Table of Contents: July 2020

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 2020

Academy of Management Discoveries

• Xenografting in Political Activism: Co-Existing Logics Powered by Resource Injections. Lisen Selander, Sirkka L. Jarvenpaa.

• COMMENTARY: Employing finance in pursuit of financial goals. Fabian Muniesa.

• COMMENTARY: Catastrophe modelling and metaphors in financial markets. Andreas Tsanakas, Laure Cabantous.

• GUIDEPOST From ‘Social Distancing’ to ‘Care in Connecting’: An Emerging Organizational Research Agenda for Turbulent Times. Cristina Gibson.

Academy of Management Perspectives

• How Fear of ‘Looming Megacatastrophes’ Alters Entrepreneurial Activity Rates through Psychological Distance. Bari L. Bendell, Diane M. Sullivan, Suzyn Ornstein.

• COVID-19, Societalization and the Future of Business in Society. Stephen Brammer, Layla Branicki, Martina Linnenluecke.

• When Tax-Exempt Nonprofits Detract Value From Society. Edward Gamble, Pablo Muñoz.

• Adaptation in the face of the new normal. Murad A Mithani.

• Joining Forces to Prevent the Antibiotic Resistance Doomsday Scenario. Francesco Ciabuschi, Enrico Baraldi, Olof Lindahl.

California Management Review

• Friedman at 50: Is It Still the Social Responsibility of Business to Increase Profits? Karthik Ramanna.

Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice

• Third-Party Signals in Crowdfunded Microfinance: The Role of Microfinance Institutions. Aaron H. Anglin, Jeremy C. Short, David J. Ketchen, Jr., Thomas H. Allison, Aaron F. McKenny.

Harvard Business Review

• Research: CEOs from Working-Class Families Support Less-Labor-Friendly Policies. Ramsey Khabbaz.

• Learning from the Future. J. Peter Scoblic.

• Fixing U.S. Politics. Katherine M. Gehl, Michael E. Porter.

Human Relations

• Environmentally specific transformational leadership and team pro-environmental behaviors: The roles of pro-environmental goal clarity, pro-environmental harmonious passion, and power distance. Jian Peng, Xiao Chen, Yanchun Zou, Qi Nie.

• Social action as ‘a total social phenomenon’: Comparing leadership challenges facing community-based labour organizations in China and Japan. Huiyan Fu.

• Identity work by a non-white immigrant business scholar: Autoethnographic vignettes of covering and accenting. Mario Fernando, James Reveley, Mark Learmonth.

• How do external regulations shape the design of ethical tools in organisations? An open polity and sociology of compliance perspective. Wafa Ben Khaled, Jean-Pascal Gond.

• Paradigm warriors: Advancing a radical ecosystems view of collective leadership from an Indigenous Māori perspective. Chellie Spiller, Rachel Maunganui Wolfgramm, Ella Henry, Robert Pouwhare.

Information Systems Research

• Mitigating Traffic Congestion: The Role of Intelligent Transportation Systems. Zhi (Aaron) Cheng , Min-Seok Pang , Paul A. Pavlou.

• Unemployment and Worker Participation in the Gig Economy: Evidence from an Online Labor Market. Ni Huang , Gordon Burtch , Yili Hong , Paul A. Pavlou.

Journal of Accounting and Economics

• Cultural diversity on Wall Street: Evidence from consensus earnings forecasts. Kenneth Merkley, Roni Michaely, Joseph Pacelli.

Journal of Business Ethics

• When Does Corporate Social Responsibility Backfire in Acquisitions? Signal Incongruence and Acquirer Returns. Tingting Zhang, Zhengyi Zhang, Jingyu Yang.

• Corporate Social Responsibility Performance, Incentives, and Learning Effects. Giovanni-Battista Derchi, Laura Zoni, Andrea Dossi.

• Philanthropic Nation Branding, Ideology, and Accumulation: Insights from the Canadian Context. Adam Saifer.

• Leaning in: A Historical Perspective on Influencing Women’s Leadership. Simone T. A. Phipps, Leon C. Prieto.

• A New Research Horizon for Mass Entrepreneurship Policy and Chinese Firms’ CSR: Introduction to the Thematic Symposium. Zhenzhong Ma, Maoliang Bu.

• The Influence of Interorganizational Collaboration on Logic Conciliation and Tensions Within Hybrid Organizations: Insights from Social Enterprise–Corporate Collaborations. Claudia Savarese, Benjamin Huybrechts, Marek Hudon.

• Corporate Governance and Supplemental Environmental Projects: A Restorative Justice Approach. Muhammad Nadeem.

• “Democracy is the Cure?”: Evolving Constructions of Corruption in Indonesia 1994–2014. Kanti Pertiwi, Susan Ainsworth.

• Mindfulness Reduces Avaricious Monetary Attitudes and Enhances Ethical Consumer Beliefs: Mindfulness Training, Timing, and Practicing Matter. Elodie Gentina, Carole Daniel, Thomas Li-Ping Tang.

• The Moderating Effect of Cultural Values on the Relationship Between Corporate Social Performance and Firm Performance. Wei Shi, Kevin Veenstra.

• Echoes of CEO Entrepreneurial Orientation: How and When CEO Entrepreneurial Orientation Influences Dual CSR Activities. Zhe Zhang, Xin Wang, Ming Jia.

• Responsible Leadership and Reputation Management During a Crisis: The Cases of Delta and United Airlines. Tulika M. Varma.

• Moral Burden of Bottom-Line Pursuits: How and When Perceptions of Top Management Bottom-Line Mentality Inhibit Supervisors’ Ethical Leadership Practices. Rebecca L. Greenbaum, Mayowa Babalola, Matthew J. Quade.

• Valuation Effect of Emotionality in Corporate Philanthropy. Anh Dang, Trung Nguyen.

• A Nozickian Case for Compulsory Employment Injury Insurance: The Example of Sweatshops. Damian Bäumlisberger.

• Collide or Collaborate: The Interplay of Competing Logics and Institutional Work in Cross-Sector Social Partnerships. Juelin Yin, Dima Jamali.

• Social Status and Corporate Social Responsibility: Evidence from Chinese Privately Owned Firms. Yang Liu, Weiqi Dai, Mingqing Liao, Jiang Wei.

• Partner Gender Differences in Prestige of Clients Served at the Largest U.S. Audit Firms. Elizabeth D. Almer, M. Kathleen Harris, Julia L. Higgs.

• Progressive Pricing: The Ethical Case for Price Personalization. Jerod Coker, Jean-Manuel Izaret.

• Creating Shared Value Meets Human Rights: A Sense-Making Perspective in Small-Scale Firms. Elisa Giuliani, Annamaria Tuan, José Calvimontes Cano.

• Twitter Presence and Experience Improve Corporate Social Responsibility Outcomes. Siva K. Balasubramanian, Yiwei Fang, Zihao Yang.

• Coalitions and Public Action in the Reshaping of Corporate Responsibility: The Case of the Retail Banking Industry. Marta de la Cuesta-González, Julie Froud, Daniel Tischer.

• De-Escalate Commitment? Firm Responses to the Threat of Negative Reputation Spillovers from Alliance Partners’ Environmental Misconduct. Anne Norheim-Hansen, Pierre-Xavier Meschi.

• Explaining Viral CSR Message Propagation in Social Media: The Role of Normative Influences. Patrick Hartmann, Paula Fernández, Vanessa Apaolaza.

• Business or Basic Needs? The Impact of Loan Purpose on Social Crowdfunding Platforms. Hadar Gafni, Marek Hudon, Anaïs Périlleux.

• Government Initiated Corporate Social Responsibility Activities: Evidence from a Poverty Alleviation Campaign in China. Yuyuan Chang, Wen He, Jianling Wang.

• Frequent CEO Turnover and Firm Performance: The Resilience Effect of Workforce Diversity. Youngsang Kim, Sophia Soyoung Jeong, Daphne W. Yiu.

• Linking Management Theory with Poverty Alleviation Efforts Through Market Orchestration. Geoffrey M. Kistruck, Patrick Shulist.

• Local Business, Local Peace? Intergroup and Economic Dynamics. Jay Joseph, John E. Katsos, Mariam Daher.

• Feminist Ethics and Women Leaders: From Difference to Intercorporeality. Alison Pullen, Sheena J. Vachhani.

• Can CSR Disclosure Protect Firm Reputation During Financial Restatements? Lu Zhang, Yuan George Shan, Millicent Chang.

• Geographic Clustering of Corruption in the United States. Nishant Dass, Vikram Nanda, Steven Chong Xiao.

• Does Integrity Matter in BOP Ventures? The Role of Responsible Leadership in Inclusive Supply Chains. María Helena Jaén, Ezequiel Reficco, Gabriel Berger.

• Transmodernizing Management Historiographies of Consumerism for the Majority. Alex Faria, Marcus Hemais.

• Board Diversity and Corporate Social Responsibility: Empirical Evidence from France. Rania Beji, Ouidad Yousfi, Nadia Loukil, Abdelwahed Omri.

• Socially Sustainable Supply Chain Management and Suppliers’ Social Performance: The Role of Social Capital. Mohammad Alghababsheh, David Gallear.

• Doing Good, Feeling Good? Entrepreneurs’ Social Value Creation Beliefs and Work-Related Well-Being. Steven A. Brieger, Dirk De Clercq, Timo Meynhardt.

• The Effect of Large Corporate Donors on Non-profit Performance. Andrew R. Finley, Curtis Hall, Erica Harris, Stephen J. Lusch.

• Processing Contradictory CSR Information: The Influence of Primacy and Recency Effects on the Consumer-Firm Relationship. Michael C. Peasley, Parker J. Woodroof, Joshua T. Coleman.

• Responsible Firm Behaviour in Political Markets: Judging the Ethicality of Corporate Political Activity in Weak Institutional Environments. Tahiru Azaaviele Liedong.

Journal of Consumer Psychology

• The Association Between the Attitude of Food‐Waste‐Aversion and BMI: An Exploration in India and the United States. Rajagopal Raghunathan, Deepa Chandrasekaran.

• Consumer Vulnerability. Ronald Paul Hill, Eesha Sharma.

Journal of Environmental Economics and Management

• High priority violations and intra-firm pollution substitution. Binish Rijal, Neha Khanna

• How does eco-label competition affect environmental benefits? The case of Central Africa’s forests. Jacqueline Doremus.

• Increasing the energy cognizance of electricity consumers in Mexico: Results from a field experiment. Ognen Stojanovski, Gordon W. Leslie, Frank A. Wolak, Juan Enrique Huerta Wong, Mark C. Thurber.

• How do US passenger vehicle fuel economy standards affect new vehicle purchases? Xiaoya Dou, Joshua Linn.

• Firm internal network, environmental regulation, and plant death. Jingbo Cui, GianCarlo Moschini.

Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis

• Partisan Bias in Fund Portfolios. M. Babajide Wintoki, Yaoyi Xi.

Journal of International Business Studies

• Foreign subsidiary CSR as a buffer against parent firm reputation risk. Nan Zhou, Heli Wang.

• Different shades of green: Global oil and gas companies and renewable energy. Julia Hartmann, Andrew C Inkpen.

Operations Research

• Knowledge Sharing and Learning Among Smallholders in Developing Economies: Implications, Incentives, and Reward Mechanisms. Shihong Xiao , Ying-Ju Chen , Christopher S. Tang.

Organization & Environment

• Legitimizing Potential “Bad News”: How Companies Disclose on Their Tension Experiences in Their Sustainability Reports. Merriam Haffar, Cory Searcy.

• Corporate Carbon and Financial Performance Revisited. Timo Busch, Alexander Bassen, Stefan Lewandowski, Franziska Sump.

• “Nature Cannot Be Fooled”: A Dual-Equilibrium Simulation of Climate Change. Sanwar A. Sunny.

• Can Sustainable Investing Save the World? Reviewing the Mechanisms of Investor Impact. Julian F. Kölbel, Florian Heeb, Falko Paetzold, Timo Busch.

• Learning Organization for Corporate Social Responsibility Implementation; Unravelling the Intricate Relationship Between Organizational and Operational Learning Organization Characteristics. Eghe Osagie, Renate Wesselink, Vincent Blok, Martin Mulder.

• The Transition Value of Business Models for a Sustainable Energy System: The Case of Virtual Peer-to-Peer Energy Communities. Frederik Plewnia, Edeltraud Guenther.

• Supplier Engagement in Sustainability Programs: A Field Experiment of Enabling Versus Coercive Formalization. Franz Wohlgezogen, Joerg S. Hofstetter, Frank Brück, Ralph Hamann.

• Examining the Institutional and Organizational Antecedents to Organizational Participation in Environmental Management. Olivia Aronson, Matthew LaFont.

• Environmental Management Maturity: The Role of Dynamic Validation. Marta Ormazabal, Jose M. Sarriegi, Eliot Rich, Elisabeth Viles, Jose J. Gonzalez.

• The Impact of EU Allowance Prices on the Stock Market Indices of the European Power Industries: Evidence From the Ongoing EU ETS Phase III. Agustín García, María Teresa García-Álvarez, Blanca Moreno.

• The Importance of Social Norm on Adopting Sustainable Digital Fertilisation Methods. Silke Hüttel, Marie-Therese Leuchten, Michael Leyer.

• “I Don’t Owe You, But I Am Committed”: Does Felt Obligation Matter on the Effect of Green Training on Employee Environmental Commitment? Pascal Paillé, Patrick Valéau.

Making It Personal: Developing Sustainability Leaders in Business

• Aoife Brophy Haney. Jenny Pope, Zoë Arden

• Social Underpinnings of Ecological Knowledge: Business Perceptions of Biodiversity as Social Learning. Thomas Smith, George Holmes, Jouni Paavola.

• Understanding the Diverse Scaling Strategies of Social Enterprises as Hybrid Organizations: The Case of Renewable Energy Cooperatives. Thomas Bauwens, Benjamin Huybrechts, Frédéric Dufays.

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

• Environmental Investment Versus Traditional Investment: Alternative or Redundant Pathways? Vítor Manuel de Sousa Gabriel, David Rodeiro-Pazos.

• How Can Consumer Trust in Energy Utilities be Increased? The Effectiveness of Prosocial, Proenvironmental, and Service-Oriented Investments as Signals of Trustworthiness. Wojtek Przepiorka, Christine Horne.

• The Impact of Eco-Innovation on Performance Through the Measurement of Financial Resources and Green Patents. Luz María Marín-Vinuesa, Sabina Scarpellini, Pilar Portillo-Tarragona, José M. Moneva.

Organization Science

• After the Storm Has Passed: Translating Crisis Experience into Useful Knowledge. Gwendolyn K. Lee , Joseph Lampel , Zur Shapira.

Organization Studies

• (Un)Sustainability and Organization Studies: Towards a Radical Engagement. Seray Ergene, Subhabrata Bobby Banerjee, Andrew J Hoffman.

• Algorithmic Surveillance in the Gig Economy: The Organization of Work through Lefebvrian Conceived Space. Gemma Newlands.

• Community Influence Capacity on Firms: Lessons from the Peruvian Highlands. Daniel Arenas, Matthew Murphy, Kety Jáuregui.

• Making Organizations More Inclusive: The Work of Belonging. Alice Bryer.

Research Policy

• Goal heterogeneity at start-up: are greener start-ups more innovative? Brigitte Hoogendoorn, Peter van der Zwan, Roy Thurik.

• Entrepreneurs for a low carbon world: How environmental knowledge and policy shape the creation and financing of green start-ups. Theodor F. Cojoianu, Gordon L. Clark, Andreas G.F. Hoepner, Paolo Veneri, Dariusz Wójcik.

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