Table of Contents: October 2025

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 2025

Academy of Management Discoveries

• Humanizing Authority in the Court of Second Chances. William A. Kahn.

• The Pronoun Policy Paradox: Maximizing Participation While Preserving Autonomy in the Pursuit of Organizational Inclusion. Claire Sandman Malcomb, Emily Zitek.

• Anomalies of the Next Generation. Jean M. Bartunek, James D. Van de Ven.

Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice

• Politics of Entrepreneurial Resourcefulness in Compassion Venture Expansion. Anastasia Koptsyukh, Ewald Kibler, Dean A. Shepherd.

• How Should We Study Heterogeneity in Entrepreneurship? Moving the Field to an Inclusive Approach. Rosanna Garcia, Rachel M. B. Atkins, Ezekiel Bonillas, Candida Brush, William B. Gartner.

• Founders’ Social Class Origin, Risk-Taking, and Venture Performance: A Bourdieusian Lens. Kristie J. Neff, Marilla G. Hayman, Michael E. Cummings, Robert J. Pidduck.

• Rethinking Indigenous Entrepreneurship. Zannie Langford, Richard Martin.

Harvard Business Review

• Is This a Moment for Strategic Hibernation? Christopher Marquis.

• Life’s Work: An Interview with Esther Duflo. Alison Beard.

Human Relations

• The inclusive potential of activity-based working: The case of disability. Ive D. Klinksiek, Eline Jammaers, Laurent Taskin.

• Mastanocracy: The legitimization of criminal governance and violence in Bangladesh’s garment industry. Shoaib Ahmed, Chandana Alawattage, Kelum Jayasinghe.

• Algorithmic surveillance and workers’ compliance: The role of trust, privacy concerns, and fairness in online crowdwork. Ward van Zoonen, Monika E. von Bonsdorff, Beatrice I. J. M. van der Heijden.

• Secret fathers: Navigating fatherhood through workplace performance. Martyn Bradley, Caroline Gatrell, Laura Radcliffe, Gary Brown.

• Advancing inclusive recruitment: A practice lens on navigating barriers to refugee employment. Eun Su Lee, Betina Szkudlarek, Sophia Johnson, Chris Brewster.

• Beautifying a stigmatized occupation: Occupational destigmatization of Indian beauty salons. Prakriti Soral, Shuang Ren, Surya Prakash Pati, Sanjay Kumar Singh.

Information Systems Research

• Can Crowdchecking Curb Misinformation? Evidence from Community Notes. Yang Gao, Maggie Mengqing Zhang, Huaxia Rui.

• Attention or Sentiment: How Social Media React to ESG? Xiaoquan (Michael) Zhang, DaPeng Xu, Hong Hong, Kalok Chan.

• Programming Tasks Impact Responses to Moral Dilemmas for Novice Programmers. Tanya Singh, Jui Ramaprasad, Kartik K. Ganju.

• Evening the Odds in a Gendered Workplace: The Empowering Role of Knowledge Repositories. Chengxin Cao, Mani Subramani, Gautam Ray, Alok Gupta.

• Digital Development: Reimagining Research Beyond ICT4D. Sundeep Sahay, Shirish C. Srivastava, Michael Barrett, Robert M. Davison, Shirin Madon, Daniel Schlagwein, Irwin Brown, Suprateek Sarker.

Journal of Accounting and Economics

• Do auditors understand the implications of ESG issues for their audits? Evidence from financially material negative ESG incidents. Daniel Aobdia, Aaron Yoon.

• Mandatory disclosure of investors’ fossil fuel holdings. Gregory S. Miller, Douglas R. Stockbridge, Christopher D. Williams.

Journal of Business Ethics

• The Ethical Role of Pro-Equality Laws in Reducing Executive Gender Pay Gaps under Cultural Resistance. Nan Xiong, Aino Tenhiälä, Gonul Colak.

• Executive Moral Elasticity: How Dark Personality Traits Shape Corporate Social Responsibility and Irresponsibility. Pier Luigi Giardino, Matteo Cristofaro, Oleg V. Petrenko.

• Does Political Connection Stifle Corporate Hypocrisy? Evidence from Greenwashing. Chong Chen, Weiping Li, Chang Shi.

• Counter-Accounts in Accountability Relationships: A Multimodal Critical Discourse Analysis of Reporting on Rio Tinto’s Destruction of Indigenous Heritage Sites at the Juukan Gorge. Merridee Bujaki, Anamika Jayendran, Leanne Morrison.

• Shall Companies Take a Stance in Sociopolitical Activism? Navigating a Journey to Boost Employee Attributions and Ambassadorship Behaviors. Xin-Jean Lim, Xiaoying Zheng.

• Red Pill Leadership Behaviours and Discourse Ethics. Cihat Erbil, Mustafa F. Özbilgin, Aybike Mergen.

• Fourth Sector: Catholic Social Teaching’s Business Principles Made Real? A Comparative Analysis. Aiza Asi.

• Understanding Failed Ethical Consumption Through a Socio-Cultural Lens: An Examination of Online Fashion Shopping. Fiona Spotswood, Caroline Moraes, Chris Preist.

• Local Community Mobilization Against Corporate Social Irresponsibility: Emotions and Sensemaking-Through-Action as Drivers of Mobilization, Damena Abebe Gemeda, Norbert Steigenberger, Lakew Alemu.

• From Price to Quantity: Redefining How Consumers Pay the Ethical Premium. Jing Wan, Mehak Bharti.

• Moving from Unethical Competition to Sustainability: Understanding the Impact of Competitive Ethics Review on Carbon Reduction of Digital Enterprise. Desheng Wu, Yu Xie, Yuan Pei.

• From Critique to Action: A Capability Approach to Reimagining Human Rights Due Diligence. Rim Bitar, Judith Schrempf-Stirling.

• There Is No Quick Fix: Compliance Officers’ Views on Organizational Behavioral Change. Malouke Esra Kuiper.

• Can Voluntary Regulation Promote Corporate Environmental Investments? Evidence from Green Factory Accreditation. Tingyong Zhong, Fuqi Ma, Yan Zhao.

• Forewarned is Forearmed: Director Interlocks and the Shaping of Corporate Environmental Performance. Huibin Du, Lin Fan, Zhongguo Lin.

• Environmental Violations in the Power Sector: Accountability and Community Welfare. Pouyan Foroughi, Hosein Hamisheh Bahar, Lilian Ng.

• Living Labs as Ethical Spaces: Fostering Innovation and Sustainability in Food Systems. Luca Cacciolatti, Soo Hee Lee, Michael Christofi.

• Leading Responsibly to Safeguard Employee Rights in MNCs: Unpacking the Justice and CSR-Driven Pathways. Muhammad Usman, Yasin Rofcanin, Muhammad Waheed Akhtar.

• Follow the Leader: The Double-Edged Cascading Effect of Board Gender Diversity Practices in Hierarchical Business Groups. Paula M. Infantes, Ryan Federo, Bartolomé Pascual-Fuster.

• Climate Action Through a Feminist Lens: The Role of Gender Inequality Awareness, Nature Empathy, and Climate Change Concern. Vanessa Apaolaza, Patrick Hartmann, Mario R. Paredes.

• Police Violence as Organizational Enactment of the State of Exception. Rajnish Rai, Srinath Jagannathan, Raza Mir.

• Navigating Moral Harm Brand Crises: A Conceptual Framework for Understanding Consumer Response. Justin Cohen, Sean Sands, Liangyan Wang.

• Local Officials’ Promotion Incentives and Green Innovation: Evidence from an Urban Governance Campaign in China. Ge Yang, Haichen Bai, Zeyu Sun.

• Navigating Ethical Paths with “Less”: Unveiling the Simplicity-Naturalness Association and its Impact on Green Consumption. Siyun Chen, Zhihao Yu, Veronika Ponomarenko.

• Climate Risk and Donations to Nonprofit Organizations. Tahmina Ahmed, Mohammad Maruf Hasan, Gregory D. Saxton.

• Beyond Good Intentions: Peer E&S Incidents and the Unravelling of CSR Value. Saeed Akbar, Thang Ho, Hanh T.H. Truong.

• Attitude Without Action-What Really Hinders Ethical Consumption. Zara Berberyan, Sarah Margaretha Jastram, Joachim Rosenkranz.

• The Role of Corporate Sustainability Managers in Implementing Proactive Environmental Strategies. Maja Charlotte Fleck-Baustian, Berina Jaganjac, John A. Hunnes.

• Ethical Decision Making in Teams: A Systematic Review. Michelle P. Martín-Raugh, Logan L. Watts, Rylee M. Linhardt.

• Consideration of Future Consequences, Moral Foundations, and Corporate Volunteering Intentions: A Study on Polish Employees with Volunteering Experience. Iwona Nowakowska, Michał Szulawski, Maura Pozzi.

• Review of Work-Life Research in the Asia–Pacific: Implications for Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion. David Cheng.

• Death, Retirement, or Redeployment for Unproductive Farm Animals? Dispositional Tensions in Organizational Routines. François Charrier, Juliette Cognie, Jocelyne Porcher.

• Which Value Counts? Towards a Decolonial Perspective on Value Creation. Lisa Herzog, Flavia Souza Maximo Pereira.

• Multifunctional Tetralemma. Framework for the Strategic Management of Moral Trade-offs. Steffen Roth, Vladislav Valentinov.

• How a Common Good–Oriented Company Goes Green: The Gift Economy as a Driver of Ecological Transition. Sandrine Frémeaux, Hye-Lan Lee.

• Emotions and Morally Tense Relations: What We Can Learn from Ahmed’s Performative View on Emotions. ToTran Nguyen, Maddy Janssens.

• Mirroring a “Mechanical Mind”: Robot Presence Promotes Utilitarian Motives in Distributive Justice Judgments. Yunlu Yin, Zhengyu Shen, Qian Xu.

• Organizational Responses to Institutional Complexity in the Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining Field. Gift Garikai Dembetembe.

• The Limits of the Ethical Responsibilities of Companies: Using Corporate Social Contract Theory to Identify Boundary Principles. Muel Kaptein.

• Between Commodities and Commons: A Polanyian Analysis of Commoning in the Context of Community Development Banks. Ana Mercedes Sarría Icaza, Daniel S. Lacerda, Pedro de Almeida Costa.

• Whose History Is It Anyway? Uses and Abuses in the Co-Construction of Organizational Narratives. Fatima Regany, Hélène Gorge, Ludovic Cailluet.

• Gender and ESG Rating Divergence: Evidence from Chinese Board Secretaries. Zhi Yu, Xiangqiang Liu, Xuewu Wang.

• To Act or Not to Act: The Effects of Firm Size on Inaction, Eco-friendly, and Compensatory Actions. Jennifer J. Griffin, Andrew Bryant, Vanessa G. Perry.

• How Firms Adapt to Rising Temperatures: Evidence from U.S. Establishments. Zuben Jin, Frank Weikai Li, Zilong Zhang.

• Translating Business Ethics into Practice: How Business Ethics Consultants Drive Ethical Change in Digital Work Environments. Tong Li, Marco Meyer.

• Taste-Based Statistical Discrimination: A New Framework for Understanding Organizational Inequality in a Polarized Era. Lemaro Thompson.

• Whoever Walks in Integrity Walks Securely: Does Corporate Integrity Culture Mitigate Climate Change Exposure? Md. Samsul Alam, Faizul Haque, S. M. Sohrab Uddin.

• Parrying Diversity-Hostility and Ethical Dilemmas of Organizing Inclusion. Laura Dobusch, Milena Leybold, Leonhard Dobusch.

• From Compliance to Commitment: Examining the Influence of Corporate Governance and Social Performance on Firms’ Circular Economy Initiatives. Basil Al-Najjar, Aly Salama, Alaa Abed.

• The Influence of Managerial Involvement in Corporate Social Responsibility on Real Earnings Management Decisions. Kevin Hale, Steven E. Kaszak.

Journal of Consumer Psychology

• “It’s a tough job, but somebody’s got to do it”: Committed consumers’ voluntary emotion work in alternative market systems. Kristin Bentsen, Eileen Fischer, Per Egil Pedersen.

• Obstacles and opportunities for sustainable consumption: A comprehensive conceptual model, literature review, and research agenda. Eduardo B. Andrade, Yan Vieites.

Journal of Consumer Research

• Sustainability Cues Can Delay Consumption. Feifei Huang et al.

Journal of Environmental Economics and Management

• Adjusting to the energy transition: Training and transfers in coal country. Eleanor Krause.

• Is a Nudge Enough? Evidence from Environmental Compliance in Chile’s Industrial Wastewater Regulation. Pablo Aguirre-Hormann, Francisco Donoso, Patricio Domínguez, Cristóbal De la Maza, Enzo E. Sauma.

• The non-green effects of going green: Local environmental and economic consequences of lithium extraction in Chile. Leonardo Peñaloza-Pacheco, Vaios Triantafyllou, Gonzalo Martínez.

• Informing the uninformed, sensitizing the informed: The two sides of consumer environmental awareness. Dorothée Brécard, Mireille Chiroleu-Assouline.

• The hidden benefits of CSR: Corporate philanthropy begets giving of employees. Manuel Grieder, Deborah Kistler, Jan Schmitz.

• More than particulates matter: Multiple pollutants and productivity in Indian call centers. Deepshikha Batheja, Sarojini Hirshleifer, Jamie T. Mullins.

• Fueling inequality: A novel estimate from large-scale reforms. MohammadAli Mokhtari, Hamed Ghoddusi.

• Biodiversity and the design of result-based payments: Evidence from Germany. Sergei Schaub, Alexander Pfaff, Petyo Bonev.

• Public environmental complaints and regulatory intensity. Jiaqi Zhang, Robert J.R. Elliott, Bing Zhang, Mengdi Liu.

• The market for ethical goods. Nicolas Bonneton.

• Magnitude and decomposition of the solar rebound: Evidence from Swiss households. Patrick Bigler.

• Private sector promotion of agricultural technologies: Experimental evidence from Nigeria. Lenis Saweda O Liverpool-Tasie, Andrew Dillon, Jeffrey R. Bloem, Guigonan Serge Adjognon.

• Intra-firm pollution leakage and redistribution of pollution exposure: Evidence from coal-regulated plants in China. Wentao Jia, Chunbo Ma, Xiao Wang, Rui Xie.

• Carbon pricing, compensation, and competitiveness: Lessons from UK manufacturing. Piero Basaglia, Elisabeth T. Isaksen, Misato Sato.

• Mobilizing credit for clean energy: De-risking and public loan provision under learning spillovers. Paul Waidelich, Joscha Krug, Bjarne Steffen.

• Environmental regulation and firms’ extensive margin decisions. Shuo Li, Min Wang.

• Nudging toward climate adaptation. A field experiment on informational strategies in organic food markets. Cecilia Castaldo, Matilde Giaccherini, Giacomo Pallante, Alessandro Palma.

Journal of Finance

• ESG News, Future Cash Flows, and Firm Value. François Derrien, Philipp Krüger, Augustin Landier, Tianhao Yao.

• Green Window Dressing. Gianpaolo Parise, Mirco Rubin.

Journal of Financial and Qualitative Analysis

• Banking on Competition: The Spillover Effects of Bank Entry into Microfinance. Jonathan Fu, Vasso Ioannidou, Mrinal Mishra.

• Gender Pay Gap and Cultural Values. Natasha Burns, Kristina Minnick, Jeffry Netter, Laura Starks.

• Mutual Fund Trading, Fund Flows, and ESG Portfolios. Rui Albuquerque, Yrjö Koskinen, Raffaele Santioni.

• Swimming Upstream: Struggling Firms in Corrupt Cities. Christopher A. Parsons, Johan Sulaeman, Sheridan Titman.

Journal of International Business Studies  

• Home-country egalitarianism and cross-border nonmarket strategy. Jin Hyung Kim, Jordan I. Siegel.

• Looking beyond institutional influences on social entrepreneurs: key issues and an agenda for future IB research on social venture impact. A. Rebecca Reuber, Eileen Fischer.

• Principles of sustainable business: frameworks for corporate action on the SDGs. Elizabeth Wang, David Horan.

• Global investors, hidden suppliers: how institutions shape the impact of stock market liberalization programs on corporate responsibility. Shipeng Yan, Wei Jiang, Yue Xu.

• The global sourcing of green products. Heather Berry, Jasmina Chauvin, Narae Lee.

MIS Quarterly

• Algorithmic Social Injustices: Antecedents and Mitigations. Hüseyin Tanriverdi; John-Patrick Olatunji Akinyemi.

Operations Research  

• Residential Battery Storage—Reshaping the Way We Do Electricity. Christian Kaps, Serguei Netessine.

• Relating Electric Vehicle Charging to Speed Scaling with Job-Specific Speed Limits. Leoni Winschermann, Antonios Antoniadis, Marco E. T. Gerards, Gerwin Hoogsteen, Johann Hurink.

Organization and Environment

• Sustainability Work With Tensions in Textile Companies: The Co-Construction of Organisational Narratives and Collective Agency. Tiina Onkila, Suvi Heikkinen, Marileena Mäkelä.

• Telling Fish Tales: The Role of Narratives in Social Ecological System Interventions. David R. Hannah, Kirsten Robertson, Brett van Poorten.

• “Our Best Enemy”: Right to Repair and the Politics of Agonistic Circularity. David Monciardini, Philipp Montenegro, Lívia Regina Batista-Pritchard, Jessika L. Richter.

• Managing Organizations in the Natural Environment: Envisaging New Research Journeys. Minna Halme, Stefan Schaltegger.

• Positive and Negative Affect and Employee Green Behavior: A Five-Wave Study of Reciprocal Within-Person Relations. Maie Stein, Clara Kühner, Hannes Zacher.

• Stock Market Reaction to Environmental Performance: The Role of Organizational Reputation as an Interpretive Lens. Shinhye Ahn, Theresa S. Cho, Cecile K. Cho.

Organization Science  

• The Refugee Journey: An Exploration of the Role of Organizations and Psychological Processes. Aida Hajro, Milda Žilinskaitė, Cristina B. Gibson.

• Putting Climate into Context: How Culture and Composition Shape the Effects of Diversity Climate. Alison V. Hall, Derek R. Avery, Michele J. Gelfand, Patrick F. McKay.

• The Failure to Recognize Anti-Asian Discrimination. Sora Jun, Junfeng Wu, Dejun Tony Kong.

• When a Star Shines Too Bright: The Impact of a High-Status Minority Member on Pursuing Diversity Goals. Julia D. Hur, Jun J. Lin.

• Race, Sexual Orientation, and Intersectionality in Distributive Negotiation Outcomes for Men. Edward H. Chang, Erika L. Kirgios, Julian J. Zlatev.

• Unintended Consequences of Closing Pay Gaps Across Multiple Groups: A Formal Modeling and Simulation Analysis of Allocation Methods. David Anderson, Margrét V. Bjarnadóttir, David Gaddis Ross.

• Culture as a Toolkit for Robust Action: Tackling Grand Challenges with Cultural Entrepreneurship. Logan Crace.

Organization Studies

• Media Review: Home and Climate Risk. Mélodie Cartel, David Grant, Daniel Nyberg.

• The Green Hush: A foundational model of brownwashing and the impacts of greenwashing. A. Wren Montgomery, Jennifer L. Robertson, Catherine Summers.

• Paradox and Power in Interorganizational Relationships: A study of social sustainability tensions in a global value chain. Stephanie Schrage, Marco Berti, Julia Grimm.

• Co-creating Knowledge and Shaping Practice: The collaborative work of nascent occupations. Mia Raynard, Farah Kodeih, Diane-Laure Arjaliès.

• Sustainability Leadership and the Governmentality of Hope: Retheorising hope in the context of environmental crisis. Peter Skilling, Brigid Carroll, Marjo Lips-Wiersma.

• Media Review: Handbook on Public-Private Partnerships in International Infrastructure Development: A Critical Perspective. Lavagnon A. Ika.

• Fixes That Fail in Collaborative Innovation: The dynamics of conflict, decision-making speed and time pressure. Attabik Awan, Bob Walrave, Vincent de Gooyert, Gunter Bombaerts, Madis Talmar.

• ‘Balancing Anticipatory and Deliberative Governance in Public–Private Partnerships for Responsible Innovation: The role of corporate innovation capabilities. David Larkin, Lena Jaspersen, Krsto Pandza.

Research Policy

• Spaces, forms, and levels engagement: Using the Powercube to explore social inclusion in digital energy and mobility systems. Marie Claire Brisbois, Gerardo A. Torres Contreras, Morten Ryen Loe, Jessica Balest, et al.

• Modernist social imaginaries in research funding for urban experimentation – a qualitative analysis of expectations and visions in German-language funding calls. Cordula Kropp.

• Health and creativity: Evidence from corporate innovation. Truc (Peter) Do, Kelvin Jui Keng Tan, Yanhui Wu.

• Organizing transformative innovation: Advancing an organizational research agenda within Transformative Innovation Policy. Jane Bjørn Vedel, Jacob Hasselbalch, Susana Borrás, Alan Irwin, Vera Simoneit.

• The political extremes and innovation: How support for extreme parties shapes overall and green scientific research and technological innovation in Europe. Andrés Rodríguez-Pose, Zhuoying You, Peter Teirlinck.

Sloan Management Review  

• How U.S. Foreign Aid Policies Affect Global Business Operations. Jarrod Goentzel, Prashant Yadav.

• What Jane Goodall’s Career Teaches Us About Allyship and Sponsorship. Ronit Kark.

• The Case for Quiet Corporate Activism. Julia Binder, Heather Cairns-Lee.

• The Three Obstacles Slowing Responsible AI. Öykü Işık, Ankita Goswami.

• Surprise: Corporate Sustainability Isn’t Dead. Andrew Winston.

• Integrate Sustainability and Innovation to Find New Opportunities. Ivanka Visnjic et al.

• From Employee-Owners to Environmental Champions. Jegoo Lee.

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