Table of Contents: June 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 June 2023

Academy of Management Journal 

• Echoes from the Past: The Impact of Racial Transference on Leader Selection during Succession. McKenzie C Preston, Andrew M. Carton. 

• The Publicization of Organizational Misconduct: A Social Structural Approach. Alessandro Piazza, Julien Jourdan.

• How Much Inequity Do You See? Structural Power, Perceptions of Gender and Racial Inequity, and Support for Diversity Initiatives. Christopher To, Elad N. Sherf, Maryam Kouchaki.

• How Do Field Workers in Poverty Craft Meaningful Roles to Achieve Social Impact? Female Teachers in Slums in India. Harry G Barkema,  Jacqueline A-M Coyle-Shapiro, Eva M. le Grand.

• The Gendered Liability of Venture Novelty Zhenyu Liao,  Jack H. Zhang,  Nan Wang, William P. Bottom,  Dirk Deichmann, Pok Man Tang.

Academy of Management Perspectives 

• Beyond the Brave New Nudge: Activating Ethical Reflection over Behavioral Reaction. Julian Friedland, Kristian Ove R. Myrseth, David B. Balkin.

• The Rise of Dishonest Leaders: Causes and Solutions. Elizabeth Huppert, Emma E. Levine.

• A Place for Critical Race Theory and Wokeness in Diversity Strategies, Akwasi Opoku-Dakwa, Darryl B. Rice.

• Sexual Harassment in NPOs: How the Nature of Work Facilitates Moral Licensing. Jeroen Camps.

• Beyond collective action: Heterogeneous stakeholders influence on firms in the digital age. Elanor Colleoni,  Stelios (Stylianos) Zyglidopoulos, Laura Illia.

Accounting, Organizations and Society 

• Styles of verification and the pursuit of organisational repair: The case of social impact. Sarah Adams, Matthew Hall, Xinning Xiao. 

• Calorie accounting: The introduction of mandatory calorie labelling on menus in the UK food sector. Ingrid Jeacle, Chris Carter.

• Discussion of “The ESG stopping effect: Do investor reactions differ across the lifespan of ESG initiatives?” Donald Young.

• Algorithmic management and the politics of demand: Control and resistance at Uber. Emma McDaid, Paul Andon, Clinton Free.

American Economic Review 

• The Old Boys’ Club: Schmoozing and the Gender Gap. Zoë Cullen, Ricardo Perez-Truglia.

• The Value of Working Conditions in the United States and the Implications for the Structure of Wages. Nicole Maestas, Kathleen J. Mullen, David Powell, Till von Wachter, Jeffrey B. Wenger.

• Occupational Exposure to Capital-Embodied Technical Change. Julieta Caunedo, David Jaume, Elisa Keller.

Business and Society  

• ESG Leaders or Laggards? A Configurational Analysis of ESG Performance. Krista Lewellyn, Maureen Muller-Kahle.

• Being Reassuring About the Past While Promising a Better Future: How Companies Frame Temporal Focus in Social Responsibility Reporting. Annamaria Tuan, Matteo Corciolani, Elisa Giuliani.

• Defiance and Sympathy: Heterogeneity of Experiences Among Members of a Stigmatized Organization. Sung-Chul Noh, Kyoung-Hee Yu.

• The Impact of Employee Stakeholder Orientation on Job Satisfaction and Perspective-Taking. Bidhan L. Parmar, Andrew C. Wicks, Karim Ginena.

• Exit, Voice, or Both: Why Organizations Engage With Stakeholders. Adrien Billiet, Johan Bruneel, Frédéric Dufays.

• Scaling Up Sustainability From an Operational Capability to a Dynamic Capability: The Case of Royal Bank of Scotland. Veselina Stoyanova, Stoyan P. Stoyanov.

• Sustaining the Integration of Social Objectives Over Time: A Case-Based Analysis of Access to Medicine in the Pharmaceutical Industry. Tobias Bünder, Nikolas Rathert, Johanna Mair.

• Clearing Opacity: Change Management via Leader Transparency in Native American Neotraditional Organizations. Andrew K. Schnackenberg, Maurice Harris, Jon Panamaroff, Colleen Reilly, Lekshmy Sankar, Sean Scally.

• Why I Hesitate to Have a Child: Eco-Anxiety and Reproduction Concerns. Onna Malou van den Broek.

• Social-Market Hybridity in Social Ventures: Scale Development and Validation. Jiawei Sophia Fu.

• Navigating Disruptive Times: How Cross-Sector Partnerships in a Development Context Built Resilience During the COVID-19 Pandemic Outbreak. Leona A. Henry.

• Institutional Hegemony of a Logic Within a Cross-Sector Partnership. Barbara Harsman.

• Political CSR and Populism: Toward an Information-Based Theory of Political CSR. Zena Al-Esia, Andrew Crane, Kostas Iatridis.

• Do They Mind the Gap? The Role of Founders in Organizational Pay Dispersion. Myrto Chliova, Gabriella Cacciotti, Teemu Kautonen.

• Public Health and Political Corporate Social Responsibility: Pharmaceutical Company Engagement in COVAX. Markus Scholz, N. Craig Smith, Maria Riegler, Anna Burton.

• A Responsibility to Whom? Populism and Its Effects on Corporate Social Responsibility. Christopher A. Hartwell, Timothy M. Devinney.

• Does Multimarket Contact Dampen Corporate Philanthropy? A Study on the Geographic Allocation of Corporate Philanthropy. Xianyi Long, Xinming Deng, Douglas A. Schuler.

Ecological Economics 

• Macro level matters: Advancing circular economy in different business systems within Europe. Melissa Gutberlet, Lutz Preuss, Andrea Stevenson Thorpe.

• Targeting socioeconomic transformations to achieve global sustainability. Teemu Koskimäki.

• How do nature governance rules affect compliance decisions? An experimental analysis. Suzanne Kingston, Zizhen Wang.

• Can contract farming support sustainable intensification in agri-food value chains? Chiara Sophia Weituschat, Stefano Pascucci, Valentina Cristiana Materia, Francesco Caracciolo.

• Climate change, income sources, crop mix, and input use decisions: Evidence from Nigeria. Mulubrhan Amare, Bedru Balana.

• Climate change impacts on Mediterranean fisheries: A sensitivity and vulnerability analysis for main commercial species. Shekoofeh Farahmand, Nathalie Hilmi, Mine Cinar, Alain Safa, Virginie Raybaud.

• Understanding citizen investment in renewable energy communities. Marie-Charlotte Guetlein, Joachim Schleich.

• Macroeconomic impacts of water allocation under droughts. Accounting for global supply chains in a multiregional context. Iban Ortuzar, Ana Serrano, Àngels Xabadia.

• Tropical mixed-species plantations can outperform monocultures in terms of carbon sequestration and economic return. Arne Pinnschmidt, Rasoul Yousefpour, Anja Nölte, Marc Hanewinkel.

• Ethical underpinnings for the economy of the Anthropocene: Sustainability ethics as key to a sustainable economy. Christian U. Becker.

• The effects of environmental performance and green innovation on corporate venture capital. Ramzi Benkraiem, Emmanuelle Dubocage, Yann Lelong, Fatima Shuwaikh.

• Trends in private sector engagement with biodiversity: EU listed companies’ disclosure and indicators. Miguel Marco-Fondevila, Igor Álvarez-Etxeberría.

• The role of hybrid governance in supporting deforestation-free trade. Romain Pirard, Pablo Pacheco, Claudia Romero.

• The power of wind: The global wind energy industry’s successes and failures. Oliver Summerfield-Ryan, Susan Park.

• Environmental credit constraints and pollution reduction: Evidence from China’s blacklisting system for environmental fraud. Danyang Di, Guoxiang Li, Zhiyang Shen, Malin Song, Michael Vardanyan.

• Mindfulness and green purchase intention: A mediated moderation model uncovering the role of ethical self-identity. Carole Daniel, Elodie Gentina, Tavleen Kaur.

• Will adoption occur if a practice is win-win for profit and the environment? An application to a rancher’s grazing practice choices. Yuyuan Che, Hongli Feng, David A. Hennessy.

• The implementation of green transformation through clusters. Anna Maria Lis, Marta Mackiewicz.

• Investigating the role of passive funds in carbon-intensive capital markets: Evidence from U.S. bonds. Christian Wilson, Ben Caldecott.

• Changes in inequality for solar panel uptake by Australian homeowners. Rohan Best, Andrea Chareunsy, Madeline Taylor.

• Global and Local Spatial Spill-Overs: What Matters Most for the Diffusion of Organic Agriculture in Australia? Maksuda Mannaf, Sarah Ann Wheeler, Alec Zuo.

• Green securities policy and the environmental performance of firms: Assessing the impact of China’s pre-IPO environmental inspection policy. Shanshan Wu, Jing Zhang, Robert J.R. Elliott.

• An Indian Green Deal: Greening our way out of the pandemic. Rohit Azad, Shouvik Chakraborty.

• Consumers’ willingness to pay for an animal welfare food label. Matthew Gorton, Ching-Hua Yeh, Elena Chatzopoulou, John White, Fiona Hallam.

• Definitions of the circular economy: Circularity matters. Frank Figge, Andrea Stevenson Thorpe, Melissa Gutberlet.

• Anti-corruption and corporate pollution mitigation: Evidence from China. Zhifang Zhou, Shangjie Han, Zhiying Huang, Xu Cheng.

• Directors’ and officers’ liability insurance, environmental regulation and firms’ environmental responsibility. Xuejiao Zhang, Shoufeng Huang, Wanfu Li, Yu Wang.

• Tracing embodied energy use through global value chains: Channel decomposition and analysis of influential factors. Meng Li, Yuning Gao, Bo Meng, Jing Meng.

• Pulp and participation: Assessing the legitimacy of participatory environmental governance in Umkomaas, South Africa. Hali Healy. 

• Insurance value of biodiversity in the Anthropocene is the full resilience value. Thomas Hahn, Giles B. Sioen, Alexandros Gasparatos, Thomas Elmqvist, Kazuhiko Takeuchi

Journal of Accounting Research 

• Racial Diversity Exposure and Firm Responses Following the Murder of George Floyd. Karthik Balakrishnan, Rafael Copat, Daniela De la Parra, K. Ramesh.

• Executive Compensation Tied to ESG Performance: International Evidence. Shira Cohen, Igor Kadach, Gaizka Ormazabal, Stefan Reichelstein.

• Transmission Effects of ESG Disclosure Regulations Through Bank Lending Networks. Lynn Linghuan Wang.

Journal of Management Information Systems  

• Design Concerns for Multiorganizational, Multistakeholder Collaboration: A Study in the Healthcare Industry. Scott Thiebes, Fangjian Gao, Robert O. Briggs, Manuel Schmidt-Kraepelin, Ali Sunyaev.

Journal of Marketing   

• The Past and Future of Gender Research in Marketing: Paradigms, Stances, and Value-Based Commitments. Lisa Peñaloza, Andrea Prothero, Pierre McDonagh, Kathrynn Pounders.

• Give Me the Facts or Make Me Feel: How to Effectively Persuade Consumers to Act on a Collective Goal. Liyin Jin, Yajin Wang, Ying Zhang. 
  

Journal of Political Economy 

• The Conservation Multiplier. Bård Harstad.

Manufacturing and Service Operations Management 

• Evidence of the Unintended Labor Scheduling Implications of the Minimum Wage. Qiuping Yu, Shawn Mankad, Masha Shunko.

• Mobile Money Operations: Policies for Managing Cash and Digital Currency Inventories in the Developing World. Karthik Balasubramanian, David F. Drake, Jason Acimovic, Douglas Fearing.

• Detecting Human Trafficking: Automated Classification of Online Customer Reviews of Massage Businesses. Ruoting Li, Margaret Tobey, Maria E. Mayorga, Sherrie Caltagirone, Osman Y. Özaltın.

• Value and Design of Traceability-Driven Blockchains. Yao Cui, Ming Hu, Jingchen Liu.

Marketing Science 

• Making Inclusive Product Design a Reality: How Company Culture and Research Bias Impact Investment. Jeffrey D. Shulman, Zheyin (Jane) Gu.

• Does Concealing Gender Identity Help Women Win the Competition? An Empirical Investigation into Online Video Games. Xinlei (Jack) Chen, Xiahua Zeng, Cheng Zhang.

Production and Operations Management 

• Migrant flows: Humanitarian operational aspects of people in transit. Sameer Prasad, Harish Borra, Jason Woldt, Nezih Altay, Jasmine Tata.

• Equitable distribution of perishable items in a food bank supply chain. Irem Sengul Orgut, Emmett J. Lodree.

• A machine learning approach to deal with ambiguity in the humanitarian decision-making. Emilia Grass,  Janosch Ortmann,  Burcu Balcik,  Walter Rei.

• Offset or reduce: How should firms implement carbon footprint reduction initiatives? Nils Roemer, Gilvan C. Souza, Christian Tröster, Guido Voigt.

• Improving drinking water access and equity in rural Sub-Saharan Africa. Chengcheng Zhai,  Kurt Bretthauer,  Jorge Mejia,  Alfonso Pedraza-Martinez.

• Rigidity in crisis: The impact of OHSAS 18001 certification on production repurposing during COVID-19. Yuxiao Ye, Shenyang Jiang, Di Fan, Baofeng Huo, Magie Wenjing Liu.

• Coordinated charging station search in stochastic environments: A multiagent approach. Marianne Guillet, Maximilian Schiffer.

• Interfirm knowledge sharing for energy efficiency. Jaeseok Lee, Seongkyoon Jeong, Hyun Ju Jung.

• Undiversity, inequity, and exclusion in supply chains: The unintended fallout of economic sanctions and consumer boycotts. Timofey Shalpegin, Ajay Kummar, Tyson R. Browning.

• Long-term service agreement in electricity supply chain with renewable energy penetration. Panos Kouvelis, Hirofumi Matsuo, Yixuan Xiao, Quan Yuan.

• Managing pandemics: A POM perspective and directions for future research. Edward Anderson, Sushil Gupta, Nitin Joglekar, Martin Starr.

Quarterly Journal of Economics 

• The Damages and Distortions from Discrimination in the Rental Housing Market. Peter Christensen, Christopher Timmins.

• Market Power and Spatial Competition in Rural India. Shoumitro Chatterjee.

 Review of Accounting Studies 

• Green dies in darkness? environmental externalities of newspaper closures. John Xuefeng Jiang, Jing Kong.

• Trust, social capital, and the bond market benefits of ESG performance. Hami Amiraslani, Karl V. Lins, Ane Tamayo.

• Social media, signaling, and donations: testing the financial returns on nonprofits’ social media investment. Erica E. Harris, Daniel G. Neely, Gregory D. Saxton.

• When doing good for society is good for shareholders: importance of alignment between strategy and CSR performance. Rajiv D. Banker, Xinjie Ma, Yue Zhang.

Review of Economic Studies 

• The Slaughter of the Bison and Reversal of Fortunes on the Great Plains. Donn L Feir, et al.

• The Economic Geography of Global Warming. José-Luis Cruz, Esteban Rossi-Hansberg.

Review of Finance  

• Are Carbon Emissions Associated with StockReturns?—Reply Jitendra Aswani, et al.

• Low Carbon Mutual Funds. Marco Ceccarelli, et al.

• Director Expertise and Corporate Sustainability. Peter Iliev, Lukas Roth.

Review of Financial Studies   

• Welfare Consequences of Sustainable Finance. Harrison Hong, et al.

• ES Risks and Shareholder Voice. Yazhou, Ellen He, et al.

• Sea-Level Rise Exposure and Municipal Bond Yields. Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham, et al.

Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal  

• Fintech and banks as complements in microentrepreneurship. Arzi Adbi, Siddharth Natarajan.

• Environmental change, strategic entrepreneurial action, and success: Introduction to a special issue on an important, neglected topic. Per Davidsson, Jan Recker, Dominic Chalmers, Sara Carter.

• External enablers and entrepreneurial ecosystems: The brokering role of the anchor tenant in capacitating grassroots ecopreneurs. Norma Juma, Joy Olabisi, Eliada Griffin-EL.

Strategic Management Journal 

• CSR decoupling within business groups and the risk of perceived greenwashing. Joel Bothello, Ioannis Ioannou, Vlad-Andrei Porumb, Yasemin Zengin-Karaibrahimoglu.

• Bad medicine: Litigation, competition, and the marketing of prescription opioids. David Tan, Nicole V. West.

• Effect of organizational status on employment-related corporate social responsibility: Evidence from a regression discontinuity approach. Tanya Y. Tian, Brayden G. King, Edward B. Smith.

• Shifting perspectives: How scrutiny shapes the relationship between CEO gender and acquisition activity. Daniel L. Gamache, Cynthia E. Devers, Felice B. Klein, Timothy Hannigan.

• The disparate economic outcomes of stigma: Evidence from the arms industry. Mohamad Sadri, Alessandro Piazza, Kam Phung, Wesley Helms.

• A rivalry-based theory of gender diversity. John Kenneth Mawdsley, Lionel Paolella, Rodolphe Durand.

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