Table of Contents: March 2020

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 March 2020

Academy of Management Journal

• Resource Dependence, Uncertainty, and the Allocation of Corporate Political Activity across Multiple Jurisdictions. Trey Sutton, Richard A. Devine, Bruce T. Lamont, R. Michael Holmes, Jr.

• Historical Origins of Firm Ownership Structure: The Persistent Effects of the African Slave Trade. Lamar Pierce, Jason A Snyder.

• A Dual-Agency Model of Firm CSR in Response to Institutional Pressure: Evidence from Chinese Publicly Listed Firms. Shuping Li, Jane Lu.

• Boards as a Source of Inertia: Examining the Internal Challenges and Dynamics of Boards of Directors in Times of Environmental Discontinuities. Joern Hoppmann, Florian Naegele, Bastien Girod.

• No Time Like the Present: How a Present Time Perspective Can Foster Sustainable Development. Anna Kim, Pratima Bansal, Helen Haugh.

Accounting, Organizations, and Society

• Negotiating constraints in international audit firms in Saudi Arabia: Exploring the interaction of gender, politics and religion. S. Sian, D. Agrizzi, T. Wright, A. Alsalloom.

• ‘The spirits that we summoned’: A study on how the ‘governed’ make accounting their own in the context of market-making programs in Nepal. David Crvelin, Albrecht Becker.

Administrative Science Quarterly

• Inhabited Ecosystems: Propelling Transformative Social Change Between and Through Organizations. Rich DeJordy, Maureen Scully, Marc J. Ventresca, W. E. Douglas Creed.

American Economic Review

• Regulation by Shaming: Deterrence Effects of Publicizing Violations of Workplace Safety and Health Laws. Matthew S. Johnson.

• Tax-Exempt Lobbying: Corporate Philanthropy as a Tool for Political Influence. Marianne Bertrand, Matilde Bombardini, Raymond Fisman, Francesco Trebbi.

Business and Society

• Natural Sciences, Management Theory, and System Transformation for Sustainability. David Wasieleski, Sandra Waddock, Tim Fort, Nuno Guimarães-Costa.

• The Three-Legged Stool: Synthesizing and Extending Our Understanding of the Career Advancement Facilitators of Persons With Disabilities in Leadership Positions. Daniel Samosh.

• Valuing Value in Innovation Ecosystems: How Cross-Sector Actors Overcome Tensions in Collaborative Sustainable Business Model Development. Inge Oskam, Bart Bossink, Ard-Pieter de Man.

• Socially Responsible Firms Outsource Less. Maria Jose Murcia, Rajat Panwar, Jorge Tarzijan.

• The Elephant in the Room: The Nascent Research Agenda on Corporations, Social Responsibility, and Capitalism. Frank G. A. de Bakker, Dirk Matten, Laura J. Spence, Christopher Wickert.

• Condoning Corrupt Behavior at Work: What Roles Do Machiavellianism, On-the-Job Experience, and Neutralization Play? Christian Hauser, Aram Simonyan, Arndt Werner.

• Do Markets Punish or Reward Corporate Social Responsibility Decoupling? Isabel-María García-Sánchez, Nazim Hussain, Sana-Akbar Khan, Jennifer Martínez-Ferrero.

• A Natural Resource Dependence Perspective of the Firm: How and Why Firms Manage Natural Resource Scarcity. Peter Tashman.

• Modern Slavery Is an Enabling Condition of Global Neoliberal Capitalism: Commentary on Modern Slavery in Business. Bobby Banerjee. 

• Does Benefit Corporation Status Matter to Investors? An Exploratory Study of Investor Perceptions and Decisions. Lauren A. Cooper, Jill Weber.

• The Organizational Dynamics of Compliance With the UK Modern Slavery Act in the Food and Tobacco Sector. David Monciardini, Nadia Bernaz, Alexandra Andhov.

• Individual Values and SME Environmental Engagement. Anja Schaefer, Sarah Williams, Richard Blundel.

Ecological Economics

• Leverage points for sustainability transformation: a review on interventions in food and energy systems. Christian Dorninger, David J. Abson, Cristina I. Apetrei, Pim Derwort, Henrik von Wehrden.

• Blind to carbon risk? An analysis of stock market reaction to the Paris Agreement. Irene Monasterolo, Luca de Angelis.

• The impact of climate change on demand of ski tourism – a simulation study based on stated preferences. Robert Steiger, Eva Posch, Gottfried Tappeiner, Janette Walde.

• Quantifying the direct network effect for online platforms supporting industrial symbiosis: an agent-based simulation study. Luca Fraccascia.

• Beyond cost and carbon: The multidimensional co-benefits of low carbon transitions in Europe. Benjamin K. Sovacool, Mari Martiskainen, Andrew Hook, Lucy Baker.

• The role of local stakeholders in disseminating knowledge for supporting the circular economy: a network analysis approach. Stefano Ghinoi, Francesco Silvestri, Bodo Steiner.

• Southern Responses to Fair Trade Gold: Cooperation, Complaint, Competition, Supplementation. Kristin Sippl.

• How to track corporations across space and time. Benjamin Goldstein, Joshua P. Newell.

• Higher Wages for Sustainable Development? Employment and Carbon Effects of Paying a Living Wage in Global Apparel Supply Chains. Simon Mair, Angela Druckman, Tim Jackson.

• Consumers’ Sustainable Purchase Behaviour: Modeling the Impact of Psychological Factors. Yatish Joshi, Zillur Rahman.

• Energy Injustice and Nordic Electric Mobility: Inequality, Elitism, and Externalities in the Electrification of Vehicle-to-Grid (V2G) Transport. Benjamin K. Sovacool, Johannes Kester, Lance Noel, Gerardo Zarazua de Rubens.

• Defining and Measuring the Circular Economy: A Mathematical Approach. Juan F. García-Barragán, Johan Eyckmans, Sandra Rousseau.

Journal of Business Venturing

• Is venture capital socially responsible? Exploring the imprinting effect of VC funding on CSR practices. Ekin Alakent, M. Sinan Goktan, Theodore A. Khoury.

• What signals matter for social startups? It depends: The influence of gender role congruity on social impact accelerator selection decisions. Shu Yang, Romi Kher, Scott L. Newbert.

Journal of Marketing

• How to SHIFT Consumer Behaviors to be More Sustainable: A Literature Review and Guiding Framework. Katherine White, Rishad Habib, David J. Hardisty.

Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science

• New perspectives on business model innovations in emerging markets. V. Kumar, Rajendra Srivastava.

• Categorical versus dimensional thinking: improving anti-stigma campaigns by matching health message frames and implicit worldviews. Jan-Hinrich Meyer, Ko De Ruyter.

Manufacturing and Service Operations Management

• New-Product Diffusion in Closed-Loop Supply Chains. Emre Nadar, Barış Emre Kaya, Kemal Güler.

• Optimal Subsidies for Development Supply Chains. Jiayi Joey Yu, Chistopher S. Tang, ManMohan S. Sodhi, James Knuckles.

• Motivating Supplier Social Responsibility Under Incomplete Visibility. Tim Kraft, León Valdés, Yanchong Zheng.

• Supplier Centrality and Auditing Priority in Socially Responsible Supply Chains. Jiayu Chen, Anyan Qi, Milind Dawande.

• Grocery Store Density and Food Waste. Elena Belavina.

• Investments in Renewable and Conventional Energy: The Role of Operational Flexibility. A. Gürhan Kök, Kevin Shang, Şafak Yücel.

• Reveal the Supplier List? A Trade-off in Capacity vs. Responsibility. Basak Kalkanci, Erica L. Plambeck.

• Alleviating Poverty by Empowering Women Through Business Model Innovation: Manufacturing & Service Operations Management Insights and Opportunities. Erica L. Plambeck, Kamalini Ramdas.

• Sustainable Operations Management Through the Perspective of Manufacturing & Service Operations Management. Atalay Atasu, Charles J. Corbett, Ximin (Natalie) Huang, L. Beril Toktay.

• Smart City Operations: Modeling Challenges and Opportunities. Sameer Hasija, Zuo-Jun Max Shen, Chung-Piaw Teo.

Production and Operations Management

• Unintended Consequences of Automated Vehicles and Pooling for Urban Transportation Systems. Sergey Naumov, David R. Keith, Charles H. Fine.

• Addressing Economic/Environmental Sustainability Trade‐offs in Procurement Episodes with Industrial Suppliers. Lance W. Saunders, J. Paul Brooks, Jason R. W. Merrick, Chad W. Autry.

• Blockchain for Supply Chain Traceability: Business Requirements and Critical Success Factors. Gabriella M. Hastig, ManMohan S. Sodhi.

• Optimal Feed‐In Tariff Policies: The Impact of Market Structure and Technology Characteristics. Shadi Goodarzi, Sam Aflaki, Andrea Masini.

• The Missing Link? The Strategic Role of Procurement in Building Sustainable Supply Networks. Verónica H. Villena.

Strategic Management Journal

• Serving differently: CEO regulatory focus and firm stakeholder strategy. Daniel L Gamache, François Neville, Jonathan Bundy, Cole E Short.

• Disentangling the effects of hedge fund activism on firm financial and social performance. Mark R. DesJardine, Rodolphe Durand.

• Is managerial entrenchment always bad and corporate social responsibility always good? A cross‐national examination of their combined influence on shareholder value. Jordi A. Surroca, Ruth V. Aguilera, Kurt Desender, Josep A. Tribó.

• The (Un) intended consequences of institutions lowering barriers to entrepreneurship: The impact on female workers. Francesco Castellaneta, Raffaele Conti, Aleksandra Kacperczyk.

• Mind the gap: The role of gender in entrepreneurial career choice and social influence by founders. Vera Rocha, Mirjam van Praag.

• The behavioral theory of the (community‐oriented) firm: The differing response of community‐oriented firms to performance relative to aspirations. Stephen J. Smulowitz, Horacio E. Rousseau, Philip Bromiley.

• On the relation between corporate social responsibility and financial performance. Amrou Awaysheh, Randall A. Heron, Tod Perry, Jared I. Wilson.

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