Table of Contents: March 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 March 2026

Academy of Management Journal

• The Resource Insecurity Mindset: Why CEOs from Lower-Class Origins Are Both Greedier and More Generous. Timothy D. Hubbard, Lívia Markóczy, Aten Zaandam.

• Relationship Splintering and Repair: The Dynamics of Marginalization in Organizations. Deniz Öztürk, John M. Amis.

• Short-Term Demands and Long-Term Commitments: A Temporal Model of Stakeholder Governance. Romain Boulongne, Trevor Young-Hyman, Pascual Berrone.

• Bricolage as Enacted Sensemaking in Emergent Response Groups: Organizing in Conditions of Extreme Equivocality. Ricardo Coelho Da Silva, Leid Zejnilović, Marco Berti, Miguel Pina e Cunha, Pedro Oliveira.

• How Mega-threats Influence Workplace Cooperation: Effect of #BlackLivesMatter Salience on Cooperation among and between Black and White Coworkers. Steffen Keck, Christian Schumacher, Abhinav Gupta, Keith Leavitt.

• Constructing Agency Under Persistent Precarity: Shame, Anger, and Compassion in the Self-Narratives of Thai Sex Workers. Hee-Chan Song, Winnie Y. Jiang.

• Cultivating a Climate for Work–Life Inclusion by Implementing Human Resource Practices: Reducing Personal Life Stigma to Enhance Gender Career Equality. Yixuan Li, Haiyang Liu, Zhefan Huang, Ellen Ernst Kossek, Mo Wang, Yueting Ji, Shengming Liu.

• Hostile Frame Takeover: Co-opting the Security Frame in the Nuclear Energy Debate. Stephan Bohn, Nora Lohmeyer, Harsh Kumar Jha, Juliane Reinecke.

• When Women Stick Together: Network Dynamics and Shared Resources Following Disruptive Events. Yiftach Yarmar, Tiantian Yang, Marissa D. King.

• Reckoning With the Ideal Worker Body: A Qualitative Study of Workers in Chronic Pain. Beth S. Schinoff, Kim Rocheville, Elana Feldman, Njoke Thomas.

Academy of Management Perspectives

• Boards and Management Under Pressure: Navigating The New Dynamics of Shareholder and Stakeholder Demands. Margarethe F. Wiersema, Cynthia E. Clark,  Haeyoung Koo.

• Creating Long-Term Impact in a World That Requires Short-Term Results: What Is Missing from Academic Discourse on Systems Change. Sylvia Grewatsch, Alex Ryan.

• Improving the Credibility of Corporate Sustainability Metrics. Magali A. Delmas, Kelly Clark, Dylan Minor, Tyson Timmer.

• Getting to the Root Causes: An Integrative Framework for Understanding and Mitigating Unethical Workplace Behavior. David T. Welsh, Ryan Fehr, Grace Ching Chi Ho, Chris M. Barnes.

• “Digital Sustainability”: Addressing Managerial, Organizational, and Institutional Challenges. Markus A. Höllerer, George A. Shinkle, Gerard George, Johanna Mair, Shan L. Pan, Yenni Tim, David G. Collings.

• At the Crossroads: An Affordance-Based Perspective for Navigating Digital Sustainability Pathways. Davide Moiana, Jacopo Manotti, Antonio Ghezzi, Andrea Rangone.

American Economic Review

• Energy Transitions in Regulated Markets. Gautam Gowrisankaran, Ashley Langer, Mar Reguant.

• Conservation Priorities and Environmental Offsets: Markets for Florida Wetlands
  by Daniel Aronoff and Will Rafey

• A Welfare Analysis of Policies Impacting Climate Change. Robert W. Hahn, Nathaniel Hendren, Robert D. Metcalfe, Ben Sprung-Keyser.

Business and Society

• Parasitic Enterprises: How Entrepreneurial Competencies Can Foster Corruption Within Organizations. Olav Muurlink, Yeonji Seo, Jarrod P. Vassallo, Bastian Thomsen, María Alejandra Hincapié, Daniel A. Villar, Quamrul Alam.

• Logistics Gone Wrong: Enabling Large-Scale Migrant Deportations. Gilles A. Paché.

• Political Institutions and Corporate Citizenship: The Impact on Corporate Social Responsibility. Celia Díaz-Portugal, Minerva González, Clara Pérez-Cornejo.

• The Unsung Role of Nonprofit Organizations in Creating Economic and Social Value: A Stakeholder Theory Perspective. Prem S. Menghwar, Antonio Daood, R. Edward Freeman.

• Thinking With, Not Just About, Nature: Reimagining the Business–Nature Relationship. Rajat Panwar, Frederik Dahlmann, Céline Louche, Simon Pek.

• Organizational Democracy Revisited: A Case Study of Governance Innovations in a Platform Cooperative Facing Global Scale and Member Heterogeneity. Damion J. Bunders, Khanh Tran.

• Relational Work in the Shadow of Caste: The Case of Women Domestic Workers in India. Aiman Nida.

• Green Truth or Green Mirage? Carbon Information Disclosure and Asset Mispricing. Wanyi Chen, Ying Wang, Hao Ren.

• Ticking Boxes or Taking Action? Rethinking the Role of Research(ers) in Sustainable Finance. Susan Cooper, Torben Trapp, Michelle van Weeren, Katharina Dittrich.

• Indigeneity and Indigenous Peoples Around the World: Expanding the Intersections of Business and Society. Vijayta Doshi, Ana Maria Peredo, Chellie Spiller, Hari Bapuji.

• Weaving Regenerative Value Through Nature-Inclusive Stakeholder Engagement: Insights From Indigenous Businesses in the Sierra Nevada. Silvan Oberholzer.

Ecological Economics

• Labor market risk shapes individuals’ environmental attitudes and policy preferences. Valentina González-Rostani, Liam F. Beiser-McGrath, Michaël Aklin.

• Sustainable development and the mining industry: The Mexican case. S. Bacouel-Jentjens, G. Levieuge, J. Riascos, C. Turcu.

• Path to reducing pesticide input: Is agricultural production outsourcing effective? Xingyi Zuo, Houjian Li, Cheng Wang, Andi Cao, Haoyu Wen.

• Does sustainable fishing eco-label increase ex-vessel fish prices? Evidence from a French tuna fishery. François-Charles Wolff, Yohan Renard.

• Efficient and sustainable management of shared fisheries in Thailand: Self-governance or regulation? Rawadee Jarungrattanapong, Therese Lindahl.

• Organisational attitudes and preferences towards forest carbon offsets in Spain’s Carbon Footprint Registry. Brenda Morales, Paola Ovando.

• Tourism degrowth perspectives, drivers and policies. A systematic review. Francisco M. Osorio-Molina, Rocío Muñoz-Benito, David Pérez-Neira.

• Stringency of family firms and owner-managers in the transition to low-carbon emissions. Morten Bennedsen, John Doukas, Halit Gonenc.

• Book Review: Contested Waste: Environmental conflicts and waste pickers resistance in the global south, Federico de Maria, Daniele Vico, Lucía Fernandez Gabard. the Routledge Series in Political Ecology, London and New York 316 pages. Arpita Bisht.

• Beyond the chain: Lead firm strategies and sustainability governance in the global coffee sector. Jeff Neilson, Estelle Biénabe.

• GDP alternatives revisited: A systematic review and thematic analysis of barriers to the adoption of alternative measures of economic progress. Tania Smith Taylor, Sabine O’Hara.

• Assessing the unequal distribution between social benefits and costs across countries along global supply chains. Danyang Zhang, Hui Wang, Christina Prell, Jin Yan, Klaus Hubacek, et al.

• Interpreting the willingness and ability of rural producers to engage in conservation efforts in the Chaco forest of Argentina. Cristina C. Nuñez Godoy, Gisela S. Córdoba, Federico Colombo Speroni, Leonidas O. Girardin.

• Multilevel drivers of smallholder farmers’ coping strategies to climate variability: Insights from Assam, India. Jigyasa Sandilya, Kishor Goswami.

• Green jobs and green economic development in Kigali’s construction value chain: Evidence from a firm survey. Babette Never, Alexander Stoecker, Aime Tsinda, Eric Mujanama, Roger Mugisha.

• Unintended carbon cost of automation technology in transforming economies: The role of capital dependence and structure change. Shangze Dai, Xinde James Ji.

• Bridging beyond GDP and degrowth: Identifying measurements that are fit for future. Felix van Hoften, Nicky Pouw, Crelis Rammelt.

• How do citizens envision democratic participation for sustainable futures? A reflection on co-created innovations. Inês Campos, Doris Fuchs, Petteri Repo, Vanessa Buth, Christian Klöckner et al.

• The impact of labelling “true price” on effectiveness and consumer acceptance. Anne O. Peschel, John Thøgersen.

• Radical ecological economics: A paradigm from the global south. David Barkin, Erika Carcaño, Claudia Camacho, Alejandra Sánchez.

• Are we overestimating the benefits of agricultural intensification by overlooking nature-based alternatives? Jérôme Faure, Helena Hansson, Anne Sophie Dietrich, Esther Devilliers.

• The role of climate and loan financing information on solar irrigation adoption among cocoa farmers in Ghana. Lotte C.F.E. Muller, Andrew R. Bell, Marie-Charlotte Buisson, Carlos Calvo-Hernandez, Marije Schaafsma, et al.

• Informational nudges or incentives? A field experiment on vegetarian choices. Alice Pizzo, Jan M. Bauer, Lucia A. Reisch.

• Environmental inequalities in Italy: The role of industrial agglomerations and regional pollution dispersion capacity. Alessandra Drigo.

• Debunking competition – Global ecologically unequal exchange explained by exploitation and control relations. Raffaele Guarino, Giulio Corsi, Enrique Muñoz-Ulecia.

• Integrating post-growth economics into transformative adaptation: Property relations, capital, and democratic planning. Oussama Chaabouni, Richard Bärnthaler.

Journal of Accounting Research

• Financial Climate-Risk Measurement, Impact Funds, and Green Transitions. Volker Laux, Lucas Mahieux.

• Do Consumers Vote with Their Feet in Response to Negative ESG News? Evidence from Foot Traffic to Retail Locations. Svenja Dube, Hye Seung (Grace) Lee, Danye Wang.

Journal of Management Information Systems

• When Talk and Walk Diverge: How Organizational-AI Misalignment Erodes Integrity-Based Trust and Reliance on AI. Maryam Ghasemaghaei.

Journal of Marketing  

• Responsible Design Thinking. Minu Kumar, Pietro Micheli, Jatinder Jit (J.J.) Singh, Neil Goldberg.

• How E-Scooters Impact Shared Mobility and Consumer Safety. Ruichun Liu, Unnati Narang.

• How Can a Firm Suppress Shareholders’ Punitive Reaction to Its Disengagement from a Geopolitically Uncertain Market? Vivek Astvansh, Kamran Eshghi, Hesam Shahriari, Wei Shi.

Journal of Political Economy

• Efficiency and Redistribution in Environmental Policy: An Equilibrium Analysis of Agricultural Supply Chains. Tomás Domínguez-Iino.

• How Cultural Diversity Drives Innovation: Surnames and Patents in US History. Max Posch, Jonathan Schulz, Joseph Henrich.

• Mandated versus Voluntary Adaptation to Natural Disasters: The Case of US Wildfires. Patrick Baylis, Judson Boomhower.

Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science

• Platform customer misconduct: A conceptual framework for research and practice. Ju-Yeon Lee, Shrihari Sridhar, Shuai Yan.

Manufacturing and Service Operations Management

• Frontiers in Operations: Last-Mile Delivery in Healthcare: Drone Delivery for Blood Products in Rwanda. H. Harriet Jeon, Claudio Lucarelli, Jean Baptiste Mazarati, Donatien Ngabo, Hummy Song.

• Keep the Water Flowing: The Hidden Crisis of Rural Water Management. Chengcheng Zhai, Rodney Parker, Kurt Michael Bretthauer, Jorge Mejia, Alfonso Pedraza-Martinez.

• Strategic Entry of Farmers’ Cooperatives in Agricultural Markets. Xiaoyan Qian, Quan Zhou, Tava Lennon Olsen.

Organizational Behaviour and Human Decision Processes

• When You Say It: How the Timing of LGBTQ+ Allyship Displays Shapes Evaluations of Organizations. Michael W. White, James T. Carter.

Production and Operations Management

• Getting to the Green: Should a Profit-Maximizing Firm Buy Carbon Offsets or Invite Consumers to Buy Them? Gökçe Esenduran, Hans Sebastian Heese, Gilvan C Souza.

• Prosocial Project Management in Conflict Areas. Andres F Jola-Sanchez.

• Equity-Driven Workload Allocation for Crowdsourced Last-Mile Delivery. Abhay Sobhanan, Hadi Charkhgard, Iman Dayarian.

Quarterly Journal of Economics

• The Effects of Gender Integration on Men: Evidence from the U.S. Military. Kyle Greenberg et al.

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

• The Macroeconomic Impact of Climate Change: Global Versus Local Temperature. Adrien Bilal, Diego R Känzig.

• Insuring Peace: Index-Based Livestock Insurance, Droughts, and Conflict. Kai Gehring, Paul Schaudt.

Review of Accounting Studies

• Green patenting and voluntary innovation disclosure. A. Nicole Skinner, Kristen Valentine.

• Beyond disclosure: Can firms be forced to spend their way to social responsibility? Divya Anantharaman, Hariom Manchiraju, Shekhar Misra.

Review of Economic Studies

• Do The Effects of Nudges Persist? Theory and Evidence from 38 Natural Field Experiments. Alec Brandon et al.

• Dynamic Regulation with Firm Linkages: Evidence from Texas. Matthew Leisten, Nicholas Vreugdenhil.

• Hiring as Exploration. Danielle Li et al.

Review of Finance

• Hacking Corporate Reputations. Pat Akey et al.

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

• Biodiversity and natural resource finance. Elroy Dimson et al.

Review of Financial Studies  

• ESG Shocks in Global Supply Chains. Emilio Bisetti et al.

• When Do Judges Throw the Book at Companies? The Influence of Partisanship in Corporate Prosecutions. Todd A Gormley et al.

• The Impact of Carcinogenic Risk Exposure on Housing Values: Estimates from Chemical Reclassifications. Jules van Binsbergen et al.

Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal

• Strategic framing of novel ideas: How contestation shapes the evolution of novelty. Janina Klein, Elco van Burg, Christine Moser.

• Decision-making in entrepreneurial teams with competing economic and noneconomic goals. Jeroen Neckebrouck, Thomas Zellweger.

Strategic Management Journal

• Beyond coal: When can outsider stakeholders drive transformative change? Todd Schifeling, Thomas P. Lyon, Ion Bogdan Vasi.

• Overcoming barriers? The mixed results of social innovation accelerator programs for women entrepreneurs. Nilanjana Dutt, Sarah Kaplan.

• Values and visibility: How CEO activism influences private and public consumer choices. Young Hou, Christopher Poliquin.

• Does entrepreneurship narrow the gender earnings gap? Tiantian Yang, Aleksandra (Olenka) Kacperczyk, Lucia Naldi.

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