Table of Contents: March 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 March 2023

Academy of Management Journal

• Firm–Stakeholder Dialogue and the Media: The Evolution of Stakeholder Evaluations in Different Informational Environments. Sinziana Dorobantu, Witold Jerzy Henisz, Lite J. Nartey.

• From the Editors—An Innovative Journal during Transformational Times: Embarking on the 23rd Editorial Term. Marc Gruber.
  

Academy of Management Perspectives

• Addressing big societal challenges in HRM research: A Society-Actors-Processes-Policy framework. Emma Hughes, Tony Dundon.

• Fooled by diversity? When diversity initiatives exacerbate rather than mitigate inequality. Karin Hellerstedt, Timur Uman, Karl Wennberg.
  

  “Woke” Diversity Strategies: Science or Sensationalism? Bobbi Thomason, Tina Opie, Beth Livingston, Traci Sitzmann.
  

Accounting, Organizations and Society

• The ESG stopping effect: Do investor reactions differ across the lifespan of ESG initiatives? Shannon Garavaglia, Ben W. Van Landuyt, Brian J. White, Julie Irwin.

• Audit partner ethnicity and salient audit phenomena. Gopal V. Krishnan, Zvi Singer, Jing Zhang.

American Economic Review

• Globalization and Pandemics. Pol Antràs, Stephen J. Redding, Esteban Rossi-Hansberg.

• What Happens When Employers Can No Longer Discriminate in Job Ads? Peter  Kuhn, Kailing  Shen.

• What Caused Racial Disparities in Particulate Exposure to Fall? New Evidence from the Clean Air Act and Satellite-Based Measures of Air Quality. Janet  Currie,  John  Voorheis, Reed  Walker.
  

Business and Society

• Inequality and Entrepreneurial Agency: How Social Class Origins Affect Entrepreneurial Self-Efficacy. Leif Brändle, Andreas Kuckertz.

• How Not to Turn the Grand Challenges Literature Into a Tower of Babel? Guillaume Carton, Julia Parigot, Thomas Roulet.

• Corporate Governance and Corporate Political Responsibility. Hesham Ali, Emmanuel Adegbite, Tam Huy Nguyen.

• Value Creation for Refugees by Social Partnerships: A Frames Perspective. Özgü Karakulak, Moira V. Faul.

• Collaborative Consumers Can Be Ethical Consumers: Adapting the Defining Issues Test to Understand Ethical Reasoning in Collaborative Consumption Markets. Sebastian Müller, Nils Christian Hoffmann, Ludger Heidbrink, Stefan Hoffmann.

• Defining Value in Sustainable Business Models. Cristina Neesham, Krzysztof Dembek, Julia Benkert.

• Working For Impact, But Failing to Experience It: Exploring Individuals’ Sensemaking in Social Enterprises. Andreana Drencheva, Wee Chan Au, Jian Li Yew.

• Corporate Philanthropy and CEO Outside Directorships Under Authoritarian Capitalism. Alan Muller, Weiqiang Tan, Mike W. Peng, Mike Pfarrer.

• Big Profits, Big Harm? Exploring the Link Between Firm Financial Performance and Human Rights Misbehavior. Elisa Giuliani, Federica Nieri, Andrea Vezzulli.

• Tolls, Schools, and Tips: The Reproduction of Social Inequality Through Day-to-Day Practices. Ajnesh Prasad, Paulina Segarra.

• From Nirvana to Shiva in Impact Investing: Value (In)congruence in Investor–Investee Relationships. Joanna Vogeley, Debbie Haski-Leventhal, Erik Lundmark.

Ecological Economics

• Toward circular economy: The impact of policy instruments on circular economy innovation for European small medium enterprises. Qiuzhen Ren, Johan Albrecht.

• Degrowth-oriented organisational value creation: A systematic literature review of case studies. Tobias Froese, Markus Richter, Florian Hofmann, Florian Lüdeke-Freund.

• Accelerating institutional funding of low-carbon investment: The potential for an investment emissions intensity tax. David Donnelly, Marie Fricaudet, Nadia Ameli.

• Deconstructing substitution narratives: The case of bioeconomy innovations from the forest-based sector. Alexandru Giurca, Nicolas Befort.

• The bioeconomy in Germany: A failing political project? Malte Lühmann, Thomas Vogelpohl.

• Is digital transformation the Deus ex Machina towards sustainability transition of the European SMEs? Nikos Chatzistamoulou.

• Climate change and the transformative potential of value chains. Gail Hochachka.

• Heuristic processing of green advertising: Review and policy implications. Juana Castro Santa, Stefan Drews.

• Can monetized carbon information increase pro-environmental behavior? Experimental evidence. Vanessa Schöller, Clara Ulmer.

• Managing the distributional effects of climate policies: A narrow path to a just transition. Francesco Vona.

• Environmental justice and green innovation: A quasi-natural experiment based on the establishment of environmental courts in China. Xiulin Qi, Zhifang Wu, Jinqing Xu, Biaoan Shan.

• Leaders and laggards in the pursuit of an EU just transition. Darren McCauley, Kerry A. Pettigrew, Iain Todd, Christine Milchram.

• Assessing U.S. consumers’ carbon footprints reveals outsized impact of the top 1%. Jared Starr, Craig Nicolson, Michael Ash, Ezra M. Markowitz, Daniel Moran.

• How payments for ecosystem services can undermine Indigenous institutions: The case of Peru’s Ampiyacu-Apayacu watershed. Ashwin Ravikumar, Esperanza Chairez Uriarte, Daniela Lizano, Andrea Muñoz Ledo Farré, Mariel Montero.

• Less and more: Conceptualising degrowth transformations. Hubert Buch-Hansen, Iana Nesterova.

Journal of Accounting Research

• Assessing the Social Impact of Corporations: Evidence from Management Control Interventions in the Supply Chain to Increase Worker Wages. Gregory Distelhorst,  Jee-eun Shin. 

• Greenhouse Gas Disclosure and Emissions Benchmarking. Sorabh Tomar. 

• Do Jobseekers Value Diversity Information? Evidence from a Field Experiment and Human Capital Disclosures. Jung Ho Choi,  Joseph Pacelli,  Kristina M. Rennekamp,  Sorabh Tomar. 

Journal of Management Information Systems

• Servitization for the Environment? The Impact of Data-Centric Product-Service Models. Zhang, Xin, Guo, Xiaolong, Yue, Wei Thoo,  Yu, Yugang.

Journal of Marketing

• Societal Spillovers of TV Advertising: Social Distancing During a Public Health Crisis. Ayan Ghosh Dastidar, Sarang Sunder, Denish Shah.

Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science

• Feeling the values: How pride and awe differentially enhance consumers’ sustainable behavioral intentions. Li Yan, Hean Tat Keh, Kyle B. Murray.

• Investigating the disruptiveness of the sharing economy at the individual consumer level: How consumer reflexivity drives re-engagement in sharing. Stella Yiyan Li, Antje R. H. Graul, John Jianjun Zhu.

• The impact of voluntary sustainability reporting on firm value: Insights from signaling theory. Wesley Friske, Seth A. Hoelscher, Atanas Nik Nikolov.

• Moving the stakeholder journey forward. Linda D. Hollebeek, V. Kumar, Moira K. Clark.

• Advancing customer diversity, equity, and inclusion: Measurement, stakeholder influence, and the role of marketing. Young Woong Park, Glenn B. Voss, Zannie Giraud Voss.
  

Manufacturing and Service Operations Management

• “I Quit”: Schedule Volatility as a Driver of Voluntary Employee Turnover. Alon Bergman, Guy David, Hummy Song.

• Vehicle Rebalancing in a Shared Micromobility System with Rider Crowdsourcing. Ziliang Jin, Yulan Wang, Yun Fong Lim, Kai Pan, Zuo-Jun Max Shen.

• Food Donations, Retail Operations, and Retail Pricing. John D. Lowrey, Timothy J. Richards, Stephen F. Hamilton. 

• An Empirical Investigation of Ridesharing and New Vehicle Purchase. Jing Gong, Brad N. Greenwood, Yiping (Amy) Song. 

• The Impact of Ride-Hailing Services on Congestion: Evidence from Indian Cities. Saharsh Agarwal, Deepa Mani, Rahul Telang.

• Distance-Based Service Priority: An Innovative Mechanism to Increase System Throughput and Social Welfare. Zhongbin Wang, Shiliang Cui, Lei Fang. 

Marketing Science

• Frontiers: Polarized America: From Political Polarization to Preference Polarization. Verena Schoenmueller,  Oded Netzer,  Florian Stahl.

Organizational Behaviour and Human Decision Processes

• The divergent effects of diversity ideologies for race and gender relations. Ashley E. Martin.

• Dirty creativity: An inductive study of how creative workers champion new designs that are stigmatized. Spencer Huber Harrison, Samir Nurmohamed.

• Cheating constraint decisions and discrimination against workers with lower financial standing. Grace J.H. Lim, Marko Pitesa, Abhijeet K. Vadera.

Production and Operations Management

• Opportunities in farming research from an operations management perspective. Sushil Gupta,  Hossein Rikhtehgar Berenji,  Manish Shukla,  Nagesh N. Murthy.

• Determining maximum shipping age requirements for shelf life and food waste management. Arzum Akkas,  Dorothee Honhon.

• Dynamic incentives for sustainable contract farming. Wei Zhang,  Long Gao,  Mohammad Zolghadr,  Dawei Jian,  Mohsen ElHafsi. 

• Interdependence between online peer-to-peer lending and cryptocurrency markets and its effects on financial inclusion. Sunghun Chung,  Keongtae Kim,  Chul Ho Lee,  Wonseok Oh.

• Bridging the gap: Applying analytics to address gender pay inequity. David Anderson,  Margrét Vilborg Bjarnadóttir,  David Gaddis Ross.

• Water stress: Opportunities for supply chain research. Dustin Cole,  Sriram Narayanan,  Elizabeth Connors,  Meenu Tewari,  Kyle Onda.

• The role of volunteer experience on performance on online volunteering platforms. Gloria Urrea,  Eunae Yoo.

Quarterly Journal of Economics

• Regulating Untaxable Externalities: Are Vehicle Air Pollution Standards Effective and Efficient? Mark R. Jacobsen,  James M Sallee,  Joseph S Shapiro,  Arthur A. Van Benthem.

• AI-tocracy. Martin Beraja, Andrew Kao, David Y Yang, Noam Yuchtman.

• The Political Economics of Green Transitions. Timothy Besley, Torsten Persson.

Review of Accounting Studies

• Prosocial CEOs, corporate policies, and firm value. Mei Feng, Weili Ge, Zhejia Ling , Wei Ting Loh.

• The monitoring role of social media. Jonas Heese, Joseph Pacelli.
  

Review of Economic Studies

• Energy Efficiency and Directed Technical Change: Implications for Climate Change Mitigation. Gregory Casey.

• Credit Access, Selection, and Incentives in a Market for Asset Collateralized Loans: Evidence from Kenya. William Jack, Michael Kremer, Joost de Laat, Tavneet Suri.

• Down the River: Glyphosate Use in Agriculture and Birth Outcomes of Surrounding Populations. Mateus Dias, Rudi Rocha, Rodrigo R Soares.

Review of Financial Studies

• Joining Forces: The Spillover Effects of EPA Enforcement Actions and the Role of Socially Responsible Investors. Sudipto Dasgupta, Thanh D. Huynh, Ying Xia.

• Climate Risk Disclosure and Institutional Investors. Emirhan Ilhan, Philipp Krueger, Zacharias Sautner, Laura T. Starks.

Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal

• Seizing the moment—Strategy, social entrepreneurship, and the pursuit of impact. Trenton Alma Williams,  Robert Nason,  Marcus T. Wolfe,  Jeremy C. Short.

• Cross-cultural implications of linguistic future time reference and institutional uncertainty on social entrepreneurship. Diana M. Hechavarría,  Steven A. Brieger,  Ludvig Levasseur,  Siri A. Terjesen.

Strategic Management Journal

• Board experiential diversity and corporate radical innovation. Aurora Genin,  Wenting Ma,  Vineet Bhagwat,  Gennaro Bernile.

• When few give to many and many give to few: Corporate social responsibility strategies under India’s legal mandate. Aline Gatignon,  Christiane Bode.

• Salary transparency and gender pay inequality: Evidence from Canadian universities. Elizabeth Lyons,  Laurina Zhang.

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