Table of Contents: May 2024 - Network for Business Sustainability (NBS) (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 May 2024

Academy of Management Learning & Education

• Book review: Principles of Business & Management: Practicing Ethics, Responsibility, Sustainability. Maarten J. J. Wubben.

• Making a Difference: Taking Community Stakeholders Seriously. Daina Mazutis.

• Sowing the Seeds of Change: Calling for a Social-Ecological Approach to Management Learning and Education. Laura A. Colombo, Christine Moser, Katrin Muehlfeld, Simy Joy.

Academy of Management Review

• Taming Unicorns: Toward a New Normal of Responsible Entrepreneurship. Jonah Zankl, Matthew Grimes.

• Getting Away with It (Or Not): The Social Control of Organizational Deviance. Alessandro Piazza, Patrick Bergemann, Wesley Helms.

• A New Perspective on Gender Bias in the Upper Echelons: Why Stakeholder Variability Matters. Aparna Joshi, Soojin Oh, Mark DesJardine.

• An Active Learning Approach to Diversity Training. Quinetta M. Roberson, Ozias A. Moore, Bradford S. Bell.

Accounting Review

• Emission Taxes and Capital Investments: The Role of Tax Incidence. Martin Jacob, Kira Lena Zerwer.

Administrative Science Quarterly

• Frontline Professionals in the Wake of Social Media Scrutiny: Examining the Processes of Obscured Accountability. Arvind Karunakaran.

• Book Review: Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway. The Big Myth: How American Business Taught Us to Loathe Government and Love the Free Market. J. Adam Cobb.

• Book Review: Stretched Thin: How a Misalignment Between Allocation and Valuation Underlies the Paradox of Diversity Achievement in Higher Education. Tanya Y. Tian, Edward B. Smith.

• Book Review: Asaf Darr. Between Conflict and Collegiality: Palestinian Arabs and Jews in the Israeli Workplace. Peter Bamberger.

• Evidence in Practice: How Structural and Programmatic Scaffolds Enable Collaboration in International Development. Rodrigo Canales, Mikaela Bradbury, Anthony Sheldon, Charlie Cannon.

• Junkies, Queers, and Babies: Persistence and Updating of the Category AIDS Through Silencing and Puncturing of the Moral Boundary. Mia Chang-Zunino, Stine Grodal.

• The Allegory of the Favela: The Multifaceted Effects of Socioeconomic Mobility. Leandro S. Pongeluppe.

• The Making of the “Good Bad” Job: How Algorithmic Management Manufactures Consent Through Constant and Confined Choices. Lindsey D. Cameron.

• Book Review: Vili Lehdonvirta. Cloud Empires: How Digital Platforms Are Overtaking the State and How We Can Regain Control. Nan Jia

Business Ethics Quarterly

• A Better Account of Constitutional Contractarianism Implies a Cooperative Form of Governance of the Sharing Economy: Critical Assessment of Hielscher, Everding, and Pies’ (2022) “Ordo-responsibility in the Sharing Economy: A Social Contracts Perspective”. Pietro Ghirlanda, Lorenzo Sacconi.

• Corporate Responsibility and Repair for Anti-Black Racism. Tabitha Celeste Mustafa.

• Sweatshop Boycotts: Can’t Live with Them, Can’t Live without Them. Linan Peng, Benjamin Powell.

• The Free-Riding Issue in Contemporary Organizations: Lessons from the Common Good Perspective. Sandrine Frémeaux, Guillaume Mercier, Anouk Grevin.

• Moral Disjunction and Role Coadunation in Business and the Professions. Rita Mota, Alan D. Morrison.

Contemporary Accounting Research

• The mountains are high and the emperor is far away: Credit scoring and the infrastructure of surveillance capitalism in China. Ruowen Xu, Yuval Millo, Crawford Spence.

Econometrica

• Certification Design With Common Values. Andreas Asseyer, Ran Weksler.

• A Demand Curve for Disaster Recovery Loans. Benjamin Collier, Cameron Ellis.

• Adapting to Climate Risk With Guaranteed Credit: Evidence From Bangladesh. Gregory Lane.

Human Resource Management

• ‘If my boss wasn’t so accommodating, I don’t know what I would do’: Workplace supports for carers and the role of line managers and co-workers in mediating informal flexibility. M. Fahy, L. Dowling-Hetherington, D. Phillips, B. Moloney, C. Duffy, G. Paul, G. Fealy, T. Kroll, A. Lafferty.

• Exploring the agency of skilled refugees in the British labour market. Dulini Fernando.

• Politics and race in the workplace: Understanding how and when trump-supporting managers hinder black employees from thriving at work. Darryl B. Rice, Nicole C. J. Young, Regina M. Taylor, Stephanie R. Leonard.

• German and Dutch works councils: A trust theory of legal employee voice. Annette van den Berg, Yolanda Grift, Arjen van Witteloostuijn, Saraï Sapulete, Wolfram Brehmer, Martin Behrens.

• Enabling older employees’ well-being through HR attributions: The moderating role of management context. Eda Aksoy, Justin Marcus.

• Best management practices for integrating refugee employees. Mladen Adamovic, Diarmuid Cooney-O’Donoghue.

• E-voice in the digitalised workplace. Insights from an alternative organisation. Vanessa Sandra Bernauer, Angela Kornau.

• Supportive, resistant, or both? A person-centric view on employee responses to diversity initiatives. Rouven Kanitz, Max Reinwald, Katerina Gonzalez, Anne Burmeister, Yifan Song, Martin Hoegl.

• The other side of the coin: An integrative review connecting pay and health. Gordon M. Sayre, Samantha A. Conroy.

Journal of Business Venturing

• The gendered effect of populism on innovation. Jintong Tang, Wenping Ye, Mingzhi Hu, Stephen X. Zhang, Shaji A. Khan.

• To profit or not to profit: Founder identity at the intersection of religion and entrepreneurship. Jody Delichte, E. Erin Powell, Ralph Hamann, Ted Baker

• The entrepreneurship of marginalized groups and compatibility between the market and emancipation. Alexander C. Lewis, Rowena C. Crabbe.

Journal of Consumer Marketing

• The influence of electronic word of mouth on green cosmetics purchase intention: evidence from young Vietnamese female consumers. Thuy Thi Thu Nguyen, Yam B. Limbu, Long Pham, Miguel Ángel Zúñiga

• Anthropomorphised or not? Natural-organic logo’s impact on product value perceptions and consumers’ willingness to pay. Kenneth Fu Xian Ho, Liudmila Tarabashkina, Fang Liu.

• A meta-analysis of antecedents and consequences of green trust. Sumedha Chauhan, Sandeep Goyal.

Journal of Economics and Management Strategy

• Information campaigns and ecolabels by environmental NGOs: Effective strategies to eliminate environmentally harmful components?. Dorothée Brécard, Mireille Chiroleu-Assouline.

• Revenue drift, incentives, and effort allocation in social enterprises. Theodor Vladasel, Simon C. Parker, Randolph Sloof, Mirjam van Praag.

Journal of Financial Economics

• Regulatory arbitrage or random errors? Implications of race prediction algorithms in fair lending analysis. Daniel L. Greenwald, Sabrina T. Howell, Cangyuan Li, Emmanuel Yimfor.

• The effect of female leadership on contracting from Capitol Hill to Main Street. Jonathan Brogaard, Nataliya Gerasimova, Maximilian Rohrer.

• Sustainability or performance? Ratings and fund managers’ incentives. Nickolay Gantchev, Mariassunta Giannetti, Rachel Li.

Journal of Industrial Ecology

• Evaluating strategies to increase PET bottle recycling in the United States. R. Basuhi, Karan Bhuwalka, Richard Roth, Elsa A. Olivetti.

• Whole-process and multi-stakeholder-based solid waste management framework construction for industrial parks: Toward circular economy development. Chang Shu, Zeshi Feng, Chao Liang, Jin Guo, Feng Xu, Jinping Tian, Lujun Chen.

• Embed systemic equity throughout industrial ecology applications: How to address machine learning unfairness and bias. Joe F. Bozeman III, Catharina Hollauer, Arjun Thangaraj Ramshankar, Shalini Nakkasunchi, Jenna Jambeck, Andrea Hicks, Melissa Bilec, Darren McCauley, Oliver Heidrich.

• Circular (de)construction matchmaking: A matter of space and time. Yifei Yu, Marc van den Berg, Devrim Murat Yazan.

• Exploring stakeholders’ opinions on circular economy in the construction sector: A natural language processing analysis of social media discourse. Aidana Tleuken, Daniil Orel, Anel Iskakova, Huseyin Atakan Varol, Ferhat Karaca.

• Determinants of the growing material footprints along the Belt and Road. Danyang Zhang, Kuishuang Feng, Peng Zhou, Hui Wang.

• Developing a circular design framework: Co-creation and validation of a circular product and service design tool. Lina Dagilienė, J. Čeičytė-Pranskūnė, A. Telešienė, R. Valušytė, V. Varžinskas.

• Life cycle sustainability assessment for sustainable development goals. Yuan Yao, Thomas Schaubroeck, Haibo Feng, Oludunsin Arodudu, Thomas P. Gloria.

• The circular economy rebound effect: Reconceptualizing rebound approaches and mitigation opportunities from an ordonomic perspective. Felix Carl Schultz, Vladislav Valentinov, Robert Jaroslav Reinhardt, Ingo Pies.

• Streamlined benefit analysis of products based on the Sustainable Development Goals: Integrating the voice of society into life cycle sustainability assessment. Martin Möller, Rainer Grießhammer.

• Critical material requirements and recycling opportunities for US wind and solar power generation. Tessa Lee, Yuan Yao, Thomas E. Graedel, Alessio Miatto.

• Climate true-cost analysis of industrial goods and its regulatory implications on value chains and global competition. Matthias Schlipf, Bastian Striegl, Tobias Gaugler.

• Regional transformation pathways for the bioeconomy: A novel monitoring approach for complex transitions. Florian Siekmann, Sandra Venghaus.

• Categorization of manufacturing companies’ readiness profiles for the transition to the circular economy: A multidimensional cluster analysis. Thayla Zomer, Tim McAloone, Daniela Pigosso.

• Disentangling social impacts in global value chains through structural path analysis: Investigating forced labor in the cotton industry. Ángela García-Alaminos, Fabio Monsalve, Jorge Zafrilla.

• Bottom-up dynamics in circular innovation systems: The perspective of circular start-ups. Marvin Henry, Julian Kirchherr, Rob Raven, Marko Hekkert.

Journal of Management

• Leveraging the Dominant Pole: How Champions of an Industry-Wide Environmental Alliance Navigate Coopetition Paradoxes. Natalie Slawinski, Wendy K. Smith, Connie A. Van der Byl.

• A Values-Complementarity Model of Social Movement Influence on Entrepreneurship. J. Jeffrey Gish, Lauren Lanahan, Joshua T. Beck.

• The Lean Impact Start-Up Framework: Fueling Innovation for Positive Societal Change. Sophie Bacq, Stephanie Wang.

• Oppositional Courage for Racial and Ethnic Minorities: A Source of White Employees’ Upward Moral Comparison. Christian N. Thoroughgood, Katina B. Sawyer, Dejun Tony Kong, Jennica R. Webster.

• Competition Behind Competition: State-Sponsored Awards, Political Tournaments, and Corporate Participation in Poverty Alleviation in China. Weiting Zheng, Na Ni, Xiaowei Rose Luo, Jiaxing You, Xiting Wu.

• Organizational Engagement With Poverty: A Review and Reorientation. Vivek Soundararajan, Sreevas Sahasranamam, Michael Rogerson, Hari Bapuji, Laura J. Spence, Jason D Shaw.

• From Intent to Impact: A Proactive Event Approach for Amplifying Sustainability Across Time. Patrick J. Flynn, Amrou Awaysheh, Paul D. Bliese, Barbara B. Flynn.

• A Summer of Protest: Using Event System Theory To Test an Intersectional Leadership Advantage. Alexander D. Stajkovic, Kayla Stajkovic.

• Governance Failure and Governance Under Failure: Reviewing the Role of Directors in Organizational Misconduct. Srikanth Paruchuri, Erik A. Hoempler, Amanda P. Cowen, Albert A. Cannella, Jr., Peter Inho Nahm.

• Hitting the “Grass Ceiling”: Golfing CEOs, Exclusionary Schema, and Career Outcomes for Female Executives. Lee E. Biggerstaff, Joanna T. Campbell, Bradley A. Goldie.

Journal of Management Studies

• On Vulnerability, Coming out and Hiding. Paul Hibbert.

• What is the Strategy of Strategy to Tackle Climate Change? Christopher Wickert, Daniel Muzio.

• Strategy Can No Longer Ignore Planetary Boundaries: A Call for Tackling Strategy’s Ecological Fallacy. Pratima (Tima) Bansal, Rodolphe Durand, Markus Kreutzer, Sven Kunisch, Anita M. McGahan.

• Do we Need a ‘New Strategy Paradigm’? No. Nicolai J. Foss, Peter G. Klein.

• Can Strategy Address the Climate Crisis Without Losing its Essence? Gerald F. Davis, Theodore DeWitt.

• The Road Less Travelled: Sabbaticals as Pathways for Engagement and Impact. Thomas J. Fewer.

• Green Screening: Firm Environmental Strategy Amidst Policy Implementation Uncertainty in the European Union. Eun-Hee Kim, Shon R. Hiatt, Y. Maggie Zhou.

• Constructing a World for Compassion: How Temporal Work Can Preserve Compassion in Extreme Contexts. M. Dolores del Rio, Pablo D. Fernández, Ignasi Marti, Alberto Willi.

• Governing Corporations in National and Transnational Spaces: Cross-Level Governmental Orchestration of Corporate Social Responsibility in South Korea. Hyemi Shin, Jean-Pascal Gond.

• Biocentric Work in the Anthropocene: How Actors Regenerate Degenerated Natural Commons. Laura Albareda, Oana Branzei.

• Grand Challenges Viewed through the Pragmatist Lens of the Economies of Worth: A Multidisciplinary Review and Framework for the Conduct of Moral Work in Pluralistic Settings. Charlotte Cloutier, Francis Desjardins, Linda Rouleau.

• Reframing Silence as Purposeful: Emotions in Extreme Contexts. Madeleine Rauch, Shahzad Shaz Ansari.

• Birds of a Feather are Punished Together, or Not? Examining Heterogeneity in Career Advancements of Minority Groups. Maima Aulia Syakhroza, Jan Lodge.

• With or without you: Family and Career-Work in a Demanding and Precarious Profession. Erin Reid, Farnaz Ghaedipour, Otilia Obodaru.

• Guaranteed Basic Income from the Perspective of Self-Determination Theory. Joshua L. Howard.

• ‘Vote the Assholes Out’: How Value Congruence Work Aligns Stakeholders for Corporate Activism. Sean Buchanan, Mojtaba Mohammadnejad Shourkaei, Bruno Dyck.

• Relational Co-ordination and Stigma at Work: How Frontline Employees Compensate for Failures in Public Health Systems. Gerard George, Sankalp Chaturvedi, Christopher Corbishley, Rifat Atun.

Journal of Marketing Research

• Using Price Promotions to Drive Children’s Healthy Choices in a Developing Economy. Szu-chi Huang, Michal Maimaran, Daniella Kupor.

Journal of Operations Management

• Follow-suit or free-ride? A relational view of CSR diffusion in a supply chain with customer–supplier closure. Ellie C. Falcone, Tingting Yan, Brian S. Fugate.

• An investigation of corporate social responsibility conformity: The roles of network prominence and supply chain partners. Ellie C. Falcone, Jason W. Ridge.

• Gender mismatch and bias in people-centric operations: Evidence from a randomized field experiment. Yoonseock Son, Angela Aerry Choi, Kaitlin D. Wowak, Corey M. Angst.

• When do part-time workers increase effectiveness? A study of food banks and the SNAP program outreach. Luv Sharma, Pelin Pekgün, Orgül D. Öztürk, Sanjay L. Ahire.

• Carbon neutrality: Operations management research opportunities. Qingyu Zhang, Christina W. Y. Wong, Robert Klassen.

Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists

• Policy-induced innovation in clean technologies: Evidence from the car market. Rik Rozendaal, Herman Vollebergh.

• Enforcing Regulation when Violations are Heterogeneous: Empirical Evidence from U.S. Stationary Emissions Policy. Almira Salimgarieva, Wesley Blundell.

• Air Pollution and Solar Energy: Evidence from Wildfires. Seung Min Kim, Kenneth Gillingham.

• Mind the tap – how volumetric pricing affects residential hot water consumption. Mikael Elinder, Xiao Hu, Che-Yuan Liang, Shane Minckley.

• Going Viral: Public Attention and Environmental Action in the Amazon. Rafael Araujo, Francisco Costa, Teevrat Garg.

• Extreme Temperatures, Adaptation Capacity, and Household Retail Consumption. Seunghoon Lee, Siqi Zheng.

• Local Incentives and Electric Vehicle Adoption. Askill H. Halse, Karen Hauge, Elisabeth T. Isaksen, Bjørn G. Johansen, Oddbjørn Raaum.

Management Science

• Consumption of Values. Stefania Minardi, Fan Wang, Itzhak Gilboa.

• Gender Promotion Gaps and Career Aspirations. Ghazala Azmat, Vicente Cuñat, Emeric Henry.

• Credit Market Conditions and Mental Health. Qing Hu, Ross Levine, Chen Lin, Mingzhu Tai.

• Explicit and Implicit Belief-Based Gender Discrimination: A Hiring Experiment. Kai Barron, Ruth Ditlmann, Stefan Gehrig, Sebastian Schweighofer-Kodritsch.

• Modeling the Impact of Community First Responders. Pieter L. van den Berg, Shane G. Henderson, Caroline J. Jagtenberg, Hemeng Li.

• Gentrification and Racial Distrust in Communities: Evidence from 911 Calls. Uttara M. Ananthakrishnan, Sharique Hasan, Anuj Kumar.

• Understanding Labor Market Discrimination Against Transgender People: Evidence from a Double List Experiment and a Survey. Billur Aksoy, Christopher S. Carpenter, Dario Sansone.

• Are People Willing to Pay for Reduced Inequality?. Brian Hill, Thomas Lloyd.

• Traceability Technology Adoption in Supply Chain Networks. Philippe Blaettchen, Andre P. Calmon, Georgina Hall.

• Carbon Emissions Trading and Environmental Protection: International Evidence. Jennie Bai, Hong Ru.

• Creative Destruction? Impact of E-Commerce on the Retail Sector. Sudheer Chava, Alexander Oettl, Manpreet Singh, Linghang Zeng.

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