Table of Contents: September 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 September 2023

Academy of Management Journal

• Responding to Professional Knowledge Disruptions of Unmitigable Uncertainty: The Role of Emotions, Practices, and Moral Duty among COVID-19 Physicians. Amelia Compagni, Giulia Cappellaro, Amit Nigam.

• Happy Talk: Is Common Diversity Rhetoric Effective Diversity Rhetoric? Lisa M. Leslie, Elinor Flynn, Olivia A. Foster-Gimbel, Colleen F Manchester.

• Public-Private and Private-Private Collaboration as Pathways for Socially Beneficial Innovation: Evidence from Antimicrobial Drug Development Tasks. Birgul Arslan, Gurneeta Vasudeva, Elizabeth B. Hirsch.

• An Integrative Model of Hybrid Governance: The Role of Boards in Helping Sustain Organizational Hybridity. Anne-Claire Pache, Julie Battilana, Channing Spencer.

Accounting, Organizations and Society

• CSR disclosures in buyer-seller markets: The impact of assurance of CSR disclosures and incentives for CSR investments. Karen J. De Meyst, Eddy Cardinaels, Alexandra Van den Abbeele. 

• Do green business practices license self-dealing or prime prosociality? Cross-domain evidence from environmental concern triggers. Melanie I. Millar, Thomas D. Shohfi, Mason C. Snow, Roger M. White.

• Affirmative otherness in a humanitarian NGO: Implications for accountability as responsiveness. Susan O’Leary, Tami Dinh, Seraina Frueh.

Business and Society

• Finding the “Sweet Spot”: The Politics of Alignment in Cross-Sector Partnerships for Refugees. S. E. Henriksen.

• Policy Learning in Nascent Industries’ Venue Shifting: A Study of the U.S. Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) Industry. Lori Qingyuan Yue, Jue Wang.

• Revisiting Renewable Energies: Liberating, Pacifying, and Democratizing. Stefan Schaltegger, Martina K. Linnenluecke, Samanthi Dijkstra-Silva, Katherine L. Christ.

• Social Innovation Is a Team Sport: Combining Top-Down and Shared Leadership for Social Innovation. Craig L. Pearce, Daan van Knippenberg.

• Toward Humanistic Business Ethics. Simone de Colle, R. Edward Freeman, Andrew C. Wicks.

• Corporate Social Responsibility and Directors’ and Officers’ Liability Risk: The Moderating Effect of Risk Environment and Growth Potential. Hao Lu, M. Martin Boyer, Anne Kleffner.

• Predisposed, Exposed, or Both? How Prosocial Motivation and CSR Education Are Related to Prospective Employees’ Desire for Social Impact in Work. Ante Glavas, Tobias Hahn, David A. Jones, Chelsea R. Willness.

Ecological Economics

• Smart city strategies – A driver for the localization of the sustainable development goals? Jessica Clement, Benoit Ruysschaert, Nathalie Crutzen.

• Understanding farmer views of precision agriculture profitability in the U.S. Midwest. Tong Wang, Hailong Jin, Heidi Sieverding, Sandeep Kumar, … Stephen Cheye.

• The limits to degrowth: Economic and climatic consequences of pessimist assumptions on decoupling. Rikard Hjorth Warlenius.

• What are the drivers of corporates’ climate transparency? Evidence from the S&P 1200 index. Amar Jeanne, Samira Demaria, Sandra Rigot.

• Degrowth and the Global South: The twin problem of global dependencies. Claudius Gräbner-Radkowitsch, Birte Strunk. 

• Is green growth possible and even desirable in a spaceship economy? Georg Meran.

• The unwritten license: The societal SLO in Latin America’s extractive sector. Lenin H. Balza, Lina M. Diaz, Nicolas Gomez-Parra, Osmel E. Manzano M.

• Incentives, Rewards or Both in Payments for Ecosystem Services: Drawing a Link Between Farmers’ Preferences and Biodiversity Levels. Carolin Canessa, Terese E. Venus, Miriam Wiesmeier, Philipp Mennig, Johannes Sauer.

• Double-edged circularity: Comparative assessment of circular and non-circular consumers. Shashi, Piera Centobelli, Roberto Cerchione, Deepika Jhamb.

• Lessons from crypto assets for the design of energy efficient digital currencies. Itai Agur, Xavier Lavayssière, Germán Villegas Bauer, Jose Deodoro, … Hervé Tourpe.

• Forest adaptation strategies to reconcile timber production and carbon sequestration objectives under multiple risks of extreme drought and windstorm events. Sandrine Brèteau-Amores, Rasoul Yousefpour, Marc Hanewinkel, Mathieu Fortin.

• Accelerated economic recovery in countries powered by renewables. Ian Donohue, Luca Coscieme, Gabriel Gellner, Qiang Yang, Kevin S. McCann.

• Are SRI funds financing carbon emissions? An input-output life cycle assessment of investment funds. Ioana-Stefania Popescu, Thomas Gibon, Claudia Hitaj, Mirco Rubin, Enrico Benetto.

• Exploring the distribution of organic farming: Findings from certified rice in Taiwan. Chen-Fu Lu, Chia-Yi Cheng.

• Inherently unstable? Scaling, mission drift, and the comparative performance of community-based platforms in the sharing economy. Jozef Cossey, Tom Dedeurwaerdere, Anaïs Périlleux.

• How to boost the local trade of participatory guarantee system (PGS)-certified produce? A value chain perspective in Huánuco, Peru. Laura Enthoven, Goedele Van den Broeck. 

• Effects of the debate on glyphosate’s carcinogenic risk on pesticide producers’ share prices. Maximilian Koppenberg, Stefan Hirsch, Robert Finger.

• Certify or not? The effect of the MSC certification on the ex-vessel prices for Atlantic cod in Norway. Julia Bronnmann, Frank Asche, Ingrid Kristine Pettersen, Geir Sogn-Grundvåg.

• Better or different? A reflection on the suitability of indicator methods for a just transition to a circular economy. Ben Purvis, Andrea Genovese.

Journal of Accounting Research

• How Does Carbon Footprint Information Affect Consumer Choice? A Field Experiment. Bianca Beyer, Rico Chaskel, Simone Euler, Joachim Gassen, Ann-Kristin Groβkop, Thorsten Sellhorn.

• Reciprocity in Corporate Tax Compliance—Evidence from Ozone Pollution. Travis Chow, Zhongwen Fan, Li Huang, Oliver Zhen Li, Siman Li.

• The Financially Material Effects of Mandatory Nonfinancial Disclosure. Brian Gibbons.

Journal of Marketing  

• A War on Sugar? Effects of Reduced Sugar Content and Package Size in the Soda Category. Kristopher O. Keller, Jonne Y. Guyt.

Journal of Political Economy

• The Stakeholder Corporation and Social Welfare. Marc Fleurbaey, Grégory Ponthière.

Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science

• Mindful consumption: Its conception, measurement, and implications. Sharad Gupta, Jagdish Sheth.

• Achieving social and economic sustainability through innovations in transformative services: A case of healthcare organizations in an emerging market. Amalesh Sharma, Sourav Bikash Borah, Aditya Christopher Moses.

• Research on sales and ethics: Mapping the past and charting the future. Nathaniel N. Hartmann, Heiko Wieland, Johannes Habel. 

Manufacturing and Service Operations Management

• Effect of Guided Delegation and Information Proximity on Multitier Responsible Sourcing. Sammi Y. Tang, Jing-Sheng Song.

• Do Noisy Customer Reviews Discourage Platform Sellers? Empirical Analysis of an Online Solar Marketplace. Herbie Huang, Nur Sunar, Jayashankar M. Swaminathan, Rahul Roy.

• Sustainability Implications of Supply Chain Responsiveness. Ali Kaan Tuna, Robert Swinney.

• Optimal Electricity Imbalance Pricing for the Emerging Penetration of Renewable and Low-Cost Generators. Yashar Ghiassi-Farrokhfal, Rodrigo Belo, Mohammad Reza Hesamzadeh, Derek Bunn.

• Redesigning Sample Transportation in Malawi Through Improved Data Sharing and Daily Route Optimization. Emma Gibson, Sarang Deo, Jónas Oddur Jónasson, Mphatso Kachule, Kara Palamountain.

Marketing Science

• Gender-Based Pricing in Consumer Packaged Goods: A Pink Tax? Sarah Moshary, Anna Tuchman, Natasha Vajravelu.

Production and Operations Management

• Cooperative security against interdependent risks. Sanjith Gopalakrishnan,  Sriram Sankaranarayanan.

• Just-in-time for supply chains in turbulent times. Thomas Y. Choi,  Torbjørn H. Netland,  Nada Sanders,  ManMohan S. Sodhi,  Stephan M. Wagner.

Quarterly Journal of Economics

• Violence Against Women at Work. Abi Adams-Prassl and others.

• The Damages and Distortions from Discrimination in the Rental Housing Market. Peter Christensen and Christopher Timmins.

Review of Economic Studies

• Market Power in Coal Shipping and Implications for U.S. Climate Policy. Louis Preonas. 

Review of Finance

• Measuring Climate Transition Risk Spillovers. Runfeng Yang and others.

• The Strategic Use of Corporate Philanthropy: Evidence from Bank Donations. Seungho Choi and others.

Review of Financial Studies  

• Adverse Selection and Climate Risk: A Response to Ouazad and Kahn (2022). Michael LaCour-Little and others. 

• Diverse Hedge Funds. Yan Lu and others. 

Strategic Management Journal

• Do financial market frictions hurt the performance of women-led ventures? A meta-analytic investigation. David Gaddis Ross,  Dong Hyun Shin. 

• Impact investing in disadvantaged urban areas. Romain Boulongne, Rodolphe Durand,  Caroline Flammer.

• Cashing in on the culture wars? CEO activism, wokewashing, and firm value. Gaia Melloni,  Andrea Patacconi,  Nick Vikander.

• Salary transparency and gender pay inequality: Evidence from Canadian universities. Elizabeth Lyons,  Laurina Zhang.

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