Table of Contents: October 2023

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 2023

Academy of Management Discoveries

• Heroes or Villains? Agribusiness Leaders in the Amazon Region. Gustavo Simoes Cordeiro, Paulo Roberto Arvate, Joana Sabrina Pereira Story, Leandro Simoes Pongeluppe. 

• Now, Women Do Ask: A Call to Update Beliefs about the Gender Pay Gap. Laura Kray, Jessica Kennedy, Margaret Lee.

California Management Review

• Affective Leadership in Agile Teams. Max-Antoine Renault, Murat Tarakci.

Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice

• How Does Regional Social Capital Structure the Relationship Between Entrepreneurship, Ethnic Diversity, and Residential Segregation? Arkangel M. Cordero, Alexander C. Lewis.

• No Simple Way to Say Goodbye! Untangling the Heterogeneity of Social Venture Founder Exit Intention. Raja Singaram, Jeroen Kraaijenbrink, William B. Gartner.

• Employee Welfare, Social Capital, and IPO Firm Survival. Shima Amini, Sofia Johan, Eilnaz Kashefi Pour, Abdulkadir Mohamed.

• Tales of the Unexpected: The Repair Work of an Entrepreneurial Resourcing Practice and the Role of Emotions. Mikhail Kosmynin, Elisabet Carine Ljunggren.

Harvard Business Review

• The Resale Revolution. Thomas S. Robertson.

• Middle Management Is the Key to Sustainability. Andrew Winston, Paul Polman, Jeff Seabright.

• It’s Time to Define Your Company’s Principles. Jack Fuchs, Scott Sandell, Vikram Shanker.

• The New Era of Industrial Policy Is Here. Willy C. Shih.

• When Diversity Meets Feedback. Erin Meyer.

• What Does “Stakeholder Capitalism” Mean to You? Lynn S. Paine.

Human Relations

• Who is responsible—and for what? An antenarrative perspective on organizational members’ crisis sensemaking of responsibility during a corporate scandal. Sanne Frandsen, Marita Svane, Didde Maria Humle.

• Untangling alternative organising within and beyond capitalist relations: The case of a free food store. Ozan Nadir Alakavuklar.

• Workplace accentism as a postcolonial and intersectional phenomenon: The experiences of Brazilians in Portugal. Martyna Śliwa, Roberta Aguzzoli, Chris Brewster, Jorge Lengler.

• Green colonialism and decolonial feminism: A study of Wayúu women’s resistance in La Guajira. Jacobo Ramirez, Claudia Patricia Vélez-Zapata, Rajiv Maher.

• Working through (mis)recognition: Understanding vulnerability as ambivalence in precarious worker subjectivity. Francisco Valenzuela, Constantine Manolchev, Steffen Böhm, Celal Cahit Agar.

• Folding organizational paradoxes: Narrative practices for legitimation amid competing stakeholder demands. Greg Molecke, Tobias Hahn, Jonatan Pinkse.

• Drivers of career success among the visually impaired: Improving career inclusivity and sustainability in a career ecosystem. A Uday Bhaskar, Yehuda Baruch, Seeta Gupta.

• Age diversity and the monitoring role of corporate boards: Evidence from banks. Mohamed Janahi, Yuval Millo, Georgios Voulgaris.

• Abjection in extremely gendered colonial organizations: Female military firefighter officers in Brazil. Eloisio Moulin de Souza, Joanna Brewis, Richard Godfrey.

Information Systems Research

• The Open Prison of the Big Data Revolution: False Consciousness, Faustian Bargains, and Digital Entrapment. Ojelanki Ngwenyama, Frantz Rowe, Stefan Klein, Helle Zinner Henriksen.

• Racial Discrimination and Anti-discrimination: The COVID-19 Pandemic’s Impact on Chinese Restaurants in North America. Chuang Tang, Shaobo (Kevin) Li, Yi Ding, Ram D. Gopal, Guanglei Zhang. 

• Proactive Resource Request for Disaster Response: A Deep Learning-Based Optimization Model. Hongzhe Zhang, Xiaohang Zhao, Xiao Fang, Bintong Chen. 

• Online Food Delivery Platforms and Female Labor Force Participation. Jialu Liu, Siqi Pei, Xiaoquan (Michael) Zhang.

Journal of Accounting and Economics

• Everything changes: A look at sustainable investing and disclosure over time and a discussion of “Institutional investors, climate disclosure, and carbon emissions” Jeffrey Hales.

• Institutional investors, climate disclosure, and carbon emissions. Shira Cohen, Igor Kadach, Gaizka Ormazabal.

Journal of Business Ethics

• Microaggressions in the Accounting Academy: The Black Experience. Phebian L. Davis, Denise Dickins, Joseph Reid.

• Corruption in Bank Lending: The Role of Culturally Endorsed Leadership Prototypes. Chrysovalantis Gaganis, Fotios Pasiouras, Menelaos Tasiou.

• Making Sense of CSR Challenges and Shortcomings in Developing Economies of Latin America. Christian Hauser, Jose Godinez, Erica Steckler.

• The Independence of Judges and Corporate Social Responsibility. Senlin Miao, Gary Gang Tian, Jinli Xiao.

• How Does Taxation Affect Corporate Social Responsibility? Evidence from a Korean Tax Reform. Hyejin Park, Jiyoon Lee, Jewon Shin.

• Lying and Cheating the Company: The Positive and Negative Effects of Corporate Activism on Unethical Consumer Behavior. In-Hye Kang, Amna Kirmani.

• Vulnerability and Response-Ability in the Pandemic Marketplace: Developing an Ethic of Care for Provisioning in Crisis. Susi Geiger, Ilaria Galasso, Gemma Watts.

• A Meta-Analysis of the Impact of Entrepreneurs’ Gender on their Access to Bank Finance. Malin Malmström, Barbara Burkhard, Joakim Wincent.

• Drawing on Eastern Spiritual Traditions of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion as Guideposts in an Increasingly Unpredictable World. Joan Marques, Payal Kumar, Tom Culham.

• Structural Injustice and Workers’ Rights, by Virginia Mantouvalou. Malte Jauch.

• Constructing Care-Based Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Communication During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Comparison of Fortune 500 Companies in China and the United States. Chuqing Dong, Qiongyao Huang, Cang Chen.

• Climate Reputation and Bank Loan Contracting. Karel Hrazdil, Deniz Anginer, Ray Zhang.

• Managerial Short-Termism and Corporate Social Performance: The Moderating Role of External Monitoring. Stephen J. Smulowitz, Didier Cossin, Hongze Lu.

• Prominent Themes and Blind Spots in Diversity and Inclusion Literature: A Bibliometric Analysis. H. M. van Bommel, F. Hubers, K. E. H. Maas.

• How Do Foreign SMEs Mitigate Violent Conflict Risk by Doing Good? An Instrumental Stakeholder Theory Perspective. Yongyi Shou, Xueshu Shan, Qing Zhou. 

• You Say Social Agenda, I Say My Job: Navigating Moral Ambiguities by Frontline Workers in a Social Enterprise. Rose Bote, Tao Wang, Corine Genet.

• Does Clan Culture Promote Corporate Natural Resource Disclosure? Evidence from Chinese Natural Resource-Based Listed Companies. Yongjun Tang, Qi Li, Mingjia Sun.

• Context Matters Less Than Leadership in Preventing Unethical Behaviour in International Business. Marlond Antunez, Nelson Ramalho, Tânia M. G. Marques. 

• Shareholder Activism on Climate Change: Evolution, Determinants, and Consequences. Ivan Diaz-Rainey, Paul A. Griffin, Constancio Zamora-Ramírez.

• Linking Temporal Landmarks to Voluntary Simplicity: The Mediating Roles of Self-Transcendence and Self-Enhancement. Siyun Chen, Haiying Wei.

• Profane Pregnant Bodies Versus Sacred Organizational Systems: Exploring Pregnancy Discrimination at Work (R2). Caroline Gatrell, Jamie J. Ladge, Gary N. Powell.

• Local Understandings of Decent Work and the Legitimacy of Global Labour Standards: Insights from Garment Suppliers in Egypt and Jordan. Britta Holzberg.

• “Doing the Right Thing” and “Making a Difference”: The Role of Personal Ethical Values in Diversity and Inclusion Consulting. Anne-marie Greene, Gill Kirton.

• Encouraging Individual Contributions to Net-Zero Organizations: Effects of Behavioral Policy Interventions and Social Norms. Karola Bastini, Rudolf Kerschreiter, Tim Sawert. 

• When Do Corporate Good Deeds Become a Burden? The Role of Corporate Social Responsibility Following Negative Events. Changhyun Kim, Yoonseok Zang, Kate Niu.

• Ethical and Islamic Banking Compared from a Time-Based Perspective. Francesc Relano.

• Ethics, Tradition and Temporality in Craft Work: The Case of Japanese Mingei. Robin Holt, Yutaka Yamauchi. 

• Social-Symbolic Work in the Construction of Social Problems: Constructing Gender Inequality in Turkish Social Partnerships. Özgü Karakulak, Thomas B. Lawrence.

• From Passive to Active: The Positive Spillover of Required Employee Green Behavior on Green Advocacy. Shujie Zhang, Shuang Ren, Guiyao Tang.

• Social Acceleration: A Challenge for Companies? Insights for Business Ethics from Resonance Theory. Bettina Hollstein, Hartmut Rosa.

• The Interplay Between Supply Chain Transparency and NGO Pressure: A Quantitative Analysis in the Fashion Industry Context. Naemi Schäfer, Lars Petersen, Jacob Hörisch.

• Resource Dependencies and the Legitimatization of Grocery Retailer’s Social Evaluations of Suppliers. Matthew Gorton, Klaus Kastenhofer, Mariana Nicolau.

• Applying a Lens of Temporality to Better Understand Voice About Unethical Behaviour. Sarah Brooks, John Richmond, John Blenkinsopp. 

• Workplace Incivility in STEM Organizations: A Typology of STEM Incivility and Affective Consequences for Women Employees. Mahima Saxena.

• Ethical Implications of Acceleration: Perspectives From Health Professionals. Agathe Morinière.

• Does Collective Decision-Making Promote SOEs’ Green Innovation? Evidence from China. Bo Cheng, Zixin Li, Ting Xiong.

Journal of Consumer Psychology

• How duration of storage affects food waste behavior. Vivian (Jieru) Xie, Rajesh Bagchi.

• Climate action now: How to fuel a social movement. Lama Lteif, Gia Nardini, Tracy Rank-Christman,  Lauren Block, Melissa G. Bublitz, Jesse R. Catlin,  Samantha N. N. Cross, Anne Hamby, Laura A. Peracchio.

• Speedy activists: How firm response time to sociopolitical events influences consumer behavior. Jimin Nam, Maya Balakrishnan, Julian De Freitas, Alison Wood Brooks.

Journal of Consumer Research

• Post-Colonial Consumer Respect and the Framing of Neocolonial Consumption in Advertising. Rohit Varman.

• How Do Consumers React to Production Waste? Haiyue (Felix) Xu and Lisa E Bolton.

• Undermining Desire: Reducing Unhealthy Choices by Highlighting Short-Term (vs. Long-Term) Costs. Paul E Stillman and Kaitlin Woolley.

Journal of Environmental Economics and Management

• Temperature variability and long-run economic development. Manuel Linsenmeier. 

• The spillover effect of peak pricing. Bowei Guo.

• Estimating environmental and cultural/heritage damages of a tailings dam failure: The case of the Fundão dam in Brazil. Mikołaj Czajkowski, Norman Meade, Ronaldo Seroa da Motta, Ramon Arigoni Ortiz, Gleiciane Carvalho Blanc.

• Does LEED certification save energy? Evidence from retrofitted federal buildings. Karen Clay, Edson Severnini, Xiaochen Sun. 

• Air pollution and mortality impacts of coal mining: Evidence from coalmine accidents in China. Yin Chu, J. Scott Holladay, Yun Qiu, Xian-Liang Tian, Maigeng Zhou.

• Pollution exposure and social conflicts: Evidence from China’s daily data. Jianglong Li, Guanfei Meng.

Journal of Finance

• Global Pricing of Carbon-Transition Risk. Patrick Bolton, Marcin Kacperczyk.

Journal of Financial and Qualitative Analysis

• Networking Frictions in Venture Capital, and the Gender Gap in Entrepreneurship. Sabrina T. Howell, Ramana Nanda.

• Spillover Effects of the Opioid Epidemic on Consumer Finance. Mark Jansen.

• ESG Preference, Institutional Trading, and Stock Return Patterns. Jie Cao, Sheridan Titman, Xintong Zhan, Weiming Zhang. 

Journal of International Business Studies  

• Sustainable international business model innovations for a globalizing circular economy: a review and synthesis, integrative framework, and opportunities for future research. Brian R. Chabowski, Peter Gabrielsson, G. Tomas M. Hult, Forrest V. Morgeson III.

• Cross-sector collaborations in global supply chains as an opportunity structure: How NGOs promote corporate sustainability in China. Wenjie Liu, Pursey P. M. A. R. Heugens. 

• Towards a more comprehensive assessment of FDI’s societal impact. Yannick T. Wiessner, Elisa Giuliani, Frank Wijen, Jonathan Doh.

• Methodological errors in corruption research: Recommendations for future research. Andrew Delios, Edmund J. Malesky, Shu Yu, Griffin Riddler.

• Equality, diversity, and inclusion in international business: A review and research agenda. Stacey Fitzsimmons, Mustafa F. Özbilgin, David C. Thomas, Stella Nkomo.

• Corporate social responsibility in the global value chain: A bargaining perspective. Christian Geisler Asmussen, Andrea Fosfuri, Marcus Møller Larsen, Grazia D. Santangelo. 

Operations Research   

• Unit Commitment Problem with Energy Storage Under Correlated Renewables Uncertainty. Felipe Cordera, Rodrigo Moreno, Fernando Ordoñez.  

Organization and Environment

• Business Response Strategies to Climate Change: An Integrative and Research Frontiers Outlook. Kerrigan Marie Machado Unter, Soolim Park, Jorge Rivera.

• Does Wildfire Exposure Influence Corporate Disaster Preparedness? A Study of Natural Resources Extraction Firms in Canada. Emily Lalonde, Brent McKnight, Francois Robinne.

• Rising to the Challenge: Embedding Environmental Justice in Management and Organization Studies. Alec Foster, Nichole Wissman, Laura A. Bray, Jennifer DeBoer, Seray Ergene, Oscar Jerome Stewart.

• Not My Business: How Individuals’ Role Identities Shape Sensegiving During Corporate Sustainability Initiatives. Joern Hoppmann, Marcel Richert, Timo Busch.

• A Matter of Framing: Analyzing Value Communication in Sustainable Business Models. Simon Norris.

Organization Science 

• Making Time for Social Innovation: How to Interweave Clock Time and Event Time in Open Social Innovation to Nurture Idea Generation and Social Impact. Anne-Laure Fayard.

• How Entrepreneurs Achieve Purpose Beyond Profit: The Case of Women Entrepreneurs in Nigeria. Harry G. Barkema, Uta K. Bindl, Lamees Tanveer.

Organization Studies

• Closing the Gender Pay Gap: Analyst coverage, stakeholder attention, and gender differences in executive compensation. Massimo Maoret, Solon Moreira, Halil Sabanci.

• Prefiguring Alternative Organizing: Confronting marginalization through projective cultural adjustment and tempered autonomy. Babita Bhatt, Israr Qureshi, Dhirendra M. Shukla, Pradeep K. Hota.

• Assembling a Zero-Waste World: From situated to distributed prefiguration. Ekaterina Chertkovskaya, Jacob A. Hasselbalch, Johannes Stripple.

• Academic Voluntourism. Mark van der Giessen.

• Strategy Performation to Avoid Degeneration: How producer cooperatives can achieve social and economic goals. Frank Siedlok, Lisa Callagher, Ziad Elsahn, Stefan Korber.

• Post-Diversity, Precarious Work for All: Unmaking borders to govern labour in the Amazon warehouse. Patrizia Zanoni, Miłosz Miszczyński.

• Women Whistleblowers: Examining parrhesia, power and gender with Sophocles’ Antigone. Kate Kenny, Mahaut Fanchini.

• Deliberative Boundary Work for Sustainable Finance: Insights from a European Commission expert group. Stéphanie Giamporcaro, Jean-Pascal Gond, Céline Louche.

• Media Review: Insights for Organizational Scholarship from Documentaries on the Australian ‘Black Summer’ Bushfires. Jaco Fourie, Markus A. Höllerer, Graham Dwyer, Paul Spee.

• Workplace Humiliation and the Organization of Domestic Work. Rohit Varman, Ismael Al-Amoudi, Per Skålén.

• Organizing for Smart City Development: Research at the crossroads. Introduction to the Special Issue. Luca Mora, Francesco Paolo Appio, Nicolai J. Foss, David Arellano-Gault, Xiaoling Zhang.

Research Policy

• Money matters: The role of money as a regional and corporate financial resource for circular economy transition at firm-level. Rahel Meili, Tobias Stucki.

• Beyond plastic – Consumers prefer food packaging derived from genetically modified plants. Ursula Weisenfeld, Antoniya Hauerwaas, Ossama Elshiewy, Pradipta Halder, Inge Broer.

• Are public health policies associated with corporate innovation? Evidence from U.S. nonsmoking laws. Adam J. Olson, Christopher G. Yust, Brant E. Christensen.

• Resolving the patents paradox in the era of COVID-19 and climate change: Towards a patents taxonomy. Juana Bustamante, Christine Oughton, Vanesa Pesque-Cela, Damian Tobin.

• Intellectual property rights and the international transfer of climate change mitigating technologies. Suma Athreye, Vinish Kathuria, Alessandro Martelli, Lucia Piscitello.

• Collective intellectual property of Indigenous peoples and local communities: Exploring power asymmetries in the rooibos geographical indication and industry-wide benefit-sharing agreement. Camille Meyer, Kiruben Naicker.

• A multi-level perspective of potential transition pathways towards cultured meat: Finnish and German political stakeholder perceptions. Jana Moritz, Maria McPartlin, Hanna L. Tuomisto, Toni Ryynänen.

• Closing the gender gap in academia? Evidence from an affirmative action program. Mario Fernandes, Simon Hilber, Jan-Egbert Sturm, Andreas Walter.

Sloan Management Review   

• Countering the Corporate Diversity Backlash. Victor Ray and Tsedale M. Melaku.

• How Outlawing Collegiate Affirmative Action Will Impact Corporate America. Derek R. Avery.

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