Table of Contents: July 2025

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 2025

Academy of Management Discoveries

• Virtual Nature, Real Consequences: How Immersive Virtual Work Environments Shape Pro-Environmental Behavior, Performance, and Employee Well-Being. Timothy David Hubbard, Cole Evan Short, Ming Hu.

• Regulatory Shift and Labor Law Spillovers: A Response to Bierman and Maich’s Commentary “The Spillover Effects of Labor Law Enforcement from a Wider Lens.” Giorgos Papagiannakis, Geoffrey Wood, Marilou Ioakimidis, Rafailia-Foteini Chousmekeridou, Eleanna Galanaki.

• The “Social Dance”: Sociality Strategies and Tradeoffs for Autistic Workers. Tiffany D Johnson James, Aparna Joshi, Mary Eve Speach, Glen E. Kreiner.

California Management Review

• Corporate Responsibility Meets the Digital Economy. Leena Lankoski, N. Craig Smith.

Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice

• No Credit for Success, Penalized for Failure? An Examination of Entrepreneur Race, Gender, and Prior Fundraising Track Records in Crowdfunding. Aaron Anglin, Garry D. Bruton, Marcin Bielicki.

Harvard Business Review

• The CEO of Save the Children U.S. on Navigating a Sudden Funding Crisis. Janti Soeripto.

• How to Counter Fake News. Michael Etter, Patrick Haack, Simone Mariconda, Marta Pizzetti.

• Why You Need Systems Thinking Now. Tima Bansal, Julian Birkinshaw.

• The Conflict-Intelligent Leader. Peter T. Coleman.

• Your Company Needs an Eldercare Policy. Ken Dychtwald, Terry Fulmer, Robert Morison, Katy Terveer.

• Achieve DEI Goals Without DEI Programs.Frank Dobbin, Alexandra Kalev.

• Case Study: Do We Reskill or Replace Our Workforce? William Kerr.

• Life’s Work: An Interview with Jacinda Ardern. Alison Beard.

Human Relations

• Institutions, resource dependence and the dual nature of corruption in firm internationalisation. Maksim Belitski, Yelena Kalyuzhnova, Rifat Kamasak, Benjamin Laker.

• It’s the River’s call: Rethinking our relationship with nature through the embodied experience of sustainability professionals. Ana Carolina Aguiar, Ann L Cunliffe.

• Agency of silence: Female Syrian refugee workers and the reconstitution of the post-war self. Elif Nur Duman-Cogen.

Information Systems Research

• Toward Sustainable Electricity Markets: Capacity-Based Pricing for Electric Vehicle Smart Charging. Konstantina Valogianni, Wolfgang Ketter, John Collins, Gediminas Adomavicius.

• Short-Form Videos and Mental Health: A Knowledge-Guided Neural Topic Model. Jiaheng Xie, Yidong Chai, Ruicheng Liang, Yang Liu, Daniel Dajun Zeng.

• Sparking Innovation: The Effect of Inventor Gender Diversity on Recombinant Innovation. Naveenkumar Ramaraju, Shagun Pant, Gautam Pant.

• Forced to Change? Media Exposure of Labor Issues and Firm Artificial Intelligence Investment. Boshuo Li, Ni Huang, Wei Shi.

• Learning Personalized Privacy Preference from Public Data. Wen Wang, Beibei Li.

Journal of Accounting and Economics

• Real Effects of Proposed Scope 3 Disclosures. Mary Ellen Carter, Lian Fen Lee, Enshuai Yu.

• Mandatory investor disclosure, sustainability commitments, and portfolio decarbonization. Jiyuan Dai, Gaizka Ormazabal, Fernando Penalva, Robert Raney.

• How Do Consumers Use ESG Disclosure? Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment with Everyday Product Purchases. Sinja Leonelli, Maximilian Muhn, Thomas Rauter, Gurpal Sran.

• Trading of emission allowances and reporting incentives. Donald N’Gatta, Gaizka Ormazabal, Robert Raney.

Journal of Business Ethics

• Navigating the Corporate Ego: Understanding the Association Between ESG Performance and Organizational Narcissistic Rhetoric. Karim Mahran, Ahmed A. Elamer.

• Cosmopolitanism as an Aspirational Identity: When Normative Ideals Give Rise to Identity Struggles. Patrizia Hoyer, Sierk Ybema.

• Investor’s Explicit and Implicit Attributions for CSR Motives: Neuroscientific Insights. Ye Chen, Naiding Yang.

• Beyond Common Ground: Dialogical Responsibility in Sustainable Human Resource Management. Jan Willem Nuis, Pascale Peters, Henk Kievit.

• Ethical Tools and the Legalization of Ethical Responsibility in Organizations. Wafa Ben Khaled, Mattia Anesa.

• Pure Altruism or Warm-Glow Altruism? Altruistic Motivation and Gender Differences in Socially Responsible Investment. Shu Chen, Jiaqi Wang, Xiaolan Yang.

• Reputation of the Emerging Market Companies: Does ESG Rating Help? Aihua Chen, Gerui Zhao, Li Ma.

• What Does the Future Hold for Human Rights in Conflict-Affected Areas? A Delphi Study on MNEs’ Strategies. Janine Allenbacher, Matthias Fertig, Jennifer Adolph.

• The Dual Faces of Leadership: CEOs’ Dark and Light Traits in Shaping Business Ethical Climate and Sustainability. Asghar Afshar Jahanshahi, Ozan Kalaycioglu.

• The Status of Normative Ethical Decision-Making Models: The Development and Application of an Analytical Framework. Jop Versteegt, Marius van Dijke, Muel Kaptein.

• The Bright Side of AI in Marketing Decisions: Collaboration with Algorithms Prevents Managers from Violating Ethical Norms. Piotr Gaczek, Grzegorz Leszczyński, Hao Sun.

• Green Bond Issuance and Corporate Environmental Disclosure: Signaling or Greenwashing? Yuanyuan Liu, Shun Fu, Xin Huang.

• Organizational Safety in Translation: Linguistic Time References and Safety in HROs. Jungwon Min.

• Prosocial CEOs and Corporate Tax Avoidance. Liang Xu, Xinyan Yan, Wenqiao Zhang.

• Crafting the Virtuous Corporation Through Spiritual Discernment. Sharda S. Nandram, Puneet K. Bindlish, Raysa Geaquinto Rocha.

• Unveiling the Mystery of Strategic Response: Managers’ Regulatory Focus and Corporate Social Responsibility Decoupling. Yang Huang, Ni Xiong, Chengkun Liu.

• ‘The Way Enthusiasm Builds’: Frame Amplification and Emotional Reinforcement in Participatory Policymaking. Angelika Zimmermann, Jasper O. Kenter, Alison Dyke.

• Sincere Action or Sweet Talk: How Do Firms Respond to Retail Investors’ Green Appeals? Ling He, Shiyang Hu, Xiao Li.

• Social Trust and Corporate Greenwashing: Insights from China’s Pilot Social Credit Systems. Jiacai Xiong, Linghong Chen, Thomas Maak.

• Do ESG Rating Agencies Improve ESG Performance? Natalya Bikmetova, Christo A. Pirinsky.

• Run, Hide, and Fight?! A Precautionary Business Ethics to Hold Manufacturers Accountable for Preventing Gun Violence. Levente Szentkirályi.

• Financial Price of Sin Stocks Across Religions. Ihlas Sovbetov.

• Navigating Contestation at the Corporate–Community Boundary: The Agonistic Work of Corporate Community Engagement Practitioners in Extractivist Projects. Eduardo Hernández-Melgar, Lucia Cervi.

• Consumption Populism: How Business Leaders Use Populist Logic to Shape Consumption. Shafiullah Anis, Juliana Angeline French.

• From Stigma to Acceptance: Ethical Implications of Anthropomorphic Design in Healthcare Chatbots. Fangyuan Chen, Yuting Pang, Lili Wang.

• The Folk Ethics of Commodification: An Empirical Investigation into Moral Attitudes Against Market Transactions. Sebastian Krügel, Matthias Uhl, Ingo Pies.

• Beyond Inspiration Porn: Effects of Message Framing on Brand Authenticity and Community Support in Marketing Disabled Athletes. Namkyeong Jang, Dae Hee Kwak.

• Acting on Good Intentions? A Longitudinal Study of Prosocial Lending Intentions and Behaviours. Rotem Shneor, Prince Baah-Peprah, Thang Nguyen.

• Emotional Intelligence and Business Ethics: Feeling Confident in Doing the Right Thing. Sarah J. Carver, Hayden J. R. Woodley.

• Motivating Business Students for Civic Education: Design Principles for Aligning Civic Engagement Programs with Student Motivation. Joseph Charles Van Matre, Arjen de Wit, Frederique Demeijer.

• Bring Your Whole Self to Work: Boundary Conditions of Subjectivity in Diversity and Inclusion Discourse on Investment Bank Websites. Melissa Carr.

• Rethinking Crisis as Expected: Stakeholder Leadership in Navigating Ethical Dilemmas and Avoiding Polycrises. Prem Sagar Menghwar, Fabian Homberg, Ashar Alam.

• Tangata Whenua, People Born of the Land: From Corporate Dispossession and Repossession to Severance and Reconnection. Matthew Scobie, Andre Poyser, Georgia Hampton.

• Navigating the Ambiguity of Impact Investing: How Impact Venture Capitalists Access New Markets, Founders, and Capital. Christian Garmann Johnsen, Johannes Lenhard.

• Managing Corruption During Regime Change. Christiaan Röell, Felix Arndt, Tazeeb Rajwani.

• Workplace Mistreatment: A Systematic Review of Interventions and Future Research Agenda. Gillian Leake, Albert Amankwaa, Irene Elisabeth de Pater.

• Navigating the Invisible: Ironic Compliance, Forced Labor, and the Commodification of Offline Rights in Digitalized Workplaces. Yujie Zhang, Qian Zhang.

• Stop Where it Should Stop: Board Faultlines, Stakeholder Supervision and Greenwashing Behaviors of Firms. Xuejiao Ma, Xiaojun Ma, Yiwei Zhang.

• Investee Peers and Corporate Social Responsibility: Evidence from U.S. Listed Firms. Xinhao Qiao, Jinyu He, Yan Ling.

• Ethics in Action: Nurturing Green Behaviors in the Workplace Through Corporate Environmental Ethics and Supervisor Ethical Leadership. Shaham Saleem, Yixiang Zhang, Muhammad Umair Rafiq.

• Five Senses Approach of Sustainable Corporate Social Responsibility Strategy: Scale Development and Validation. Muneer Mohammed Saeed Al Mubarak, Jalal Majeed Naser.

• Fear of Failure in the Fast Lane: How Stretch Goals Fuel Unethical Leadership and Employee Misconduct. Yanghao Zhu, Lirong Long, Yannan Zhang.

• Moral Signaling in Startups: How ESG Claims Shape Stakeholder Judgments and Ethical Legitimacy. Eugene Y. Chan.

• It’s Not My Responsibility: Working with Autonomy-Restricting Algorithms Facilitates Unethical Behavior and Displacement of Responsibility. Anupama A. Jolly, Patrick D. Dunlop, Lisette Kanse.

• Historical Slave Trade and Corporate Tax Evasion in Africa. Geng Niu, Yi Wang, Yang Zhou.

• Human Rights Violations in Global Value Chains: A Locally Grounded Governance Framework. Myriam C. Rapior, Marc Oberhauser.

• Conceptualising the Socio-material Context: An Ethical Enquiry into the Contextual Materialisation of Paradoxes in Transport Logistics. Annika Mies, Tim Gruchmann, Stefan Gold.

• Corporate Environmental Sustainability Via Stakeholder Collaboration: Insights from Classical Institutional Economics. Vladislav Valentinov, Ronaldo de Oliveira Santos Jhunior, Helna Almeida de Araujo Góes.

Journal of Consumer Psychology

• The charity capacity curse. Lijun (Shirley) Zhang, Thomas Allard, David J. Hardisty, Xin (Shane) Wang.

• Religious values and consumer behavior. Eric Y. Aglozo, Adam B. Cohen.

• Social platform use and psychological well-being. Cammy Crolic, Peter Pal Zubcsek, Andrew T. Stephen, Gillian Brooks.

• The affective, cognitive, and social benefits of interacting with nature. Nakwon Rim, Kathryn E. Schertz, Marc G. Berman.

• Missing the forest for the trees: Considerations for the use of nature in consumer spaces. Marc G. Berman, Alexandra Strauss.

Journal of Consumer Research

• Why Horizontal Organizations Don’t Fall Flat: Organizational Structure Shapes Perceptions of Egalitarianism and Company Warmth. Guanzhong Du et al.

• Beyond Neoliberalism: The Role of Community in the Responsibilization of Citizen-Consumers During the Great Recession. Andrea Prothero et al.

• AI Companions Reduce Loneliness. Julian De Freitas et al.
  Fast Fashion Consumption Signals Low Self-Control. Yunhui Huang et al.

• Gendered Consumer Responsibilization: The Constitution of Menopausal Women as Responsible Feminine Consumer Subjects. Canan Corus et al.

• Who Am I Here? Care Consumers’ Identity Processes and Family Caregiver Interventions in the Elderscape. Julia Rötzmeier-Keuper, Nancy V Wünderlich.

Journal of Environmental Economics and Management

• Adaptation and mitigation of pollution: Evidence from air quality warnings. Sandra Aguilar-Gomez.

• Does freight structure transformation improve air quality?–Evidence from China’s “shifting freight from truck to rail” policy. Yuchao Liang, Guohua Zheng, Jinuo Wang, Jun Pang.

Journal of Finance

• What Is the Cost of Privatization for Workers? Martin Olsson,  Joacim Tåg.

Journal of Financial and Qualitative Analysis

• Minimum Wages, State Ownership, and Corporate Environmental Policies. Tao Chen, Xi Xiong, Kunru Zou.

Journal of International Business Studies 

• Evolving patterns of gender inequality over time and across countries: new theoretical perspectives and an emerging research agenda. Sjoerd Beugelsdijk, Michele J Gelfand, Johannes Kleinhempel.

•  Global ecological dependence and multinationals’ climate innovation: the role of climate risk exposure and institutional conditions. Aurora Genin, Juan Bu.

• Reputational judgments of foreign MNEs’ societal impact in frontier markets: the role of compatible, crossed, and conflicting signals. Erin E. Makarius, Aloysius M. Kahindi, Emma Kyoungseo Hong.

• Beyond reductionism: rethinking MNEs’ role in environmental crises. Liena Kano, Birgitte Grøgaard, Gilbert Kofi Adarkwah.

• Small worlds within global supply chains: implications for multinational enterprises’ environmental, social, and governance controversies. Sangho Chae, Igor Filatotchev, Byung-Gak Son.

MIS Quarterly

• The Hidden Cost of IT Innovation: Access to Emerging Technologies and the Gender Wage Gap. Prasanna B. Tambe, Tiantian Yang.

• Supporting Community First Responders in Aging in Place: An Action Design for a Community-Based Smart Activity Monitoring System. Carmen Leong, Carol Hsu, Nadee Goonawardene, Hwee-Pink Tan.

Organization and Environment

• Earnings Pressure and Firms’ ESG Performance: Do Executive Environmental Experience and MBA Experience Matter? Ge Ren, Ping Zeng, Xi Zhong.

• The  Dynamics of Embeddedness on Sustainable Entrepreneurship Within Protected Areas: Bi-Directionality, Re-Embeddedness, and Dis-Embeddedness for Enhanced Sustainability Outcomes. Hellen L. A. Dawo, Thomas B. Long, Gjalt De Jong.

• Does Shareholder Signaling Matter for Corporate Strategy? A Study of ESG- and Carbon-Related Proposals. Timo Busch, Lisa Scheitza, Tobias Bauckloh, Christian Klein.

• Moving Beyond Circular Utopia and Paralysis: Accelerating Business Transformations Towards the Circular Economy. Nancy Bocken, Jonatan Pinkse, Paavo Ritala, Nicole Darnall.

• The Micro-Processes of Transitioning to a Circular Economy Through Capital Allocation: A Case of the Investment Field. Julia Anne Gross, Fenna Blomsma, Ibrat Djabbarov, Timo Busch.

Organization Science  

• Situational Support for Corruption: A Two-Part Field Experiment on Collusive vs. Extortive Bribery. Christopher Yenkey, Brent Simpson, Paul Bliese.

• The Categorical Imperative vs. Linguistic Alignment: Organizations Use Language to Modify Environmental Expectations. Sang Won Han, Henrich R. Greve.

• Policymaker Responses to CEO Activism. Christopher Poliquin, Young Hou.

Organization Studies

• How Historical Context Shapes the Construction of Field-Level Frames: A comparative study of France and Germany’s shale gas debates. Helen Etchanchu, Ana M. Aranda, Derek Harmon, Shaz Ansari.

• Dissensus Whistleblowing: The challenge to enact human rights and democratic oversight in organizations. Iain Munro.

• Enacting Aspirational Modes of Being: Oil and gas employees’ subject formation and Telos under corporate environmentalism. Fabien Littel, Ai Yu, Peter Rodgers.

• Institutional Stress: Academic freedom under attack by democratic backsliding. Gili S. Drori.

• Theorizing in Times of Crisis, Fragmentation and Disorder. Paolo Quattrone, Tammar B. Zilber.

• Collective Action in Crisis? Introduction to the Special Issue. Martin Kornberger, Renate E. Meyer, Ignasi Martí, Corinna Frey-Heger, Joep Cornelissen et al.

Research Policy

• Policy feedbacks and socio-technical feedbacks in accelerated low-carbon transitions: An integrated conceptual framework illustrated with case studies of lighting and smart meters. Frank W. Geels, Martina Ayoub.

• Unlocking organizational creativity: Unique effects of corporate social responsibility in leveraging individual creativity. He Li, Philip J. Steinberg, Hille C. Bruns, Jordi A. Surroca.

• Institutionalizing social entrepreneurship in the Global South: How intermediaries work around the indigenous solidarity economy in Colombia. Addisu A. Lashitew, Eugenia Rosca.

• From virtuous to vicious cycles – towards a life cycle model of technology deployment policies. Joris Dehler-Holland.

Sloan Management Review

• A New Method for Assessing Circular Business Cases. Samsurin Welch, Khaled Soufani.

• Navigating Sustainability in an Uncertain Landscape. Kristina Wyatt, interviewed by MIT Sloan Management Review.

• The Planetary KPIs That Inform Eco-Friendly Strategies. Amanda Williams et al.

• The B2B Opportunity in Corporate Sustainability. Tensie Whelan, David Linich.

• The Missing Link Between Purpose and Performance. Rodolphe Durand et al.

• How the EU’s Taxonomy Combats Greenwashing. Brian Tomlinson.

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