Table of Contents: October 2022

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 October 2022

Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice

• Pandemic Makers: How Citizen Groups Mobilized Resources to Meet Local Needs in a Global Health Crisis. Russell E. Browder, Stella Seyb, Angela Forgues, Howard E. Aldrich.

• Timeout: The Role of Family-Friendly Policies in Business Start-Up Among Mothers. Magdalena Markowska, Helene Ahl, Lucia Naldi.

Harvard Business Review

• The Chair of Illycaffè on Creating Virtuous Agricultural Ecosystems. Andrea Illy.

• Dig, Bridge, Collectively Act. Tina Opie, Beth A. Livingston.

• The Surprising Benefits of Work/Life Support. Alexandra Kalev, Frank Dobbin.

• The Essential Link Between ESG Targets & Financial Performance. Mark R. Kramer, Marc W. Pfitzer.

• Strategy in a Hyperpolitical World. Roger L. Martin, Martin Reeves.

• The Five Stages of DEI Maturity. Ella F. Washington.

• Moving the Needle on Sustainability. Goutam Challagalla, Frédéric Dalsace.

Human Relations

• Mobilizing Landscapes of Practice to Address Grand Challenges Fran Ackermann. Igor Pyrko, Georgina Hill.

• Fast and spurious: How executives capture governance structures to prevent cooperativization. Emilie Bourlier-Bargues, Jean-Pascal Gond, Bertrand Valiorgue.

• Effects of Gender Composition in Committees. Erika Christie Berle, Kenneth Kavajecz, Yuko Onozaka.

• Freedom, work and organizations in the 21st century: Freedom for whom and for whose purpose? Dirk Lindebaum, Frank den Hond, Michelle Greenwood, James A Chamberlain, Lynne Andersson.

• Feminism in women’s business networks: A freedom-centred perspective. Florence Villesèche, Elina Meliou, Harsh Kumar Jha.

• Hybrid (un)freedom in worker hostels in garment supply chains. Andrew Crane, Vivek Soundararajan, Michael J Bloomfield, Genevieve LeBaron, Laura J Spence.

• Alternativity as freedom: Exploring tactics of emergence in alternative forms of organizing. Sara Dahlman, Erik Mygind du Plessis, Emil Husted, Sine N Just.

Information Systems Research

• Information Systems Research for Smart Sustainable Mobility: A Framework and Call for Action. Wolfgang Ketter, Karsten Schroer, Konstantina Valogianni.

Journal of Accounting and Economics

• Is corporate transparency the solution to political failure on our greatest problems? A discussion of Darendeli, Fiechter, Hitz, and Lehmann (2022). Hans B. Christensen.

• The role of corporate social responsibility (CSR) information in supply-chain contracting: Evidence from the expansion of CSR rating coverage. Alper Darendeli, Peter Fiechter, Jörg-Markus Hitz, Nico Lehmann.

Journal of Business Ethics

• The All-Stakeholders-Considered Case for Corporate Beneficence. Gastón de los Reyes.

• Diversity for Justice vs. Diversity for Performance: Philosophical and Empirical Tensions. Jason Brennan.

• Trees in the Forest: How Do Family Owners Make CSR Decisions in Business Groups? Won-Yong Oh, Hojae Ree, Igor Postuła.

• Gender Bias in Entrepreneurship: What is the Role of the Founders’ Entrepreneurial Background? Luca Pistilli, Alessia Paccagnini, Franco Malerba.

• The Importance of Corporate Reputation for Sustainable Supply Chains: A Systematic Literature Review, Bibliometric Mapping, and Research Agenda. David von Berlepsch, Fred Lemke, Matthew Gorton.

• Keeping Promises? Mutual Funds’ Investment Objectives and Impact of Carbon Risk Disclosures. John R. Nofsinger, Abhishek Varma.

• Radical, Relevant, Reflective and Brilliant: Towards the Future of Business Ethics. Laura J. Spence.

• The Mine or the Mire? Mobilising Place in Natural Resource Struggles. Johanna Järvelä.

• Ethics at the Centre of Global and Local Challenges: Thoughts on the Future of Business Ethics. Steffen Böhm, Michal Carrington, Deirdre Shaw.

• Business Versus Ethics? Thoughts on the Future of Business Ethics. M. Tina Dacin, Jeffrey S. Harrison, Julia Roloff.

• Shared Value Creation in Equivocal CSR Environments: A Configuration Approach. Olivia Aronson, Irene Henriques.

• How Moral Identity Inhibits Employee Silence Behavior: The Roles of Felt Obligation and Corporate Social Responsibility Perception. Aimin Yan, Hao Guo, Hao Ma.

• The Interdisciplinary Responsible Management Competence Framework: An Integrative Review of Ethics, Responsibility, and Sustainability Competences. Oliver Laasch, Dirk C. Moosmayer, Elena P. Antonacopoulou.

• Narrating a Prototypical Disabled Employee. Mukta Kulkarni.

• Technology, Megatrends and Work: Thoughts on the Future of Business Ethics. Premilla D’Cruz, Shuili Du, Glen Whelan.

• Can Green Investments Increase Your Green? Evidence from Social Hedge Fund Activists Authors. Jonghyuk Bae, Natalya Khimich, Emanuel Zur.

• The Negative Effect of Low Belonging on Consumer Responses to Sustainable Products. Ainslie E. Schultz, Kevin P. Newman, Scott A. Wright.

• The Ethics and Politics of Academic Knowledge Production: Thoughts on the Future of Business Ethics. Gibson Burrell, Michael R. Hyman, Andrew West.

• Automation and Well-Being: Bridging the Gap between Economics and Business Ethics. David A. Spencer.

• Do Natural Disasters Affect Corporate Tax Avoidance? The Case of Drought. Christofer Adrian, Mukesh Garg, Cameron Truong.

• A Multi-layered Illustration of Exemplary Business Ethics Practices with Voices of the Engineers in the Health Products Industry. Dayoung Kim, Justin L. Hess.

• Breaking the Cycle of Marginalization: How to Involve Local Communities in Multi-stakeholder Initiatives? Manon Eikelenboom, Thomas B. Long.

• Ethical Decision-Making in Indigenous Financial Services: QSuper Case Study. Clare J. M. Burns, Luke Houghton, Cindy Shannon.

• The Moral Limits of Market-Based Mechanisms: An Application to the International Maritime Sector. Jason Monios.

• Let’s Join Forces: Institutional Resilience and Multistakeholder Partnerships in Crises. Gorgi Krlev.

• Bringing Excitement to Empirical Business Ethics Research: Thoughts on the Future of Business Ethics. Mayowa T. Babalola, Matthijs Bal, Suzanne van Gils.

• Geographic Concentration of Institutional Blockholders and Workplace Safety Violations. Xin Cheng, Orhun Guldiken, Wei Shi.

• Informal Networks, Informal Institutions, and Social Exclusion in the Workplace: Insights from Subsidiaries of Multinational Corporations in Korea. Sven Horak, Yuliani Suseno.

• Harm Reduction, Solidarity, and Social Mobility as Target Functions: A Rortian Approach to Stakeholder Theory. David Weitzner, Yuval Deutsch.

• Misrepresentation of Marginalized Groups: A Critique of Epistemic Neocolonialism. Rashedur Chowdhury.

• Ethnic Diversity, Trust and Corporate Social Responsibility: The Moderating Effects of Marketization and Language. Gaowen Kong, T. Dongmin Kong, Li Yu.

• Multi-stakeholder Engagement for the Sustainable Development Goals: Introduction to the Special Issue. G. Abord-Hugon Nonet, T. Gössling, J. M. Bryson.

• When the Presidential Candidate Comes to Town: The Impact of Donald J. Trump’s Campaign Rallies on Local Firms’ Environmental and Social Performance. Feng Guo, Yonghong Liu, Yiyang Zhang.

• Spiritual Leadership and Employee CSR Participation: A Probe from a Sensemaking Perspective. WenChi Zou, BaoWen Lin, Jeffery D. Houghton.

• Integrative Resource Model of Workplace Inclusion for Reduced Inequality: Conservation of Resources Perspective. Yuka Fujimoto, Ahmed Ferdous, Faisal Wali.

• Methodological Decolonisation and Local Epistemologies in Business Ethics Research. Obaa Akua Konadu-Osei, Smaranda Boroş, Anita Bosch.

• CSR Structures: Evidence, Drivers, and Firm Value Implications. Kais Bouslah, Abdelmajid Hmaittane, Bouchra M’Zali.

• Microaggressions, Interrupted: The Experience and Effects of Gender Microaggressions for Women in STEM. Jennifer Y. Kim, Alyson Meister.

• Tinkering Toward the Good–Sustainable Investing Between Utopian Imaginaries and Actualizations. Sara Dahlman.

• Exploring the Effectiveness of Sustainability Measurement: Which ESG Metrics Will Survive COVID-19? Jill Atkins, Federica Doni, Lorena Sorrentino.

• SDG Platforms as Strategic Innovation Through Partnerships. Amanda Williams, Lara Anne Blasberg.

Journal of Consumer Psychology

• Made by her vs. him: Gender influences in product preferences and the role of individual action efficacy in restoring social equalities. Benedikt Schnurr, Georgios Halkias.

• Rethinking scarcity and poverty: Building bridges for shared insight and impact. Chris Blocker, Jonathan Z. Zhang, Ronald Paul Hill, Caroline Roux, Canan Corus, Martina Hutton, Joshua Dorsey, Elizabeth Minton.

• Conceptualizing brand purpose and considering its implications for consumer eudaimonic well-being. Patti Williams, Jennifer Edson Escalas, Andrew Morningstar.

Journal of Consumer Research

• Tensions in the Enactment of Neoliberal Consumer Responsibilization for Waste. Hélène Cherrier, Meltem Türe.

Journal of Environmental Economics and Management

• Journal of Environmental Economics and Management Tax incentives, environmental regulation and firms’ emission reduction strategies: Evidence from China. Yu Qia, Jianshun Zhang, Jianwei Chen.

• Mortality during resource booms and busts. Andrew Boslett, Elaine Hill.

• Measuring energy-saving technological change: International trends and differences. Emiko Inoue, Hiroya Taniguchi, Ken Yamada.

Journal of International Business Studies

• Ecosystem social responsibility in international digital commerce. Jingtao Yi, Jiatao Li, Liang Chen.

• What merits greater scholarly attention in international business? Birgitte Grøgaard, Michael A. Sartor, Linda Rademaker.

Operations Research

• Investment in the Common Good: Free Rider Effect and the Stability of Mixed Strategy Equilibria. Youngsoo Kim, H. Dharma Kwon.

• Advances in MINLP to Identify Energy-Efficient Distillation Configurations. Radhakrishna Tumbalam Gooty, Rakesh Agrawal, Mohit Tawarmalani.

• On the Design of Public Debate in Social Networks. Michel Grabisch, Antoine Mandel, Agnieszka Rusinowska.

Organization and Environment

• Developing Sustainable Business Models: A Microfoundational Perspective. Kristin Ringvold, Tina Saebi, Nicolai Foss.

• Out of Balance: Global–Local Tensions in Multi-Stakeholder Partnerships and the Emergence of Rival Initiatives in Producing Countries. Verena Bitzer, Greetje Schouten.

• A Change Will Do You Good: Does Continuous Environmental Improvement Matter?  Timo Busch, Matthew P. Johnson, Maximilian Schnippering.

• Business Models for Sustainable Technology: Strategic Re-Framing and Business Model Schema Change in Internal Corporate Venturing. Emmanuelle Reuter, Tao Krauspe.

• Circular Moonshot: Understanding Shifts in Organizational Field Logics and Business Model Innovation. Lori DiVito, Erin Leitheiser, Charlotte Piller.

• Involuntary Disclosures and Stakeholder-Initiated Communication on Social Media. Dorota Dobija, Charles H. Cho, Chaoyuan She, Ewelina Zarzycka, Joanna Krasodomska, Dariusz Jemielniak.

Organization Science

• A Rising Tide Lifts All Boats: The Effects of Common Ownership on Corporate Social Responsibility. Mark R. DesJardine, Jody Grewal, Kala Viswanathan.

• A Real Utopia Under What Conditions? The Economic and Social Benefits of Workplace Democracy in Knowledge-Intensive Industries. Trevor Young-Hyman, Nathalie Magne, Douglas Kruse.

• From Compliance to Progress: A Sensemaking Perspective on the Governance of Corruption. Stefan Schembera, Patrick Haack, Andreas Georg Scherer.

• Going Along to Get Ahead: The Asymmetric Effects of Sexist Joviality on Status Conferral. Natalya M. Alonso, Olivia (Mandy) O’Neill.

• Simulating the Cause: How Grassroots Organizations Advance Their Credibility Through the Dramaturgical Curation of Events. Theodore A. Khoury, Yuliya Shymko, Jacob Vermeire

Organization Studies

• ‘We’re Not a White Fella Organization’: Hybridity and friction in the contact zone between local kinship relations and audit culture in an Indigenous organization. Leanne Cutcher, Karen Dale.

• Smartocracy: Context entanglement of the smart city idea and bureaucracy in Russia. Igor Khodachek, Evgenii Aleksandrov, Nadezda Nazarova, Giuseppe Grossi, Anatoli Bourmistrov.

• Exploring Citizen Participation in Smart City Development in Mexico City: An institutional logics approach. Mario Pansera, Alex Marsh, Richard Owen, Jesús Arturo Flores López, Jessica Lillian De Alba Ulloa.

• Destigmatization Through Visualization: Striving to redefine refugee workers’ worth. Bernadette Bullinger, Anna Schneider, Jean-Pascal Gond.

• Organizing for Social and Institutional Change in Response to Disruption, Division, and Displacement: Introduction to the Special Issue. W. E. Douglas Creed, Barbara Gray, Markus A. Höllerer, Charlotte M. Karam, Trish Reay.

• Research on Grand Challenges: Adopting an Abductive Experimentation Methodology. Geoffrey M. Kistruck, Angelique Slade Shantz.

Research Policy

• Beyond innovation and deployment: Modeling the impact of technology-push and demand-pull policies in Germany’s solar policy mix. Alejandro Nuñez-Jimenez, Christof Knoeri, Joern Hoppmann, Volker H. Hoffmann.

• Mobilizing the transformative power of research for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals. Oscar Yandy Romero Gsoyeneche, Matias Ramirez, Johan Schot, Felber Arroyave.

• Does income redistribution impede innovation? Michal Brzezinski.

• Economic complexity and the green economy. Penny Mealy, Alexander Teytelboym.

Sloan Management Review

• Women Are Stalling Out on the Way to the Top. Monika Hamori, Rocio Bonet, Peter Cappelli, and Samidha Sambare.

• Meet the New Board — Same as the Old Board. Cynthia E. Clark, Jill A. Brown.

• How to Evaluate the Impact of Corporate Purpose. Christian Busch, Lisa Hehenberger.

• Every (Repurposed) Product Has a Story. Bernadette Kamleitner, Carina Thürridl.

• The New Math of Multistakeholderism. Jonathan Knowles, B. Tom Hunsaker.

• Rethinking Executive Incentives Can Boost ESG Performance. Martin Skladany.

• A New Conflict-Resolution Model to Advance DEI. Peter T. Coleman, Allegra Chen-Carrel, Bodi M. Regan.

• The Importance of Corporate Political Responsibility. Andrew Winston, Elizabeth Doty, and Thomas Lyon.

• Rethinking How We Measure Companies on Social and Environmental Impact. Nicholas Andreou, Marya Besharov.

• How Organizations Can Take a Lead in Protecting Reproductive Rights. Bobbi Thomason, Nitya Chawla, Allison Gabriel, Danna Greenberg, Curba Lampert, Kristie Moergen, Dana Sumpter, Elizabeth Umphress.

• To Be a Responsible AI Leader, Focus on Being Responsible. Elizabeth M. Renieris, David Kiron, Steven Mills.

• Why Business Integrity Can Be a Strategic Response to Ethical Challenges. Daniel Malan, Alison Taylor, Anna Tunkel, Birgit Kurtz.

• Why Making Good on Green Promises Can Be a Win for Retailers. Rodney R. Sides, Lupine Skelly.

• What makes a productive Ph.D. student? Alberto Corsini, Michele Pezzoni, Fabiana Visentin.

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