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 2024
Academy of Management Journal
Linguistic Inclusiveness in Organizations: A Russophone Bank in Post-Soviet Kazakhstan. Eun Joo Koo, Anna Kim.
The Interactive Effects of Abusive CEOs and Philanthropic Corporate Social Responsibility on Organizational Innovation and Performance. Jingfeng Yin, Ying Wu, Robert C. Liden, Donald Kluemper, Steve Sauerwald, Jibao Gu.
Fairness Judgments in the Context of Structural Sexism: The Role of Beliefs in Individual and Structural Causes of Success. Alyssa Tedder-King, Elad N. Sherf.
An Integrative Model of Hybrid Governance: The Role of Boards in Helping Sustain Organizational Hybridity. Anne-Claire Pache, Julie Battilana, Channing Spencer.
Academy of Management Perspectives
How Woke Was the Symposium on Woke Organizations? An Insider Perspective. Quinetta Roberson, Derek Avery, Angelica Leigh.
Too Little, Too Late? How Policymakers and Regulators Respond to the Business Model Innovations of Digital Firms. Julian Birkinshaw.
Digital Sustainability Strategies: Digitally Enabled and Digital-First Innovation for Net Zero. Lukas Falcke, Ann-Kristin Zobel, Youngjin Yoo, Christopher Tucci.
Lights, Camera, Action: Moving Beyond Performative Diversity Management to Drive Change. Quinetta Roberson, Derek R. Avery, Angelica Leigh.
Critiquing the Backlash Against Wokeness: In Defense of Dei Scholarship and Practice. Ajnesh Prasad, Martyna Śliwa.
Beyond Collective Action: Heterogeneous Stakeholders’ Influence on Firms in the Digital Age. Elanor Colleoni, Stelios Zyglidopoulos, Laura Illia.
Creating a Policy-Oriented Organization Science: Expanding on Aguinis, Jensen, and Kraus. Jeffrey Pfeffer.
American Economic Review
From Fog to Smog: the Value of Pollution Information. Panle Jia Barwick, Shanjun Li, Liguo Lin and Eric Zou.
Business and Society
Unveiling the Black Box in Retail Firms’ Supply Chain Labor Standards Performance: A Theory of Supply Chain Labor Compliance Integration. Mevan Jayasinghe, Yinyin Cao.
Exploring Public Health Research for Corporate Health Policy: Insights for Business and Society Scholars. Lilia Raquel Rojas-Cruz, Irene Henriques, Bryan W. Husted.
Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) Outcomes and Municipal Credit Risk. Christopher C. Bruno, Witold J. Henisz.
Expectations Meet Reality: Leader Sensemaking and Enactment of Stakeholder Engagement in Multistakeholder Social Enterprises. Nevena Radoynovska.
Time Theft: Exposing a Subtle Yet Serious Driver of Socioeconomic Inequality. Jason R. Pierce, Laura M. Giurge, Brad Aeon.
COVID-19 and Management Scholarship: Lessons for Conducting Impactful Research. Gerard George, Gokhan Ertug, Hari Bapuji, Jonathan P. Doh, Johanna Mair, Ajnesh Prasad.
Social Challenges for Business in the Age of Populism. Dorottya Sallai, Glenn Morgan, Magnus Feldmann, Marcus Gomes, Andrew Spicer.
Ecological Economics
Confronting the dilemma of growth. A response to Warlenius (2023). Tim Jackson, Jason Hickel, Giorgos Kallis.
To spend or to avoid? A critical review on the role of money in aiming for sufficiency. Fatemeh Jouzi, Jarkko Levänen, Mirja Mikkilä, Lassi Linnanen.
Land manager preferences for outcome-based payments for environmental services in oak savannahs. Rubén Granado-Díaz, Anastasio J. Villanueva, Sergio Colombo.
Damage costs from invasive species exceed management expenditure in nations experiencing lower economic activity. Corey J.A. Bradshaw, Philip E. Hulme, Emma J. Hudgins, Brian Leung, Franck Courchamp et al.
Re-investigating the shared responsibility for trade-embodied carbon emissions. Jiayu Wang, Chang-Jing Ji, Yu Liu, Yuli Shan, Ke Wang et al.
The sustainability of development pathways and climate change vulnerability in the Americas. José Maria Cardoso Silva, Leonardo Schultz Araujo, Roger Rodrigues Torres, Luis Claudio Fernandes Barbosa.
Conversion to organic farming: Does it change the economic and environmental performance of fruit farms? Jaime Martín-García, José A. Gómez-Limón, Manuel Arriaza.
Inflation dynamics under different weather regimes: Evidence from Mexico. Daniel Ventosa-Santaulària, Edwin Tapia, Anna Karina Pérez-Peña.
Mixed farmers’ perception of the ecological-economic performance of diversified farming. Julia Rosa-Schleich, Jacqueline Loos, Marco Ferrante, Oliver Mußhoff, Teja Tscharntke.
Analysis of the environmental and economic performance of common agricultural policy eco-schemes in soil organic carbon sequestration. Sergio Colombo, Juan Castro-Rodríguez, Daniel Peréz-Pérez, María Almagro.
What drives businesses to transact with complementary currencies? Ariane Reyns.
Natural habitat vs human in competition for breathing space: Need for restructuring clean energy infrastructure. Noman Arshed, Aftab Anwar, Manzir Abbas, Waheed Mughal.
How does environmental regulation promote green technology innovation? Evidence from China’s total emission control policy. Zheming Yan, Ying Yu, Kerui Du, Ning Zhang.
Renewing the Subterranean Energy Regime? How Petroculture Obscures the Materiality of Deep Geothermal Energy Technology in Sweden. Andreas Roos.
Circular economy intentions in the fruit and vegetable sector of Central Ecuador. Carlos Moreno-Miranda, Liesbeth Dries.
Leverage points for sustainability transformation: Identifying past and future changes in the Finnish (circular) plastic packing system. Kaisa Korhonen-Kurki, Susanna Horn, Hanna Entsalo, Topi Turunen, Juuli Närhi et al.
Rising from the ashes: Transitioning towards carbon neutrality through the pathways of circular economy agglomeration. Haozhi Pan, Yanhao Sun, Manheng Wang, Zian Dong, Xiaoling Zhang et al.
Gender equality and sustainable development: A cross-country study on women’s contribution to the adoption of the climate-smart agriculture in Sub-Saharan Africa. Chiara Perelli, Luca Cacchiarelli, Valentina Peveri, Giacomo Branca.
Hard to digest investments: People oppose investment in both conventional and cultured meat producers. Paweł Niszczota, Jakub Błaszczyński.
Sufficiency between producers and consumers: A configurational analysis. Mauricio Hernández, Felipe Chávez-Bustamante.
Convenient solutions, inconvenient truths – Why supermarkets will not drive food system transformation. Hanna Helander, Simone Schnepf, Theresa Stetter, Francesca Ferrara, Sina Leipold
15 years of degrowth research: A systematic review. John-Oliver Engler, Max-Friedemann Kretschmer, Julius Rathgens, Joe A. Ament, Henrik von Wehrden et al.
The economics of decarbonizing Costa Rica’s agriculture, forestry and other land uses sectors. Onil Banerjee, Martín Cicowiez, Renato Vargas, Edmundo Molina-Perez, Žiga Malek et al.
Private benefits of natural capital on farms across an endangered ecoregion. Helena Clayton, Kassel L. Hingee, Will Chancellor, David Lindenmayer, Chris Boult et al.
Pesticide Use and Cropland Consolidation in California Organic Agriculture. Hanlin Wei, Rachael Goodhue, Minghua Zhang.
Bioeconomic markets based on the use of native species (NS) in Brazil. Sónia Carvalho Ribeiro, Britaldo Soares Filho, Tiago Cesalpino, Alessandra Araújo, Raoni Rajão et al.
Environmental inequality in industrial brownfields: Evidence from French municipalities. Charlotte S. Bez, Michael Ash, James K. Boyce.
The impossible love of fossil fuel companies for carbon taxes. Alain Naef.
The European Union and United Kingdom’s deforestation-free supply chains regulations: Implications for Brazil. Susan E.M. Cesar de Oliveira, Louise Nakagawa, Gabriela Russo Lopes, Jaqueline C. Visentin, Chris West et al.
Impacts of degraded pollination ecosystem services on global food security and nutrition. Zafarani Uwingabire, Nicola Gallai.
Degrowth vs. Green Growth. A computational review and interdisciplinary research agenda. Max Polewsky, Stephan Hankammer, Robin Kleer, David Antons.
Between farms and forks: Food industry perspectives on the future of EU food labelling. Christoph Schulze, Bettina Matzdorf, Jens Rommel, Mikołaj Czajkowski, Wojciech Zawadzki et al.
In search of a non-anthropocentric middle-range theory of the firm: On how the Patagonia Purpose Trust granted a controlling stake to nature. Alejandro Agafonow, Marybel Perez.
Estimating the relationship between EROI and profitability of oil sands mining, 1997–2016. Charles Guay-Boutet, Mathieu Dufour.
Reduce, reuse, redeem: Deposit-refund recycling programs in the presence of alternatives. Peter Berck, Molly Sears, Rebecca L.C. Taylor, Carly Trachtman, Sofia B. Villas-Boas.
Assessing the distributional impacts of ambitious carbon pricing in China’s agricultural sector. Qishi Zhang, Bo Li, Jing-Yu Liu, Yizhi Deng, Yong Geng et al.
Reducing fossil fuel dependency in smallholding farming in l’Horta de València, Spain: A socio-metabolic approach. C. Galiana-Carballo, M.G. Rivera-Ferre, P.F. Méndez, G. Palau-Salvador.
International Journal of Management Education
Developing a comprehensive assessment tool for responsible management education in business schools. Hamoon Tahmassebi, Manoochehr Najmi.
Journal of Accounting Research
The Impact of Information Frictions Within Regulators: Evidence from Workplace Safety Violations. Aneesh Raghunandan, Thomas G. Ruchti.
Journal of Marketing
So, Sue Me…If You Can! How Legal Changes Diminishing Managers’ Risk of Being Held Liable by Shareholders Affect Firms’ Likelihood to Recall Products. Arvid O.I. Hoffmann, Chee S. Cheong, Hoàng-Long Phan, Ralf Zurbruegg.
Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science
Addressing grand challenges through the bottom-up marketing approach: Lessons from subsistence marketplaces and marketplace literacy. Madhu Viswanathan, Arun Sreekumar, Gaurav R. Sinha.
Showcase the smiles or the tears? How elicited perspectives determine optimal charity appeal content. Diogo Hildebrand, Rhonda Hadi, Sankar Sen.
Marketing’s role in promoting dignity and human rights: A conceptualization for assessment and future research. Cait Lamberton, Tom Wein, Sakshi Ghai.
Delivering affordable clean energy to consumers. Praveen K. Kopalle, Jesse Burkhardt, Nailya Ordabayeva.
Purpose orientation: An emerging theory transforming business for a better world. Christopher P. Blocker, Joseph P. Cannon, Jonathan Z. Zhang.
Shifting focus in the fight against core environmental challenges. Gergana Y. Nenkov.
Manufacturing and Service Operations Management
Frontiers in Operations: Equitable Data-Driven Facility Location and Resource Allocation to Fight the Opioid Epidemic. Joyce Luo, Bartolomeo Stellato.
Technology-Enabled Agent Choice and Uptake of Social Assistance Programs: Evidence from India’s Food Security Program. Rakesh Allu, Maya Ganesh, Sarang Deo, Sripad K. Devalkar.
Toward Advancing Women’s Health in Least Developed Countries: Evaluating Contraceptive Distribution Models in Senegal. Amir Karimi, Anant Mishra, Karthik V. Natarajan, Kingshuk K. Sinha.
Aggregating Distributed Energy Resources: Efficiency and Market Power. Zuguang Gao, Khaled Alshehri, John R. Birge.
Frontiers in Operations: Battery as a Service: Flexible Electric Vehicle Battery Leasing. Lingling Shi, Bin Hu.
Recharging Retail: Estimating Consumer Demand Spillovers from Electric Vehicle Charging Stations. Yash Babar, Gordon Burtch.
Marketing Science
The Evolution of Discrimination in Online Markets: How the Rise in Anti-Asian Bias Affected Airbnb During the Pandemic. Michael Luca, Elizaveta Pronkina, Michelangelo Rossi.
Promotional Campaign Duration and Word of Mouth in Solar Panel Adoption. Bryan Bollinger, Kenneth Gillingham, Stefan Lamp, Tsvetan Tsvetanov.
Put Your Mouth Where Your Money Is: A Field Experiment Encouraging Donors to Share About Charity. Ike Silver, Deborah A. Small.
Organizational Behaviour and Human Decision Processes
Beyond allies and recipients: Exploring observers’ allyship emulation in response to leader allyship. Zhanna Lyubykh, Natalya M. Alonso, Nick Turner.
Advantaged groups misperceive how allyship will be received. Hannah J. Birnbaum, Desman Wilson, Adam Waytz.
An ally by any other name: Examining the effects of racial minority leaders as allies for advancing racial justice. McKenzie C. Preston, Terrance L. Boyd, Angelica Leigh, Richard Burgess, Victor Marsh.
Sincere solidarity or performative pretense? Evaluations of organizational allyship. Rebecca Ponce de Leon, James T. Carter, Ashleigh Shelby Rosette.
Quarterly Journal of Economics
Understanding Markets with Socially Responsible Consumers. Marc Kaufmann and others.
How the 1963 Equal Pay Act and 1964 Civil Rights Act Shaped the Gender Gap in Pay. Martha J. Bailey and others.
Discrimination in Multiphase Systems: Evidence from Child Protection. E Jason Baron and others.
The Role of the Ask Gap in Gender Pay Inequality. Nina Roussille.
Review of Accounting Studies
Customers’ response to firms’ disclosure of social stances: evidence from voting reform laws. Hengda Jin, Kenneth Merkley, Karen Ton.
Review of Economic Studies
A Theory of Socially Responsible Investment. Martin Oehmke and Marcus M Opp.
Surviving Competition: Neighbourhood Shops versus Convenience Chains. Miguel Ángel Talamas Marcos.
Review of Finance
Do Investors Care about Biodiversity? Alexandre Garel and others.
Review of Financial Studies
The Effect of Carbon Pricing on Firm Emissions: Evidence from the Swedish CO2 Tax. Gustav Martinsson et al.
Corporate Climate Risk: Measurements and Responses. Qing Li et al.
Strategic Management Journal
Collider bias in strategy and management research: An illustration using women CEO’s effect on other women’s career outcomes. Justin Frake, Andreas Hagemann, Jose Uribe.
Sweeping it under the rug: Positioning and managing pollution-intensive activities in organizational hierarchies. Juyoung Lee, Pratima Bansal.
Bribery, insecurity, and firm performance: Evidence from the Boko Haram insurgency in Nigeria. Stefan Dimitriadis.
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