Table of Contents: June 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 June 2026

Academy of Management Annals

• From Collective Dilemmas to Collective Solutions: An Integrative Framework and Research Agenda for Collective Action and Sustainability Research. Christina Hertel, Siddharth Vedula, Sophie Bacq, Rossella Rocchino.

• Contention, Corporate Activism, and Collaboration: The Blurring Boundaries between Firms and Social Movements. Kate Odziemkowska, Forrest Briscoe.

• Building Inclusive Markets: A Review and Synthesis of the Interplay between Intermediaries and Institutions. Mohammad Zainuddin, Babita Bhatt, Israr Qureshi, Christopher Sutter, Michael Lounsbury.

• Another World Is Possible—It Is Already Here: A Review and Research Agenda on Alternative Organizing. Devi Vijay, Héloïse Berkowitz, Benjamin Huybrechts, Luc K. Audebrand, Marcos Barros, Marianna Fotaki.

• Greed: A Multilevel Interdisciplinary Review. Katalin Takacs-Haynes, Kyle Emich, Kurt Norder.

Academy of Management Journal

• Social Intermediation amid Extreme Marginalization: The Morpho-Regeneration of Fractured Reflexivity. Andrea Sottini, Alessandro Giudici, Benedetto Lorenzo Cannatelli.

• When Does Appointing a Female Director Influence CEO Pay Raises? Investigating the Conditions that Unleash Her Minority Influence in the Boardroom. Su Chen, Jie (Jasmine) Feng, María Del Carmen Triana.

• From Culprit to Cure: How Incumbents Use Prognostic Framing to Turn Societal Problem Sources into Solutions. Hannah Schupfer, Birthe Soppe.

Academy of Management Perspectives

• Matching Stigma Sources to Social Change Strategies: A Framework from FemTech Entrepreneurship. Neva Bojovic, Rachel Braun Scherl, Padmaja Agrade.

Accounting, Organizations and Society

• “So I beg you, just let me suffer silently and see how I can cope with it.” Accounting, Corruption, and (A)Morality. Philippe J.C. Lassou, Matt Bamber, Mathew Tsamenyi, Kwasi Awuah-Werekoh.

American Economic Review

• The Unequal Economic Consequences of Carbon Pricing. Diego R. Känzig.

• Racial Promotion Gaps. Deepak Hegde, Alexander Ljungqvist, Manav Raj.

• The Environmental Bias of Corporate Income Taxation. Luigi Iovino, Thorsten Martin, Julien Sauvagnat.

• Corporate Tax Cuts, Firm Growth, and Workers’ Earnings. Patrick J. Kennedy, Christine L. Dobridge, Paul Landefeld, Jacob Mortenson.

• Taxing Top Wealth: Migration Responses and their Aggregate Economic Implications. Katrine Jakobsen, Henrik Kleven, Jonas Kolsrud, Camille Landais, Mathilde Munoz.

• Additionality and Asymmetric Information in Environmental Markets: Evidence from Conservation Auctions. Karl M. Aspelund, Anna Russo.

• The Gender Pay Gap: Micro Sources and Macro Consequences. Iacopo Morchio, Christian Moser.

Business and Society

• Caste-Based Homophily and Value Delivery in a Service Context: Evidence from an Emerging Market. Aindrila Chatterjee, Amit J. Chauradia, Kiran Pedada. 

• Lost in Epistemic Translation. Doina Huso.

• Exit Staged Right? Understanding Founder Imprints and Strategy Effects on the Sale and Transfer of a Hybrid Social Enterprise. Peter W. Moroz, Rick Colbourne, Robert Anderson.

• Why Family Firms Invest Different Efforts in Fulfilling Internal and External Corporate Social Responsibilities: Exploring the Role of Formal Family Governance. Jun Ma, Yingyu Zhang.

• The Algorithmic Leviathan or the Digital Agora? Mechanisms of Enclosure and Pathways to Rights-Based Governance of Digital Commons. Aybike Mergen.

• The Race to Negative Emissions Technologies and the Centrality of Fossil Fuel Companies. Giorgio Tripodi, Linda Sabattini, Martina Iori, Francesco Lamperti.

• Zeroing in on the Zeroes: CSR/ESG Inaction as a Choice. Jennifer J. Griffin, Andrew Bryant.

• Unpacking the Link Between Top Manager Gender and Firm Involvement in Bribery. Dawit Z. Assefa, Bisrat A. Misganaw, Stefan Markovic.

• Public–Private Collaboration and Digital Transformation for Social Sustainability: A Case Study of a Rural Area. Ricky Celenta, Rosangela Feola, Chiara Crudele, Roberto Parente.

• Anti-corruption Reforms and Retrenchment in International Sport Federations: The Case of FIFA. Roman Gibel, Florian Überbacher, Andreas Georg Scherer.

• Designing Business Models in Sustainability-Driven Hybrid Organizations: Configurations of Organizational Activities in B Corps. Valentina De Marchi, Simone Carmine, Eleonora Di Maria.

• Adding a Safety Date to a Freshness Date Label Reduces Premature Food Disposal. Hyoje Jay Kim, Hyun Seung Jin, Chris Janiszewski, Joowon Ban.

• Catalyst or Competitor: Unraveling the Influence of Commercial Ventures’ ESG Performance on Social Venture Population. Di Mao, Yuan Li, Jiakeng Chen.

• Red Lines and Green Lights: Identity Work of Nonprofit Organizations in Business Partnerships. India J. Kandel, Alina M. Baluch, Erk P. Piening.

• From Hype to Benefiting All Mankind: A Discursive Analysis of Ethical Framing in Press Coverage of Chatbots. Antoine Blanc, Alex Deslee.

• The Colonial Cartography of Business and Society Research: Towards a Collective Epistemic Responsibility. Amal Abdellatif, Milena Tekeste.

• Cross-Sector Partnerships for Social–Ecological Resilience and Transformation. Domenico Dentoni, Martina K. Linnenluecke, Ralph Hamann et al.

• Unfree Agency: Victim Vulnerability and the Unwitting Reproduction of Modern Slavery in Business. Md Nazmul Hasan.

• Theorizing and Measuring General Nonmarket Communication. Mika Vehka, Robin Forsberg, Juho Vesa, Matti Nelimarkka.

• The Sustainable Impact of Women Entrepreneurs in Rural Communities. Leire Gartzia, Iñaki Peña-Legazkue, Mahsa Samsami, Thomas Schøtt.

• Managed Transparency as Platform-Era Decoupling in Internet Philanthropy: Evidence From China. Yujie Zhang.

Ecological Economics

• Effective establishment of circularity is key to achieving net zero. Karl W. Steininger, Raphaela Maier, Laura Wallenko, Roland Mestel, Alice Tosatto et al.

• Environmental justice for circular supply chains: A research agenda. Brais Suárez-Eiroa, Maddalena Ripa, Andrea Genovese, Meletios Bimpizas-Pinis, Mario Pansera.

• Humanity does not play DICE: A sensitivity analysis of technical progress. Antoine Ronsain, Alexandre Gondran, Estelle Malavolti.

• Extreme heat, supply chain spillovers, and firm performance. Congcong Liu, Yan Song.

• Book Review: Routledge Handbook of Degrowth, Anitra Nelson. Routledge, London and New York (2025). Nguyen Thi Minh Khanh, Lam Ba Hoa, Nguyen Thi Thu Ha.

• Book review: Post Growth Innovation: Resisting the Pursuit of Endless Economic Growth, Mario Pansera, Javier Lloveras. Bristol University Press, Bristol (2026). Bao Tran Nguyen.

• Assessing the chronic physical risks of climate change for the financial sector: A case study from Mexico’s central Bank. Francisco Estrada, Miguel A. Altamirano del Carmen, Oscar Calderón-Bustamante, Rodrigo Muñoz-Sánchez, Stefano Battiston et al.

• Ecological macroeconomics meets community-led modelling: localising ecological macroeconomics through participatory system dynamics. Katrina Szetey, Enayat A. Moallemi, Brett A. Bryan.

• Democratically planned degrowth: Modeling for rapid climate crisis mitigation. Cosku Mihci, Stephanie Attar.

• The dynamic complexity of critical mineral supply chains reveals the paradox of energy transition. Junhui Li, Yongguang Zhu, Shiquan Dou, Qian Zhang, Deyi Xu et al.

• Message framing and sustainability awareness: Experimental evidence for advancing reduce, reuse, and recycle practices. Avani Aravind, Sabya Mishra, Smruti Rekha Das.

• Biodiversity impact of agricultural products in France: Greater differences across product types than food quality schemes. Sarah Huet, Abdoul Diallo, Julie Regolo, Ainhoa Ihasusta, Valentin Bellassen et al.

• The heat is on: Implications of extreme temperatures on productive and defensive inputs in West Africa. Martin Paul Jr. Tabe-Ojong, Jourdain C. Lokossou.

• Degrowth futures as power struggles: Scenarios of accumulation, sabotage, and resistance. Julien Vastenaekels.

• Evaluating the carbon footprint of multinational enterprises in China: Does the source of FDI matter? Yang Zhou, Ran Wang, Xiyuan Li, Bo Meng.

• Europe’s industrial footprint: Unveiling environmental impacts. Marta Alvaro-Taus, John Curtis.

• Socioeconomic factors influencing companies’ siting in pollution havens from an environmental justice perspective in the context of South Korea. Chang Hwan Lee, Jae Hyeok Shim, Yong Un Ban.

• Lost highway: Segmented and precarious employment of migrants in the green transition. Fabio Landini, Davide Lunardon, Riccardo Rinaldi, Luigi Tredicine.

Journal of Marketing

• Do Business Professionals Exhibit Racial Bias in Strategic Marketing Decisions? Jorge Jacob, Yan Vieites.

• Fit to Persuade: The Role of Source–Appeal Congruence in Cancer Screening Decisions. Vedha Ponnappan, Anima Nivsarkar, Prakash Satyavageeswaran et al.

Journal of Political Economy

• The Gas Trap: Outcompeting Coal versus Renewables. Bård Harstad, Katinka Holtsmark.

Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science

• Access-based consumption revisited. Fleura Bardhi, Giana Eckhardt, Greta Vignali.

• How human presence in environmental images shapes sustainable behaviors. Maggie Wenjing Liu, Junhui Huang, Hean Tat Keh.

• AI and human designers: How consumers see the genuine care in product design as more sustainable. Barbara Duffek, Dipayan Biswas.

• Market system curation: Placing care at the heart of markets. Finola Kerrigan, Chloe Preece, Andreas Chatzidakis.

• Contagion of a buyer’s ESG emphasis to its suppliers. David A. Griffith, Amalesh Sharma, Sourav Bikash Borah.

• Doing better at doing good: A unifying framework for consumer responses to corporate social responsibility. CB Bhattacharya, Sankar Sen, Kristin Lindrud.

• Re-imagining CCT for crisis times: Theorizing collaborative consumer culture. Eric J. Arnould, Craig J. Thompson.

Manufacturing and Service Operations Management

• Crowdsourcing Electric Vehicles for Omni-Sharing Distributed Energy Storage. Wenqing Ai, Tianhu Deng, Wei Qi, Wei Gu.

• Optimal Management of Renewable Energy Certificates: A Reinforcement Learning Approach. Daeho Kim, Dong Gu Choi, Michael K. Lim.

• Managing Payment Flexibility in Rent-to-Own Contracts for Off-Grid Energy Products. Jose A. Guajardo, Elaheh Rashidinejad, Gonzalo Romero, Hosain Zaman.

• Multiplicity in Product Expiration Dates and Food Waste in Grocery Retail Stores. Ashish Kabra, Nitish Jain, Varun Karamshetty.

• Data Set—Spatiotemporal Bikeshare System Status. Eleanor Byrd, Chris Parker, Karthik Balasubramanian.

• Selection, Payment, and Information Assessment in Social Audits: A Behavioral Experiment. Gabriel Pensamiento, León Valdés.

• Greenwashing Under Competition. Liqun Wei, Soraya Fatehi, Anyan Qi, Jianxiong Zhang.

• Reducing Traffic Incidents in Meal Deliveries: Penalize the Platform or Its Independent Drivers? Wenchang Zhang, Christopher S. Tang, Liu Ming, Yue Cheng.

• Additionality of Carbon Offsets: Project-Specific vs. Standardized Baselines. Vishal V. Agrawal, Soudipta Chakraborty, Şafak Yücel.

Production and Operations Management

• Enhancing electric vehicle charging station design using multifidelity simulations. Jiang Li, Jianzhong Du, Siyang Gao, Qiang Ye, Guangxin Jiang.

• Examining consumer responses to supply chain corporate social responsibility communications: A moderated mediation analysis. Junhao Vincent Yu, Tim Kraft, Robert B Handfield et al.

• Mitigating the “black holes”: Periodic repair and maintenance problem of shared bikes. Chengcheng Yu, Lan Lu, Lindong Liu, Qiao-Chu He.

• Does energy efficiency imply cost efficiency? Revisiting design and operations of combined heat and power systems. Wenbin Wang, Owen Q Wu, Gilvan C Souza.

• The role of nearby suppliers after natural disasters. Xabier Barriola, Luk N Van Wassenhove.

• Apparel retail and rental business models and their sustainability implications. Jianyue Wang, Ki Ling Cheung, Albert Y. Ha.

• Navigating traceability: How pricing and responsibility sharing impact quality and welfare. Lijian Lu, Ruxian Wang, Xinyi Zhou.

• Empowering supply chain energy efficiency: Merits and pitfalls of buyer collaboration. Jason Nguyen, Behrooz Pourghannad.

• The Effect of Competitive Collection in Closed-loop Supply Chain. Qingyuan Zhu, Yinghao Pan, Ting Zhang, Chenghao Yu, Ge (Glaire) Guo, Jie Wu.

Quarterly Journal of Economics

• In their Shoes: Empathy Through Information. Marianne Andries et al.

• Who Pays for Unions? Samuel Dodini et al.

• The Effects of Mandatory Profit-Sharing on Workers and Firms: Evidence from France. Elio Nimier-David et al.

• Peer Effects and the Gender Gap in Corporate Leadership: Evidence from MBA Students. Menaka Hampole et al.

• Public Services Under Private Management. Maíra Coube et al.

Review of Accounting Studies

• Mandatory climate risk disclosure, housing prices, and credit supply. Xi Chen.

• Gender bias and female analyst performance: evidence from the #MeToo movement. Rubin Hao, Shikong Scott Luo, Haoyi Yang.

• Mandatory disclosure and corporate green innovation. Brian Bratten, Sung-Yuan Mark Cheng, Tyler J. Kleppe.

• Bank activities and the evolving exposures of banks and society to climate disasters. Mary Brooke Billings, Stephen G. Ryan, Han Yan.

• Corporate response to the Black Lives Matter movement: determinants of speaking out in support of social causes. AJ Yuan Chen, Patricia M. Dechow, Samuel T. Tan.

Review of Economic Studies

• Skill-Replacing Technology and Bottom-Half Inequality. Oren Danieli.

• Quantifying Supply-Side Climate Policies. Lassi Ahlvik et al.

• Closing Gender Gaps Through Workplace Diversity: The Intergenerational Effects of World War I. Abhay Aneja et al.

• Input Sourcing under Climate Risk: Evidence from U.S. Manufacturing Firms. Joaquin Blaum et al.

Review of Finance

• Porter might be right: environmental policy, innovation, and product differentiation. Wensi Xie.

• Paid leave pays off: the effects of paid family leave on firm performance. Benjamin Bennett et al.

Review of Financial Studies

• Corporate Green Pledges. Michael Bauer et al.

• Emission Caps and Investment in Green Technologies. Bruno Biais, Augustin Landier.

• Green Investing and Political Behavior. Florian Heeb et al.

• Voting on Public Goods: Citizens vs Shareholders. Robin Döttling et al.

• The Real Effect of Sociopolitical Racial/Ethnic Animus: Mutual Fund Manager Performance during AAPI Hate. Vikas Agarwal et al.

• Smokestacks and the Swamp. Emilio Bisetti et al.

• The True Colors of Money: Racial Representation and Asset Management. Lina Han et al.

• Does Finance Benefit Society? A Language Embedding Approach. Manish Jha et al.

Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal

• Co-explorers of the imaginary: How fictional framing legitimates radical novelty by connecting entrepreneurial imagination to stakeholder possibilistic thinking. Violina P. Rindova, Meenal Banga, Luis L. Martins.

Strategic Management Journal

• Putting a price on mission: Social responsibility orientation and startup employment. J. Daniel Kim, Matthew Lee.

• Stakeholder synergies in acquisitions. Kate Odziemkowska, Emilie Feldman, Exequiel Hernandez.

• Local regulatory anticipation and GHG emissions. Leandro Nardi.

• Bias in, symbolic compliance out? GPT’s reliance on gender and race in strategic evaluations. Tristan L. Botelho, Qingyang (Iris) Wang.

• Persuasion in the political marketplace: How firms snitch on rivals to encourage regulatory enforcement. Benjamin Barber IV, Gianluigi Giustiziero, Simon Weschle.

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