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 June 2025

Academy of Management Journal

• Constraints, Competencies, or Choices? How Lay Theories of the Gender Gap Impact Diversity Support. Elinor Flynn.

• Subordinating Humanism: How Colliding Beliefs about a Living Wage Shape Personal Fulfillment and “Professional-Class” Identities in Working-Class Jobs. Lumumba Seegars, Serenity S. Lee, Erin M. Reid, Lakshmi Ramarajan.

• Diversity Incentives Can Increase Women’s Aspirations to Lead. Erika L. Kirgios, Edward H. Chang.

• The Moral Case Revisited: Moral Framing as a Double-Edged Sword for Motivating Majority Group Leaders to Support DEI. McKenzie C. Preston.

• Navigating Mental Illness at Work Using Disengagement and Engagement Pathways. Emily H. Rosado-Solomon, Sherry M. B. Thatcher, Sam D. Strizver.

Academy of Management Perspectives

• Two Sides of the Same Coin: Why and How Equitable Distribution and Representation Matter for Innovation Advancing the Social Good in Real Places. Andy Buschmann, Dan Breznitz.

• Upgrading Processes of Emerging-Market Manufacturers in Global Value Chains. Mohammad Iftekhar, Peter Zámborský, Maureen Benson-Rea.

• Inequality and Injustice: Talking Past Each Other. Per L. Bylund, Alexander Cartwright, Mark D. Packard, Steve Trost.

• Certification of Business Practices and Algorithms as a Complementary Approach to Platform Regulation. Dovev Lavie, Oreste Pollicino, Tommaso Valletti.

Accounting, Organizations and Society

• Gender diversity performance and voluntary disclosure: Mind the (gender pay) gap. June Huang, Shirley Lu.

• What makes a rating useable? Shifting epistemic practices in the ESG rating field. Michelle van Weeren, Clarence Bluntz.

American Economic Review

• Is Air Pollution Regulation Too Lenient? Evidence from US Offset Markets. Joseph S. Shapiro, Reed Walker.

• Drivers of Change: Employment Responses to the Lifting of the Saudi Female Driving Ban. Chaza Abou Daher, Erica Field, Kendal Swanson, Kate Vyborny.

• Power Flows: Transmission Lines, Allocative Efficiency, and Corporate Profits. Catherine Hausman.

• Nobel Lecture: Paths to the Periphery. James A. Robinson.

Business and Society

• Toward Holistic Stakeholder Engagement: Integrating Participation, Inclusion, and Democracy. Matthias Wenzel, Hannah Trittin-Ulbrich, Laura Marie Edinger-Schons, Itziar Castelló et al.

• Buffering or Backfiring? A Meta-Analysis of the Effects of Corporate Social (Ir)responsibility on Firm Risk. Won-Yong Oh, Rong (Ratchel) Zeng, Maoliang Bu.

• “She Understands the Weaving Dance:” Textiles, Values, and Profitability. Joanna Vogeley, Julita Oesanty Oetojo.

• The Role of First-Mover Advantages in Sustainability: Conceptualizing the Sustainability Transformations of Green and Conventional Brands. Florian Platzek, Anna-Karina Schmitz, Annika Hagen.

• Beyond Fixing Women: In Pursuit of Women Leaders for Responsible Leadership. Andromachi Athanasopoulou, Szilvia Mosonyi, Gill Kirton, Sue Dopson.

• Age-Inclusive Digital Responsibility: A New Form of Responsibility in the Resonance of Aging and Digitalization. Yufeng Jiang, Chulin Pan, Xiaowei Han.

• Human Flourishing in Business Education: From Individual Purpose to Collective Impact. Thomas J. Fewer, Meg L. Small, Linda Bixby.

• Ethics Reviews Meet the Global South: Hidden Barriers to Contextualized Knowledge Generation. Tulin Dzhengiz, Minna Halme, Iqra Sadaf Khan, Maryline Kiptoo.

• Navigating Firm–Stakeholder Conflicts of Values: A Deweyan Ethical Perspective. Simon Oldham, Paul du Gay, Laura J. Spence.

• Stakeholder Governance and Corporate Purpose in Certified B Corps: Minimizing Conflict and Fostering Collaboration. Alice Klettner, Dilek Cetindamar, Rosemary Sainty.

• Government Characteristics and the Legitimacy of State Ownership: A Cross-National Analysis. Ilya Okhmatovskiy, Tomás Nieto de Castro.

• Business and Human Rights as Sensemaking: A Multi-Level Framework for Organizational Translation. Samentha Goethals, Juliette Koning, Math Noortmann.

• From Stabilizer to Enhancer: Effective Engagement Strategies for Secondary Stakeholders in Corporate Social Responsibility. Di Fan, Chengyong Xiao, Xun Tong, Yan Shao, T. C. E. Cheng.

Ecological Economics

• Financial globalization and tropical deforestation. Alpha Ly.

• The hole dug deeper: Flash floods, income disparities, and labor informality in Brazil. Patrick Wagner.

• What is behind the producer GHG emissions footprint of textile and clothing in the EU-27? An environmentally extended multi-regional input-output analysis. Luis Yamuza-Blanco, Fabio Monsalve, Rocío Román-Collado, María Teresa Sanz-Díaz.

• Macroeconomic implications for the Global South of a green transition in the Global North. José Bruno R.T. Fevereiro, Benjamin H. Lowe.

• Do firms consider their peers when going circular? Social norms among Italian firms in circular innovation adoption. Elisa Chioatto, Antonioli Davide, Susanna Mancinelli, Francesco Nicolli.

• Pollution emissions and foreign-owned manufacturing plants. J. Scott Holladay, Justin R. Roush.

• Transitioning to a sustainable economy: A preliminary degrowth macroeconomic model. Eric Kemp-Benedict.

• Climate (in)action? The relationship between CEO early-life experiences and corporate climate policies. Wiebke Szymczak, Simone A. Wagner, Timo Busch.

• The hidden dimension of low-carbon public transport policies: From biodiversity conservation to user preferences. Stanislas Rigal, Coralie Calvet, Léa Tardieu, Sébastien Roussel, Anne-Charlotte Vaissière.

• Community sawmills can save forests: Forest regrowth and avoided deforestation due to vertical integration of wood production in Mexican community forests. Daniela A. Miteva, Edward A. Ellis, Peter W. Ellis, Erin O. Sills, Claire Uematsu et al.

• Degrowth: What’s in it for the labour movement? Zac Edwards.

• Can eco-labels tune a supply chain? The case of MSC-certified haddock from Norway. Geir Sogn-Grundvåg, Julia Bronnmann, Ingrid Kristine Pettersen, Frank Asche, Ove Johansen.

• Ecological economics into action: Lessons from the Barcelona City doughnut. Claudio Cattaneo, Mariana Morena Hanbury Lemos, Viktor Humpert, Marc Montlleo, Federico Demaria et al.

• Mangroves and economic development in Tobago: Incorporating payment horizons, choice certainty and ex-post interviews in discrete choice experiments. Niko Howai, Kelvin Balcombe, Elizabeth J.Z. Robinson.

• Characterizing green and carbon-intensive employment in India. Andrés Ham, Emmanuel Vazquez, Monica Yanez-Pagans.

• Noisy biodiversity: The impact of ESG biodiversity ratings on asset prices. Wei Xin, Lewis Grant, Ben Groom, Chendi Zhang.

• Pervasive racial and ethnic disparities in the U.S. petrochemical workforce. Kimberly Terrell, Gianna St. Julien, Michael Ash.

• Socio-economic and volume effects of a circular value chain for clothing. Julie Metta, Kris Bachus, Sandra Rousseau.

• The trade-off between middle class and ecological footprint: Empirical cross-country analysis. Zhiyuan Ren, Yuhan Zhu.

• The industrial decarbonization paradigm: Carbon lock-in or path renewal in the United Kingdom? Kyle S. Herman, Jeremy K. Hall, Benjamin K. Sovacool, Marfuga Iskandarova.

• The role of sufficiency measures in a decarbonizing Europe. Nicolò Golinucci, Matteo Vincenzo Rocco, Matteo Giacomo Prina, Filippo Beltrami, Wolfram Sparber et al.

• Subsidies against Nature: A multidimensional framework for biodiversity-aligned national budgets. Morgane Gonon, Améline Vallet, Vincent Deschamps, Amélie Le Mieux, Harold Levrel et al.

• The assessment of nature-related risks: From ecosystem services vulnerability to economic exposure and financial disclosures. Alessandra La Notte, Alexandra Marques, Marco Petracco, Maria Luisa Paracchini, Marialuisa Tamborra et al.

• Corporate governance and ecological investments. The case of French industry. Simon Nadel, Magali Savès.

• Improving biodiversity resilience requires both public and private finance: A life-cycle analysis of biodiversity finance. Jesper Beverdam, Klaus Hubacek, Bert Scholtens, Frans Sijtsma.

Journal of Accounting Research

• The Role of Observed Punishment in Deterring the Spillover Effects of Corporate Misconduct Among Non-Peers. Eric R. Holzman, Brian P. Miller, Kristina M. Rennekamp, Ashley K. Sauciuc.

• Responding to Climate Change Crises: Firms’ Trade-Offs. Felix Fritsch, Qi Zhang, Xiang Zheng.

• ESG Rating Competition and Rating Quality. Cai Chen, Svenja Dube, Shiran Froymovich.

Journal of Political Economy

• The Allocation of Incentives in Multilayered Organizations: Evidence from a Community Health Program in Sierra Leone. Erika Deserranno, A. Stefano Caria, Philipp Kastrau, Gianmarco León-Ciliotta.

• The Welfare Effects of Gender-Inclusive Intellectual Property Creation: Evidence from Books. Joel Waldfogel.

• Climate Change, the Food Problem, and the Challenge of Adaptation through Sectoral Reallocation. Ishan Nath.

• Policy Uncertainty in the Market for Coal Electricity: The Case of Air Toxics Standards. Gautam Gowrisankaran, Ashley Langer, Wendan Zhang.

• Misconduct and Reputation under Imperfect Information. Francis Annan.

Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science

• Hijacked, blindfolded, and handcuffed: Navigating the turbulent consumer journey for mental illness treatment services. Ann M. Mirabito, Justine Rapp Farrell, Natalie Ross Adkins.

• They’re not my people: When inclusive marketing backfires. Louise May Hassan, Miriam McGowan, Edward Shiu.

Manufacturing and Service Operations Management

• Cheap Thrills! An Empirical Analysis of the Impact of Supercenters on Consumer Waste. Suvrat Dhanorkar, Sungho Park, Lina Wang

• Designing Emission Permits Regulation for Multiple Compliance Periods. Xingyu Fu, Ying-Ju Chen, Guillermo Gallego, Pin Gao, Mengqian Lu.

• The High Impact of Hurricanes on Prices in Low-Income Communities. Xabier Barriola, William Schmidt.

• Retailing Strategies of Imperfect Produce and the Battle Against Food Waste. Burak Kazaz, Fasheng Xu, Haoran Yu.

Marketing Science

• Banning Unsolicited Store Flyers: Does Helping the Environment Hurt Retailing? Jonne Y. Guyt, Arjen van Lin, Kristopher O. Keller.

• Job Security, Gender, and Sales Performance: Evidence from a Retail Sales Context. Diego F. Salazar, Noah Lim, Ingrid Koch.

Production and Operations Management

• Old But Gold? Product Design Innovation and the Value of Used Products in Secondhand Markets. Xian Gu, Juan Bu, Krista J Li.

• Who Benefits From Government Tax-Subsidies for Corporate Charitable Food Donations? Armağan Özbilge, Saif Benjaafar, Elkafi Hassini, Mahmut Parlar.

• Reducing Food Waste in U.S. Food Banks: The Role of Distribution Strategies. Fan Zou, Luv Sharma, Pelin Pekgün, Sanjay L Ahire.

• Water Stress: Opportunities for Supply Chain Research. Dustin Cole, Sriram Narayanan, Elizabeth Connors, Meenu Tewari, Kyle Onda.

Quarterly Journal of Economics

• Systemic Discrimination: Theory and Measurement. J Aislinn Bohren et al.

• Collective Bargaining for Women: How Unions Can Create Female-Friendly Jobs. Viola Corradini et al.

Review of Accounting Studies

• EPA scrutiny and voluntary environmental disclosures. Mark Zakota.

• The economics of ESG disclosure regulation. Richard Frankel, S. P. Kothari, Aneesh Raghunandan.

• Shareholder value implications of supply chain ESG: evidence from negative incidents. Xuanpu Lin, Guoman She, Haoran Zhu.

Review of Economic Studies

• Job Displacement, Unemployment Benefits and Domestic Violence. Sonia Bhalotra et al.

• How Important Is Health Inequality for Lifetime Earnings Inequality? Roozbeh Hosseini et al.

• Efficient Conservation of the Brazilian Amazon: Estimates from a Dynamic Model. Rafael Araujo et al.

• Colluding Against Environmental Regulation. Jorge Alé-Chilet et al.

• Employer Credit Checks: Poverty Traps Versus Matching Efficiency. Dean Corbae, Andrew Glover.

Review of Finance

• Blockchains for Environmental Monitoring: Theory and Empirical Evidence from China. Lin William Cong et al.

Review of Financial Studies

• Gender Stereotypes and Entrepreneur Financing. Camille Hebert.

• Finance, Advertising, and Race. Claire Célérier, Purnoor Tak.

• Does Private Equity Ownership Make Firms Cleaner? The Role of Environmental Liability Risks. Aymeric Bellon.

• Retraction of: Mortgage Finance and Climate Change: Securitization Dynamics in the Aftermath of Natural Disasters.

Strategic Management Journal

• The emergence and evolution of innovation ecosystems: Evidence from the solar PV ecosystem. Anna Szerb, Nathan Furr.

• Commentary: Does corporate social responsibility increase access to finance? A commentary on Cheng et al. (2014). Andrew A. King.

• Low profile, high impact: How the visibility of political agents shapes corporate political influence. Tony L. He.

• Cooperation and punishment in managing social performance: Labor standards in the Gap Inc. supply chain. Matthew Amengual, Greg Distelhorst.

• From margins to mainstream: The narrative dilemma in scaling social ventures. Diana Jue-Rajasingh, Wesley W. Koo.

• How founders’ values enable business model innovation in new ventures: The case of Magnum Photos. Anastasia Sergeeva, Christoph Zott.

• Learning by helping: Evidence from Chinese brokerages’ community CSR. Jingyuan Li, Yong H. Kim, Jose Uribe.

• Pay transparency and productivity. Cédric Gutierrez, Tomasz Obloj, Todd Zenger.

• Tailored adaptation: Aligning social issue engagement with types of legitimacy challenges. Wenxin Wu, Heli Wang, Li Tong, Yanlong Zhang.

• Mapping entrepreneurial inclusion across US neighborhoods: The case of low-code e-commerce entrepreneurship. Bryan K. Stroube, Gary Dushnitsky.

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