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 2021
Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice
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With(Out) a Little Help From My Friends? Reconciling Incongruous Findings on Stakeholder Management, Innovation, and Firm Performance. Naomi Haefner, Maximilian Palmié, Petteri T. Leppänen.
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Motivating Prosocial Venturing in Response to a Humanitarian Crisis: Building Theory From the Refugee Crisis in Germany. Alexandra Mittermaier, Holger Patzelt, Dean A. Shepherd.
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Venturing for Others, Subject to Role Expectations? A Role Congruity Theory Approach to Social Venture Crowdfunding. Aaron H. Anglin, Christopher Courtney, Thomas H. Allison.
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Investors’ Reactions to CSR News in Family Versus Nonfamily Firms: A Study on Signal (In)credibility. Naciye Sekerci, Jamil Jaballah, Marc van Essen, Nadine Kammerlander.
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The Role of Political Values and Ideologies of Entrepreneurs and Financiers. Ileana Maldonado-Bautista, Peter G. Klein, Kendall W. Artz.
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I Am What I Pledge: The Importance of Value Alignment for Mobilizing Backers in Reward-Based Crowdfunding. Kristian Roed Nielsen, Julia Katharina Binder.
Harvard Business Review
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Banks with More Women on Their Boards Commit Less Fraud. Scott Berinato.
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How to Close the Gender Gap. Colleen Ammerman, Boris Groysberg.
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Overselling Sustainability Reporting. Kenneth P. Pucker.
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The Circular Business Model. Atalay Atasu, Céline Dumas, Luk N. Van Wassenhove.
Human Relations
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Working on my own: Measuring the challenges of gig work. Brianna B Caza, Erin M Reid, Susan J Ashford, Steve Granger.
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Federal employees or rogue rangers: Sharing and resisting organizational authority through Twitter communication practices. Veronica R Dawson, Nicolas Bencherki.
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Power resources and successful trade union actions that address precarity in adverse contexts: The case of Central and Eastern Europe. Aurora Trif, Valentina Paolucci, Marta Kahancová, Aristea Koukiadaki.
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Epistemic injustice and hegemonic ordeal in management and organization studies: Advancing Black scholarship. Penelope Muzanenhamo, Rashedur Chowdhury.
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Movement-oriented labor organizations in an authoritarian regime: The case of China. Elaine Sio-ieng Hui.
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Interplay for change in equality, diversity and inclusion studies. Suzanne Gagnon, Tomke Augustin, Wendy Cukier.
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How and when does top management team regulatory focus influence firm environmental misconduct? Zhe Zhang, Mijia Gong, Ming Jia.
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From female computers to male comput♂rs: Or why there are so few women writing algorithms and developing software. Rana Tassabehji, Nancy Harding, Hugh Lee, Carine Dominguez-Pery.
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The possibility of disalienated work: Being at home in alternative organizations.
Jerzy Kociatkiewicz, Monika Kostera, Martin Parker.
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The art of labour organizing: Participatory art and migrant domestic workers’ self-organizing in London. Zhe Jiang, Marek Korczynski.
Information Systems Research
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Manufacturer’s “1-Up” from Used Games: Insights from the Secondhand Market for Video Games. Antino Kim, Rajib L. Saha, Warut Khern-am-nuai.
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Role of Social Media in Social Protest Cycles: A Sociomaterial Examination. Monideepa Tarafdar, Deepa Kajal Ray
Journal of Business Ethics
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Female Representation on Corporate Boards in Europe: The Interplay of Organizational Social Consciousness and Institutions. Cynthia E. Clark, Punit Arora, Patricia Gabaldon.
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Exploring the Cognitive Foundations of Managerial (Climate) Change Decisions. Belinda Wade, Andrew Griffiths.
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Making Behavioral Ethics Research More Useful for Ethics Management Practice: Embracing Complexity Using a Design Science Approach. Jeroen Maesschalck.
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Alignment Versus Monitoring: An Examination of the Effect of the CSR Committee and CSR-Linked Executive Compensation on CSR Performance. Camélia Radu, Nadia Smaili.
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CEOs’ Poverty Experience and Corporate Social Responsibility: Are CEOs Who Have Experienced Poverty More Generous? Shan Xu, Panyi Ma.
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Shareholder Engagement on Environmental, Social, and Governance Performance. Tamas Barko, Martijn Cremers, Luc Renneboog.
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The Entrepreneurial Quest for Emancipation: Trade-Offs, Practices, and Outcomes in an Indigenous Context. Albena Pergelova, Fernando Angulo-Ruiz, Leo-Paul Dana.
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Towards Normative Theories of Social Entrepreneurship. A Review of the Top Publications of the Field. Adélie Ranville, Marcos Barros.
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The Wealth Effect of Corporate Water Actions: How Past Corporate Responsibility and Irresponsibility Influence Stock Market Reactions. Rafia Afrin, Ni Peng, Frances Bowen.
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The Liability of Tribe in Corporate Political Activity: Ethical Implications for Political Contestability. Tahiru Azaaviele Liedong.
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The End of Meaningful Work in the Not-for-Profit Sector? A Case Study of Ethics in Employee Relations Under the New Business-Like Operation Regime. Wen Wang, Roger Seifert.
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Low-Carbon City Construction and Corporate Carbon Reduction Performance: Evidence From a Quasi-Natural Experiment in China. Shaojian Chen, Hui Mao, Junqin Sun.
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Modern Slavery Disclosure Regulation and Global Supply Chains: Insights from Stakeholder Narratives on the UK Modern Slavery Act. Muhammad Azizul Islam, Chris J. Van Staden.
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Frugal Innovation Hijacked: The Co-optive Power of Co-creation. Linda Annala Tesfaye, Martin Fougère.
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Discrimination in Services: How Service Recovery Efforts Change with Customer Accent. Carol Azab, Jonas Holmqvist.
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Drivers of Philanthropic Foundations in Emerging Markets: Family, Values and Spirituality. Valeria Giacomin, Geoffrey Jones.
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Responsible Leadership and the Reflective CEO: Resolving Stakeholder Conflict by Imagining What Could be done. Nicola M. Pless, Atri Sengupta, Melissa A. Wheeler, Thomas Maak.
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Immoral Entrenchment: How Crisis Reverses the Ethical Effects of Moral Intensity. Miranda J. Welbourne Eleazar.
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Corporate Social Responsibility and Employee Outcomes: Interrelations of External and Internal Orientations with Job Satisfaction and Organizational Commitment. Erifili-Christina Chatzopoulou, Dimitris Manolopoulos, Vasia Agapitou.
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Business and Human Rights: A Configurational View of the Antecedents of Human Rights Infringements by Emerging Market Firms. Luciano Ciravegna, Federica Nieri.
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Do Returnee Executives Value Corporate Philanthropy? Evidence from China. Lin Zhang, Yuehua Xu, Honghui Chen.
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Does CEO–Audit Committee/Board Interlocking Matter for Corporate Social Responsibility? Sudipta Bose, Muhammad Jahangir Ali, Sarowar Hossain, Abul Shamsuddin.
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Micro-processes of Moral Normative Engagement with CSR Tensions: The Role of Spirituality in Justification Work. Hyemi Shin, Mai Chi Vu, Nicholas Burton.
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Pledging Patent Rights for Fighting Against the COVID-19: From the Ethical and Efficiency Perspective. Xiaodong Yuan, Xiaotao Li.
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Are Socially Responsible Firms Associated with Socially Responsible Citizens? A Study of Social Distancing During the Covid-19 Pandemic. Danny Miller, Zhenyang Tang, Xiaowei Xu, Isabelle Le Breton-Miller.
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The Birth of an Action Repertoire: On the Origins of the Concept of Whistleblowing. Thomas Olesen
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Prohibitive Voice as a Moral Act: The Role of Moral Identity, Leaders, and Workgroups. Salar Mesdaghinia, Debra L. Shapiro, Robert Eisenberger
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Can Corporate Divestiture Activities Lead to Better Corporate Social Performance? Shih-chi (Sana) Chiu, Azadeh Sabz.
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Accounting for Animal Welfare: Addressing Epistemic Vices During Live Sheep Export Voyages. Mark Christensen, Geoffrey Lamberton.
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The Role of Compassion in Shaping Social Entrepreneurs’ Prosocial Opportunity Recognition. Ronit Yitshaki, Fredric Kropp, Benson Honig.
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Mapping Ethics Education in Accounting Research: A Bibliometric Analysis. Tamara Poje, Maja Zaman Groff.
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Modern Slavery and the Discursive Construction of a Propertied Freedom: Evidence from Australian Business. Edward Wray-Bliss, Grant Michelson.
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Social Accountability, Ethics, and the Occupy Wall Street Protests. Dean Neu, Gregory D. Saxton, Abu S. Rahaman.
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Global Insights on TMT Gender Diversity in Controversial Industries: A Legitimacy Perspective. Abubakr Saeed, Muhammad Saad Baloch, Hammad Riaz.
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ESG Disclosure and Idiosyncratic Risk in Initial Public Offerings. Beat Reber, Agnes Gold, Stefan Gold.
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Leveraging Artificial Intelligence in Marketing for Social Good—An Ethical Perspective. Erik Hermann
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Shareholder Value Effects of Ethical Sourcing: Comparing Reactive and Proactive Initiatives. Seongtae Kim, Sangho Chae.
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Food Prices, Ethics and Forms of Speculation. Don Bredin, Valerio Potì, Enrique Salvador.
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Human–Animal Relations in Business and Society: Advancing the Feminist Interpretation of Stakeholder Theory. Linda Tallberg, José-Carlos García-Rosell, Minni Haanpää.
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Workplace Injury and the Failing Academic Body: A Testimony of Pain. Helena Liu.
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Trade-Control Compliance in SMEs: Do Decision-Makers and Supply Chain Position Make a Difference? Christian Hauser.
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Brand as Promise. Vikram R. Bhargava, Suneal Bedi.
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When Crises Hit Home: How U.S. Higher Education Leaders Navigate Values During Uncertain Times. Brooke Fisher Liu et al.
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In the Name of Merit: Ethical Violence and Inequality at a Business School. Devi Vijay, Vivek G. Nair.
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Board Gender Diversity and Managerial Obfuscation: Evidence from the Readability of Narrative Disclosure in 10-K Reports. Muhammad Nadeem.
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The Effect of Gender on Investors’ Judgments and Decision-Making. Yi Luo, Steven E. Salterio.
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Seeing the Issue Differently (Or Not At All): How Bounded Ethicality Complicates Coordination Towards Sustainability Goals. S. Wiley Wakeman, George Tsalis, Birger Boutrup Jensen, Jessica Aschemann-Witzel.
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Attuned HRM Systems for Social Enterprises. Silvia Dorado, Ying Chen, Andrea M. Prado, Virginia Simon.
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Creating Shared Value Through an Inclusive Development Lens: A Case Study of a CSV Strategy in Ghana’s Cocoa Sector. David Ollivier de Leth, Mirjam A. F. Ros-Tonen.
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Communicating Corporate Social Responsibility: External Stakeholder Involvement, Productivity and Firm Performance. Jing Yang, Kelly Basile.
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The Impact of Islamic Feminism in Empowering Women’s Entrepreneurship in Conflict Zones: Evidence from Afghanistan, Iraq and Palestine. Doaa Althalathini, Haya Al-Dajani, Nikolaos Apostolopoulos.
Journal of Consumer Psychology
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The Dirty Underbelly of Prosocial Behavior: Reconceptualizing Greater Good as an Ecosystem with Unintended Consequences. Aparna A. Labroo, Kelly Goldsmith.
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When Sustainability is Not a Liability: The Halo Effect of Marketplace Morality. Alexander Chernev, Sean Blair.
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Consumer Wisdom for Personal Well-Being and the Greater Good: Scale Development and Validation. Michael Gerhard Luchs, David Glen Mick, Kelly L. Haws.
Journal of Consumer Research
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Social Class Shapes Donation Allocation Preferences. Yan Vieites, Rafael Goldszmidt, Eduardo B Andrade.
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How Do Consumers React to Company Moral Transgressions? The Role of Power Distance Belief and Empathy for Victims. Haiyue (Felix) Xu, Lisa E Bolton, Karen Page Winterich.
Journal of Environmental Economics and Management
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Palm oil and the politics of deforestation in Indonesia. Elías Cisneros, Krisztina Kis-Katos, Nunung Nuryartono.
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Pandemic meets pollution: Poor air quality increases deaths by COVID-19. Ingo E. Isphording, Nico Pestel.
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Habitat loss and the risk of disease outbreak. Edward B. Barbier.
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Air quality warnings and temporary driving bans: Evidence from air pollution, car trips, and mass-transit ridership in Santiago. Nathaly M. Rivera.
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Commodity prices and robust environmental regulation: Evidence from deforestation in Brazil. Torfinn Harding, Julika Herzberg, Karlygash Kuralbayeva
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Private monitoring and public enforcement: Evidence from complaints and regulation of oil and gas wells. Peter Maniloff, Daniel T. Kaffine.
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Import restrictions by eco-certification: Quantity effects on tropical timber production. Matthew T. Cole, Jacqueline M. Doremus, Stephen F. Hamilton.
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Green product innovation in industrial networks: A theoretical model. Eugenie Dugoua, Marion Dumas.
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The climate decade: Changing attitudes on three continents. Fredrik Carlsson, Mitesh Kataria, Alan Krupnick, Elina Lampi, … Xiaojun Yang.
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What does an electric vehicle replace? Jianwei Xing, Benjamin Leard, Shanjun Li.
Journal of International Business Studies
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Positive institutional changes through peace: The relative effects of peace agreements and non-market capabilities on FDI. João Albino-Pimentel, Jennifer Oetzel, Chang Hoon Oh, Nicholas A. Poggioli.
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The long-term energy transition and multinational enterprise complexity: A BJM–JIBS Joint Initiative. Alain Verbeke.
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The long-term energy transition: Drivers, outcomes, and the role of the multinational enterprise. A. Erin Bass, Birgitte Grøgaard.
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The role of business models in firm internationalization: An exploration of European electricity firms in the context of the energy transition. René Bohnsack, Francesca Ciulli, Ans Kolk.
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Implementing the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals in international business. Ivan Montiel, Alvaro Cuervo-Cazurra, Junghoon Park, Raquel Antolín-López, Bryan W. Husted.
MIS Quarterly
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Investigating the Nature of Change in Factors Affecting Gender Equity in the IT Sector: A Longitudinal Study of Women in Ireland. Eileen Trauth, Regina Connolly.
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Crowdfunding for Microfinance Institutions: The New Hope? Xuechen Luo, Ling Ge, and Chong (Alex) Wang.
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Multifarious Roles and Conflicts on an Interorganizational Green IS. Dorothy E. Leidner, Juliana Sutanto, and Lazaros Goutas.
Organization and Environment
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Configurations to Superior Environmental Innovation Strategy: A Both–And Approach. Tiziana Russo-Spena, Nadia Di Paola, Aidan O’Driscoll.
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The Quest for Low-Carbon Mobility: Sustainability Tensions and Add a Comment When Retail Translates a Manufacturer’s Decarbonization Strategy. Laura Luisa Wannags, Stefan Gold.
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Tinkering With the Plumbing of Sustainable Enterprises: The Case for Field Experimental Research in Corporate Sustainability. Andrew Spicer, Marcus Wagner, Maurizio Zollo.
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Join In . . . and Drop Out? Firm Adoption of and Disengagement From Voluntary Environmental Programs. Patrick J. Callery.
Organization Science
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Activist Protest Spillovers into the Regulatory Domain: Theory and Evidence from the U.S. Nuclear Power Generation Industry. Adam R. Fremeth, Guy L. F. Holburn, Alessandro Piazza.
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We Cannot Direct the Wind, but We Can Adjust the Sails: Prosocial Ventures’ Add a Comment to Potential Resource Threats. Alexandra Mittermaier, Dean A. Shepherd, Holger Patzelt.
Organization Studies
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Turning Back the Rising Sea: Theory performativity in the shift from climate science to popular authority. Vanessa Bowden, Jean-Pascal Gond, Daniel Nyberg, Christopher Wright.
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‘Evolution from the inside out’: Revisiting the impact of (re)productive resistance among ultra-orthodox female entrepreneurs. Avital Baikovich, Varda Wasserman, Talia Pfefferman.
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Splintering Organizational Subjectivities: Older workers and the dynamics of recognition, vulnerability and resistance. Leanne Cutcher, Kathleen Riach, Melissa Tyler.
Research Policy
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Navigating implementation dilemmas in technology-forcing policies: A comparative analysis of accelerated smart meter diffusion in the Netherlands, UK, Norway, and Portugal (2000-2019). F.W. Geels, S Sareen, A. Hook, B.K. Sovacool.
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Suborning science for profit: Monsanto, glyphosate, and private science research misconduct. Leland Glenna, Analena Bruce.
Sloan Management Review
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Fighting Backlash to Racial Equity Efforts. Rosalind M. Chow, L. Taylor Phillips, Brian S. Lowery, Miguel M. Unzueta.
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Cultivating an Inclusive Culture Through Personal Networks. Rob Cross, Kevin Oakes, Connor Cross.
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Why Putting On Blinders Can Help Us See More Clearly. Sean Fath, Richard P. Larrick, Jack B. Soll, Susan Zhu.
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Rethinking Industry’s Role in a National Emergency. ManMohan S. Sodhi, Christopher S. Tang.
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How Volunteerism Enhances Workplace Skills. Amanda Shantz, Kiera Dempsey-Brench.
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The Overlooked Partners That Can Build Your Talent Pipeline. Nichola J. Lowe.
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