Table of Contents: May 2019

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 May 2019

Academy of Management Journal

• Organizations, Risk Translations and the Ecology of Risks: The Discursive Construction of a Novel Risk. Cynthia Hardy, Steve Maguire.

• Dare to Be Different? Conformity vs. Differentiation in Corporate Social Activities of Chinese Firms and Market Responses. Yanlong Zhang, Heli Wang, Xiaoyu Zhou.

• How Formal and Informal Hierarchies Shape Conflict within Cooperatives: A Field Experiment in Ghana. Angelique Slade Shantz, Geoffrey M Kistruck, Desiree F. Pacheco, Justin W Webb.

Academy of Management Review

• CEO Sociopolitical Activism: A Stakeholder Alignment Model. Donald C. Hambrick, Adam Wowak.

• The Emergence of Moral Leadership. Omar Nathanael Solinger, Paul G. W. Jansen, Joep Cornelissen.

• The Nature of the Social Firm: Alternative Organizational Forms for Social Value Creation and Appropriation. Sergio Lazzarini.

• Black Employees Matter: Mega-Threats, Identity Fusion, and Enacting Positive Deviance in Organizations. Angelica Leigh, Shimul Melwani.

• MOSAIC: A Model of Stereotyping Through Associated and Intersectional Categories. Erika Hall, Alison Vania Hall, Adam Galinsky, Katherine W. Phillips.

Accounting Review

• Selection Benefits of Below-Market Pay in Social-Mission Organizations: Effects on Individual Performance and Team Cooperation. Clara Xiaoling Chen, Heather L. Pesch, Laura W. Wang.

Business and Society

• Formative Perspectives on the Relation Between CSR Communication and CSR Practices: Pathways for Walking, Talking, and T(w)alking. Dennis Schoeneborn, Mette Morsing, Andrew Crane.

• CSR Communication Research: A Theoretical-cum-Methodological Perspective From Semiotics. Kemi C. Yekini, Kamil Omoteso, Emmanuel Adegbite.

• Religion as a Macro Social Force Affecting Business: Concepts, Questions, and Future Research. Harry J. Van Buren, III, Jawad Syed, Raza Mir.

• Cross-Sector Partnerships as Capitalism’s New Development Agents: Reconceiving Impact as Empowerment. Anne Vestergaard, Luisa Murphy, Mette Morsing, Thilde Langevang.

• Bending the Rules or Changing Them? MNE Responses to Institutional Challenges in Transition Economies. Jisun Yu, Seung-Hyun Lee.

• Is There Evidence for Export-Led Adoption of ISO 14001? A Review of the Literature Using Meta-Regression. Catherine Liston-Heyes, Anthony Heyes.

• Even When No One Is Watching: The Moral Psychology of Corporate Reputation. Miguel Alzola.

• Do Sustainability Rating Schemes Capture Climate Goals? Saphira A. C. Rekker, Jacquelyn E. Humphrey, Katherine R. O’Brien.

Business Strategy and Environment

• Business adaptation to climate change: American ski resorts and warmer temperatures. Jorge Rivera, Viviane Clement.

Ecological Economics

• Are pension funds actively decarbonizing their portfolios? Martijn A. Boermans, Rients Galema.

• Frugality as a choice vs. frugality as a social condition. Is de-growth doomed to be a Eurocentric project? Roldan Muradian.

• Is the post-fossil era necessarily post-capitalistic? – The robustness and capabilities of green capitalism. Stephan Bosch, Matthias Schmidt.

Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice

• “Rhetoric Mix” of Argumentations: How Policy Rhetoric Conveys Meaning of Entrepreneurship for Sustainable Development. Virva Salmivaara, Ewald Kibler.

• We’re All in the Same Boat: A Collective Model of Preserving and Accessing Nature-Based Opportunities. Karin Andrea Wigger, Dean A. Shepherd.

Human Relations

• Answering the crisis with intellectual activism: Making a difference as business schools scholars. Alessia Contu.

• A suitable woman: The coming-of-age of the ‘third world woman’ at the bottom of the pyramid: A critical engagement. Suparna Chatterjee.

• Corporate social responsibility (CSR) communication and small and medium sized enterprises: The governmentality dilemma of explicit and implicit CSR communication. Mette Morsing, Laura J Spence.

• From home to host: The instrumental kaleidoscopic careers of skilled migrants. Edward P O’Connor, Marian Crowley-Henry.

Journal of Business Venturing

• 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 Management

• You’re Fired! Gender Disparities in CEO Dismissal. Vishal K. Gupta, Sandra C. Mortal, Sabatino Silveri, Minxing Sun, Daniel B. Turban.

Journal of Management Studies

• Entry‐Timing Advantages in Renewable Natural Resources Industries. Alejandro F. Mac Cawley, Ángel Sevil, Roberto S. Vassolo, José Ignacio Sepúlveda Vargas.

• Spoils from the Spoiled: Strategies for Entering Stigmatized Markets. Angelique Slade Shantz, Eileen Fischer, Aurora Liu, Moren Lévesque.

• The Surprising Duality of Jugaad: Low Firm Growth and High Inclusive Growth. Dean A. Shepherd, Vinit Parida, Joakim Wincent.

Management Science

• Getting the Rich and Powerful to Give. Judd B. Kessler, Katherine L. Milkman , C. Yiwei Zhang.

• Peer Effects of Corporate Social Responsibility. Jie Cao, Hao Liang, Xintong Zhan.

• Socially Beneficial Rationality: The Value of Strategic Farmers, Social Entrepreneurs, and For-Profit Firms in Crop Planting Decisions. Ming Hu, Yan Liu, Wenbin Wang.

• Design Implications of Extended Producer Responsibility for Durable Products. Ximin (Natalie) Huang, Atalay Atasu, L. Beril Toktay.

• Corporate Provision of Public Goods. John Morgan, Justin Tumlinson.

• Institutional Investors and Corporate Environmental, Social, and Governance Policies: Evidence from Toxics Release Data. Incheol Kim, Hong Wan, Bin Wang, Tina Yang.

Organization Science

• Coupling Labor Codes of Conduct and Supplier Labor Practices: The Role of Internal Structural Conditions. Yanhua Bird, Jodi L. Short, Michael W. Toffel.

Organizational Behaviour and Human Decision Processes

• Isolating the effect of injunctive norms on conservation behavior: New evidence from a field experiment in California. Syon P. Bhanot.

Organization and Environment

• Getting Gig Workers to Do More by Doing Good: Field Experimental Evidence From Online Platform Labor Marketplaces. Vanessa C. Burbano.

• What Gives Life to Large System Change? Sandra Waddock, Petra Kuenkel.

• Sustainability as a Competitive Tool for the Brave? Or for the Best? A Behavioral Theory Perspective. Emanuele L. M. Bettinazzi, Lorenzo Massa, Kerstin Neumann.

• From Equivocality to Reflexivity in Biodiversity Protection. Anne Quarshie, Asta Salmi, Zhaohui Wu.

• The Measurement of Green Workplace Behaviors: A Systematic Review. Virginie Francoeur, Pascal Paillé, Alexander Yuriev, Olivier Boiral.

• Managing the Paradoxes of Place to Foster Regeneration. Natalie Slawinski, Blair Winsor, Daina Mazutis, John W. Schouten,Wendy K. Smith.

Production and Operations Management

• Money Well Spent? Operations, Mainstreaming, and Fairness of Fair Trade. Michael K. Lim, Ho‐Yin Mak, Seung Jae Park.

• Managing Perishable Inventory Systems with Product Returns and Remanufacturing. Ke Fu, Xiting Gong, Guitian Liang.

Strategic Management Journal

• Do investors actually value sustainability indices? Replication, development, and new evidence on CSR visibility. Rodolphe Durand, Luc Paugam, Hervé Stolowy.

• Corporate social responsibility as a defense against knowledge spillovers: Evidence from the inevitable disclosure doctrine. Caroline Flammer, Aleksandra Kacperczyk.

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