Table of Contents: November 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 November 2019

Academy of Management Discoveries

• Leveraging a Recessive Narrative to Transform Joe Paterno’s Image: Media Sensebreaking, Sensemaking, and Sensegiving During Scandal. Derron G. Bishop, Linda Klebe Treviño, Denny Gioia, Glen E. Kreiner.

• GUIDEPOST: Responsible Research and Responsible Leadership Studies. Anne S. Tsui.

• Backstage Interorganizational Collaboration: Corporate Endorsement Of The Sustainable Development Goals. Amanda Williams,  Gail Whiteman, John Parker.

Academy of Management Learning and Education 

• A Path to Developing More Insightful Business School Graduates: A Systems-Based, Experiential Approach to Integrating Law, Strategy, and Sustainability. Constance E Bagley, Adam J. Sulkowski, J. S. Nelson, Sandra Waddock, Paul Shrivastava.

Academy of Management Review

•  A Theory of Ethical Accounting and Its Implications for Hypocrisy in Organizations. Peter H. Kim, Scott S. Wiltermuth, David T. Newman.

• Editors’ Comments: The Rise of Nationalism (Redux)—An Opportunity for Reflection and Research. Sharon Alvarez, Subramanian Rangan.

Business Ethics Quarterly

• Breaking the Privacy Paradox: The Value of Privacy and Associated Duty of Firms. Kirsten Martin.

• Stakeholder Dialogue as Agonistic Deliberation: Exploring the Role of Conflict and Self-Interest in Business-NGO Interaction. Teunis Brand, Vincent Blok, Marcel Verweij.

Contemporary Acounting Research

• Shareholder Activism and Voluntary Disclosure Initiation: The Case of Political Spending. Vishal P. Baloria, Kenneth J. Klassen, Christine I. Wiedman.

Journal of Applied Psychology

• On melting pots and salad bowls: A meta-analysis of the effects of identity-blind and identity-conscious diversity ideologies. Lisa M. Leslie, Joyce E. Bono, Yeonka (Sophia) Kim, Gregory R. Beaver.

• Ethical champions, emotions, framing, and team ethical decision making. Anjier Chen, Linda Klebe Treviño, Stephen E. Humphrey.

• To be or not to be sorry? How CEO gender impacts the effectiveness of organizational apologies. Amanda P. Cowen, Nicole Votolato Montgomery.

• Affective antecedents and consequences of revealing and concealing a lesbian, gay, or bisexual identity. Jonathan J. Mohr, Hannah M. Markell, Eden B. King, Kristen P. Jones, Chad I. Peddie, Matthew S. Kendra.

Journal of Business Ethics

• Moral Development in Business Ethics: An Examination and Critique. Kristen Bell DeTienne, Carol Frogley Ellertson.

• The Past, History, and Corporate Social Responsibility. Robert Phillips, Judith Schrempf-Stirling, Christian Stutz.

• Strategic Responses to Grand Challenges: Why and How Corporations Build Community Resilience. Ralph Hamann, Lulamile Makaula, Gina Ziervogel.

• This Time from Africa: Developing a Relational Approach to Values-Driven Leadership. Mar Pérezts, Jo-Anna Russon, Mollie Painter.

• Afrocentric Attitudinal Reciprocity and Social Expectations of Employees: The Role of Employee-Centred CSR in Africa. Oluseyi Aju, Eshani Beddewela.

• Exploring the Curvature of the Relationship Between HRM–CSR and Corporate Financial Performance. Olivier Meier, Philippe Naccache, Guillaume Schier.

• Business Ethics in Africa: The Role of Institutional Context, Social Relevance, and Development Challenges. Ifedapo Adeleye, John Luiz, Judy Muthuri, Kenneth Amaeshi.

• Sweated Labor as a Social Phenomenon Lessons from the 19th Century Sweatshop Discussion. Michael S. Aßländer.

• The Carrot or the Stick: Self-Regulation for Gender-Diverse Boards via Codes of Good Governance. Heike Mensi-Klarbach, Stephan Leixnering, Michael Schiffinger.

• Corporate Political Strategies in Weak Institutional Environments: A Break from Conventions. Tahiru Azaaviele Liedong, Daniel Aghanya, Tazeeb Rajwani.

• An Agonistic Notion of Political CSR: Melding Activism and Deliberation. Cedric E. Dawkins.

• A Model of Virtuous Leadership in Africa: Case Study of a Nigerian Firm. Adeyinka Adewale.

• Ethical Judgments About Social Entrepreneurship in Sub-Saharan Africa: The Influence of Spatio-Cultural Meanings. Maria Margarida De Avillez, Andrew Greenman, Susan Marlow.

• Proto-CSR Before the Industrial Revolution: Institutional Experimentation by Medieval Miners’ Guilds. Stefan Hielscher, Bryan W. Husted.

• International Investment Agreements and the Escalation of Private Power in the Global Agri-Food System. Anna Clare Bull, Jagjit Plahe, Lachlan Gregory.

• Politicising Government Engagement with Corporate Social Responsibility: “CSR” as an Empty Signifier. Anna Zueva, Jenny Fairbrass.

• From Credit Risk to Social Impact: On the Funding Determinants in Interest-Free Peer-to-Peer Lending. Gregor Dorfleitner, Eva-Maria Oswald, Rongxin Zhang.

• Remembering to Forget: The Historic Irresponsibility of U.S. Big Tobacco. Diego M. Coraiola, Robbin Derry.

• Reconceptualizing Entrepreneurial Performance: The Creation and Destruction of Value from a Stakeholder Capabilities Perspective. Ishrat Ali, Griffin W. Cottle.

• Corporate Social Responsibility as Obligated Internalisation of Social Costs. Andrew Johnston, Kenneth Amaeshi, Emmanuel Adegbite.

• Are Liberated Companies a Concrete Application of Sen’s Capability Approach? Roberta Sferrazzo, Renato Ruffini.

• Women and Multiple Board Memberships: Social Capital and Institutional Pressure. Alessandra Rigolini, Morten Huse.

• The Role of Ethical Perceptions in Consumers’ Participation and Value Co-creation on Sharing Economy Platforms. Waqar Nadeem, Mari Juntunen, Nick Hajli, Mina Tajvidi.

• Historicizing Modern Slavery: Free-Grown Sugar as an Ethics-Driven Market Category in Nineteenth-Century Britain. Andrew Smith, Jennifer Johns.

• Care-ful Work: An Ethics of Care Approach to Contingent Labour in the Creative Industries. Ana Alacovska, Joëlle Bissonnette.

• Using Versus Excusing: The Hudson’s Bay Company’s Long-Term Engagement with Its (Problematic) Past. Wim Van Lent, Andrew D. Smith.

• Greasing Dirty Machines: Evidence of Pollution-Driven Bribery in China. Yanlei Zhang.

• Harmful Stakeholder Strategies. Jeffrey S. Harrison, Andrew C. Wicks.

• Sweatshops, Harm, and Interference: A Contractualist Approach. Huseyin S. Kuyumcuoglu.

• Contentious Dynamics Within the Social Turbulence of Environmental (In)justice Surrounding Wind Energy Farms in Oaxaca, Mexico. Jacobo Ramirez.

• Sweatshops, Structural Injustice, and the Wrong of Exploitation: Why Multinational Corporations Have Positive Duties to the Global Poor. Brian Berkey.

• Removing the Blinders: Increasing Students’ Awareness of Self-Perception Biases and Real-World Ethical Challenges Through an Educational Intervention. Kathleen A. Tomlin, Matthew L. Metzger, Jill Bradley-Geist.

• Human Resource Disclosures in UK Corporate Annual Reports: To What Extent Do These Reflect Organisational Priorities Towards Labour? K. Vithana, T. Soobaroyen, C. G. Ntim.

• Powering Sustainable Consumption: The Roles of Green Consumption Values and Power Distance Belief. Li Yan, Hean Tat Keh, Xiaoyu Wang.

• The Business of Virtue: Evidence from Socially Responsible Investing in Financial Markets. Saheli Nath.

• To Blow or Not to Blow the Whistle: The Role of Rationalization in the Perceived Seriousness of Threats and Wrongdoing. Hengky Latan, Charbel Jose Chiappetta Jabbour.

Journal of Consumer Marketing

• Healthy lifestyle and food waste behavior. Elisabetta Savelli, Barbara Francioni, Ilaria Curina.

• The beauty and the beast of consumption: a review of the consequences of consumption. Nada Nasr.

Journal of Economics and Management Strategy

• On the corporate use of green bonds. Mark Bagnoli, Susan G. Watts.

• Moral management in competitive markets. Steve Martin.

Journal of Environmental Economics and Management

• Climate policy, stranded assets, and investors’ expectations. Suphi Sen, Marie-Theres von Schickfus.

• The risk of policy tipping and stranded carbon assets. Frederick van der Ploeg, Armon Rezai.

• Bargaining over natural resources: Governments between environmental organizations and extraction firms. Mark Schopf, Achim Voss.

Journal of Financial Economics

• Air pollution, behavioral bias, and the disposition effect in China. Jennifer (Jie) Li, Massimo Massa, Hong Zhang, Jian Zhang.

• Real effects of workers’ financial distress: Evidence from teacher spillovers. Gonzalo Maturana, Jordan Nickerson.

• What’s in a (school) name? Racial discrimination in higher education bond markets. Casey Dougal, Pengjie Gao, William J. Mayew, Christopher A. Parsons.

• Disaster on the horizon: The price effect of sea level rise. Asaf Bernstein, Matthew T. Gustafson, Ryan Lewis.

Journal of Industrial Ecology

• Greenhouse gas emissions of the production chain behind consumption of products in Austria: Development and application of a product‐ and technology‐specific approach. Bernhard Windsperger, Andreas Windsperger, David Neil Bird, Hannes Schwaiger, Gerfried Jungmeier, Carsten Nathani, Rolf Frischknecht.

• An integrated model of real estate market responses to coastal flooding. Handi Chandra‐Putra, Clinton J. Andrews.

• Mineral resources in the age of climate adaptation and resilience. Raimund Bleischwitz.

• Why academics should study the supply chains of individual corporations. Benjamin Goldstein, Joshua P. Newell.

• Industrial ecology, climate adaptation, and financial risk. Timo Busch.

• Infrastructure and the environment in the Anthropocene. Mikhail V. Chester, Samuel Markolf, Braden Allenby.

• Working conditions in hydrogen production: A social life cycle assessment. Jasmin Werker, Christina Wulf, Petra Zapp, Puay Siew Tan, Stuart Barnes.

Journal of Management Studies

• A Relational‐Models View to Explain Peer‐to‐Peer Sharing. Nicole Stofberg, Flore Bridoux, Francesca Ciulli, Niccolò Pisani, Ans Kolk, Marlene Vock.

• Too Much of a Good Thing? The Boomerang Effect of Firms’ Investments on Corporate Social Responsibility during Product Recalls. Alfred Zhu Liu, Angela Xia Liu, Rui Wang, Sean Xin Xu.

Journal of Operations Management

• From efficiency‐driven to low‐carbon operations management: Implications for labor productivity. Antonio Sartal, Miguel Rodríguez, Xosé H. Vázquez.

Management Science

• Facilitating Inclusive Global Trade: Evidence from a Field Experiment. Xiang Hui.

• Bike-Share Systems: Accessibility and Availability. Ashish Kabra, Elena Belavina, Karan Girotra.

• That Could Have Been Me: Director Deaths, CEO Mortality Salience, and Corporate Prosocial Behavior. Guoli Chen, Craig Crossland, Sterling Huang.

• An Experiment in Hiring Discrimination via Online Social Networks. Alessandro Acquisti, Christina Fong.

• How Do Gender Quotas Affect Workplace Relationships? Complementary Evidence from a Representative Survey and Labor Market Experiments. Edwin Ip, Andreas Leibbrandt, Joseph Vecci.

• Economically Motivated Adulteration in Farming Supply Chains. Retsef Levi, Somya Singhvi, Yanchong Zheng.

• Can Reputation Discipline the Gig Economy? Experimental Evidence from an Online Labor Market. Alan Benson, Aaron Sojourner, Akhmed Umyarov.

• Discretionary Remote Working Helps Mothers Without Harming Non-mothers: Evidence from a Field Experiment. Eliot L. Sherman.

Strategic Management Journal

• Categorical cognition and outcome efficiency in impact investing decisions. Matthew Lee, Arzi Adbi, Jasjit Singh.

• The risk of being ranked: Investor response to marginal inclusion on the 100 Best Corporate Citizens list. Ben W. Lewis, W. Chad Carlos.

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