandra (Olenka) Kacperczyk.

• Governments as partners: The role of alliances in U.S. cleantech startup innovation. Claudia Doblinger, Kavita Surana, Laura Diaz Anadon.

• The acceptance of instruments in instrument mix situations: Citizens’ perspective on Swiss energy transition. Karin Ingold, Isabelle Stadelmann-Steffen, Lorenz Kammermann.

• Policies, actors and sustainability transition pathways: A study of the EU’s energy policy mix. Marie Byskov Lindberg, Jochen Markard, Allan Dahl Andersen.

Strategic Management Journal

• Beyond tokenism: How strategic leaders influence more meaningful gender diversity on boards of directors. Orhun Guldiken, Mark R. Mallon, Stav Fainshmidt, William Q. Judge, Cynthia E. Clark.

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