Table of Contents: June 2021

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 June 2021

Academy Of Management Journal

• Paradox Peers: A Relational Approach to Navigating a Business-Society Paradox. Vontrese Deeds Pamphile

• The Analogical Construction of Stigma as a Moral Dualism: The Case of the Fossil Fuel Divestment Movement. George Ferns, Aliette Lambert, Maik Gunther.

Accounting, Organizations and Society

• Mothering in accounting: Feminism, motherhood, and making partnership in accountancy in Germany and the UK. Patrizia Kokot-Blamey.

American Economic Review

• On Her Own Account: How Strengthening Women’s Financial Control Impacts Labor Supply and Gender Norms. Erica Field, Rohini Pande, Natalia Rigol, Simone Schaner, Charity Troyer Moore.

Business and Society

• Toward a Theoretical Framework of Corporate Social Irresponsibility: Clarifying the Gray Zones Between Responsibility and Irresponsibility. Cynthia E. Clark, Marta Riera, María Iborra.

• Involving, Countering, and Overlooking Stakeholder Networks in Soft Regulation: Case Study of a Small-to-Medium-Sized Enterprise’s Implementation of SA8000. Manal El Abboubi, Ashly H. Pinnington, Stewart R. Clegg, Katerina Nicolopoulou.

• The Moral Relationality of Professionalism Discourses: The Case of Corporate Social Responsibility Practitioners in South Korea. Hyemi Shin, Charles H. Cho, Marion Brivot, Jean-Pascal Gond.

• In Praise of Involvement. Laura J. Spence, Paul du Gay.

• Business School Rankings: The Financial Times’ Experience and Evolutions. Andrew Jack.

• Moving Beyond Sisyphus: Pursuing Sustainable Development in a Business-as-Usual World. Sarah Easter, Kim Ceulemans, Monty L. Lynn.

• Three Different Approaches to Impact: Translating, Cocreating, and Performing. Pratima (Tima) Bansal, Garima Sharma.

• Organizing Means–Ends Decoupling: Core–Compartment Separations in Fast Fashion. Herman I. Stål, Hervé Corvellec.

• Capabilities of Bottom of the Pyramid Organizations. Farley Simon Nobre, Rodrigo L. Morais-da-Silva.

• From the Editors: Introducing Business & Society Commentary. Frank G. A. de Bakker, Hari Bapuji, Jill A. Brown, Colin Higgins, Kathleen Rehbein, Andrew Spicer.

• Corporate Social Responsibility: Perspectives on the CSR Construct’s Development and Future. Archie B. Carroll.

Ecological Economics

• Do we need a ‘circular society’? Competing narratives of the circular economy in the French food sector. Sina Leipold, Kaja Weldner, Marius Hohl.

• Austrian Air – Just Clean for Locals: A Nationwide Analysis of Environmental Inequality. Thomas Neier.

• Potential outcomes and impacts of organic group certification in Italy: An evaluative case study. Francesco Solfanelli, Emel Ozturk, Patrizia Pugliese, Raffaele Zanoli.

• Carbon footprint information, prices, and restaurant wine choices by customers: A natural field experiment. Claudio Soregaroli, Elena Claire Ricci, Stefanella Stranieri, Rodolfo M. Nayga, Ettore Capri, Elena Castellari.

• How to stimulate environmentally friendly consumption: Evidence from a nationwide social experiment in Japan to promote eco-friendly coffee. Ryo Takahashi.

• Sustainable commodity governance and the global south. Hamish van der Ven, Yixian Sun, Benjamin Cashore.

• When the circular economy diverges: The co-evolution of biogas business models and material circuits in Finland. Helena Valve, David Lazarevic, Niko Humalisto.

• Managing spatial sustainability trade-offs: The case of wind power. Paul Lehmann, Kathrin Ammermann, Erik Gawel, Charlotte Geiger, … Elisabeth Wolfram.

• Circular economy, degrowth and green growth as pathways for research on sustainable development goals: A global analysis and future agenda. Luis Jesús Belmonte-Ureña, José Antonio Plaza-Úbeda, Diego Vazquez-Brust, Natalia Yakovleva.

• Opening the organisational black box to grasp the difficulties of agroecological transition. An empirical analysis of tensions in agroecological production cooperatives. Lou Plateau, Laurence Roudart, Marek Hudon, Kevin Maréchal.

• Untangling the underlying drivers of the use of single-use food packaging. Sabrina Chakori, Ammar Abdul Aziz, Carl Smith, Paul Dargusch.

Journal of Marketing

• Genetic Data: Potential Uses and Misuses in Marketing. Remi Daviet, Gideon Nave, Jerry Wind.

• Better Marketing for a Better World. Rajesh K. Chandy, Gita Venkataramani Johar, Christine Moorman, John H. Roberts.

• Social Media, Influencers, and Adoption of an Eco-Friendly Product: Field Experiment Evidence from Rural China. Wanqing Zhang, Pradeep K. Chintagunta, Manohar U. Kalwani.

• Buy Less, Buy Luxury: Understanding and Overcoming Product Durability Neglect for Sustainable Consumption. Jennifer J. Sun, Silvia Bellezza, Neeru Paharia.

• “How Do I Carry All This Now?” Understanding Consumer Resistance to Sustainability Interventions. Claudia Gonzalez-Arcos, Alison M. Joubert, Daiane Scaraboto, Rodrigo Guesalaga, Jörgen Sandberg.

• From Waste to Taste: How “Ugly” Labels Can Increase Purchase of Unattractive Produce. Siddhanth (Sid) Mookerjee, Yann Cornil, JoAndrea Hoegg.

• Marketplace Literacy as a Pathway to a Better World: Evidence from Field Experiments in Low-Access Subsistence Marketplaces. Madhubalan Viswanathan, Nita Umashankar, Arun Sreekumar, Ashley Goreczny.

Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science

• Corporate social responsibility in luxury contexts: potential pitfalls and how to overcome them. Jenni Sipilä, Sascha Alavi, Christian Schmitz.

• Effects of front-of-pack labels on the nutritional quality of supermarket food purchases: evidence from a large-scale randomized controlled trial. Pierre Dubois, Paulo Albuquerque, Pierre Chandon.

Manufacturing and Service Operations Management

• Labor Welfare in On-Demand Service Platforms. Saif Benjaafar, Jian-Ya Ding, Guangwen Kong, Terry Taylor. 

Production and Operations Management

• The Effect of Tightening Standards on Automakers’ Non-compliance. Kejia Hu, Sunil Chopra, Yuche Chen.

• Supply Chain Carbon Footprinting and Climate Change Disclosures of Global Firms. Christian C. Blanco.

• Managing the Inter-Functional Tension between Accounting- and Financial-Profits in Remanufacturing Multiple-Usecycle Products. Akshay Mutha, Saurabh Bansal, V. Daniel R. Guide.

• The Impact of a Spill or Pollution Accident on Firm Environmental Activity: An Empirical Investigation. Rick Hardcopf, Rachna Shah, Suvrat Dhanorkar.

Quarterly Journal of Economics

• Concessions, Violence, and Indirect Rule: Evidence from the Congo Free State. Sara Lowes, Eduardo Montero.

• Unions and Inequality over the Twentieth Century: New Evidence from Survey Data. Henry S Farber, Daniel Herbst, Ilyana Kuziemko, Suresh Naidu.

 Review of Accounting Studies

• Financial misconduct and employee mistreatment: Evidence from wage theft. Aneesh Raghunandan.

Review of Economic Studies

• Anonymity or Distance? Job Search and Labour Market Exclusion in a Growing African City. Girum Abebe, A Stefano Caria, Marcel Fafchamps, Paolo Falco, Simon Franklin, Simon Quinn.

Review of Financial Studies 

• Socially Responsible Investing in Good and Bad Times. Ravi Bansal, Di (Andrew) Wu, Amir Yaron.

• Business Restrictions and COVID-19 Fatalities. Matthew Spiegel, Heather Tookes.

•  Financial Constraints and Corporate Environmental Policies. Qiping Xu, Taehyun Kim.

• Get Real! Individuals Prefer More Sustainable Investments. Rob Bauer, Tobias Ruof, Paul Smeets.

• Gendered Prices. Renée B Adams, Roman Kräussl, Marco Navone, Patrick Verwijmeren.

Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal

• Work–family conflict and microfinance diversion. Soo Jung Kim, Seung-Hyun Lee, Yun Dong Yeo.

• Policy for innovative entrepreneurship: Institutions, interventions, and societal challenges. Steven W. Bradley, Phillip H. Kim, Peter G. Klein, Jeffery S. McMullen, Karl Wennberg.

Strategic Management Journal

• Giving a little to many or a lot to a few? The returns to variety in corporate philanthropy. Haram Seo, Jiao Luo, Aseem Kaul.

• Examining investor reactions to appointments of Black top management executives and CEOs. David M. Gligor, Millorad Novicevic, Javad Feizabadi, Andrew Stapleton.

• Shareholder activism and firms’ voluntary disclosure of climate change risks. Caroline Flammer, Michael W. Toffel, Kala Viswanathan.

• CEO early-life disaster experience and corporate social performance. Don O’Sullivan, Leon Zolotoy, Qingliang Fan.

• Follow the smoke: The pollution haven effect on global sourcing. Heather Berry, Aseem Kaul, Narae Lee.

• Value, rent, and profit: A stakeholder resource-based theory. J. W. Stoelhorst.

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