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 December 2025

Academy of Management Journal

• Political Segregation in the Labor Market and the Persistence of Pay Gaps. Ray Tsai Fang, Felice B. Klein, Chi Nguyen, Jeff Lingwall, Alexander Lewis.

• Seeking Greener Pastures: Employee Turnover Following Corporate Stakeholder Violations. Forrest Briscoe, Mark R. DesJardine.

• Stakeholder Political Ideology, Purpose of Business Beliefs, and Responses to CEO Activism: Introducing an Asymmetry Model. Krishnan Nair, Marlon Mooijman.

• From Paralysis to Publicization: How Victims of the UK Post Office Horizon IT Scandal Experienced and Confronted Organizational Harm. Jan Lodge, Grace Augustine, Mislav Radic.

• Impact, Interrupted: How and When Thwarted Prosocial Impact Undermines Employee Performance and Retention. Jordan D. Nielsen, Kinshuk Sharma, Daniel D. Goering.

• How Employees Who Have Made Upward Social Class Transitions Get Heard in the Workplace. Yasha Spriha, Subrahmaniam Tangirala, Rui Shu, Srinivas Ekkirala.

• Siloed Sustainability: How Paradox Management Unravels in Integrative Practice Implementation. Lucas Amaral, Juliane Reinecke, Michael Etter.

Academy of Management Perspectives

• Platform Regulation: Beyond Power and Size. Carmelo Cennamo, Peter Gianiodis, Tobias Krestschmer, David McIntyre, Pinar Ozcan, Marshall Van Alstyne.

Accounting, Organizations and Society

• How negative accounting news events, voluntary ESG assurance, and assurance provider influence consumer purchasing intentions. Clark Hampton, Macy Knutson, Adi Masli, Chad Stefaniak.

• Accounting and post-colonial resistance: Affective ambivalence in the international development assemblage. Nelson Duenas.

• Board gender diversity, innovation ambidexterity, and firm performance. Aishwarrya Deore, Ranjani Krishnan, Deepa Mani.

• Is a picture worth a thousand words? Image usage in ESG reports. Disen Huang Albrecht, Divya Anantharaman, Keyi Zhao.

American Economic Review

• Equal Pay for Similar Work. Diego Gentile Passaro, Fuhito Kojima, and Bobak Pakzad-Hurson.

• The Price of War. Jonathan Federle, André Meier, Gernot J. Müller, Willi Mutschler, Moritz Schularick.

• The Value of Clean Water: Experimental Evidence from Rural India. Fiona Burlig, Amir Jina, Anant Sudarshan.

• Why is Workplace Sexual Harassment Underreported? The Value of Outside Options Amid the Threat of Retaliation. Gordon B. Dahl, Matthew Knepper.

• “Potential” and the Gender Promotion Gap. Alan Benson, Danielle Li, Kelly Shue.

• International Trade Responses to Labor Market Regulations. Mathilde Muñoz.

Business and Society

• Reaffirming and Renewing Our Declaration of Interdependence. Punit Arora, Naomi A. Gardberg, Céline Louche.

• When the Time Never Comes: Temporal Mobilization and Temporal Tensions in a Nascent Solar Energy Field. Heli Nissilä, Nina Granqvist, Mari Holopainen.

• The Problem Is Not Anthropocentrism, It’s Anthropic Shortsightedness. Lucie Baudoin.

• The Aesthetics of Impact: Making Impact Beautiful, Not Just Useful. Suwen Chen.

• Invisible Inequality in Entrepreneurial Ecosystems: The Micro-Foundations of Navigating Marginalization. Pankaj Anand, Pardeep Singh Attri, Sreevas Sahasranamam.

• When Sustainability Initiatives and Indigenous Realities Meet: Ontological Violence in the Case of the “Paiter Suruí Carbon Credit REDD+ Project.” Stephanie Daher, Lucas Conde Stocco, Gasodá Wawaeitxapôh Paiter Suruí.

• The Ripple Effect of Reputation Spillover: How Corruption Fugitives Shape Consumer Perceptions of Fugitives’ Host Countries and Their MNEs? Lee Li, Pan Xu, Gongming Qian, Yushuang Pan.

• Challenging Homophily: Redefining Caste Diversity on Indian Corporate Boards and Its Impact on Information Asymmetry. Kritadyuti Choudhary, Nandagopan, Abhilash S. Nair.

• Changes in the Salience of Collective Reputations: Information Disclosure and Shareholder Reactions. Seonghoon Kim, Matthew Potoski.

• Escaping Authenticity’s Dark Side: How Indigenous Groups Negotiate Indigeneity During Contentious Interactions. José Carlos Marques, Johnny Boghossian, Diego M. Coraiola.

• Towards a Justice-Oriented Human Rights Due Diligence Approach for Migrant Labor. Samentha Goethals, Claire Bright, Christian Linder.

• The Persuasive Power of Signals: How Narratives, Fundraising Model, and Number of Borrowers Drive Success in Lending-Based Prosocial Crowdfunding. Riccardo Maiolini, Francesco Cappa, Dimitrija Kalanoski, Giovanni Raimondo Quaratino.

• Engaged and Responsible Scholarship: Why Qualitative Researchers Should Not Embrace GenAI. Duc Cuong Nguyen, Catherine Welch.

• Kazakh Sharing Practices: A Critical Inquiry Into Sharing Economy Models From the Vantage of Ownership in Collective Societies. Callie Berman, Yuliya Darmenova.

• “Taking Wendake Beyond Wendake”: Economic Development and Legal Tenacity in the Wendat Community. Thierry Viale, Yves Gendron.

• Evaluating Organizations in an Age of Absurdity: How Fake News Disrupts the Relationship Between Business and Society. Naomi A. Gardberg, Elanor Colleoni, Michael L. Barnett, Kathleen Rehbein.

Ecological Economics

• Ethical trade-offs in fast fashion: Exploring social, environmental, and health dimensions in clothing consumption. Anders Boman, Mitesh Kataria, Elina Lampi, Daniel Slunge.

• Post-growth meets polycentric governance: Toward an interdisciplinary research program. David Soto-Oñate, Daniel Petrovics, Thomas Bauwens.

• Toxic neighbors: E-waste dumps and the decline of social capital. Jialiang Zhu, Michael Akwasi Appiah-Kubi, Runzhe Hu.

• Local development based on non-timber forest products: Revisiting the case of São Francisco do Iratapuru in the Brazilian Amazon. Tomas Rosenfeld, Benno Pokorny, Jacques Marcovitch, Peter Poschen.

• Socio-ecological inequalities in housing consumption: How income, urban form, and tenure drive carbon footprints. Federico Savini, Mira Kopp, Cody Hochstenbach, Leshem Cohen, Stefano Merciai, et al.

• The impact of green credit guidelines on green lending and environmental outcomes: Evidence from Chinese banks. Jiaqi Li, Ja Ryong Kim, Emmanuel Adegbite.

• Alienable or inalienable, and how? Individual property rights in commons governance. Xiangyu Jia, Yiran Wei, Zhiqi Zhang, Gongbu Zeren, Wenjun Li, et al.

• Corporate biodiversity risk exposure in China: A system-based perspective from natural capital theory using machine and deep learning algorithms. Peigong Li, Umeair Shahzad.

• From grand challenges to bold solutions: Investor perspectives on financing urban climate change adaptation. Stella Whittaker, Craig Johnson, Nicola Ranger, Esben Rahbek Gjerdrum Pedersen.

• Waste delinking: A pathway to degrowth? Sara Karimzadeh.

• “Local Heroes”: Construction firms pioneering circular innovation. Elisa Chioatto, Alessandro Montanaro, Massimiliano Mazzanti.

• Climate change mitigation and green energy investment: A stock-flow consistent model. Gustavo Pereira Serra, Ettore Gallo.

• Decommodifying cacao: matchmaking between producers and buyers of fine flavour cacao from Peru. Evert Thomas, Gesabel Villar, Diego Zavaleta, Viviana Ceccarelli, Rachel Atkinson, et al.

• Climate extreme events and climate change are enforced by extortionate freeriders overloading those who mitigate – An economic experiment. Manfred Milinski, Stefania Innocenti.

• Introduction to the special issue: ‘Biodiversity and finance: Risk, disclosure and double materiality.’ Chunying Guo, Matthew Agarwala, Mark Freeman, Ben Groom, Emily McKenzie.

• Nudging grid-friendly electric vehicle charging: Different shades of social framing and the power of individual factors. Junianna Zatsarnaja, Katharina Reiter, Alwine Mohnen, Trond Nordfjærn.

• An optimized shared responsibility accounting framework: unveiling the big black shadows behind small emitters in global value chains. Xiyuan Li, Ran Wang, Yang Zhou, Yunfeng Yan, Zhongxiu Zhao, et al.

• The information value of energy labels: Evidence from the Dutch residential housing market. Lennart Stangenberg, Sjors van Wickeren, Lu Zhang.

• Reimagining growth futures: Overcoming the false binary between green growth and degrowth. Jacob Hasselbalch, Mathias Larsen.

• Recent global value chain reconfiguration: drivers and consequences on EU carbon footprint. Ángela García-Alaminos, María-Ángeles Cadarso, Luis A. López, María-Ángeles Tobarra.

• More-than-capitalist economies: Insights from community supported agriculture, tiny houses and hitchhiking in Denmark. Line Kryger Aagaard.

• Agent-based insight into eco-choices: Simulating the fast fashion shift. Daria Soboleva, Angel Sánchez.

• The grey shades of green jobs: Unpacking the occupational approach to green employment. Davide Villani, Enrique Fernández-Macías, Ignacio González-Vázquez, Vesna Oshafi.

• Can objective information update subjective beliefs on sustainable farming? Evidence from a randomized experiment with Japanese rice farmers. Ryosuke Inoue, Kentaro Kawasaki.

• Fixed capital and growth imperatives: Is commercial aviation trapped in a treadmill? Henri Chevalier, Eric Pineault.

• Resource regimes and the success of local renewable energy projects. François-Xavier Viallon, Francesco Sarti, Pierre-Henri Bombenger, Frédéric Varone, Pierre-Olivier Pineau, et al.

• Biodiversity finance: What has been achieved and where is it heading. John Willis.

Journal of Accounting Research

• Human Capital Disclosure and Labor Market Outcomes: Evidence from Regulation S-K. Jung Ho Choi, Dan Li, Daniele Macciocchi.

• Do Nature-Loving CEOs Make the World Greener? Weijia Zhi.

Journal of Management Information Systems

• When Good Intentions Backfire: The Asymmetric Effects of Minority-Ownership Markers for Businesses on Online Platforms. Antino Kim, Che-Wei Liu.

• Leveraging Large Language Models for Hate Speech Detection: Multi-Agent, Information-Theoretic Prompt Learning for Enhancing Contextual Understanding. Kyuhan Lee, Sudha Ram.

Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science

• When and how simplified nutrition labels improve fast-food choices. Pierre Chandon, Andde Indaburu.

Manufacturing and Service Operations Management

• The Unintended Carbon Impacts of Large-Scale Electricity Storage. Clarisse Dupont, Olga Heijmans-Kuryatnikova, Yashar Ghiassi-Farrokhfal, Derek Bunn.

• Forced Labor in Labor Supply Chains: Contracting and Information Asymmetry. Felix Papier, Christopher Tang, Javaiz Parappathodi.

• The Role of Information, Rewards, and Convenience in Take-Back Programs for Clothing. Erin C. McKie, Anna Sáez de Tejada Cuenca, Vishal Agrawal.

• Linking Multisite Sex Ad Data at the Individual Level to Aid Counter-Trafficking Efforts. Nickolas Freeman, Greg Bott, Burcu Keskin, Jason Parton, James Cochran.

Marketing Science

• Practice Paper—AI-Driven Behavioral Nudges for Organizations: An Integrative System for Sustainable Resource Management. Christopher Amaral, Ceren Kolsarici, Iina Ikonen, Nicole Robitaille.

Production and Operations Management

• Dynamic Management of Self-Renewable Resources in Production-Inventory Systems. Yi Wang, Zhenyu Hu, Rowan Wang.

• Price Transparency in Healthcare: Understanding the Impacts of the Price Disclosure Policy in Maine. Minjung Kwon, Lingling Zhang.

• Data-Driven Price Discrimination, Regulation, and Platform Compliance: Evidence From a Field Experiment and a Natural Experiment. Shanshan Quan, Zhiqiang (Eric) Zheng, Mingzheng Wang, Xiangpei Hu.

• Redesigning Harvesting Processes and Improving Working Conditions in Agribusiness. Dongsheng Li, Saurabh Bansal, Phillip S Coles, Karthik Natarajan.

• Scaling Urban On-Demand Delivery: A Dabbawala-Inspired System for Handling Massive Demands Via Public Transit. Yundong Feng, Yiqi Sun, Wei Qi, Zuojun (Max) Shen.

• The Hidden Impact of Prosumers and Its Fair Mitigation. Junghee Lee, Lai Wei, Ming Hu, Yinliang (Ricky) Tan.

• Dynamic Relief Provision Planning for En Route Refugees: Modeling Probabilistic Movements Using Migration Pull Drivers. Amirreza Pashapour, Dilek Günneç, Fatma Sibel Salman, Eda Yücel.

• No News About Climate Action is Good News for Low-Polluting Firms. Nima Safaei, Gautam Pant.

Quarterly Journal of Economics

• Who’s Afraid of the Minimum Wage? Measuring the Impacts on Independent Businesses Using Matched U.S. Tax Returns. Nirupama L Rao, Max Risch.

Review of Accounting Studies

• Transparency and divestment: the impact of a public database about insurers’ carbon-intensive investments on their portfolio choices. Xiao Zhang.

• Do sustainability reports contain financially material information? Suzanne Haley, Matthew Shaffer, Richard Sloan.

Review of Finance

• Climate change and individual behavior. René Bernard et al.

• Does an exclusive relationship with government banks matter during a climate shock? Harish Kamal et al.

• Do investors care about the rainforest? Evidence from voluntary carbon offsets around the world. Franklin Allen et al.

• Corporate nature risk perceptions. Snorre Gjerde et al.

• Biodiversity co-benefits in carbon markets? Evidence from voluntary offset projects. Zoey Yiyuan Zhou, Douglas Almond.

• The pricing of biodiversity risk in commodity markets. Massimo Guidolin, Manuela Pedio.

• Firm-level nature dependence. Alexandre Garel et al.

• Biodiversity risk. Stefano Giglio et al.

• Who should pay for ESG ratings? Stefano Lovo, Jacques Olivier.

• Financial value of nature: coastal housing markets, mangroves, and climate resilience. Teng Liu et al.

• Firm-level green innovation beyond patents. Markus Leippold, Tingyu Yu.

• The real effects of protecting biodiversity. Amir Akbari et al.

• Biodiversity entrepreneurship. Sean Shun Cao et al.

Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal

• Innovating for impact: Harnessing business model innovation to tackle grand challenges. Nancy M. P. Bocken, Sven Heidenreich, Patrick Spieth, Christopher Tucci, Christoph Zott.

Strategic Management Journal

• Pollution havens versus gates of hell: Environmental pollution and multinationals’ foreign investment. Juan Bu, Aurora Genin.

• Bottom-up effects of female strategic leadership: Firm performance effects through employees. Seung-Hwan Jeong, Saehee Kang, Kris Byron.

• Activism risk and corporate self-regulation: Investigating how anti-SLAPP laws impact firms’ institutional corporate social performance. Zhiyan Wu, Garry Bruton, Ryan Krause.

• From wells to windmills: Resource redeployment and new technology investment in the energy sector. Aldona Kapacinskaite.

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