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 August 2026

Academy of Management Learning and Education

• Diversity on the Chopping Block: Hegemonic Consent and the Retreat of DEI in Business Education. Laxmikant Manroop, Luciana Zheng Manroop, Jennifer Harrison, William E. Donald.

• Rethinking Support: Understanding the Transition Challenges Facing Neurodivergent People Entering Work. Sophie Hennekam, Mukta Kulkarni, Jon Billsberry.

• Book Review: Pedagogy of Hope: Reliving Pedagogy of the Oppressed. Sourabh Aggarwal, Jeferson Silva Henrique.

Academy of Management Review

• Beyond Statically Motivated, Rational, and Atomistic Actors: Extending Tabasi-Nejad and Deutsch’s “Effect of Policy Maker Motives on Their Response to Corporate Political Activity.” Jeffrey A. Chandler, Aaron D. Hill.

• Search Heuristics Under Multiple Objectives: The Case of Corporate Social Responsibility. Daniel Albert, Felipe A. Csaszar.

• Organizational Repression of Stakeholder Collective Action. Natalie Holzaepfel, Olga Hawn, Timothy Werner.

• A Stakeholder Governance Framework for Public–Private Partnerships. Africa Ariño, Pascual Berrone, Joan E. Ricart, Xavier Sobrepere, Alexis Yong.

Accounting Review

• Broker In-House ESG Research. Yixin Wei, Steven F. Cahan, Li Chen.

• When Companies Choose Their Reporting Standards: Evidence on SASB Adoption and Associated Outcomes. Khrystyna Bochkay, Seungju Choi, Jeffrey Hales. 

• Inequality Grows in Silence: The Impact of Newspaper Closures on CEO-Worker Pay Disparity. Jie Chen, Yang Gao, Cheng Zeng. 

• The Impact of the SEC’s Office of Minority and Women Inclusion: Evidence from the Filing Review Process. Bret A. Johnson, Matthew Kubic, Ling Lei Lisic, Mengmeng Wang.

• Disclosure Spillovers Through ESG Ratings. Tanja Keeve.

Administrative Science Quarterly

• Myopic Expansions on Digital Platforms. Ahmadreza Mostajabi, Aldona Kapacinskaite, Keyvan Vakili.

• The Double-Failure Trap: Workers’ Sensemaking as Insiders and Victims of Life-Threatening Organizational Wrongdoing. Elisa Giuliani, Andrew Spicer.

• The Politicization of Wage Setting. Thomas Lyttelton, Nathan Wilmers.

Business Ethics Quarterly

• Human Nature as a Universal Compass: A Virtue Ethics Approach to Diversity and Inclusion. Guillaume Mercier. 

Contemporary Accounting Research

• Intense Scrutiny of ICFR and Regulatory Compliance: Evidence From FDA-Regulated Firms. Andrea K. Down, Joseph H. Schroeder, Marcy L. Shepardson.

• Profits Lost in the Haze: Evidence From Wildfire Smoke. Jing Kong, Harlow Loch, Michael Shen.

• The Falling Roe and Relocation of Skilled Women. Yupeng Lin, Michael Shen, Rui Shi, Jean (Jieyin) Zeng.

• Black Representation Through the University to Audit Firm Pipeline. Paul E. Madsen.

• Prosocial CEOs and Accounting Manipulation. Mei Feng, Weili Ge, Zhejia Ling, Wei Ting Loh.

Econometrica

• Walras–Bowley Lecture: Climate Policy in the Wide World. John Hassler, Per Krusell, Conny Olovsson.

• The Class Gap in Career Progression: Evidence From U.S. Academia. Anna Stansbury, Kyra Rodriguez.

Human Resource Management

• Hybrid Regulation and Employer Signalling of Disability Inclusion in UK Job Adverts. Nick Bacon, Kim Hoque, Jafar Sabbah.

• The Catalyst of Moral Emotions: Unpacking How and When Perceived Socially Responsible Human Resource Management Impacts Employee Expediency. Bo Lv, Yixuan Jing, Jie Xiao, Chenghao Men.

• Social Exchange and Reciprocal Integration Between Migrants and Locals at Work. Minna Paunova, Maribel Blasco.

• “Swallowed by a Black Hole”: The Neglected Impact of Endometriosis in the Workplace. Meltem Yavuz Sercekman, Ozlem Ayaz. 

• From Conflicting Outcomes to Mutual Losses: How Punitive Responses to Problematic Substance Use Suppress Help-Seeking and Cause Harm. Karen Maher, Aoife M. McDermott, Andrew Clements, Emmert Roberts, Sally Pezaro.

Journal of Applied Psychology

• Adverse impact, job performance, and diversity outcomes of applicant attraction: A simulation and paradox. Matt Cho, Daniel A. Newman, Leo Alexander III.

• The man of the (second) moment: How greater male variability affects the gender composition and productivity of the workforce. Jose M. Cortina, Imran Kadolkar, Stefan Volk, Christian Thöni.

• Personality testing for autistic individuals: Potential issues for selection. Benjamin Moon, Kabir N. Daljeet, Joshua S. Bourdage, Adam W. McCrimmon.

• Community weaving to address societal grand challenges: The case of mental health destigmatization. Glen E. Kreiner, Dane Cannon, Devin J. Rapp, Trent A. Williams, Jennifer Wiseman.

• Unveiling the hidden hazards: Exploring the unintended consequences of legal changes on employee injuries. Ke Michael Mai, Yupeng Lin, Keyuan Zhang, Rengong (Alex) Zhang.

• Uncovering a motherhood advantage: How parenthood impacts perceptions of the meaning of work and work outcomes. Pages 827-847. Huiyao Liao, Tammy D. Allen, Zhaopeng Liu, Thomas Ptashnik, I-Heng (Ray) Wu.

Journal of Business Venturing

• The yin and yang: Utility and reform perspectives on social impact in social entrepreneurship research. Georgios Polychronopoulos, Martin Lukeš, Siddharth Vedula, Sophie Bacq.

• Compassion and passion: Exploring beneficiary wealth destruction in social entrepreneurship. Anne-Sophie Sabbatucci, Sophie Bacq, Frank Janssen.

• Help or hindrance? Husbands’ influence on women entrepreneurs’ business success in Sub-Saharan Africa: A latent profile analysis. Kathrin Wolf, Mona Hafner, Jiarui Lily Zhou, Michael Frese.

• Skin lightening: The process of exploiting colorism-based opportunities. Dean A. Shepherd, Vinit Parida, Sarah Chase, Joakim Wincent.

• Values work in early-stage venturing: How entrepreneurs make sustainability commitments actionable. Matthias Pepin, Luc K. Audebrand, Maripier Tremblay, Karine Laperrière.

• Funding for social impact or business success: The role of emotional variety in crowdfunded microlending. Yicheng Zhang, Ya Zhou, Chenxi Fu, Yi Liu.

• Civic listening: A social capital perspective on civic wealth creation. Valentin Held, Guillermo Casasnovas.

Journal of Consumer Marketing

• Measuring sustainability-oriented consumption values: developing and validating a scale. Purva Agarwal, Divesh Kumar, Rajesh Katiyar.

• Food waste anger: encouraging students to consume their leftovers at home. Yohan Bernard, Hanene Oueslati, Patricia Niglis.

• Consumption as disempowerment: enduring tradeoffs and eroding social capital in subsistence context. Javed M. Shaikh, Sujit Jagadale.

• Protestant religiosity and ethical consumer behavior: proMRS-14, a new multidimensional scale. Boonghee Yoo.

• When does corporate social responsibility build consumer loyalty? Cultural values as stage-specific moderators of identification processes. Hui Jin, Luyu Yang, Zhibin Lin, Hongqiao Song.

• Consumer culpability, ethicality and responses to corporate social irresponsibility. Kexin Su, Siti Ngayesah Ab Hamid, Che Aniza Che Wel, Qiangqiang Du.

• Choose sustainable! How digital nudging architectures shape sustainable choices and consumer perceptions. Simone Aiolfi, Silvia Bellini, Davide Pellegrini, Chiara Bacchilega.

• An eye-tracking study: perceptions of greenwashing and the impact of greenwashing literacy. Ariadne Neureiter, Sophie-Catherine Schröter, Jörg Matthes, Manina Biermayer.

• Designing service recovery with purpose: shifting consumer preferences toward prosocial recovery. Sarah (Sa’arah) Alhouti, Kristina K. Lindsey Hall.

• Beyond the label: unpacking consumer responses to eco-friendly claims. Sarah Lefebvre, Laura Boman, Merlyn A. Griffiths.

• Guest editorial: Integrating sustainability into the marketing of food services and food and beverage retail merchandising. Gaëlle Pantin-Sohier, Tiffany Legendre

• Disadvantages of the food beauty premium: new marketing communication for organic food. Takumi Kato, Wakako Yoshimura, Yusuke Shinozaki, Katsuya Hayami, Ryosuke Ikeda, Masaki Koizumi.

• From attitude to purchase: a self-concept enhancement perspective on sustainable food purchases among Chinese Baby Boomers and Generation Z. Weihua Wang.

• Posting and politics: the effects of corporate political advocacy on user-generated content. Rong Huang, Jeffrey Wiebe, Ryan Heath.

Journal of Economics and Management Strategy

• The Productivity Effect of High Involvement Management: Causal Evidence From Germany. Johannes Lehmann. 

Journal of Financial Economics

• Are patents with female inventors under-cited? Evidence from text estimation. Yael V. Hochberg, Ali Kakhbod, Peiyao Li, Kunal Sachdeva.

• Reaching for influence: Do banks use loans to establish political connections? Mahsa Kaviani, Hosein Maleki, Pavel Savor.

• Changing the board game: Horizontal spillovers of gender quotas. Luigi Guiso, Fabiano Schivardi, Luana Zaccaria.

• Carbon VIX: Carbon price uncertainty and decarbonization investments. Maximilian Fuchs, Johannes Stroebel, Julian Terstegge.

Journal of Industrial Ecology

• Unravelling biodiversity impacts of consumption: a production layer decomposition analysis for the Netherlands. Harry C. Wilting, Daan in‘t Veld, Mark M. P. van Oorschot.

• Orchestrating resources for recycling – how digital platforms enable circular economy business models. Sophia Botsch, Julian M. Müller.

• Governance and upgrading in plastic packaging in the Global South: evidence from Brazil. Larissa Costa, Gabriela Scur.

• Integrating circular economy, cradle-to-cradle, and closed loop systems in fashion supply chains: a systematic review from an industrial ecology perspective. Sarah Hassaan, Nezir Aydin, Brenno C. Menezes.

• Assessing social sustainability in the circular bioeconomy: a SO-LCA approach to a biofertilizer value chain. Irene Zarauz.

• Material footprint of warfare: a systematic framework and empirical analysis. Hessel Roodenburg, Ernst Worrell, Javanshir Fouladvand.

• Circular economy resilience as the governance of system options: specified and general resilience in circular transitions. Felix Carl Schultz, Vladislav Valentinov, Ingo Pies.

• Modelling disassembly and reassembly times (DaRT) for assessing repairability. Sagar Dangal, Linda Ritzen, Ruud Balkenende.

• Value-transforming financial, carbon and biodiversity footprint accounting. Sami El Geneidy, Maiju Peura, Janne S. Kotiaho.

• Impact in a context: complementing social lifecycle assessment with controversy mapping. Anni Orola, Laura Kainiemi, Ville Uusitalo.

• Assessing positive and negative effects of global supply chains through water footprinting: the balance between economic benefits and environmental pressure from the global and regional scale perspectives. Keitaro Maeno, Kamrul Islam, Masaharu Motoshita.

• Controversy and consensus: common ground and best practices for life cycle assessment of emerging technologies. Rachel Woods-Robinson, Amila Abeynayaka, Joule Bergerson.

• Flood risks to the supply chain of electric vehicle batteries under climate change: a case study of lithium hydroxide production. Yin Yang, Qingnan Xie, Jiashun Huang.

• Towards an integrated understanding of circularity, urban design, planetary stability and well-being. Mira Kopp, Peter Berrill, Felix Creutzig.

• How global production shapes carbon emissions outcomes: evidence from a multi-regional input–output perspective. Rosa Duarte, Sara Miranda-Buetas, Cristina Sarasa.

• Varieties of degrowth: an analysis of archetypes. Julian Kirchherr, Dennis Jansen, Kris Hartley.

• Circular economy as a magic concept: the rise and (possible) fall of a sustainability buzzword. Julian Kirchherr, Kris Hartley.

• Strategic considerations for green relocation in energy-intensive global value chains. Sven Colen, Alwine Mohnen.

• Circular economy transitions and urban green infrastructure in the Global South: pathways and prospects. Michael Odei Erdiaw-Kwasie, Patrick Brandful Cobbinah, Matthew Abunyewah.

• What defenders of the circular economy get right, and what they don’t: normative bias, academic elitism, and self-positioning in circular economy scholarship. Marjan Marjanović.

• Can financial regulators truly drive circular economy? Novel evidence from 31 provinces in China. Chuanqi Chen, Dongyang Pan, Zitong Zhang.

• Sustainable public procurement in federal systems: insights from India. Shailly Kedia, Manish Anand.

• Does the circular economy conserve resources? reviewing the displacement effects of secondary resources and products. Nils Johansson, Nelson Garcia, Ingrid Lundgren.

• Industrial symbiosis in the wine value chain: a systematic review of research trends, barriers, and drivers. Óscar Páramo-Telle, Xavier Vence.

Journal of Management

• Survival Is Triumph Enough: Rhythmic Resilience Amid Chronic Adversity and Acute Shocks. Ramzi Fathallah, Trenton Alma Williams, Jay Joseph.

• Bittersweet Symphony: A Music Theory Approach to Stakeholder Dissonance and Value Creation. Skyler Dana Clark-Hamel, Lena Bischoff, Zhongyuan Sun.

• Understanding the Individual-Level Consequences of Strikes: A Systematic Review and Future Research Directions. Denise Vesper, Cornelius J. König.

• Bodily Data Control, Human Agency Threats, and Job Insecurity. Jay Killoran, Andrew Park, Jasmin Manseau, Jan Kietzmann.

• Movements and Main Street: The Interplay Between Social Movement Framing and Small Businesses’ Responses. Ace Beorchia, Timothy G. Pollock, David Gras.

• A Certainty Perspective on Ethical Leadership: Meta-Analytic and Field Studies of Counteracting Mechanisms and a Boundary Condition for Employee Creativity. Meng Zhang, Chu-Ding Ling, Jinlong Zhu, Yaping Gong, Xiao-Yun Xie.

• Women’s Entrepreneurship in Multi-Level Contexts: A Review and Research Agenda. Yinan Wang, Liyan Wang.

• Bridging the Gap: An Integrative Review of Research on Veterans’ Transition to the Civilian Workforce. John P. Jasionowicz IV, María del Carmen Triana, Timothy J. Vogus et al.

• Shining a Light on Dark Money in Corporate Politics: Unveiling CEO Ideology’s Influence on Corporate Political Transparency. Mirzokhidjon Abdurakhmonov, Amy Elizabeth Ingram, Jason W. Ridge.

Journal of Management Studies

• The Narrative Construction of Internal Organizational Legitimacy. Kerrie E. Howard, Andrew D. Brown.

• State De-Orchestration of Corporate Social Responsibility: The Backlash against CSR in Brazil under the Bolsonaro Government. Alan Brejnholt, Jukka Rintamäki, Gerhard Schnyder.

• AI Presents Both Problems and Opportunities for Minorities. María del Carmen Triana, Arun Upadhyay.

• Scaling Social Impact at Tony’s Chocolonely: How Interactional Dynamics Shape Social Innovation Processes and Drive Institutional Change. Janina Klein, Christine Moser, Elco van Burg.

• Relative Autonomy beyond the State: Private Transnational Regulation and the Politics of Labour Governance in Bangladesh. Mahreen Khan, Jimmy Donaghey, Juliane Reinecke.

• Beyond Resilience: The Privilege of Composure Under Geopolitical Tension. Omid Aliasghar.

• Against All Odds: How Rituals Sustain Engagement with Intractable Social Problems. Corinna Frey-Heger, Marian Konstantin Gatzweiler, Michael Barrett.

• Complementary or Substitutive Environmental Governance? ISO 14001 and Environmental Stringency for Emission Reduction. Irene Margaret, Jordi A. Surroca, Josep A. Tribó.

• Algorithmic Status Inequality: An Integrative Perspective on AI-Driven Social Stratification. Jie Wu.

• Navigating Regulatory Transitions: The Evolving Role of Multi-Stakeholder Initiatives as Intermediaries in the Context of Mandatory Due Diligence Legislation. Leona A. Henry, Julia Grimm, Nora Lohmeyer, Kristin Apffelstaedt, Sophie Giulini.

• Property Rights and Corporate Toxic Emissions: Evidence from the Enactment of Property Law in China. Lihan Chen, Shaojie Lai, Xiaoling Pu, Qing Sophie Wang.

• Property Rights and Intangible Assets: Indigenous Theory and the Case of Indian Imagery. Terry R. Adler, Thomas G. Pittz, Carma M. Claw.

• Government Orchestration at Play: The Influence of Disclosure Regulation on Stakeholder Accusations and the Role of CSR. Julia Bartosch, Emma Avetisyan, Philipp A. Thompson.

• Institutional Logics as a Resource and Risk: Logic Deviance and Categorical Penalties in US Community Banks. Stephen J. Smulowitz, Horacio E. Rousseau, Pino G. Audia.

Journal of Marketing Research

• Consumers Prefer That Corporations Donate Periodically. Alexander B. Park, Yanyi Leng, Fausto J. Gonzalez et al.

Journal of Operations Management

• Impact of Carbon Emission Trading Schemes on Firms’ Environmental and Social Disclosure Under Institutional Pressure. Fu Jia, Yingjie Ju, Robert D. Klassen, Lujie Chen, Tobias Schoenherr.

Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists

• Do Prior Residents Benefit from Energy Booms? Luyi Han, John V. Winters, Michael R. Betz.

• Carbon Leakage within Firm Ownership Networks. Jingbo Cui, Chunhua Wang, Zhenxuan Wang, Junjie Zhang, Yang Zheng.

• Drop a Line, Submit on Time? Randomized Tailored Reminders Improve Pollution Reporting Timeliness. Elinor Benami, Nathanael Jo, Elizabeth S. Ragnauth, Daniel E. Ho.

• Stimulating Climate Action through the EU’s Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism. Kenneth Bicol Dy, Han Yang.

• Emerging skills and wage gaps in the low-carbon transition: evidence from online job vacancy data. Aurélien Saussay, Misato Sato, Francesco Vona.

• Young Local Politicians and Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon. Ricardo Dahis, Ivan de las Heras, Santiago Saavedra.

Management Science

• Index-Based Yield Protection for Smallholder Farmers. Kehan Lu, Jing-Sheng Song, Can Zhang.

• Crossborder Carbon Taxes and Shareholder Wealth. Marta Alonso, Martin Jacob, Gaizka Ormazabal, Robert Raney.

• Do Job Applicants Consider Founder Race and Gender? Evidence from a Field Experiment. Kaisa Snellman, Peter Younkin. 

• Waiting or Acting: The Effects of Environmental Regulatory Uncertainty on Green Innovation. Jiawei (Brooke) Wang.

• The Impact of Gender Information on Hiring Decisions Based on Self-Set Performance Targets. Katharina Werner, Susanna Grundmann, Bettina Rockenbach.

• Training Frontline Health Workers in Low- and Middle-Income Countries to Reduce Contraceptive Stock-Outs: Evidence from Indonesia. Amir Karimi, Anant Mishra, Karthik V. Natarajan, Kingshuk K. Sinha, Omar Balsara, Barbara Lamphere.

• Evolution of Discrimination on Online Platforms. Peibo Zhang, Xinyu Cao, Ruomeng Cui, Dennis J. Zhang.

• E-ledgers Carbon Accounting. Robert S. Kaplan, Karthik Ramanna.

• Does Renewable Energy Renew Energy Efficiency? Amrou Awaysheh, Christopher J. Chen, Owen Q. Wu.

• Beating Expectations: Turning Polarized Beliefs into Support for Sustainable Initiatives. Ole-Andreas Elvik Næss.

• Can Digitalization Improve Public Services? Evidence from Innovation in Energy Management. Robyn Meeks, Jacquelyn Pless, Zhenxuan Wang.

• Does Partial Pay Transparency Reduce Pay Inequality? An Experimental Investigation. Xiaofei Pan.

• Explaining Corporate Tax Avoidance. Andrew Belnap, Kaitlyn Kroeger, Jacob Thornock.

• Do Employees Have Useful Information About Firms’ ESG Practices? Hoa Briscoe-Tran.

• ESG and the Stock Market: Is ESG Exposure Systematic? Liya Chu, Kent Wang, Bohui Zhang, Guofu Zhou.

• Growing up Under Mao and Deng: On Politician Ideology and Corporate Policies. Hao Liang, Rong Wang, Haikun Zhu.

• CEO Pay Ratio Disclosures and Changes in Employee Pay Satisfaction. Mary Ellen Carter, Lisa LaViers, Jason James Sandvik, Da Xu.

• Electric Vehicle Fleet and Charging Infrastructure Planning. Sushil Mahavir Varma, Francisco Castro, Siva Theja Maguluri.

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