Table of Contents: October 2024

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 2024

Academy of Management Discoveries

• How Does the Enforcement of Labor Law Affect Other Firms? Exploring the Spillover Effects on Competitors’ Responsible HRM Practices. Giorgos Papagiannakis, Geoffrey Wood, Marilou Ioakimidis, Rafailia-Foteini Chousmekeridou, Eleanna Galanaki.

• Gendered Reactions to Employer Pay Information Non-Disclosure. Lena Göbel, Ingo Weller, Anthony J. Nyberg, and Steffen Burkert.

Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice

• Evaluating the Credibility of Entrepreneurs’ Impact Promises in Early-Stage Impact Investing. Guillaume Dumont.

Harvard Business Review

• Reducing the Risks of Corporate Activism. [No author].

• The CEO of NatureSweet on What Happens When You Champion Workers. Rodolfo Spielmann.

• How Robust Is Your Climate Governance? Lynn S. Paine, Suraj Srinivasan.

• We’re Still Lonely at Work. Constance Noonan Hadley, Sarah L. Wright.

Human Relations

• Cultivating Dispersed Collectivity: How Communities Between Organizations Sustain Employee Activism. Anna Stöber, Verena Girschik.

• Women’s Entrepreneurship in the Informal Economy: A Socio-Spatial Perspective. Mirela Xheneti, Adrian Madden.

• Too Few or Too Many? Exploring the Link Between Gender Dissimilarity and Employee Absenteeism. Laura Guillén, Max Reinwald, Florian Kunze.

• Negotiating Fit into Host Country Work Settings: Understanding the Interplay Between the Past and the Present in the Accounts of Skilled Refugees. Weerahannadige Dulini Anuvinda Fernando.

• Fifty Years of Fighting Sex Discrimination: Undermining Entrenched Misogynies Through Recognition and Everyday Resistance. Sarah Gilmore, Nancy Harding, Jackie Ford.

• Men’s Anxieties and Defences Regarding Gender (In)Equality in the Workplace: An Object-Relations Psychoanalysis of Organisational Masculinities. Darren T. Baker, Nick Rumens.

• Not Just One Woman at a Time: Re-Radicalizing a Feminist Project at Work in a Postfeminist Era. Yvonne Benschop, Patricia Lewis.

• Creating ‘Safe’ Spaces Through Exclusionary Boundaries: Examining Employers’ Treatment of Domestic Workers During the COVID-19 Pandemic in India. Vaibhavi Kulkarni, Namita Gupta, Arohi Panicker.

• Conquering Precarious Work Through Inclusive Leadership: Important Roles of Structural Empowerment and Leader Political Skill. Jintao Lu, Zijun Guo, Muhammad Usman, Jiaojiao Qu, Zeeshan Fareed.

Information Systems Research

• Countering State-Controlled Media Propaganda Through Labeling: Evidence from Facebook. Patricia L. Moravec, Avinash Collis, Nicholas Wolczynski.

Journal of Business Ethics

• Exploring the Implications of Working Conditions for Corporate Sustainability in Last-Mile Delivery Platform Companies. Annachiara Longoni, Sergio Salas.

• Reasonable Precaution or Unjust Discrimination? Applying a Lexical Utility Model of the Precautionary Principle to Moral Choices. Thomas Boyer-Kassem, Sébastien Duchêne.

• Institutionalizing Sustainability: The Role of Multiple Logics in B Corp Course Integration. Maija Lähteenkorva.

• Self-Interest over Ethics: Firm Withdrawal from Russia After the Ukraine Invasion. Pankaj C. Patel, Jack I. Richter.

• Three Rival Versions of Markets and the Common Good: Spontaneous, Instituted, and Civil. Mark Hoipkemier.

• Confucian Culture, Climate Risk, and Corporate Environmental Information Disclosure Quality: Evidence from China. Yuedong Li, Xiaoyue Yao.

• Alliance Termination After Corporate Misconduct: An Integrated Model of Power and Scrutiny Effects. Xu Jiang, Lulu Shi.

• Artificial Aesthetics and Ethical Ambiguity: Exploring Business Ethics in the Context of AI-driven Creativity. Xu Cheng, Yanqi Sun.

• The Duty Speech Loophole in Whistleblower Protection: Why We Need Retroactive Causality to Avoid Moral Luck. Wim Vandekerckhove.

• Artist-led Practices for the Inclusion of Nonhuman Stakeholders. Nil Gulari, Anna Dziuba, Johanna Kujala.

• A Profit Cap Is Not Yet a General Moral Duty for Companies: A Corporate Social Contract Perspective. Muel Kaptein.

• Racial Justice Without Character: Business Ethics, Diversity Training, and Distributed Cognition. Abraham Singer.

• Editorial Boards of Finance Journals: The Gender Gap and Social Networks. Barbara Bedowska-Sójka, Claudia Tarantola, Hanna Kristín Skaftadótti.

• H-1B Visas and Wages in Accounting: Evidence from Big 4 Payroll and the Ethics of H-1B Visas. Thomas Bourveau, Derrald Stice, Roger White.

• Does Soft Information Mitigate Gender Bias in Corporate Lending? Udichibarna Bose, Stefano Filomeni, Elena Tabacco.

• The Rise of Partisan CSR: Corporate Responses to the Russia–Ukraine War. Vassiliki Bamiatzi, Steven A. Brieger, Stephan Manning.

• Sameness and/or Otherness: What Matters More for Narcissist CEOs in the Context of Non-market Strategy? Marwan Al-Shammari, Soumendra Nath Banerjee, Krist Swimberghe.

• Warding Off Cognitive Dissonance: How Supervisor Perspective Taking Shapes the Responses of Employees Who Engage in Unethical Behavior. Bulin Zhang, Xiangmin Liu, Zhengtang Zhang.

• Growth Through Ethical Role Identity Work: The Case of Ethics and Compliance Officers. Niki A. den Nieuwenboer, Linda K. Treviño, Chad Murphy.

• Blessing or Curse? Role of Socially Responsible Human Resource Management in Employee Resilience. Zhe Zhang, Yating Hu, Juan Wang.

• Evolution of Ethics and Entrepreneurship: Hybrid Literature Review and Theoretical Propositions. Sebastián Uriarte, Cristian Geldes, Jesús Santorcuato.

• Demoralizing Markets: Vendor Conscience and Impersonalism. Mark Peacock.

• Productive Tensions of Corporate Pride Partnerships: Towards a Relational Ethics of Constitutive Impurity. Jannick Friis Christensen, Sine N. Just, Stefan Schwarzkopf.

• Silenced by Incivility. Kristin Bain, Kathryn Coll, Elizabeth R. Tenney.

• Taking Stock of Ethics and Compliance Programs as Anticorruption Mechanisms: An Integrative Review. Renato L. P. Chaves, Emmanuel B. Raufflet.

• Innovation Responds to Climate Change Proposals. Greg Tindall, Rebel A. Cole, David Javakhadze.

• Theorizing Effective (Preventative) Remedy: Exploring the Root Cause Dimensions of Human Rights Abuse and Remedy. Alysha Kate Shivji.

• Organizational Wrongdoing within the Context of the UN Sustainable Development Goals: An Integrative Review. Irina Heim, Lilya Mergaliyeva.

• Corporate Weakness of Will. Kenneth Silver.

• Framing Collective Moral Responsibility for Climate Change: A Longitudinal Frame Analysis of Energy Company Climate Reporting. Melanie Feeney, Jarrod Ormiston, Therese Grohnert.

• Navigating Between Control and Trust: The Whistleblowing Mindset. Paulina Arroyo, Leslie Berger, Nadia Smaili.

• Judicial Waves, Ethical Shifts: Bankruptcy Courts and Corporate ESG Performance. Zixun Zhou, Xinyu Zhou, Wei Chen.

• Who Loses in Win-Win Investing? A Mixed Methods Study of Impact Risk. Lauren Kaufmann, Helet Botha, Yangxin Wang.

• Teaching Business Students to Care: Perspective-Taking and the Narrative Enabling of Moral Imagination. Kalyani Menon.

Journal of Consumer Psychology

• Message Framing to Enhance Consumer Compliance with Disease Detection Communication for Prevention: The Moderating Role of Age. Yuting Pang, Lili Wang, Fangyuan Chen.

• AI-Induced Dehumanization. Hye-young Kim, Ann L. McGill.

• The Model-Sizing Dilemma: The Use of Varied Female Model Sizes Helps the Impressions of Brand Values but Hurts Shopping Ease. Jennifer K. D’Angelo, Gretchen R. Ross.

• Refining and Expanding Applications of Moral Foundations Theory in Consumer Psychology. Wayne Johnson, Guilherme A. Ramos, Eric M. VanEpps, Jesse Graham.

• Collective Consciousness and Consumer Behavior. Katherine White, William Wang, Karl Aquino.

Journal of Consumer Research

• Consumer Moral Decision Making: The Impact of Alignable Versus Nonalignable Differences. Sang Kyu Park, others.

• The Contrast Pressures on Consumer-Level Food Waste During a Pandemic: The Impact of Infection Salience Versus Lockdown Salience. Huachao Gao.

• Diversity Representations in Advertising: Enhancing Variety Perceptions and Brand Outcomes. Uzma Khan, others.

• When Is Digital Censorship Permissible? A Conversation Norms Account. Tami Kim.

Journal of Environmental Economics and Management

• Unintended Environmental Consequences of Anti-Corruption Strategies. Elías Cisneros, Krisztina Kis-Katos.

• The Devil in the Air: Air Pollution and Dementia. Meng Sun, Naibao Zhao, Emily Yiying Zheng.

• Beyond Birth: The Medium-Term Health Impact of Prenatal Exposure to Air Pollution. Simone Ferro, Alessandro Palma, Chiara Serra, Massimo Stafoggia.

• Non-price energy conservation information and household energy consumption in a developing country: Evidence from an RCT. Ahsanuzzaman, Shaikh Eskander, Asad Islam, Liang Choon Wang.

• The Volkswagen Emissions Scandal: Exploring the Role of Environmental Concern and Social Norms. M. Marino, P. Parrotta, D. Sala, G. Valletta.

• Green Road Is Open: Economic Pathway with a Carbon Price Escalator. Lucas Bretschger.

• Eco-Innovation and (Green) Employment: A Task-Based Approach to Measuring the Composition of Work in Firms. Robert J.R. Elliott, Wenjing Kuai, David Maddison, Ceren Ozgen.

• Poverty or Pollution: The Environmental Cost of E-Commerce for Poverty Reduction in China. Wenqi Duan, Mingming Jiang, Jianhong Qi.

• Pricing for a Cooler Planet: An Empirical Analysis of the Effect of Taxing Carbon. Torben K. Mideksa.

• The Emerging International Trade in Hydrogen: Environmental Policies, Innovation, and Trade Dynamics. Werner Antweiler, David Schlund.

• Widening the Scope: The Direct and Spillover Effects of Nudging Water Efficiency in the Presence of Other Behavioral Interventions. J. Bonan, C. Cattaneo, G. d’Adda, A. Galliera, M. Tavoni.

• Is the Clean Energy Transition Making Fixed-Rate Electricity Tariffs Regressive? Gordon W. Leslie, Armin Pourkhanali, Guillaume Roger.

• Environmental Regulation and Intermediate Imports: Firm-Product-Level Evidence. Chao Han, Chongyu Li, Jiansuo Pei, Chunhua Wang.

Journal of Finance

• Carbon Returns across the Globe. Shaojun Zhang.

Journal of Financial and Qualitative Analysis

• Big Banks, Household Credit Access, and Intergenerational Economic Mobility. Erik J. Mayer.

• Public Disclosure and Consumer Financial Protection. Yiwei Dou, Yongoh Roh.

Journal of International Business Studies

• The interrelationships between corporate political activity and corporate environmental performance: the role of language diversity. Amir Shoham, Jedrzej George Frynas, Shlomo Tarba.

• Restrictive immigration policies and MNE innovation. Deepak Nayak, Solon Moreira, Ram Mudambi.

• Book Review: Research handbook on international corporate social responsibility. Leigh Anne Liu.

• Alternative finance in the international business context: a review and future research. Franklin Allen, Meijun Qian.

• JIBS reflections: rare events/outliers, grand challenges, and managerial interaction. Paul W. Beamish.

• Industrial policy, green challenges, and international business. Gabriel R. G. Benito, Klaus E. Meyer.

• Doing good for political gain: the instrumental use of the SDGs as nonmarket strategies. Christiaan Röell, Felix Arndt, Rebecca Piekkari.

• Worldwide spread of the Weinstein scandal and the #MeToo movement: cross-country diffusion of reputation loss in the film industry. Fiona Kun Yao, Mingrui Xu, Jiayue Ao.

• Foreign divestment: the missing piece in international business scholarship. Shyamala Sethuram, Ajai Gaur.

• On the resilience of ESG firms during the COVID-19 crisis: evidence across countries and asset classes. Gianfranco Gianfrate, Mirco Rubin, Mathijs van Dijk.

MIS Quarterly

• Disinformation Spillover: Uncovering the Ripple Effect of Bot-Assisted Fake Social Engagement on Public Attention. Sanghak Lee, Donghyuk Shin, K. Hazel Kwon, Sang Pil Han, Seok Kee Lee.

• Timely, Granular, and Actionable: Designing a Social Listening Platform for Public Health 3.0. Brent Kitchens, Jennifer L. Claggett, Ahmed Abbasi.

• Equal Opportunity for All? The Long Tail of Crowdfunding: Evidence from Kickstarter. Hilah Geva, Ohad Barzilay, Anat Goldstein, Gal Oestreicher-Singer.

Operations Research

• Business Model Choice for Heavy Equipment Manufacturers. Philippe Blaettchen, Niyazi Taneri, Sameer Hasija.

Organization and Environment

• Introduction to the Special Issue on the Role of Place in Sustainability: Key Trends and Agenda for Future Research. Arno Kourula, Panikos Georgallis, Irene Henriques, Johanna Mair.

• Investigating the Overdependence on Supply Chain Partners, Exploitation, and Willingness to Focus on Sustainability Performance in Business-to-Business Firms. Surajit Bag, Muhammad Sabbir Rahman, Atul Kumar Srivastava, Santosh Kumar Shrivastav, Peter Naude.

Organization Science

• Increasing Black Employees’ Social Identity Affirmation and Organizational Involvement: Reducing Social Uncertainty Through Organizational and Individual Strategies. Cynthia Wang, Gillian Ku, Alexis Nicole Smith, Bryan Edwards, Edward Scott, Adam D. Galinsky.

• Shareholder Activism and the Deterrence Effect of Democratic Politician Shareholders. Mark R. DesJardine, Wei Shi, Timothy Werner.

• Temporal Miscoupling: The Challenges and Consequences of Enacting a Practice in Decline. Samantha Ortiz Casillas, Ruthanne Huising.

• Mavericks and Diplomats: Bridging Commercial and Institutional Entrepreneurship for Society’s Grand Challenges. Eric Volmar, Kathleen M. Eisenhardt.

• Do Boards Reward and Punish CEOs Based on Employee Satisfaction Ratings? Khaled Abdulsalam, Dane M. Christensen, Scott D. Graffin, John Li.

• Trailblazing Motivation and Marginalized Group Members: Changing Expectations to Pave the Way for Others. Karren Knowlton.

• Taking a Broader View: Female Directors, CEO Strategic Attention Breadth, and Firm Performance. Lingling Pan, Gerry McNamara, Cynthia E. Devers, Lindsey M. Yonish.

• Do Investors Value Workforce Gender Diversity? David P. Daniels, Jennifer E. Dannals, Thomas Z. Lys, Margaret A. Neale.

• Moral or Lawful? When Legal Constraints Reverse the Motivational Benefits of Moral Considerations. Timothy G. Kundro, Natalie Croitoru, Beth Anne Helgason.

Organization Studies

• After the Crisis: Explaining stories of professional identity growth from collective action. Derin Kent, M. Tina Dacin.

• Media Review: Epistemic Communities and Climate Activism. Brett Crawford.

• Valuing What You Risk and Risking What You Value: Advancing a research agenda for risk studies. Paula Jarzabkowski, Corinne Unger, Katie Meissner.

• Caught in the Crossfire: Anti-corporate activism and non-market strategies of corporate targets in the creation of emissions controls. Ei (Emily) Shu, Arie Y. Lewin.

• Media Review: Reorganizing the world – Postcolonial transitions and navigating nationalism in global business history. R. Daniel Wadhwani.

• Media Review: Extrapolations – A View from OS4F. Pilar Acosta, Joel Bothello, Giuseppe Delmestri, Stefanie Habersang, Gabriela Gutierrez-Huerter O, Elke Schüßler.

• Issue Fields and Echo Chambers: Increasing field contestation fueled by moral emotions. Emma Lei Jing, Elizabeth Goodrick, Trish Reay, Jo-Louise Huq.

• Media Review: Algorithmic Bosses, Labor Exploitation, and Dignity Erosion. Jay Killoran, Andrew Park.

• Mobilising Affect for Public Art: Affective practices in voluntary organising. Christina Lüthy.

• City Branding to Solve Social Problems? – The Eigendynamik of management concepts. Jens Rennstam, Jon Bertilsson, Katie R. Sullivan.

• Media Review: On Speaking About (Refugee) Lives That Do Not Matter Equally. Marianna Fotaki.

• Media Review: Decolonizing Future Imaginaries. Siavash Alimadadi.

Sloan Management Journal

• What Makes Companies Do the Right Thing? N. Craig Smith, Markus Scholz.

• Make a Stronger Business Case for Sustainability. Karel Cool, Atalay Atasu, Nathan Furr.

• Avoiding Harm in Technology Innovation. Tania Bucic, Gina Colarelli O’Connor.

• How Workplace Safety Improves Performance. David Michaels.

• The Chevron Doctrine Is Dead. What Are the Implications for Business? David Zimmer.

• Managing the Human Risks of Biometric Applications. Andrew Park, Jayson Killoran, Jan Kietzmann.

• When Qualified Women Resist the Leader Label. Julia Lee Cunningham, Sue Ashford, Laura Sonday.

• Sometimes Sustainability Costs More. So What? Andrew Winston.

• How Integrating DEI Into Strategy Lifts Performance. Quinetta Roberson.

• A Fragmented Landscape Is No Excuse for Global Companies Serious About Responsible AI. Elizabeth M. Renieris, David Kiron, Steven Mills.

• How to Stand Up When It Comes to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. Brian Elliott.

• How to Build Diverse Leadership Teams by Enlisting Stakeholders. Karen Brown.

• Don’t Bet Against the Move to Clean Energy. Steven Goldbach, Geoff Tuff, Derek Pankratz.

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