Table of Contents: July 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 July 2023

Academy of Management Discoveries

• How Two Megatrends Affect Each Other: Studying the Interplay of Remote Work and Workplace Inclusion with a Random Intercept Cross-Lagged Panel Model. Magdalena Schertler, Nicola V. Glumann, Stephan A. Boehm.

• Imagining the (Distant) Future of Work. Nicky Dries, Joost Luyckx, Philip Rogiers.

• When Big Brother is Benevolent: How Technology Developers Navigate Power Dynamics among Users to Elevate Worker Interests. Jenna Elizabeth Myers.

• FROM THE EDITORS—Migration Management: Introduction and Overview. Dimitria Groutsis, Joana Vassilopoulou, Mustafa Ozbilgin, Yuka Fujimoto, Michalle Mor Barak.

• Assessing Perceptions of Immigrant Contribution: Scale Development and Organizational Implications. Sharon Li, Franki Kung.

• Exploring the Interplay between Pay, Career Barriers, and Management Support: An Intersectional Study of Migrant Doctors. Carol Woodhams, Dulini Fernando, Yuanyuan Huo, Gabriele Dente.

California Management Review    

• Better CSR? Return to Neighborliness. Yoann Bazin, Maja Korica.

Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice

• Benevolent Sexism and the Gender Gap in Startup Evaluation. Nhu Nguyen, Ivona Hideg, Yuval Engel, Frédéric Godart.

• How Different Institutional Logics Affect the Female CEO Gender Effect on IPO Underpricing in China. Yu Luna Liu, Haemin Dennis Park, S. Ramakrishna Velamuri. 

Harvard Business Review 

• The Labor-Savvy Leader. Roy E. Bahat, Thomas A. Kochan, Liba Wenig Rubenstein.

• The Evolving Role of Chief Sustainability Officers. Robert G. Eccles, Alison Taylor.

• The Ethics of Managing People’s Data. Michael Segalla, Dominique Rouziès.

• Accounting for Carbon Offsets. Robert S. Kaplan, Karthik Ramanna, Marc Roston.

• Disability as a Source of Competitive Advantage. Luisa Alemany, Freek Vermeulen.

Human Relations 

• Understanding social responsibility and relational pressures in nonprofit organisations. Fara Azmat, Ruth Rentschler, Boram Lee, Yuka Fujimoto.

• Why does unpaid labour vary among digital labour platforms? Exploring socio-technical platform regimes of worker autonomy. Valeria Pulignano, Damian Grimshaw, Markieta Domecka, Lander Vermeerbergen.

• Responding to institutional plurality: Micro-politics in the rollout of a global corporate social responsibility norm in a multi-national enterprise. Gabriela Gutierrez-Huerter O.

• Mirroring and switching authoritative personae: A ventriloquial analysis of shareholder engagement on carbon emissions. Rieneke Slager, Jean-Pascal Gond, Emma Sjöström.

• Thinking outside Pandora’s box: Revealing differential effects of coping with physical and psychological menopause symptoms at work. Belinda Steffan, Kristina Potočnik.

• Narratives of workplace resistance: Reframing Saudi women in leadership. Liela A Jamjoom, Albert J Mills.

• Gaslighting and dispelling: Experiences of non-governmental organization workers in navigating gendered corruption. Sanela Smolović Jones. 

Information Systems Research

• Smart Markets for Real-Time Allocation of Multiproduct Resources: The Case of Shared Electric Vehicles. Micha Kahlen, Karsten Schroer, Wolfgang Ketter, Alok Gupta. 

• Smart Natural Disaster Relief: Assisting Victims with Artificial Intelligence in Lending. Yidi Liu, Xin Li, Zhiqiang (Eric) Zheng.

• Ontology-Based Information Extraction for Labeling Radical Online Content Using Distant Supervision. Ugochukwu Etudo, Victoria Y. Yoon.

Journal of Accounting and Economics

• Public Environmental Enforcement and Private Lender Monitoring: Evidence from Environmental Covenants. Stacey Choy, Shushu Jiang, Scott Liao, Emma Wang.

Journal of Business Ethics

• Transforming Relationships and Empowering Communities: The Role of Care Ethics in Solving Grand Challenges. Grace H. Fan, Zoe A. Cunliffe.

• The Ethics of Entrepreneurship: A Millian Approach. Carlo Ludovico Cordasco. 

• The Devil is in the Details: Sexual Harassment e-Training Design Choices and Perceived Messenger Integrity. Shannon L. Rawski, Emilija Djurdjevic, Joshua R. Foster. 

• Forgetting Corporate Irresponsibility: The Role of Corporate Political Activities and Stakeholder Characteristics. Nilufer Yapici, Ratan J. S. Dheer.

•  “We are Neither Commies nor Volunteers”: How National Culture Influences Professional Identity Construction of CSR Professionals in South Korea. Mai Chi Vu, Hyemi Shin, Nicholas Burton.

• Ethics and Banking: Do Banks Divest Their Kind? Diego P. Guisande, Maretno Agus Harjoto, Conall O’Sullivan.

• A New Understanding of the Role of Self-oriented Motivations in the Creation of Social Enterprises. Alice Mascena Barbosa, Guillaume Dumont.

• Expressing Dual Concern in Criticism for Wrongdoing: The Persuasive Power of Criticizing with Care. Lauren C. Howe, Steven Shepherd, Troy H. Campbell.

• Coevolution of Strategy, Innovation and Ethics. Liang Wang, Justin Tan.

• Effects of Moral Violation on Algorithmic Transparency: An Empirical Investigation. Muhammad Umair Shah, Umair Rehman, Inara Ismail.

• Social Entrepreneurship as a Family Resemblance Concept with Distinct Ethical Views. Filipa Lancastre, Carmen Lages, Filipe Santos.

• Industry Reputation Crisis and Firm Certification: A Co-evolution Perspective. Yanying Chen, Liang Ping, Feng Helen Liang. 

• Intimate Partner Violence and Business: Exploring the Boundaries of Ethical Enquiry. Charlotte M. Karam, Michelle Greenwood, Tracy Wilcox.

• Formal Firms with Bribery in a Dynamic Business Environment. Nam Hoang Vu, Tram-Anh Nguyen, Nguyen Viet Cuong. 

• The Intellectual Structure of Sales Ethics Research: A Multi-method Bibliometric Analysis. Xiaoyan Wang, Guocai Wang, Wyatt A. Schrock.

• The Spread of Digital Intimate Partner Violence: Ethical Challenges for Business, Workplaces, Employers and Management. Jeff Hearn, Matthew Hall, Charlotta Niemistö.

• Engaging Stakeholders During Intergovernmental Conflict: How Political Attributions Shape Stakeholder Engagement. Susana C. Esper, Luciano Barin-Cruz, Jean-Pascal Gond. 

• Does Corporate Social Responsibility Always Result in More Ethical Decision-Making? Evidence from Product Recall Remediation. Alfred Z. Liu, Angela Xia Liu, Donald Siegel.

• Beyond the Inclusion–Exclusion Binary: Right Mindfulness and Its Implications for Perceived Inclusion and Exclusion in the Workplace. Mai Chi Vu, Nicholas Burton.

• Corporate Responses to Intimate Partner Violence. Layla Branicki, Senia Kalfa, Stephen Brammer.

• Welcome on Board? Appointment Dynamics of Women as Directors. Eline Schoonjans, Hanna Hottenrott, Achim Buchwald.

• Institutional Logics in the UK Construction Industry’s Response to Modern Slavery Risk: Complementarity and Conflict. Christopher Pesterfield, Michael Rogerson.

• Relational HR Practices in Malaysian SMEs: An Ethics of Care Perspective. Wee Chan Au, Siân Stephens, Pervaiz K. Ahmed.

• A Contribution to Sustainable Human Resource Development in the Era of the COVID-19 Pandemic. Katarzyna Piwowar-Sulej, Sakshi Malik, Vishal Dagar.

• It’s a Family Affair: A Case for Consistency in Family Foundation Giving and Family Firm Community CSR Activity. Cristina Cruz, Hana Milanov, Judit Klein. 

• When Does Prosocial Motivation Deliver? A Dual-Motivations Approach to Social Enterprise Outcomes. Kevin Au, Sophia Soyoung Jeong, Yingzhao Xiao.

• How do Sector Level Factors Influence Trust Violations in Not-for-Profit Organizations? A Multilevel Model. Nicole Gillespie, Mattia Anesa, Matthew Hornsey.

•  “Do Something Simple for the Climate”: How Collective Counter-Conduct Reproduces Consumer Responsibilization. Friederike Döbbe, Emilia Cederberg.

• When Is CEO Activism Conducive to the Democratic Process? Aurélien Feix, Georg Wernicke.

• Climate Change Social Norms and Corporate Cash Holdings. Lei Zhang, Kiridaran Kanagaretnam, Jing Gao.

• Moral Self-Signaling Benefits of Effortful Cause Marketing Campaigns. Argiro Kliamenakis, H. Onur Bodur.

• Moral Agency Development as a Community-Supported Process: An Analysis of Hospitals’ Middle Management Responses to the COVID-19 Crisis. Gry Espedal, Marta Struminska-Kutra, Kari Jakobsen Husa.

• MNEs’ Ambidexterity Strategies and Moral Conflicts: The Case of Google in China. Shuxin Zhong, Xiaoyang Zhao, Juan Song.

• The Level of Islamic Religiosity of the Local Community and Corporate Environmental Responsibility Disclosure: Evidence from Iran. Mehdi Khodakarami, Hassan Yazdifar, Amin Sarlak. 

• Innovator or Troublemaker? The Co-evolution of Ethical Controversies, Legitimation and Institutionalisation of the Ridesharing Firms in China. Xiao-xiao Liu, Feng Xiong, Xingqiang Du.

• Signaling Effects of CSR Performance on Cross-border Alliance Formation. Ding Wang, Jiang Wei, Yang Liu.

• How Political Ties and Green Innovation Co-evolve in China: Alignment with Institutional Development and Environmental Pollution. Wei Jiang, Kui Wang, Kevin Zheng Zhou.

• How do Corporate Social Responsibility and Innovation Co-evolve with Organizational Forms? Evidence from a Transitional Economy. Helen Wei Hu, Jiamin Zhang.

• Designing Donation Incentive Contracts for Online Gig Workers. Tommaso Reggiani, Rainer Michael Rilke.

• The Making of an Authentic Leader’s Internalized Moral Perspective: The Role of Internalized Ethical Philosophies in the Development of Authentic Leaders’ Moral Identity. Seyyed Babak Alavi

• To Whom Do Business Owner-Managers Feel Responsible? Weighting conflicting social responsibilities in Rwanda. Bruno Noisette.

• Attention-Based Constraint to MNC Coevolution in China’s Changing Stakeholder Environment. Meng Zhao, Xufei Ma, Lingli Luo.

• Achieving Double Bottom-Line Performance in Hybrid Organisations: A Machine-Learning Approach. Eline Van der Auwera, Bert D’Espallier, Roy Mersland.

• Ethical Sensibilities for Practicing Care in Management and Organization Research. Anne Antoni, Haley Beer. 

• Tension and Paradox in Women-Oriented Sustainable Hybrid Organizations: A Duality of Ethics. Nitha Palakshappa, Sarah Dodds, Suzanne Grant.

• The Impact of Social Norms of Responsibility on Corporate Social Responsibility. Leyuan Youz.

•  #StopHateForProfit and the Ethics of Boycotting by Corporations. Theodore M. Lechterman, Ryan Jenkins, Bradley J. Strawser.

• The Role of the Ugly = Bad Stereotype in the Rejection of Misshapen Produce. Nathalie Spielmann, Pierrick Gomez, Elizabeth Minton.

Journal of Consumer Psychology

• Perceived corruption reduces algorithm aversion. Noah Castelo.

• Getting political: The value-protective effects of expressed outgroup outrage on self-brand connection. M. Saeid Kermani,  Theodore J. Noseworthy,  Peter R. Darke.

• Algorithms propagate gender bias in the marketplace—with consumers’ cooperation. Shelly Rathee,  Sachin Banker,  Arul Mishra,  Himanshu Mishra.

Journal of Consumer Research

• Morality Appraisals in Consumer Responsibilization. Michelle Barnhart et al.

• When Fields Are Destabilized: Mobilizing Gendered Capital to Resolve Hysteresis. Sunaina R Velagaleti,  Amber M Epp.

• Dominated Cosmopolitanism: Consumer Habitus Dynamics among Low-Resource Migrants. Zuzana Chytkova, Dannie Kjeldgaard. 

• More Gamer, Less Girl: Gendered Boundaries, Tokenism, and the Cultural Persistence of Masculine Dominance. Jenna Drenten et al.

• On Breaking Functional Fixedness: How the Aha! Moment Enhances Perceived Product Creativity and Product Appeal Sara Caprioli et al. 

Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 

• Estimating environmental and cultural/heritage damages of a tailings dam failure: The case of the Fundão dam in Brazil. Mikołaj Czajkowski, Norman Meade, Ronaldo Seroa da Motta, Ramon Arigoni Ortiz, Gleiciane Carvalho Blanc.

• Global climate governance in the light of geoengineering: A shot in the dark? Michael Finus, Francesco Furini.

• The spillover effect of peak pricing. Bowei Guo.

• The effects of observability and an information nudge on food choice. Astrid Dannenberg, Eva Weingärtner.

• Waste import and air pollution: Evidence from China’s waste import ban. Xinzheng Shi, Ming-ang Zhang.

• The property value impacts of industrial chemical accidents. Dennis Guignet, Robin R. Jenkins, James Belke, Henry Mason.

• Climate royalty surcharges. Brian C. Prest, James H. Stock.

• This site is closed! The effect of decommissioning mining waste facilities on mortality in the long run. Claudio Deiana, Ludovica Giua.

• What works for water conservation? Evidence from a field experiment in India. Kathryn Vasilaky, Aurélie Harou, Katherine Alfredo, Ishita Kapur.

• Inequality and the environment: An introduction to the special issue. Moritz A. Drupp, Jasper N. Meya, Martin F. Quaas, Lutz Sager.

• The impact of climate change on agriculture: A repeat-Ricardian analysis. François Bareille, Raja Chakir.

• Natural disasters and bank stability: Evidence from the U.S. financial system. Felix Noth, Ulrich Schüwer.

• Crop prices and deforestation in the tropics. Nicolas Berman, Mathieu Couttenier, Antoine Leblois, Raphael Soubeyran.  

Journal of Finance

• Presidential Address: Sustainable Finance and ESG Issues—Value versus Values. Laura T. Starks.

Journal of Financial and Qualitative Analysis

• Analyst Coverage and Corporate Environmental Policies. Chenxing Jing, Kevin Keasey, Ivan Lim, Bin Xu. 

• Does Finance Make Us Less Social? Henrik Cronqvist, Mitch Warachka, Frank Yu.

Journal of International Business Studies 

• The multinational enterprise, development, and the inequality of opportunities: A research agenda. Khadija van der Straaten, Rajneesh Narula, Elisa Giuliani. 

• A review of location, politics, and the multinational corporation: Bringing political geography into international business. Iiris Saittakari, Tiina Ritvala, Sjoerd Beugelsdijk.

• Configuring political relationships to navigate host-country institutional complexity: Insights from Anglophone sub-Saharan Africa. Nathaniel Boso, Joseph Amankwah-Amoah, Ogechi Adeola.

• Scaling digital solutions for wicked problems: Ecosystem versatility. Katherine Tatarinov, Tina C. Ambos, Feichin Ted Tschang.

• Privacy please: Power distance and people’s responses to data breaches across countries. Shilpa Madan, Krishna Savani, Constantine S. Katsikeas.

Operations Research  

• Flattening Energy-Consumption Curves by Monthly Constrained Direct Load Control Contracts. Ali Fattahi, Saeed Ghodsi, Sriram Dasu, Reza Ahmadi.

• An Exponential Cone Programming Approach for Managing Electric Vehicle Charging. Li Chen, Long He, Yangfang (Helen) Zhou.

• Optimal Procurement in Remanufacturing Systems with Uncertain Used-Item Condition. Emre Nadar, Mustafa Akan, Laurens Debo, Alan Scheller-Wolf.

Organization and Environment

• Not My Business: How Individuals’ Role Identities Shape Sensegiving During Corporate Sustainability Initiatives. Joern Hoppmann, Marcel Richert, Timo Busch.

• A Matter of Framing: Analyzing Value Communication in Sustainable Business Models. Simon Norris.

• Institutional Pressures and Corporate Green Innovation: Evidence From Chinese Public Enterprises. Ruixin Su, Xiaolong Shui, Jianguo Du.

• No End in Sight? A Greenwash Review and Research Agenda. A. Wren Montgomery, Thomas P. Lyon, Julian Barg.

• The Organizational Dynamics of Business Models for Sustainability: Discursive and Cognitive Pathways for Change. Jonatan Pinkse, Florian Lüdeke-Freund, Oliver Laasch, Yuliya Snihur, René Bohnsack.

Organization Science 

• License to Layoff? Unemployment Insurance and the Moral Cost of Layoffs. Dongil Daniel Keum, Stephan Meier.

• Uncertainty and Immigration Entrepreneurship: Evidence from Brexit. Camilo Acosta, Astrid Marinoni.

• The Consequences of Revealing First-Generational Status. Peter Belmi, Kelly Raz, Margaret Neale, Melissa Thomas-Hunt.

• The Career Consequences of Workplace Protest Participation: Theory and Evidence from the NFL “Take a Knee” Movement. Alexandra Rheinhardt, Ethan J. Poskanzer, Forrest Briscoe.

• Setting Gendered Expectations? Recruiter Outreach Bias in Online Tech Training Programs. Jacqueline N. Lane, Karim R. Lakhani, Roberto M. Fernandez.

• The Radical Flank Revisited: How Regulatory Discretion Shapes the Effectiveness of Social Activism on Business Outcomes. Jake B. Grandy, Shon R. Hiatt.

• Pay Suppression in Social Impact Contexts: How Framing Work Around the Greater Good Inhibits Job Candidate Compensation Demands. Insiya Hussain, Marko Pitesa, Stefan Thau, Michael Schaerer. 

• The Corporate Opportunity Structure for Shareholder Activism: How Activist Hedge Funds Exploit Board Demographic Diversity. Mark R. DesJardine, Wei Shi, Emilio Marti.

• When Less Is More: How Statistical Discrimination Can Decrease Predictive Accuracy. Felipe A. Csaszar, Diana Jue-Rajasingh, Michael Jensen.

• Bridgework: A Model of Brokering Relationships Across Social Boundaries in Organizations. Tiffany D. Johnson, Aparna Joshi, Glen E. Kreiner.

Organization Studies

• Making Sense of Hybrid Practices: The role of individual adherence to institutional logics in impact investing. Arthur Gautier, Anne-Claire Pache, Filipe Santos.

• Becoming Naturecultural: Rethinking Sustainability for a More-Than-Human World. Seray Ergene, Marta B. Calás.

• Caste, Social Capital and Precarity of Labour Market Intermediaries: The Case of Dalit Labour Contractors in India. Vivek Soundararajan, Garima Sharma, Hari Bapuji.

• A Dynamic Perspective on Collaborative Innovation for Smart City Development: The role of uncertainty, governance, and institutional logics. Sharon A. M. Dolmans, Wouter P. L. van Galen, Bob Walrave, Elke den Ouden, Rianne Valkenburg, Georges L. Romme.

• Deferring Difference No More: An (Im)modest, Relational Plea From/Through Karen Barad. Kate Lockwood Harris, Karen Lee Ashcraft.

• Strangers at the Bedside: Solidarity-making to address institutionalized infrastructural inequalities. Devi Vijay, Philippe Monin, Mukta Kulkarni.

• Management Scholars of the World, Unite! Ali Aslan Gümüsay.

• Amplifying Stigmatization: Owlcatraz and the naming of a football stadium. Lin Dong, Bryant Ashley Hudson, David Moura, Lee C. Jarvis.

Research Policy

• Ecological community logics, identifiable business ownership, and green innovation as a company response. Yannick Bammens, Paul Hünermund.

• Global development agenda meets local opportunities: The rise of development-focused entrepreneurship support. Stephan Manning, Stanislav Vavilov.

• Configuration of inclusive innovation systems: Function, agents and capabilities. María Luisa Villalba Morales, Walter Ruiz Castañeda, Jorge Robledo Velásquez.

• Organizing for transformative innovation policies: The role of social enterprises. Theoretical insights and evidence from Italy. Mario Calderini, Magali Fia, Francesco Gerli.

Sloan Management Review   

• Helping Neurodivergent Employees Succeed. Emily R. Russo et al.

• Opening Access to the Fast Track for Career Equity. Haig R. Nalbantian.

• Reimagining HR for Better Well-Being and Performance. Gabriella Rosen Kellerman, Martin Seligman.

• The PR Power of Fessing Up. Sarah A. Soule, Lambert Zixin Li.

• How E-Commerce Companies Can Reduce Returns Pedro Amorim et al.

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