Table of Contents: July 2026

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 2026

Academy of Management Discoveries

• Politically Contested, Ambiguous, and Widely Misunderstood: Why DEI Phenomena Are Fertile Ground for Exploratory Investigation. Erika V. Hall, Zhike Lei.

American Sociological Review

• The Gendered Intergenerational Transmission of Managerial Status. Nicholas Martindale, Thomas Lyttelton, Lasse Folke Henriksen.

• Unstable Work in a Fissured Economy: Tracking Employment in Subcontractor Establishments in France. Clem Aeppli.

• Salience Shifts and Managerial Discretion: How Periods of Islamist Terrorism Affect the Employment of Middle Eastern Men. Malte Reichelt, Christoph Müller.

California Management Review

• Shaping the Path Toward Net Zero Through Supplier Engagement. Pilar Acosta, Mette Præst Knudsen.

• How to Achieve Large-Scale Social Impact. V. Kasturi Rangan, Courtney Han.

• Beyond Box-Ticking: Improving Climate Scenario Planning. Belinda Wade, Sarah MacInnes, Matthew J. Hornsey, Saphira Rekker, Andrew Griffiths.

Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice

• The Paradox of Inclusion: Modeling Systemic Dynamics of the Gender Finance Gap in Entrepreneurial Ecosystems. Nicolás Fuentes, Jana Schmutzler, Gustavo Carreón-Vázquez.

• Beyond the Individual: Neurodiversity and the Multi-Level Ecology of Entrepreneurial Ecosystems. Reginald Tucker.

• Crowd Evaluations of Entrepreneurs with Physical Disabilities: Stereotype Subtyping through the Lens of Benevolent Ableism. Silvia Stroe, Charlotta Sirén, Tom Vanacker.

• Do Family Firms Care about Green Innovation? Competing Socioemotional Wealth Logics and Local Government Influence. Wen Helena Li, Francesco Chirico, Robert E. Hoskisson.

• When Environmental Sustainability Meets Equity Crowdfunding: The Role of Green Ventures in Job Creation. Anup Basnet, Magnus Blomkvist, Aristogenis Lazos.

• Institutional Space-Making for Equity in Entrepreneurial Ecosystems: Evidence from U.S. Cities. Qingfang Wang, Sua Kim, Scott Taylor.

Harvard Business Review

• Case Study: A Key Supplier Failed a Labor Audit. Now What? Sandeep Puri.

• Life’s Work: An Interview with José Andrés. Alison Beard.

Information Systems Research

• Generative AI and Price Discrimination in the Housing Market. Jitsama Tanlamai, Warut Khern-Am-Nuai, Maxime C. Cohen.

• Understanding Information Privacy Concerns: A Meta-Analytic of Three Decades of Research. Truong (Jack) Luu, Andrew Harrison.

• Is Digital Reading Resilient to Air Pollution? Lizheng Wang, Jinyang Zheng, Yongjun Li, Yong Tan.

• When Gig Workers No Longer Gig: The Impact of California Assembly Bill 5 on the Online Labor Market. Xunyi Wang, Yu-Wei Lin, Wencui Han, Liangfei Qiu.

Journal of Accounting and Economics

• Ideology-driven social media opinions and capital markets: Evidence from polarizing boycotts. Xue Li.

• Whispering progress: Fear of automation and voluntary disclosure. Jun Oh, Guoman She.

Journal of Business Ethics

• Investing with Integrity: Foreign Direct Investments, Portfolio Investments, Corruption Control, Accountability, and ESG Performance in Latin America and the Caribbean. Shah Saud.

• Mutual Fund Tournaments and ESG Rating. Fabio Moneta, Xiaoyu Sun.

• Accountable to Nature: Signal and Noise in Environmental Disclosure. Minqi Liu, Dean Neu, Jeff Everett.

• Corporate Corruption: A Scoping Review and a Dynamic Model of Its Antecedents. Lorain Fornerod, Giulia Mugellini, Jean-Patrick Villeneuve.

• Responsibilization of Corporate Tax Compliance: How Tax Professionals Integrate CSR and the Law. Sara Ravn Jespersen.

• Deliberation Without Romance (or Cynicism): The Role of Corporations in Deliberative Democracy. Adrian Gombert.

• Creating Infrastructures of Harm: Mythmaking and the Financialization of Hospitals. Devi Vijay, Priyanshu Gupta.

• Is Entrepreneurial Philanthropy Ethical? Examining the Role of Religion. Laurenz Weiße, Brett R. Smith, Drahomir Klimsa.

• Are We All Willing and Able? Exploring the Intra-Organisational Dynamics of Substantive vs Symbolic Adoption of Sustainability Standards. Akylai Anarbaeva, Caterina Pesci, Teerooven Soobaroyen.

• Personal Values and Sustainable Investing: Evidence from Business Angels’ Publicly Expressed Value Orientations. Laura Schmidt, Angela Altmeier, Martin Obschonka.

• The Relational and Contractual Moral Duty of US Insurers to Mitigate Climate Risk. Nicos A. Scordis.

• Stakeholder Theory Beyond Humanism: Categorizing Nonhuman Nature Stakeholders. Anna Hannula, Johanna Kujala, Sybille Sachs.

• Too Good to Fail: Unpacking Legitimation Work in Social Platform–Based Enterprises. Alberto Bertello, Canio Forliano, Domenico Dentoni.

• Socially Responsible HRM and CSR Engagement: Exploring the Role of Meaningfulness, Value Commitment, and Ethical Leadership. Amir Mehralian, Mohammad Moradi.

• The Cost of Committing ESG-Related Sin. Isaac Otchere, Anup Chowdhury, Moshfique Uddin.

• From Governance Proposals to Environmental and Social Outcomes: Cross-Issue Responses to Shareholder Activism. Maria Ruiz-Castillo, Ruth V. Aguilera, Nuria Esther Hurtado-Torres.

• Human Resources and the Reproduction of Inequality in the Global Value Chain. Jasim Uddi, Erhan Atay, Tauhidul Islam Tani.

• Green Signals or Greenwashing? The Ethical Implications of Certification Timing. Dongxu Li, Xiaorong Zheng.

• The Effect of Stress on Ethical Consumption: Do We Only Buy Ethically When We Are Not Stressed? Philipp Dieckmann, Benjamin von Walter, Daniel Wentzel.

• Conceptualizing and Measuring Consumer Perceptions of Corporate Social Responsibility: A Review and Empirical Assessment of Five Approaches. Petar Gidaković, Simone Carmine, Valérie Swaen.

• ESG Controversies and Inventor Job-Hopping. Juan Luo, Limin Xu, Xiaohang Yao.

• The Cost of Broken Promises: Does a Firm’s Environmental Footprint Affect Its Brand Equity? Vivek Astvansh, Nandini Ramani.

• The New ‘Parent’ Corporation (Moral Responsibility for Sophisticated AI Systems). Patrick Dieveney.

• Industry-Threatening Controversies Over Deeply Problematic Products: A Business Ethics Research Agenda. Ewan Kingston.

• Taylorism and Alienation in Labour Process: A Case of Amazon Warehouse in the UK. Miao Miao, Hui Situ.

• Leading by Example: The Role of Buyers’ Employee-Focused Stakeholder Orientation in Suppliers’ Working Conditions in Global Value Chains. Eugenia Rosca, Addisu Lashitew, Sehwon Kang.

• Struggling for Recognition: How Organizations Secure Identity in Marginalized Areas. Sara Lombardi, Deborah Gervasi, Lamberto Zollo.

• Biodiversity Conservation and Tax Avoidance. Sirui Wu, Wenfu Ding, Lingzhi Wang.

• Does Executive’s Hometown Identity Matter for Corporate Poverty Alleviation? Evidence from China. Kun Su, Senliulu Fu, Yasir Shahab.

• Resisting Equal Pay Policy Through Problem Manipulation: A Feminist Inquiry into Corporate Political Activity. Paula Koskinen Sandberg, Anna Maaranen, Meri Frig.

• Creating Shared Value Through Sports: Evidence from Corporate Sports Certification in Taiwan. Yin-Siang Huang, Shi-Yin Jhong, Wei-Cheng Hsu.

• Beyond Symbolism: How Public Governance Conditions the ESG Role of Board Gender Diversity. Shaista Wasiuzzaman, Janice C. Y. How, Dian Agustia.

• Business and Environmental Justice: From Political Economies to Political Ecologies. Gabriel Weber, Subhabrata Bobby Banerjee, Beatriz Saes.

• Outlining a Path Towards Sustainable Consumption Decision-Making: A Systematic Literature Review and Research Agenda on the Ethical Gap. Katharina Göring-Lensing-Hebben, Anna-Karina Schmitz, Martin Fassnacht.

• Voluntary Food Safety Information Disclosure and Firm Innovation. Suyun Chen, Zongze Li, Feixue Xie.

• Moral Disengagement as Micro-Foundation of Neoliberal Corporate Environmental Ethics. Fabien Littel, Ai Yu.

• Understanding NGO Activism for Environmental Justice in Restrictive Institutional Contexts. Natalia Yakovleva, Diego A. Vazquez-Brust, Klara Scheurenbrand.

• The Democratic Imperative in Everyone’s Business (Ron & Singer, 2024): From Negative to Positive Corporate Obligations. Iwan Alijew, Benedikt D. S. Kapteina.

• Ethical Dilemmas and Paradoxical Tensions in Decision-Making: Investigating Leadership Perspectives in Private and Public Sector Organisations. Gabriel Eweje, Aymen Sajjad, Prince Amoah.

• Working Behind the Scenes with the Enemy: The Tensions in Collaboration Between Contested Firms and NGOs to Produce Ethically Substantive CSR Communication. Pauline Alessandra, Thomas J. Roulet, Paul Chiambaretto.

• Do Media-Connected Executives Affect Corporate Greenwashing? Evidence from China. Quan Zeng, Xiaoshu Ren, Mengmeng Jiang.

• Justice, Identity, and Practical Reasonability in Stakeholder Theory: A Neo-Aristotelian Approach. Javier Pinto-Garay, Germán Scalzo, John Sikorski.

• Digitalization and Corporate Environmental Sustainability in an Ethical Context: Mapping the Landscape Through Meta-Analysis. Xuemei Xie, Yuhang Han.

• The Double-Edged Effects of Organizational Sustainability Orientation on Employees: The Moderating Role of Work Locus of Control. Liming Zhang, Linxin Guo, Qicheng Lu.

• The Interrelationship Between Digital Access and Modern Slavery. Mohamad Ali Safieddine, Suman Lodh, Roger Leonard Burritt.

• Balancing Choice and Privacy: Employee Reactions to Pronoun Disclosure Policies. Lauren E. Aydinliyim, Dorothea Roumpi, Danielle E. Warren.

• Empowering Change: Experimental Evidence on the Effects of a Social Skills Training Program on Women Entrepreneurs’ Well-Being and Societal Impact. Haiyan Li, Chengli Hu.

• Cultivating Innovation: The Role of Outdoor Green Space in Corporate Green Innovation. Zejing Guo, Yiwei Li, Yeqin Zeng.

• Seeking Legitimacy as Benefits or for Avoiding Penalties? TMT Educational Background and Corporate Social Responsibility. Xiaoming He, Zehui Liu, Xiaoyu Liao.

• How Anti-consumption Can Lead to Subjective Well-Being: A Closer Look at the Role of Time Orientation. Nieves García de Frutos, Solon Magrizos, Doga Istanbulluoglu.

Journal of Consumer Psychology

• Naturalness against environment-friendliness: The impact of shelf life on food perceptions and purchase decisions. Dan Liu, Yann Cornil, Xiaobing Xu.

• Titles framed as questions reduce reader engagement. David Fang, S. Christian Wheeler.

Journal of Consumer Research

• The Final Countdown: Temporal Frames of Environmental Threats. Ozlem Tetik and David Faro. 

• Fairness Perceptions in Demographic Targeting. Franklin Shaddy et al.

Journal of Environmental Economics and Management

• Ecological costs of energy infrastructure: Evidence from migratory bird tracking. Qiangyuan Chen, Jianmin Li, Yuanning Liang, Weiping Zhao, Tian Huang et al.

• Yesterday once more: The impacts of environmental regulations on multinational corporations’ reinvestment allocation in China. Bing Yan, Shaoyu Guo, Xiaojing Jiang, Wei Jin.

• Minimum Energy Performance Standards and House Price Capitalization: Evidence from France’s Rental Ban on “Energy Sieves.” Alexandre Garel, Eva Cheng.

• Quota regulation under corruption – Grand, petty and the cut-money culture. Ayushi Choudhary, Rupayan Pal.

• Environmental benefits of renewable energy: Evidence from coal mining-induced deforestation and air pollution emissions. Lin Yang, Wenjie Luo.

• Trade and the scopes of pollution: Evidence from China’s world market integration. Stefano Carattini, Hanwei Huang, Frank Pisch, Tejendra Pratap Singh.

• The welfare impacts of carbon taxes and labels on food demand. Marco Tomasi, Michela Faccioli, Carlo Fezzi, Ian J. Bateman.

• Do common shocks drive changes in aggregate emissions intensity? Xiyu Ren, Fulvia Marotta, François Lafond.

• Consumer response to environmental standards: Evidence from gasoline regulation in China. Yucheng Wang, Lei Zhang, Liyang Zhou.

• Disentangling the greening of the labor market: The role of changing occupations and worker flows. Ronald Bachmann, Markus Janser, Florian Lehmer, Christina Vonnahme.

• Trained to reduce food waste: Evidence from an RCT with micro-sized and small enterprises in Cusco’s hospitality industry. Cesar E. Del Pozo Loayza, José D. López-Rivas, Francisco Alpízar.

• Upstreamness, foreign environmental regulation and CO2 emissions in Indian manufacturing firms. Finn Ole Semrau.

• The impact of personalised digital information on vehicle choices in developing countries. Massimo Filippini, Nilkanth Kumar, Suchita Srinivasan.

• Electric vehicle charging at the workplace: Experimental evidence on incentives and environmental nudges. Teevrat Garg, Ryan Hanna, Jeffrey Myers, Sebastian Tebbe, David G. Victor.

• Headwind in sight? Wind turbine visibility spillovers and support for renewable energy policy. Vincent F. Stegmaier, Melanie Krause.

Journal of Finance

• The Rising Tide Lifts Some Interest Rates: Climate Change, Natural Disasters, and Loan Pricing. Ricardo Correa, Ai He, Christoph Herpfer, Ugur Lel.

• Climate Change, Demand Uncertainty, and Firms’ Investments: Evidence from Planned Power Plants. Chen Lin, Thomas Schmid, Michael S. Weisbach.

• Funding Black High-Growth Startups. Lisa D. Cook, Matt Marx, Emmanuel Yimfor.

Journal of Financial and Qualitative Analysis

• Appointing Charity Directors in Response to ESG Incidents. Marina Gertsberg, Hae Won (Henny) Jung, Yuyang Zhang.

• Do Product Market Threats Discipline Corporate Misconduct? Jie Chen, Xunhua Su, Xuan Tian, Bin Xu, Xiaoyu Zhang.

• Politically Polarized Depositors. Jinoug Jeung.

• Women in Politics: The Effect on Board Diversity. Simi Kedia, Ankur Pareek.

Journal of International Business Studies

• The green frontier: circular economy and firm resilience in multinational enterprises and internationally engaged firms. Ibrahim Shaheen, Francesco Devicienti, Davide Vannoni.

• Multinational enterprises’ strategic responses to geopolitical tensions and sanctions. Rajeev J. Sawant, Abdul-Kadir Ameyaw, Yuan Li.

• Violent conflicts, institutional friction, and foreign divestment: the case of MNCs’ market exit from Russia. Dirk Holtbrügge, Marc Oberhauser, Laura Kirste.

• The two Coases of green governance: multinational enterprises and the internalization of environmental externalities through green innovation. Elizabeth Yi Wang, Jeremy Clegg, Jiahui Cheng.

• Collectivist culture and corporate social responsibility. Xin Yu, Shijun Guo, Zhou Zhang.

MIS Quarterly

• Regulating AI: Lessons From Scientific Computing. Jonathan Wareham, Angelo Kenneth Romasanta, Laia Pujol Priego, David Osimo.

• Autistic Traits, Theory of Mind, and Implications for IT Professionals’ Emotional Labor and Mental Well-Being. Ronnie Jia, Cynthia K. Riemenschneider, Heather H. Jia. 

Operations Research

• Last-Mile Delivery of Malaria Prevention Products in the DRC: An Inventory Management Model Under Supply Chain Disruptions. Baris Ata, Amy Lehman, Robert John Montgomery.

• Reducing Manual Labeling Effort in Imbalanced Data Sets: Active Learning for Detecting Illicit Massage Business Reviews. Margaret Tobey, Maria E. Mayorga, Sherrie Bosisto, Osman Y. Özaltın.

Organization and Environment

• Carbon Subsumption: How Governing Net Zero Makes Biodiversity Invisible in Corporate Sustainability. Siavash Alimadadi, Jonatan Pinkse.

• Buffering or Binding? Political Connections and Firms’ Sustainability Disclosure Strategies in China. Mengqi Xie, Qichang Ma, Kwan Nok Chan.

• Life-Affirming Organizations (LAOs): An Integrated Framework of Normative Foundations, Structural Reconfigurations, and Contextualized Enactment. Maria Della Lucia, Stefan Lazic, Ericka Costa.

• Bringing Business Academics Back to Their Senses: Reorienting Research and Teaching for an Unsustainable World. Andrew J. Hoffman, P. Devereaux Jennings.

• Transforming Our World, or Their Tax Rates? The Relation Between Corporate SDG Engagement and Tax Avoidance. Kristof Struyfs, Thomas Thijssens.

• Building on Sand? Third-Party Sustainability Measures in the Business Literature. Tyson Timmer, Magali A. Delmas, Charles J. Corbett.

• Minding the Circularity Gap: Modelling the Impact of Green Organisational Strategy and Norms on Employees’ High-Intensity Green Behavioural Intentions. Marin Kristine Brown, Svein Åge Kjøs Johnsen.

• Mainstreaming Sustainability: Integration Within Business-as-Usual or Transformative Change? Eva Niesten, Frank G. A. de Bakker, Frederik Dahlmann, Carolyn P. Egri.

• From Disclosure to Democracy? A Content Analysis of Stakeholder Engagement Processes in Sustainability Reports. Julie Bernard, Kim Ceulemans, Olivier Boiral, Marie-Christine Brotherton.

• What Counts as Environmental Work? How Gender Regimes Shape Organizational Practice. Ambreen Tour Ben-Shmuel. 

• Climate Action Through Governance Chains: Investor Coalitions and the Fallacy of Scale. Nikolaus Hastreiter, Richard Perkins.

• Stuck in Transition: Boundary Work, Banking Business Models, and the Challenge of Mainstreaming Sustainability. Thordis Katla Bjartmarz.

• Fitting in by Talking Through: Reconciling Strategy-Image Tensions and Making Sustainability Fit Legacy. Christina M. Bidmon.

• Mainstreaming Climate Risk: How Tools, Complexity, and Salience Shape Business‑as‑Usual and Transformational Strategic Responses. Elisabeth Krull-Kuper, Yiwen Sun, Mercedes Bleda, Jonatan Pinkse.

• When Corporate Actions Do Not Lead to Purported Impact: Type II Greenwashing as a Barrier to Sustainability Mainstreaming. Aurélien Feix, Moritz Gruban, Âriel de Fauconberg.

• Bridging the Intention–Action Gap: A Maturity-Contingent Model of Corporate Sustainability Integration. Victoria Kemanian, Rosina Watson, Andrew Angus.

Organization Science

• Employee “Free” Speech vs. Organizational Censorship on Social Media: Balancing the Tension Between Free Expression and Safeguards to Foster Psychological Safety. Brittany C. Solomon, Alexandra K. Scott, Matthew E. K. Hall.

• Managing Social Impact: An Integrated Approach and Research Agenda. Aseem Kaul, Jiao Luo, Jasjit Singh. 

• Where Sentence Is Served: Entrepreneurship and Socioeconomic Mobility Among Ex-Offenders. Vera Rocha, Stefanie Sayuri Sunao.

• Technology (Non)Emergence: How System Interdependencies Among Activities by Heterogeneous Actors Shaped Alternative Solar Technology Trajectories. Mara Guerra, Rajshree Agarwal.

Psychological Science

• A Field Experiment Testing Whether Accountability Reduces Racial Gaps in Performance Evaluations. Edward H. Chang, Erika L. Kirgios, Cansin Arslan.

• Registered Report: Can Agentic Black Women Get Ahead? An Experiment Revisited. Coco Xinyue Liu, B. Ariel Blair, Elizabeth R. Tenney.

Research Policy

• Greening but concentrating? The unintended effects of China’s voluntary participatory environmental regulations on firms’ innovation portfolios. Dongyang Zhang, Dingchuan Bai, Yurun He, Rui Guo.

• Can FinTech innovate green finance? Scrutinising the financial ecologies and innovation dynamics of FinTech for forest restoration. Jack L. Harris, Felicia Liu, Benjamin S. Thompson.

• Business model innovation for disruptive sustainability: A theorizing review on how interdependencies between business model components reshape the problem-solution nexus. Maria Schmidt, Aoife Brophy, Philipp Trotter.

• From expertise to action: STEM-related human capital in top management teams and corporate climate adaptation and resilience. David Bendig, Thomas Schäper, Katharina Hennes, Colin Schulz.

• Discontinuous but not disruptive: Lessons from green steel on sustainability innovation pathways for foundation industries. Viktor M. Salenius, Richard Cuthbertson, Jennifer Howard-Grenville.

• Problematic persistence of innovation: Breakdowns and sociotechnical maintenance of the world’s most enduring herbicide technology. Shane Hamilton, Beatrice D’Ippolito.

• Reaching for low-hanging fruits and staying in low-value paths: Introducing capability trap theory to transition studies. Maria Tomai, George Papachristos.

• Gold or green finger? Government involvement in venture capital investments and target firms’ green innovations. Michelle Xiaomin Fan, Kenneth G. Huang.

Sloan Management Review

• Why Water Management Is a Strategic Concern. Frederik Dahlmann et al.

• The Elusiveness of Merit-Based Hiring. Kyle Brink.

• How a Healthy Work Culture Helps Trauma Survivors. Payal Sharma et al.

• How Nespresso Builds Sustainability Into Its Business Model. Jean-Christophe Jaunin, interviewed by MIT Sloan Management Review.

• The Empathy Tax Female Leaders Pay. Colleen Ammerman, Deepa Purushothaman.

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