Table of Contents: March 2025

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 2025

Academy of Management Journal

• Threading the Needle of Corporate Activism: How Firms Frame Their Stances on Polarizing Social Issues. Sung Hun (Brian) Chung, Kate Odziemkowska, Alessandro Piazza.

• How Political Context Affects Immigrant Newcomers’ Social Undermining Dynamics and Well-Being at Work. Benjamin A. Korman, Max Reinwald, Florian Kunze, Sebastian Koos.

• The Boundaries of Modern Slavery: The Role of Exemplars in New Category Formation. Robert Caruana, Andrew Crane, Claire Ingram.

Academy of Management Perspectives

• Digital Sustainability Solutions: Expanding the Toolkit For Environmentally Sustainable Outcomes. Ipek Kocoglu, Murad A. Mithani.

• Social Justice Narratives in Platform Governance Battles: Can Peer Support Fend Off Hypocrisy Accusations? Fiona Schweitzer, Robert Mai.

• From Telling a Life Story to Creating One: Finding Meaning and Supporting Prosocial Action Through Legacy Motive Activation. Daniela Goya-Tocchetto, Jessica J. W. Paek, Kimberly A. Wade-Benzoni.

• Firms as Quasi-Traditions: The Moral Backbone of Social Legacy. Nicholas Burton, Matthew Sinnicks, Claire Hedley, Allan Discua Cruz, Nicholas D. Wong, Andrew Smith.

• Circular Economy 5.0 on Its Way: A Digital Sustainability Transition. Eirini Aivazidou, Naoum Tsolakis, Edoardo Mollona.

• Grand Challenges and the Rhetoric of Collective Action. Israel Drori, Kerstin Neumann, Eero Vaara, Kees Boersma, Yiannis Kyratsis, Estefania Santacreu-Vasut, Roy Suddaby.

American Economic Review

• Innovative Ideas and Gender (In)Equality. Marlène Koffi.

• Leaders in Social Movements: Evidence from Unions in Myanmar. Laura Boudreau, Rocco Macchiavello, Virginia Minni, Mari Tanaka.

• Targeting Impact versus Deprivation. Johannes Haushofer, Paul Niehaus, Carlos Paramo, Edward Miguel, Michael Walker.

• Who Benefits from Online Gig Economy Platforms? Christopher T. Stanton, Catherine Thomas.

• The Role of People vs. Places in Individual Carbon Emissions. Eva Lyubich.

• Presidential Address: The Economist as Designer in the Innovation Process for Socially Impactful Digital Products. Susan Athey.

Business & Society

• Teaching a Systems Approach to Address the Sustainability Management Disconnect. Steve Kennedy, Sylvia Grewatsch, Lara Liboni, Luciana Oranges Cezarino.

• Revisiting Home in Home-Based Work: A Call for Epistemic Compassion. Ahmad Faraz Khan, Irna Ishrat.

• Corporate Accountability for PFAS Chemicals: The Translation of Private Rules in the Swedish Food Packaging Supply Chain. Sabina Du Rietz Dahlström, Erik Hysing, Ulrika Eriksson, Ingrid Ericson Jogsten.

• Evaluations of Organizational Configurations: Does Hybrid Form or Logic Content Matter? Jared L. Peifer, Jing Liu.

• How to Grow Without Getting Bigger: Inter-Cooperation as a Scaling Strategy for Social and Solidarity Economy Organizations. Enekoitz Etxezarreta, Unai Villalba-Eguiluz, Pablo Arrillaga, Ricard Mendieta.

• Exploring the Potential for Theory Elaboration to Strengthen CSR Theorization and to Offer Enhanced CSR Theory: The Role of Grounded Theory. Petya Koleva, Maureen Meadows.

• Decontesting Corporate Responsibility for Collaboration: A Case Study of a Cross-Sector Coalition Lobbying for Human Rights Regulation. Visa Penttilä, Frank den Hond, Martin Fougère, Nikodemus Solitander.

• Share Repurchases, Undervaluation, and Corporate Social Responsibility. Nils Bobenhausen, Wolfgang Breuer, Andreas Knetsch, Luis Maria Siemer.

• Explicitization of Corporate Social Responsibilities at the National Institutional Level. Julia Bartosch, Nora Lohmeyer.

• Acting Green? Private Environmental Coalitions in the United States. Juan Pablo González.

• Health is Everyone’s Business: Integrating Business and Public Health for Lasting Impact. Junghoon Park, Jill A. Brown, Bryan W. Husted.

Ecological Economics

• Assessing carbon emissions along global supply chains from technology perspective: A network production decomposition analysis. Hui Wang, Shasha Yu, Yafei Yang, Meiyue Wang, Peng Zhou.

• Mitigating climate vulnerability: the crop diversification effect. Marin Ferry, Jeanne de Montalembert.

• Assessing the nexus between industrialization and inclusive green growth in Africa. The critical role of energy efficiency. Brice Kamguia, Sosson Tadadjeu, Hermann Ndoya, Ronald Djeunankan.

• Does a sense of intergenerational commitments modify farmers’ preferences for conservation tillage? Evidence from the choice experiment in Moldova. Łukasz Kryszak, Bazyli Czyżewski, Agnieszka Sapa, Eugenia Lucasenco.

• Regional employment implications of deploying CO2 transport and storage to decarbonise the UK’s industry clusters. Christian Calvillo, Antonios Katris, Julia Race, Hannah Corbett, Karen Turner.

• Critical realism, methodological pluralism, and ecological economics. Richard B. Norgaard.

• Biases and nudges in the circular economy: A review. Luca Congiu, Enrico Botta, Mariangela Zoli.

• Living well with the foundational economy: Assessing the spatial accessibility of foundational infrastructures in Vienna and the relationship to socio-economic status. Tobias Riepl, Anke Schaffartzik, Simon Grabow, Selim Banabak.

• Pollinator declines, international trade and global food security: Reassessing the global economic and nutritional impacts. Arndt Feuerbacher.

• Do economists think about climate change and inequality? Semantic analysis and topic modeling of top five economics journals. Hassan El Tinay, Juliet B. Schor.

• The skill requirements of the circular economy. Duygu Buyukyazici, Francesco Quatraro.

• Degrowth in a settler state: climate-just economic transitions and Reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples in Canada. Kelly Gingrich, Lina Brand-Correa, Elaine Howarth, Anna Stratton.

• Assessing pathways for pursuing coherence between local implementation of emerging alternative economic approaches and international investment law. Ted Gleason.

• Closing the loop at the local scale: Investigating the drivers of and barriers to the implementation of the circular economy in cities and regions. Sébastien Bourdin, Nicolas Jacquet.

• Towards an ecological metaphor for regenerative circular economies. Filippos K. Zisopoulos, Brian D. Fath, Bruno Meirelles de Oliveira, Susana Toboso-Chavero, Martin de Jong.

• Why degrowth should be disentangled from the wellbeing economy. Hubert Buch-Hansen.

• Defining a safe and just operating space for the Norwegian economy. Thomas Røkås, Erik Gómez-Baggethun.

• The green transition dilemma: The impossible (?) quest for prosperity of South American economies. Sebastian Valdecantos.

• Is social capital a driver of the green transition in the European Union? Jesús Peiró-Palomino, Lisa Gianmoena, Andrés J. Picazo-Tadeo, Vicente Rios.

• The environmental benefits of grassroots cooperatives in agriculture. Simon Cornée, Damien Rousselière, Véronique Thelen.

• The effect of the beef zero deforestation commitment in the Brazilian Amazon: A spatial panel data analysis. Diogo Vallim, Alexandre Leichsenring.

• Divergent outcomes of large-scale land transactions in Ethiopia: A quantitative comparative analysis. Chuan Liao, Arun Agrawal.

• When petroleum revenue transparency policy meets citizen engagement reality: Survey evidence from Indonesia. Christa Brunnschweiler, Päivi Lujala, Primi Putri, Sabrina Scherzer, Indah Wardhani.

• Consensus and contestation: Reflections on the development of an indicator framework for a just transition to a circular economy. Ben Purvis, Tommaso Calzolari, Andrea Genovese.

• Post-growth economics as a guide for systemic change: Theoretical and methodological foundations. Elena Hofferberth.

• From pastures to plates: The thorny path to achieving deforestation-free cattle from Brazil to European consumers. Matías Vaccarezza Sevilla, Gino Pedreira Lucchese, Torsten Krause, Gisele Garcia Alarcon.

• Towards a sustainable mobility lifestyle: Exploring the flight to rail shift through model-based behavioural change scenarios. David Álvarez-Antelo, Paola López-Muñoz, Luis Llases, Arthur Lauer.

• Development and test of a dual-pathway model of personal and community factors driving new energy technology adoption – The case of V2G in three European countries. Nora Baumgartner, Daniel Sloot, Anne Günther, Ulf J.J. Hahnel.

Journal of Accounting Research

• Measuring Greenhouse Gas Emissions: What Are the Costs and Benefits? Lucas Mahieux, Haresh Sapra, Gaoqing Zhang.

• Racial Disparities in Financial Complaints and the Role of Corporate Social Attitudes. Rachel M. Hayes, Feng Jiang, Yihui Pan, Huayi Tang.

Journal of Marketing

• How Socioeconomic Status Shapes Food Preferences and Perceptions. Bernardo Andretti, Yan Vieites, Larissa Elmor, Eduardo B. Andrade.

• Racial Inequity in Donation-Based Crowdfunding Platforms: The Role of Facial Emotional Expressiveness. Elham Yazdani, Anindita Chakravarty, Jeffrey Inman.

• The Impact of Air Pollution on Consumer Spending. Sanghwa Kim, Michael Trusov.

Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science

• Editorial: “We could be heroes”: Reflections on reimagining marketing strategies for a better world. Kirk Plangger, Matteo Montecchi, Darren W. Dahl.

• Stay or leave? How corporate responses to economic sanctions shape consumer reactions. Xiang Fang, Zhiyong Yang, Grace Fang Yu-Buck.

Manufacturing and Service Operations Management

• A Locational Demand Model for Bike-Sharing. Ang Xu, Chiwei Yan, Chong Yang Goh, Patrick Jaillet.

• Diversion in Prescription Opioid Supply Chains: Evidence from the Drug Supply Chain Security Act. Jingwen Yang, Anant Mishra.

• Unmasking Human Trafficking Risk in Commercial Sex Supply Chains with Machine Learning. Pia Ramchandani, Hamsa Bastani, Emily Wyatt.

• Reducing Overdose Deaths and Mitigating County Disparities: Optimal Allocation of Substance Use Treatment Centers. Matt Baucum, Matt Harris, Lawrence Kessler, Guanyi Lu.

• OM Forum—Barriers to Implementing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Programs in Supply Chains: Lessons from Comparing Public and Private Firms. Timofey Shalpegin, Tyson R. Browning, Ajay Kumar

• Buying Cheap: Brand Switching During Economic Distress and Its Disparate Impact on Consumers. Shantanu Dutta, Divya Singhvi, Somya Singhvi.

• Laissez-Faire vs. Government Intervention: Implications of Regulation Preventing Nonauthorized Remanufacturing. Gökçe Esenduran, Minyue Jin, Yu Zhou.

Marketing Science

• Symbolic vs. Substantive Support: The Impact of Black Lives Matter on Black-Owned Businesses. Siddharth Sharma, Justin Frake, Jared Watson.

• Sustainable Consumption: A Strategic Analysis. Wilfred Amaldoss, Siddharth Prusty.

• Mass Shootings and Their Impact on Retail. Khai Chiong, Seung Mok (Simon) Kim, TI Tongil Kim.

Production and Operations Management

• Undiversity, Inequity, and Exclusion in Supply Chains: The Unintended Fallout of Economic Sanctions and Consumer Boycotts. Timofey Shalpegin, Ajay Kumar, Tyson R Browning.

• Endogenous Data Collection in Platform Markets: Privacy and Welfare. Gaurav Jakhu, Prabal Roy Chowdhury.

• Are Firms Voluntarily Disclosing Emissions Greener? Yilin Shi, Christopher S Tang, Jing Wu.

• Delegation Versus Control Mechanism: Impacts on Second-Hand Markets With Product Upgrades. Abhishek Srivastava, Tsan-Ming Choi, Shipra Shkula, Yashoda Devi.

• When Platforms Go Public, Standards Drop. Guillaume Lapierre-Berger, Maxime C Cohen, Juan Puyana-Bastin.

• Are All Generic Drugs Created Equal? An Empirical Analysis of Generic Drug Manufacturing Location and Serious Drug Adverse Events. In Joon Noh, John Gray, George Ball, Zachary Wright, Hyunwoo Park.

• Making Delivery Platform Drivers Safer: Platform Responsibility Versus Consumer Empowerment. Li Hu, Xiangyu Zhou, Tsan-Ming Choi, Shaofu Du.

• Diversity, Equity and Inclusion and Operations Management: Critical Linkages and Research Opportunities. Charles J Corbett, Sriram Narayanan, John Aloysius, Gemma Berenguer, Ebru K Bish, Margrét V Bjarnadóttir, Guodong (Gordon) Gao, Wiljeana J Glover, Michael P Johnson, Başak Kalkanci, Jun Li, Susan E Martonosi, Jorge Mejia, Anant Mishra, Karthik V Natarajan, Chris Parker, ManMohan S Sodhi, Wenjie Tang, Kaitlin D Wowak, Christopher W Zobel.

Quarterly Journal of Economics

• Voluntary Minimum Wages: The Local Labor Market Effects of National Retailer Policies. Ellora Derenoncourt, David Weil.

• Can Pollution Markets Work in Developing Countries? Experimental Evidence from India. Michael Greenstone, Rohini Pande, Nicholas Ryan, Anant Sudarshan.

Review of Accounting Studies

• Disclosure standards and communication norms: evidence of voluntary sustainability standards as a coordinating device for capital markets. Khrystyna Bochkay, Jeffrey Hales, George Serafeim.

• Something in the air: does air pollution affect fund managers’ carbon divestment? Thanh D. Huynh, Frank Weikai Li, Ying Xia.

Review of Economic Studies

• “Bad” Oil, “Worse” Oil, and Carbon Misallocation. Renaud Coulomb, Fanny Henriet, Léo Reitzmann.

• Institutions, Comparative Advantage, and the Environment. Joseph S Shapiro.

Review of Finance

• The green sin: how exchange rate volatility and financial openness affect green premia. Alessandro Moro, Andrea Zaghini.

• Not in my backyard: intrinsic motivation and corporate pollution abatement. Angie Andrikogiannopoulou, Alexia Ventouri, Scott E Yonker

• Executive compensation with environmental and social performance. Pierre Chaigneau, Nicolas Sahuguet.

• Disaster Relief, Inc.: when is corporate philanthropy good or bad for shareholders? Hao Liang, Cara Vansteenkiste.

• Do salient climatic risks affect shareholder voting? Eliezer M Fich, Guosong Xu.

Review of Financial Studies

• Does Finance Benefit Society? A Language Embedding Approach. Manish Jha, Hongyi Liu, Asaf Manela.

Strategic Management Journal

• Die now of hunger or later of thirst: Understanding climate change adaptation decisions in vulnerable contexts. Lucrezia Nava, Jorge Chiapetti, Rui Barbosa da Rocha, Maja Tampe.

• Blood diamonds? Responses of open-source software developers to the Facebook-Cambridge Analytica scandal. Yanfeng Zheng, Qinyu (Ryan) Wang.

• Endogenous shaping as an evolutionary process: An empirical demonstration with the photovoltaic cell industry, 1976-2010. Charlotte Jacobs, Gwendolyn K. Lee.

• From joiners to founders: Startup employment and underrepresented entrepreneurs. Christopher G. Law, Travis Howell, Chris Bingham, Y. Sekou Bermiss.

• Not in my homeland: Immigrant CEOs and the geography of corporate social irresponsibility. Juan Bu, Stephanie Lu Wang, Yejee Lee, Dan Li.

• Navigating market entry decisions in the solar PV industry: The role of founders’ pre-entry experience across the value chain. Mara Guerra, Bart Clarysse, Anu Wadhwa.

• When (not) to talk politics in business: Experimental evidence. Tommaso Bondi, Vanessa C. Burbano, Fabrizio Dell’Acqua.

• Comparative governance of for-profit provision of public services: Investor-owned firms versus cooperatives as internet providers. Hyoju Jeong, Aseem Kaul, Jiao Luo.

• How shareholder litigation risk influences firm orientation toward stakeholders. Eunyoung Park, Donald Lange, Chunhu Jeon.

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