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 November 2025

Academy of Management Learning and Education

• The Road to Flourishing: A Gamified Approach to Sustainability Management Education. María Fernanda Figueroa Herrera, Cecilia Primogerio.

• Do Business Schools Walk the Talk? A Critical Examination of Espoused Values and Reputational Façades. John Fiset, Raghid Al Hajj, Búi K. Petersen, Erin Oldford.

Academy of Management Review

• Rethinking Necessity Entrepreneurship Beyond Binaries and Toward Communalism: A Commentary on Coffman et al.’s “Leaving Necessity Entrepreneurship Behind.” Katrin M. Smolka, Sophie Bacq, Pursey P. M. A. R. Heugens.

• Feminist Value Creation: The Pursuit of Gender Equality. Genevieve LeBaron, Laura J. Spence, Andrew Crane, Vivek Soundararajan, Michael J. Bloomfield.

• Reflections on the 2024 AMR Decade Award: Zooming Out and Zooming In to Expand Research on Multiple Institutional Logics and Organizational Hybridity. Marya Besharov, Wendy K. Smith.

Accounting Review

• Managers’ Inventory Holding Decisions in Response to Natural Disasters. Seunghyun Cho, Boo Chun Jung, Felipe B. G. Silva, Choong-Yuel Yoo.

• The Complementarity between Corporate Social Responsibility Disclosure Quality and Corporate Social Responsibility Contracting Intensity. Isabella Grabner, Annelies Renders, Lu Yang.

• The Effect of Financial Regulation on Nonfinancial Violations. Vincent Giese, Jonas Heese.

• Responsible Investors and Stock Market Feedback. Hui Chen, Jan Schneemeier.

• The Impact of Mandatory Sustainability Reporting on Institutional Investment: The Role of Reporting Location. Mark DeFond, Mingyi Hung, Emily Jing Wang.

• Administrative Science Quarterly  

• Book Review: Andrew J. Hoffman. Business School and the Noble Purpose of the Market: Correcting the Systemic Failures of Shareholder Capitalism. J.P. Eggers, Carol Newell.

• Book Review: Daniel Susskind. Growth: A History and a Reckoning. Irene Henriques.

• Book Review: David Lingelbach and Valentina Rodríguez Guerra. The Oligarchs’ Grip: Fusing Wealth and Power. Allison Tait.

• Book Review: Marion Fourcade and Kieran Healy. The Ordinal Society. Michael Sauder.

• Book Review: Jerald Hage, Joseph J. Valadez, and Wilbur C. Hadden. Saving Societies From Within: Innovation and Equity Through Inter-Organizational Networks. Arkangel M. Cordero.

• How Activists Collaboratively Divide the Labor of Making Change: The Case of LGBT Rights. Lisa Buchter, Elise Lobbedez.

Business Ethics Quarterly

• The Sustainable Corporation? In Defense of Conceptual Pluralism. Fabian Corver.

• Zones of Slow Death? Social Descent, Epistemic Injustice and Temporality. Natalia Slutskaya, Tim Newton, Jessica Horne, Ramaswami Mahalingam, Ruxandra Monica Luca.

• A New Direction for Epistemic Injustice in Business. Michaela Lobo.

• A Black Radical Critique of ESG. Tabitha Celeste Mustafa.

• “Public Hospitals in Critical Condition”: Death and Love as Embodied Care and Political Mobilization. Ludivine Perray-Redslob, Nathalie Clavijo, Agathe Morinière.

• Are Markets Amenable to Consequentialist Evaluation? Luke Semrau.

Contemporary Accounting Research

• The Impact of Disclosure on Diversity: Evidence From the Canada Business Corporations Act. Thomas Bourveau, Xingchao Gao, Ole-Kristian Hope.

Econometrica

• Gangs, Labor Mobility, and Development. Nikita Melnikov, Carlos Schmidt-Padilla, María Micaela Sviatschi. 

• The Social Tax: Redistributive Pressure and Labor Supply. Eliana Carranza, Aletheia Donald,  Florian Grosset-Touba, Supreet Kaur.

• Who Benefits From Surge Pricing? Juan Camilo Castillo.

Human Resource Management

• The Interplay of Power and Legal Consciousness: HR Managers’ Insights on Multi-Level Barriers to Reporting Workplace Sexual Harassment. Fida Afiouni, Yasmeen Makarem, Chloé Mechleb, Hussein Darwish.

• Examining the Mutual Gains Model of Well-Being-Oriented HRM: Evidence From the Healthcare Sector. Jongwook Pak, Gholamhossein (Amir) Mehralian.

• Menstrual Wellbeing of Professional Workers: A Work Demands-Resources Perspective. Muhammad Shujahat, Rashedur Chowdury, Muhammad Saleem Ullah Khan Sumbal.

• Enhancing HR Research Through an Indigenous Centred Research Approach. Jarrod Haar.

• HR-Led Co-Design for Neuroinclusion: A Critical Pragmatist and Sociotechnical Systems Approach to Transforming Neuronormative Organisations. Mustafa F. Özbilgin, Cihat Erbil, Milena Tekeste, Nur Gundogdu.

• Far From Routine: Employers’ Recruitment and Control Strategies in Two Low Wage Sectors. Eva Herman, Jill Rubery, Gail Hebson.

• Age and Career Resilience Through the Lens of Life Course Theory: Examining Individual Mechanisms and Macro-Level Context Across 28 Countries. Bernadeta Goštautaitė, Najung Kim, et al.

Journal of Applied Psychology

• The escalation of prosocial commitment: How the B corporation movement catalyzes social impact. Garima Sharma, Joel Gehman, Leonardo Boni, ‘Alim J Beveridge.

• Exposure to successful women and racial minorities who defy stereotypes about their groups leads to inflated perceptions of diversity in organizations. Daniela Goya-Tocchetto, Shai Davidai, M. Asher Lawson.

• Bridging the social class capital gap: A psychological intervention in the newcomer adjustment context. Grace J. H. Lim, Marko Pitesa. 

• Hair and Its Ramifications (HAIR): A model describing how hair bias shapes Black women’s work experiences when wearing natural hair. Lonwabo Makapela, María del Carmen Triana, Aneika L. Simmons, Orlando C. Richard.

Journal of Business Venturing

• Black entrepreneurship: A multilevel process model of constrained agency across the business venturing lifecycle. Trey Lewis, Richard A. Hunt, Maurice J. Murphy, David M. Townsend.

• Revitalising the periphery: How support organisations drive the inclusive evolution of entrepreneurial ecosystems. Shuai Qin.

Journal of Consumer Marketing

• Developing consumer segments in Canada for a shift towards sustainable diets. Sadaf Mollaei, Goretty M. Dias, Jennifer K. Lynes.

• Understanding collaborative consumption behavior in the context of car-sharing: an ethical perspective and empirical analysis. Shweta Jha, Bipul Kumar.

• What determines consumers’ behavioral intention toward buying organic milk in developing country? Manisha Saini, Pankaj Kumar, Pardeep Ahlawat, Anil Khurana, Parveen Kumar.

• Enhancing consumer responses to misshapen produce: leveraging awe to promote sustainability. Begum Kaplan, Ilgım Dara Benoit, Elizabeth G. Miller.

• How does sustainable development education shape motivations for using collaborative consumption platforms? Paula Antón-Maraña, Clara Pérez-Cornejo, Paula Rodríguez-Torrico.

• A COM-B perspective to change repair behaviour. Lucie K. Ozanne, Girish Prayag, Brigitte Sistig.

• Deepening exploration of socially responsible consumption in generation z: the impacts of environmental knowledge and perceived consumer effectiveness. Lawrence Sze Lok Choi, Kimmy Wa Chan, Henry Fock.

• A moderated mediation model of perceived social sustainability on brand evangelism. Mei Kei Leong, Kian Yeik Koay.

• Authenticity-consistency-affinity relationships for green store rapport: a moderation exploration via elaboration likelihood lens. Prashant Kumar, Anand Jhawar.

• Wastophobia: a scale development and validation. Muhammad Wasif Hanif, Ling Zhang, Muhammad Nawaz.

• Expanding boycott repertoire: politically motivated consumer boycotts as a reaction to brands’ political alignment. Sezgin Ateş.

Journal of Financial Economics

• Policy uncertainty reduces green innovation. Mengyu Wang, Jeffrey Wurgler, Hong Zhang.

• Green tilts. Lubos Pastor, Robert F. Stambaugh, Lucian A. Taylor.

Journal of Industrial Ecology

• Revisiting circular economy rebound: Market dynamics, policy implications, and future research directions. Benjamin H. Lowe, Andrea Genovese, David Font Vivanco, Trevor Zink.

• A defense of the circular economy. Julian Kirchherr, Mitchell P. Jones, Martin Geissdoerfer, Matthew Coffay.

• From variance to value: Stabilizing circular exchanges in industrial symbiosis networks. Enar K. Leferink, Marian R. Chertow.

• Embedding circularity in the water supply chain: A circularity indicator dashboard for water. Lutendo D. Rambau, Paul T. Mativenga, Annlizé L. Marnewick.

• Bridging the SME reporting gap: A new model for predicting Scope 1 and 2 emissions. Alec Phillpotts, Anne Owen, Jonathan Norman, Anna Trendl, John Gathergood, Norbert Jobst, David Leake.

• From green consumption to carbon inclusion: An examination of the Chinese government’s adoption and implementation of climate policies. Wenting Ma, Thomas Hoppe, Chang Yu, Yingzi Li, Hui Jin.

• A capability map for implementing the circular economy in organizations. Christoph Hoppe-Ludwig, Thorsten Schoormann, Frederik Möller.

• Forecasting sustainability implications of material innovations: Lessons from an illustrative case study on photochromic textiles. A. Kamal Kamali, Yazan Badour, Bertrand Laratte, Manuel Gaudon, Sylvain Danto, Guido Sonnemann.

• Institutionalization of circular business models in the United States. Nancy Bocken, Matthew Coffay.

• Unveiling the green truth: The impact of digital transformation on the decoupling of corporate environmental responsibility. Jing-Yue Liu, Quan Lei, Yue-Jun Zhang.

• Anchoring industrial symbiosis in the context of policy change. Wenting Jiao, Lei Shi, Changhong Li, Fangqin Cheng.

• Geographic, sectoral, and constituent characteristics of US off-site manufacturing wastewater disposal. Heidi Fuchs, Unique Karki, Arman Shehabi, Tiana Nishime, Prakash Rao.

• Policy instruments’ effectiveness for facilitating industrial symbiosis: A UK–China comparative study from firms’ perspectives. Yuan Tao, Ying Xiong, Steve Evans, Qi Feng, Lei Zhang.

• Recyclability: Redefining the concept for the circular economy. Hannes Geist, Frank Balle.

Journal of Management

• How Institutional Context Affects Narcissistic CEOs’ CSR Activities. Tine Buyl, Boris Lokshin, Christophe Boone.

Journal of Management Studies

• Make Social Media Social Again: How Platform Interoperability Can Fix Social Media and Future-Proof Democracy. J.P. Vergne.

• Atlas Unplugged: Re-Imagining the Premises and Prospects of Capitalism for Business and Society. Rick Delbridge,  Charlene Zietsma,  Roy Suddaby,  Rashedur Chowdhury,  Christopher Wickert.

• The Support Paradox: Explaining (Mis)Matches in Refugee Workplace Support. Robin Pesch,  Ebru Ipek.

• Recalibrating Entrepreneurship Research: Decolonizing and Embracing the Pluralism of Entrepreneurial Activity. Robert Nason, Pablo Muñoz, Helen Haugh, Friederike Welter, Gerard George, Shameen Prashantham.

• Once a Conformist, Always a Conformist? Firms’ Discontinued Conformity to Global Sustainability Standards. Qinqin Zheng, Yahan Hu.

• Purposeful Management and the Public Good: Relationships, Tensions, and Consequences. Gideon D. Markman, Christopher Wickert, Kristina Potočnik, Hannes Leroy, Daniel Muzio, Elena Dalpiaz.

• Breaking Barriers: Scaffolding Social-Symbolic Work for Women’s Economic Empowerment. Mohsen Abumuamar, Juliane Reinecke.

• Capitalism Versus Socialism: Can (or Should) Management Scholars Embrace Varieties of Socio-Economic Systems in a Multipolar World? Christopher Wickert.

• Reclaiming Relevance Through Problem-Driven Interdisciplinary Research. Pratima (Tima) Bansal, Jin-Su Kang.

• Why is Bribing Doctors an Excusable Crime? The Normalization of Professional Corruption. Milo Shaoqing Wang, Royston Greenwood.

• Embracing a Multipolar World: Management and Organization Scholars and Varieties of Socialism. Garry D. Bruton, Jiayi Li, Dhruba Kumar Gautam.

• Creating a Neuroinclusive Profession: Overcoming the Double Empathy Problem. Timothy J. Vogus.

• Non-Market Strategy and Deglobalization: Firm–State Relations and the Historical Microfoundations of Corporate Political Activity. Andrew Perchard, Niall G. MacKenzie, Thomas C. Lawton.

• Bridging Moral Aspirations and the Mundane Reality: A Grounded Study of the Process of Radical Purpose Adaptation in a Business School. Luca Manelli, Carlotta Benedetti, Josip Kotlar, Federico Frattini.

• From Hopeful Heroes to Cynical Martyrs: Identity Work and the Path-Dependent Identification with Maladaptive Logics. Lindie Botha, Ralph Hamann.

• Constructing ‘Problems’ and ‘Solutions’: Social Innovation as Social-Symbolic Work. Paul Tracey, Neil Stott.

• Climate Change and the Politics of System-Level Change: The Challenges of Moving beyond Incremental Transformation. Daniel Muzio, Christopher Wickert.

Journal of Marketing Research  

• Marketing and Economics of Harm Reduction: Evidence from Conservation Field Experiments. Kristina Brecko, Wesley R. Hartmann.

• Consumer Response to Climate Change: Wildfire Smoke and Sustainable Product Choice. Taewook Lim, TI Tongil Kim, Suh Yeon Kim.

Journal of Operations Management

• The Dual Brokerage Role of Digital Platforms in the Transition to a Circular Economy. Quynh Do, Mark Stevenson.

Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists 

• Decarbonizing Aviation: Cash-for-Clunkers in the Airline Industry. Jan K. Brueckner, Matthew E. Kahn, Jerry Nickelsburg.

• Dust to Dust: Tracing Air Pollution’s Impact on Work Accidents. Benjamin Hattemer, Ismael Moreno-Martinez.

• Global Impact of a Unilateral Waste Trade Regulation. Prakrati Thakur.

Management Science

• The Eco-Gender Gap in Boardrooms. Po-Hsuan Hsu, Kai Li, Yihui Pan.

• Political Polarization and Nonmarket Strategy over the Policy Life Cycle. Thomas P. Lyon, John W. Maxwell.

• Designing Inclusive Offerings. Retsef Levi, Elisabeth Paulson, Georgia Perakis.

• Measurement for Dummies? Exploring the Role of Regulatory Metrics and Firm Strategy. Jane Wu.

• From Food Deserts to Fresh Food: The Role of Digital Accessibility in Nutrition Assistance Programs. Cheng He, Zhuoxin Li.

• Misreporting of Mandatory ESG Disclosures: Evidence from Gender Pay Gap Information. McKenna Bailey, Stephen Glaeser, James D. Omartian, Aneesh Raghunandan.

• Behind the Curtain of Workforce Diversity: Evidence from EEO-1 Reports. Thomas Bourveau, Rachel W. Flam, Anthony Le.

• The Authenticity of Purpose Claims: Firm Capacity and Job Seeker Responses to Recruitment Efforts. León Valdés, Trevor Young-Hyman, Evan Gilbertson, C. B. Bhattacharya, Oliver Hahl.

• Investor Valuation for Socially Responsible Assets: A Willingness to Pay Experiment. Daniel Brodback, Nadja Guenster, Sébastien Pouget, Ruichen Wang.

• Shareholderism Around the World: Corporate Purpose, Culture, and Law. Renée B. Adams, Amir N. Licht.

• Two-Sided Benefits of Price Transparency in Smallholder Supply Chains. Yuan Shi, Joann F. de Zegher, Irene Y. Lo.

• Green Bonds: Reputational Bonding via Media Coverage. Shirley Lu.

• Polluting Public Funds: The Effect of Environmental Regulations on Municipal Bonds. Akshaya Jha, Stephen A. Karolyi, Nicholas Z. Muller.

• Rethinking the Value and Emission Implications of Green Bonds. Jitendra Aswani, Shivaram Rajgopal.

• Who Is AI Replacing? The Impact of Generative AI on Online Freelancing Platforms. Ozge Demirci, Jonas Hannane, Xinrong Zhu.

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