Table of Contents: October 2021

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.

See all monthly Table of Contents.

Research for October 2021

Academy of Management Discoveries

• Moving the Goalposts: Aspiration Re-operationalization in Response to Failure to Achieve Environmental Performance Targets. Joel Malen.

  Material and Immaterial Corporate Social Responsibility and Financial Performance: Evidence from IPOs. Stephen E. Christophe, Hun Lee.

Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice

• Enacting Positive Social Change: A Civic Wealth Creation Stakeholder Engagement Framework. Ryan C. Bailey, G. T. Lumpkin.

• The Fork in the Road for Social Enterprises: Leveraging Moral Imagination for Long-Term Stakeholder Support. Jill A. Brown, William R. Forster, Andrew C. Wicks.

Harvard Business Review

• To Sell an Ugly Product, Just Call It That. Dagny Dukach.

• Fighting Bias on the Front Lines. Alexandra C. Feldberg, Tami Kim.

• Accounting for Climate Change. Robert S. Kaplan, Karthik Ramanna.

• Building an Ethical Company. Isaac H. Smith, Maryam Kouchaki.

• Don’t Let Power Corrupt You. Julie Battilana, Tiziana Casciaro.

• Unconscious Bias Training That Works. Francesca Gino, Katherine Coffman.

• The Net Positive Manifesto. Paul Polman, Andrew Winston.

Human Relations

• The micro-politics of collective bargaining: The case of gender equality. Rémi Bourguignon, Clotilde Coron.

• Doing transgender ‘right’: Bodies, eroticism and spirituality in khwajasira work. Muhammad Junaid Ashraf, Daniela Pianezzi, Muhammad Aqeel Awan.

• Questing for meaningfulness through narrative identity work: The helpers, the heroes and the hurt. Sarah-Louise Weller, Andrew D Brown, Caroline A Clarke.

• Activating the ‘ideal jobseeker’: Experiences of individuals with mental health conditions on the UK Work Programme. Frederike Scholz, Jo Ingold.

Journal of Business Ethics

•  CEO Foreign Experience and Green Innovation: Evidence from China. Xiaofeng Quan , Yun Ke, Yuting Qian, Yao Zhang.

• Deliberation Without Democracy in Multi-stakeholder Initiatives: A Pragmatic Way Forward. Rob Barlow.

• Leveraging A Lenient Category in Practicing Responsible Leadership: A Case Study. Xueting Jiang, Bogdan Prokopovych, Garett DiStefano.

• The Benefits to the Human Spirit of Acting Ethically at Work: The Effects of Professional Moral Courage on Work Meaningfulness and Life Well-Being. Matthew D. Deeg, Douglas R. May.

• Inherited Scepticism and Neo-communist CSR-washing: Evidence from a Post-communist Society. Petya Koleva, Maureen Meadows.

• Bringing the Family Logic in: From Duality to Plurality in Social Enterprises. Andreana Drencheva, Wee Chan Au.

• Do the Ends Justify the Means? Variation in the Distributive and Procedural Fairness of Machine Learning Algorithms. Lily Morse, Mike Horia M. Teodorescu, Yazeed Awwad, Gerald C. Kane.

• Decolonizing Deliberative Democracy: Perspectives from Below. Subhabrata Bobby Banerjee.

• Enabling the Voices of Marginalized Groups of People in Theoretical Business Ethics Research. Kristian Alm, David S. A. Guttormsen.

• Being Explicit About Virtues: Analysing TED Talks and Integrating Scholarship to Advance Virtues-Based Leadership Development. Toby Newstead.

• How Do Islamic Values Influence CSR? A Systematic Literature Review of Studies from 1995–2020. Chengli Shu, Hammad Bin Azam Hashmi, Zhenxin Xiao, Syed Wagar Haider, Mishal Nasir.

• Tracing the Intellectual Evolution of Social Entrepreneurship Research: Past Advances, Current Trends, and Future Directions. Pradeep Kumar Hota.

• Twitter-Based Social Accountability Processes: The Roles for Financial Inscriptions-Based and Values-Based Messaging. Gregory D. Saxton, Dean Neu.

• Societal Inequality, Corruption and Relation-Based Inequality in Organizations. Sarah Hudson, Helena V. González-Gómez, Cyrlene Claasen.

• Corporate Social Performance and the Likelihood of Bankruptcy: Evidence from a Period of Economic Upswing. Florian Habermann, Felix Bernhard Fischer.

• When Aspirational Talk Backfires: The Role of Moral Judgements in Employees’ Hypocrisy Interpretation. Lucas Amaral Lauriano, Juliane Reinecke, Michael Etter.

• The Politics and Ethics of Resistance, Feminism and Gender Equality in Saudi Arabian Organizations. Maryam Aldossari, Thomas Calvard.

• Responsible Management-as-Practice: Mobilizing a Posthumanist Approach. Silvia Gherardi, Oliver Laasch.

• Inclusive Leadership for Reduced Inequality: Economic–Social–Economic Cycle of Inclusion. Yuka Fujimoto, Jasim Uddin.

• Vignette Themes and Moral Reasoning in Business Contexts: The Case for the Defining Issues Test. Peter E. Mudrack, E. Sharon Mason.

• Corporate Social Responsibility and Stock Prices After the Financial Crisis: The Role of Strategic CSR Activities. Aneta Havlinova, Jiri Kukacka.

• Increasing Consumers’ Purchase Intentions Toward Fair-Trade Products Through Partitioned Pricing. David Bürgin, Robert Wilken.

• Corporate Social Innovation in Developing Countries. Ayse Saka-Helmhout, Maryse M. H. Chappin, Suzana B. Rodrigues.

• Regulatory Entrepreneurship, Fair Competition, and Obeying the Law. Robert C. Hughes.

• Management and Business Ethics in Central and Eastern Europe: Introduction to Special Issue. Anna Soulsby, Anna Remišová, Thomas Steger.

• Games of Truth in the Age of Transparency: International Organisations and the Construction of Corruption. Roan Alexander Snyman.

• Living with Corruption in Central and Eastern Europe: Social Identity and the Role of Moral Disengagement. Katalin Takacs Haynes, Matevž (Matt) Rašković.

• Deterring Unethical Behaviors in Marketing Channels: The Role of Distributor Whistleblowing. Jing Zhou, Shibin Sheng, Chuang Zhang.

• What Mutual Assistance Is, and What It Could Be in the Contemporary World. Federica Nalli.

• Business Model Involvement, Adaptive Capacity, and the Triple Bottom Line at the Base of the Pyramid. Ernst Verwaal, Martin Klein, Jefferson La Falce.

• Corporate Social Responsibility in Liquid Times: The Case of Romania. Georgiana Grigore, Mike Molesworth, Andreea Vontea, Abdullah Hasan Basnawi, Ogeday Celep, Sylvian Patrick Jesudoss.

• Labour Practice, Decent Work and Human Rights Performance and Reporting: The Impact of Women Managers. Albertina Paula Monteiro, Isabel-María García-Sánchez, Beatriz Aibar-Guzmán.

• Morality of Lobbying for Tax Benefits: A Kantian Perspective. Anne Van de Vijver.

• Journeys, Not Destinations: Theorizing a Process View of Supply Chain Integrity. Matthew A. Douglas, Diane A. Mollenkopf, Vincent E. Castillo, John E. Bell, Emily C. Dickey.

Journal of Consumer Psychology

• Ethical Branding in A Divided World: How Political Orientation Motivates Reactions to Marketplace Transgressions. Thomas Allard, Brent McFerran.

• Research Pathways for Societal Impact: A Typology of Relational Engagements for Consumer Psychology Research. Julie L. Ozanne, Brennan Davis, Akon E. Ekpo.

Journal of Consumer Research

• It’s Good to Be Different: How Diversity Impacts Judgments of Moral Behavior. Uzma Khan, Ajay Kalra.

• Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) in the Journal of Consumer Research: A Curation and Research Agenda . Zeynep Arsel, David Crockett, Maura L Scott.

• Consumption Ideology. Bernd Schmitt, J Joško Brakus, Alessandro Biraglia.

• Racial Oppression and Racial Projects in Consumer Markets: A Racial Formation Theory Approach. David Crockett.

• Creating Responsible Subjects: The Role of Mediated Affective Encounters. Domen Bajde, Pilar Rojas-Gaviria.

Journal of Environmental Economics and Management

• Climate policy without a price signal: Evidence on the implicit carbon price of energy efficiency in buildings. Ghislaine Lang, Bruno Lanz.

• Global vulnerability of crop yields to climate change. Ian Sue Wing, Enrica De Cian, Malcolm N. Mistry.

Journal of Financial and Qualitative Analysis

• Stakeholder Orientation and the Cost of Debt: Evidence from State-Level Adoption of Constituency Statutes. Huasheng Gao, Kai Li, Yujing Ma.

MIS Quarterly

• Information Technology and Government Corruption in Developing Countries: Evidence from Ghana Customs. Atta Addo, Chrisanthi Avgerou.

• Failures of Fairness in Automation Require a Deeper Understanding of Human–ML Augmentation. Mike H. M. Teodorescu, Lily Morse, Yazeed Awwad, Gerald C. Kane.

Organization and Environment

• Reconciling Institutional Logics Within First Nations Forestry-Based Social Enterprises. Anthony W. Persaud, Harry W. Nelson, Terre Satterfield.

• Human Hubris, Anthropogenic Climate Change, and an Environmental Ethic of Humility. Eugene Sadler-Smith, Vita Akstinaite.

• Promoting Sustainable Consumer Behaviour Through the Activation of Injunctive Social Norms: A Field Experiment in 19 Workplace Restaurants. Laura Salmivaara, Leena Lankoski.

Organization Science

•  Social Movements, Collective Identity, and Workplace Allies: The Labeling of Gender Equity Policy Changes. Cynthia S. Wang , Jennifer A. Whitson, Brayden G King, Rachel L. Ramirez.

• Institutional Disruptions and the Philanthropy of Multinational Firms. Luis Ballesteros, Catherine Magelssen.

Organization Studies

• Who is the Responsible Corporation? A multimodal analysis of power in CSR videos of multinational companies. Kaiyu Shao, Maddy Janssens.

• No End In Sight: How regimes form barriers to addressing the wicked problem of displacement. Corinna Frey-Heger, Marian Konstantin Gatzweiler, C.R. (Bob) Hinings.

• How Meaningfulness and Professional Identity Interact in Emerging Professions: The Case of Corporate Social Responsibility Consultants. Konstantinos Iatridis, Jean-Pascal Gond, Effie Kesidou.

• Time Matters! How hybrid organizations use time to respond to divergent stakeholder demands. Tommaso Ramus, Antonino Vaccaro, Pascual Berrone.

• Industry vs. Government: Leveraging Media Coverage in Corporate Political Activity. John Murray, Daniel Nyberg.

Research Policy

• Pens and purse strings: Exploring the opportunities and limits to funding actionable sustainability science. James C. Arnott.

• Innovation, growth and the transition to net-zero emissions. Nicholas Stern, Anna Valero.

• A resourcification manifesto: Understanding the social process of resources becoming resources. Johan Hultman, Hervé Corvellec, Anne Jerneck, Susanne Arvidsson, Johan Ekroos, Clara Gustafsson, Fay Lundh Nilsson, Niklas Wahlberg.

• Blinded by the sun: The role of prosumers as niche actors in incumbent firms’ adoption of solar power during sustainability transitions. Carmen Weigelt, Shaohua Lu, J. Cameron Verhaal.

• Hype cycles during socio-technical transitions: The dynamics of collective expectations about renewable energy in Germany. Michael Kriechbaum, Alfred Posch, Angelika Hauswiesner.

• Does gender affect innovation? Evidence from female chief technology officers. Qiang Wu, Wassim Dbouk, Iftekhar Hasan, Nada Kobeissi, Li Zheng.

• Which innovation regime for public service innovation networks for social innovation (PSINSIs)? Lessons from a European cases database. Benoît Desmarchelier, Faridah Djellal, Faïz Gallouj.

Sloan Management Review

• Can We Afford Sustainable Business? Marco Bertini, John Pineda, Amadeus Petzke, Jean-Manuel Izaret.

• How Supply Chain Transparency Boosts Business Value. Tim Kraft, Yanchong Zheng.

• Four Myths About Unauthorized Subcontracting. Felipe Caro, Leonard Lane, Anna Sáez de Tejada Cuenca.

• Decarbonizing Our Toughest Sectors — Profitably. Amory Lovins.

• Job-Hopping Toward Equity. Boris Groysberg, Paul Healy, Eric Lin.

See all monthly Table of Contents.