Table of Contents: July 2024

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 2024

Academy of Management Discoveries

• Do Immigrants Increase Group Productivity? A Study of Blue-Collar Workgroups. Anna Apostolidou, Florian Kunze.

Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice

• What About Me? An Essay on Creating Nonprofit Ventures. Dean A. Shepherd, Holger Patzelt.

Harvard Business Review

• The CEO of Sodexo on Building More-Sustainable Food Systems. Sophie Bellon.

• How to Respond to Shareholder Activism. Mark DesJardine.

• Disclosing Downstream Emissions. Robert S. Kaplan, Karthik Ramanna.

• Moving Beyond ESG. Robert G. Eccles.

• Safety Should Be a Performance Driver. Vikas Mittal, Alessandro Piazza, Sonam Singh.

Human Relations

• Racial minority CEOs, board characteristics, and skilled migrant hiring. Eunbi Kim.

• Constructing promissory futures to defer moral scrutiny: The dilemma of healthcare austerity. Sam Van Elk, Juliane Reinecke, Susan Trenholm, Ewan Ferlie.

• Outlanders at work: An interpretative phenomenological analysis of foreign IT professionals’ work experiences in Germany. Aykut Berber, Mustafa Bilgehan Ozturk, A. Gökhan Acar.

Informations System Research

• Deeper Down the Rabbit Hole: How Technology Conspiracy Beliefs Emerge and Foster a Conspiracy Mindset. Simon Trang, Tobias Kraemer, Manuel Trenz, Welf H. Weiger.

• Preparedness and Response in the Century of Disasters: Overview of Information Systems Research Frontiers. Ahmed Abbasi, Robin Dillon, H. Raghav Rao, Olivia R. Liu Sheng.

• Fairness of Ratemaking for Catastrophe Insurance: Lessons from Machine Learning. Nan Zhang, Heng Xu.

Journal of Accounting and Economics

• Retail investors and ESG news. Qianqian Li, Edward M. Watts, Christina Zhu.

• Retail investors and ESG news: A discussion. Richard G. Sloan.

• Green innovation and firms’ financial and environmental performance: The roles of pollution prevention versus control. Qiang Cheng, An-Ping Lin, Mengjie Yang.

Journal of Business Ethics

• Media Reporting of Environmental Supply Chain Sustainability Risks: Contextual and Moderating Factors. Ivana Mateska, Stephan M. Wagner, Laura Stienen.

• Governing the Responsible Investment of Slack Resources in Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) Performance: How Beneficial are CSR Committees? Tim Heubeck, Annina Ahrens.

• The Effects of Moral Intensity and Moral Disengagement on Rule Violations: Occupational Safety in UK-based Construction Work During the COVID-19 Pandemic. Claire Mann, Sharon Clarke, Sheena Johnson.

• Spotting Portfolio Greenwashing in Environmental Funds. Rabab Abouarab, Tapas Mishra, Simon Wolfe.

• Can Good Information Prevent Misconduct? The Role of Organizational Epistemic Virtues for Ethical Behavior. Marco Meyer, Tong L

• (In)vulnerable Managers in an Immigration Context. Marke Kivijärvi, Ida Okkonen, Marjo Siltaoja.

• Refugee Entrepreneurship: Resolving Multi-contextuality and Differential Exclusion. Ugur Yetkin, Deniz Tunçalp.

• Should They Go, or May They Stay: Companies in Aggressor States. Rolf Brühl.

• Iron Cage for Indigenous Entrepreneurs? Understanding the Movement and Impact of External Ideas on Indigenous Entrepreneurship in Ecuador. Bryan Solorzano Bajaña.

• Social Impact Assessment of Corporate Social Responsibility Initiatives: Evaluating the Social Return on Investment of an Inclusion Offer. Nicolas Scelles, Yuhei Inoue, Seth Joseph Perkin, Maurizio Valenti.

• The Expansion of Alternative Forms of Organizing Integration: Imitation, Bricolage, and an Ethic of Care in Migrant Women’s Cooperatives. María José Zapata Campos.

• Greenwashing or Striving to Persist: An Alternative Explanation of a Loose Coupling Between Corporate Environmental Commitments and Outcomes. Robert Kudłak.

• ‘Migration Under the Glow of Privilege’—Unpacking Privilege and Its Effect on the Migration Experience. Kamini Gupta, Hari Bapuji.

• How Does Legal Status Inform Immigrant Agency During Encounters of Workplace Incivility? Amal Abdellatif, Ajnesh Prasad.

• Consumer Disposition Toward Fairness in Agri-Food Chains (FAIRFOOD): Scale Development and Validation. Margherita Del Prete, Artyom Golossenko, Matthew Gorton, Barbara Tocco, Antonella Samoggia.

• The Effect of Customers’ Unethical Practices on Suppliers’ Intention to Continue Their Relationships. Daniel Prajogo, Brian Cooper, Ross Donohue, Anand Nair.

• Unlocking the Connection between Corporate Social Responsibility Strategy and Firm Performance: Unveiling Mediating and Moderating Effects. Jonah Tyan, Shih-Ching Liu, Carol Yeh-Yun Lin, Tien-Yu Chang.

• How to Design Green Compensation to Promote Managers’ Pro-Environmental Behavior? A Goal-Framing Perspective. Yishuai Yin, Yue Wang, Ying Lu.

• Socially Irresponsible HRM: Findings from the UK Hotel Sector. Victoria Walker, Dennis Nickson.

• Experience of Marginalization in Noncooperative Spaces: The Case of Undocumented Migrant Workers in Italy. Roya Derakhshan, Rashedur Chowdhury.

• Resisting Financial Consumer Responsibilization Through Community Counter-Conduct. Hunter Jones, Eric Arnould.

• Is the State a Socially Responsible Shareholder? State-Owned Enterprises, Political Ideology, and Corporate Social Performance. Leonardo Henrique Lima de Pilla, Alketa Peci, Rodrigo de Oliveira Leite.

• Does Social Media Pressure Induce Corporate Hypocrisy? Evidence of ESG Greenwashing from China. Li Long, Chunze Wang, Min Zhang.

• Hunting and Fishing CEOs: Environmental Plunderers or Saviors? Thomas Covington, Steve Swidler, Keven Yost.

• Time to Talk About Race. Robbin Derry, Paul T. Harper, Gregory B. Fairchild.

• Creative Destruction and the Autonomous Life. Brian Kogelmann.

• Global South States’ Views on Building Partnerships with Corporations: An Agonistic Struggle in the UN and Beyond. Eva Nilsson, Martin Fougère.

• Do White Women Gain Status for Engaging in Anti-black Racism at Work? An Experimental Examination of Status Conferral. Jennifer L. Berdahl, Barnini Bhattacharyya.

• Environmental Racism and Climate (In)Justice in the Anthropocene: Addressing the Silences and Erasures in Management and Organization Studies. Seray Ergene, Subhabrata Bobby Banerjee, Erim Ergene.

• Sustainable Governance: Board Sustainability Experience and the Interplay with Board Age for Firm Sustainability. Francesca Collevecchio, Valerio Temperini, Angel Meseguer-Martinez.

• Understanding Multiple Perspectives on Social Value in Business: An Integrative Review and Typology. Marcelo F. de la Cruz Jara, Jelena Spanjol.

• The Inclusion Tax: The Price of the Ticket in White Spaces. Tsedale M. Melaku.

• Generalist Versus Specialist CEOs and the Scope of Corporate Social Responsibility. Qian Lu, Guoguang Wan, Liang Xu.

• Escaping the Loop of Unsustainability: Why and How Business Ethics Matters for Earth System Justice. Anselm Schneider, John Murray.

• Who Rewards Appropriate Levels of Professional Skepticism? Joseph F. Brazel, Justin Leiby, Tammie J. Schaefer.

• Shared Inequity: An Alternative Frame for Racial Justice in Employment. Cedric E. Dawkins.

• The (In)Visibility of Diversity in Alternative Organizations. Regine Bendl, Alexander Fleischmann, Angelika Schmidt.

• Hypocrites! Social Media Reactions and Stakeholder Backlash to Conflicting CSR Information. Lisa D. Lewin, Danielle E. Warren.

Journal of Consumer Psychology

• When consumer decisions are moral decisions: Moral Foundations Theory and its implications for consumer psychology. Guilherme A. Ramos, Wayne Johnson, Eric M. VanEpps, Jesse Graham.

• Moral foundations theory and consumer behavior. Shreyans Goenka, Manoj Thomas

Journal of Consumer Research

• ‘Woman-Owned Business’ Labels Enhance Perceived Competence. Nicole Davis, Tami Kim.

• Consumer Dirtwork: What Extraordinary Consumption Reveals about the Usefulness of Dirt. Nathan B. Warren, Linda L. Price.

Journal of Environmental Economics and Management

• Environmental regulation and productivity growth in the euro area: Testing the porter hypothesis. Nicola Benatti, Martin Groiss, Petra Kelly, Paloma Lopez-Garcia.

• The health benefits of solar power generation: Evidence from Chile. Nathaly M. Rivera, J. Cristobal Ruiz-Tagle, Elisheba Spiller.

• Cross-ownership and green managerial delegation contracts in a mixed oligopoly. Mingqing Xing, Sang-Ho Lee.

• Centralization of environmental administration and air pollution: Evidence from China. Jidong Chen, Xinzheng Shi, Ming-ang Zhang, Sihan Zhang.

Journal of Financial and Qualitative Analysis

• COVID-19 Vaccinations, Business Activity, and Firm Value. John M. Bizjak, Swaminathan L. Kalpathy, Vassil T. Mihov, Jue Ren.

Journal of International Business Studies

• Multinational firms and sustainability in global supply chains: scope and boundaries of responsibility. Valentina Marano, Miriam Wilhelm, Tatiana Kostova, Jonathan Doh, Sjoerd Beugelsdijk.

• Sensemaking along global supply chains: implications for the ability of the MNE to manage sustainability challenges. Lutz Preuss, Ralf Barkemeyer, Bimal Arora, Shilpi Banerjee.

Operations Research

• Audit and Remediation Strategies in the Presence of Evasion Capabilities. Shouqiang Wang, Francis de Véricourt, Peng Sun.

• Dynamic Relocations in Car-Sharing Networks. Mahsa Hosseini, Joseph Milner, Gonzalo Romero.

Organization and Environment

• Too Afraid to Act? How CEO Political Ideological Divergence Influences Environmental Innovation. Florian Emanuel Fuchs, Christian Andreas Franz, Denise Fischer-Kreer, Andrea Greven, Malte Brettel.

• A Solid Foundation But What Will Be Built on It? Reviews of the Management, Organizations, and Environmental Sustainability Field. Michael V. Russo, Céline Louche, Marcus Wagner.

Organization Science

• CEO Humility and Corporate Social Irresponsibility: Evidence Based on a New Unobtrusive Measure. Amy Y. Ou, Qian Lu, Xina Li, Chung Chi-Nien, Guoli Chen.

• The Gender Disclosure Gap: Salary History Bans Unravel When Men Volunteer Their Income. Bo Cowgill, Amanda Agan, Laura K. Gee.

• Bridging the Chasm Between Intentions and Behaviors: Developing and Testing a Construal Level Theory of Internal Whistle-Blowing. Abhijeet K. Vadera, Ann E. Tenbrunsel, Kristina A. Diekmann.

Quarterly Journal of Economics

• How the 1963 Equal Pay Act and 1964 Civil Rights Act Shaped the Gender Gap in Pay. Martha J. Bailey, Thomas Helgerman, Bryan A. Stuart.

• Understanding Markets with Socially Responsible Consumers. Marc Kaufmann, Peter Andre, Botond Kőszegi.

Organization Studies

• Organizations, Neoconservativism, and New Chauvinism: Organizational receptivity to right-wing political strategies. Nancy Harding, Rana Tassabehji, Hugh Lee.

• Experimentation in Wicked Situations: How activists construct pragmatic action frames. Paulo Savaget, Thomas Roulet, Marc Ventresca.

• Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf? How corporations maintain hegemony by using counterinsurgency tactics to undermine activism. Charles Barthold, Layla Branicki, Guillaume Delalieux.

• Heat and Organization Studies: Organizing in a world approaching 50°C. Domenico Dentoni.

• Social Enterprises as Agents of Social Justice: A Rawlsian perspective on institutional capacity. Theodore M. Lechterman, Johanna Mair.

• Value Inquiry and Constructing the Good in Organizations. Gry Espedal, Arne Carlsen.

• Social Diversity and Precarious Organizations: An intersectional feminist perspective. Elina Meliou, Ana Lopes, Steve Vincent, Mustafa F. Özbilgin, Dimitria Groutsis, Ramaswami Mahalingam, Linda Rouleau.

• Cracking the Deck: National origins and promotions in the Dutch East India Company, 1700–1796. Filippo Carlo Wezel, Martin Ruef.

Research Policy

• Filling gaps in local knowledge and technology assurance: Informal intermediation in the diffusion of off-grid solar technologies in rural Kenya. Elise Harrington.

• Connecting the dots between democracy and innovation: The role of pro-market institutions and information processing. Hyungseok (David) Yoon, Christopher Boudreaux, Namil Kim.

• How and when adversity breeds ingenuity in an emerging market: Environmental threats, co-innovation, and frugal innovation. Samuel Adomako, Stephen Kehinde Medase, Stephen X. Zhang.

• Clean sweep: Electricity liberalization and the direction of technological change in the electricity sector. Matteo Romagnoli.

• “The reality in the DRC is just not the reality in Rwanda” – How context factors affect transdisciplinary research projects. Rea Pärli, Moustapha Byamungu, Manuel Fischer, Speciose Kantengwa, Kokou Kintche, Matieyedou Konlambigue, Eva Lieberherr, Johan Six, Benjamin Wilde, Leonhard Späth.

• Responsible north–south research and innovation: A framework for transdisciplinary research leadership and management. Matthew A. French, S. Fiona Barker, Rebekah Henry, Amelia Turagabeci, Ancha Ansariadi, Autiko Tela, Diego Ramirez-Lovering, Fitriyanty Awaluddin, Ihsan Latief, Isoa Vakarewa, Ruzka R. Taruc, Tony Wong, Brett Davis, Rebekah Brown, Karin Leder.

• Representation is not sufficient for selecting gender diversity. Justus Baron, Bernhard Ganglmair, Nicola Persico, Timothy Simcoe, Emanuele Tarantino.

Sloan Management Review

• Managing Data Privacy Risk in Advanced Analytics. Gregory Vial, Julien Crowe, Patrick Mesana.

• Find a Circular Strategy to Fit Your Business Model. Samsurin Welch, Khaled Soufani.

• Serve More Customers With Inclusive Product Design. Vanessa M. Patrick, Jeffrey D. Shulman.

• The Hazards of Putting Ethics on Autopilot. Julian Friedland, David B. Balkin, Kristian Ove R. Myrseth.

• Why Companies Need to Lobby for Climate Policy. Richard Roberts.

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